REZAUL KARIM | 2020-09-26 00:00:00
Disbursement of farm loans by banks in the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2020-2021, has remained below the strategic target.Scheduled banks made only 13.15 per cent of the annual disbursement target during the July-August period of...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2020-09-26 00:00:00
The shipping companies continue to face problems with their 'dangerous cargo' (DC) as the relevant authorities are yet to address the issue of unloading the same at the Chattogram port.The Bangladesh Shipping Agents' Association wrote twice to Chattogram Port Authority...
BABUL BARMAN | 2020-09-26 00:00:00
Stocks drifted lower last week that ended on Thursday, snapping a 13-week gaining streak, as risk-averse investors opted for booking profit on quick-gaining stocks.Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 125.87 points or...
Md Ziaul Haque Howlader | 2020-09-26 00:00:00
This year the theme of the World Tourism Day as designated by the UNWTO 'Tourism and Rural Development' is very appropriate for the rural-dominating countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Rural development through tourism is also sine-quo-non for Bangladesh....
Md Mazadul Hoque | 2020-09-26 00:00:00
The inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) had not improved in Bangladesh to a great extent. Inadequate infrastructure coupled with bureaucratic complexities and a wide range of corruption kept investors away. Foreign investment is badly needed in emerging economies of...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2020-09-26 00:00:00
Cleaners may work in hospitals, schools-colleges-universities, factories, office buildings, government offices, hotels-restaurants to make these places tidy and clean; street sweepers keep the footpath-streets-roads-highways free from rubbish and debris to make walking and traveling pleasant and safe; garbage collectors remove...
Nilratan Halder | 2020-09-25 12:00:00
The world or underworld of crimes is at its best grey and at its worst dark. How the pandemic-triggered economic downturn will ultimately impact crimes is a less discussed subject. One of the reasons is the absence of long-term studies...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2020-09-25 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway's (BR) performance in implementing the projects under three Indian lines of credit (LoCs) has been recorded unsatisfactory even after a lapse of substantial time.Sources said the state-run rail operator has long been implementing six development projects under...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2020-09-25 00:00:00
The tax authority has joined hands with the BIDA to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) helping investors obtain tax registration under a single roof.Both the state agencies have reached a consensus regarding integration of the taxpayers identification number (TIN) issuance...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2020-09-25 00:00:00
The content of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) report for the April-June (Q4) of the immediate past financial year, published on Tuesday, is not, to a large extent, palatable. It was not supposed to be. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which was...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2020-09-24 12:00:00
'Man behind the machine' is a common phrase touted by management pundits and professionals. It implies that the outcome of any machine-linked endeavour is mostly determined by the efficacy of people behind the machine, not the machine itself. The dream...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2020-09-24 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has asked its field offices to issue tax acknowledgement slips immediately after submission of returns by the taxpayers.The income tax wing of the board issued eight-point instructions to the taxmen for checking the scope...
Emon Hasibul Hasan | 2020-09-24 00:00:00
The third edition of the Bangladesh Economics Summit organised by the Economics Study Center (ESC) of Dhaka University came to an end on September 19, 2020 following a number of panel discussions, policy debate, launching of BSDED Volume 3 and...
Shafiq Alam | 2020-09-24 00:00:00
Power generation has got significant boost in Bangladesh thanks to the bold initiative of the current government. It increased from less than 5,000 megawatts (MW) in 2010 to more than four times to 23,000MW in 2019. The 2016 Power Sector...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2020-09-23 00:00:00
A vessel carrying nearly 1,000 containers, stuffed with Bangladeshi export goods, remained stuck in the mid-sea for days as the Singapore port authority did not permit it for berthing after a crewmember was found Covid-19 positive.Sources said the container vessel...
José Luis Cervera | 2020-09-23 00:00:00
Not so much attention is paid to statistics even at the height of the financial crisis. The daily drip of epidemiological data related to Covid-19, and its terrible economic and social consequences, has uncovered a legion of statistical experts, especially...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2020-09-23 00:00:00
American politics has largely been a matter of curiosity for people beyond its frontiers. Take this matter of the way in which Americans elect their Presidents. There is the popular vote, which makes it clear which of the individuals seeking...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2020-09-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh has lately strengthened its efforts to secure permission to use the Indian territory for the purpose of transporting goods to Nepal and Bhutan by its own vehicles.The signing of a transit agreement has become all the more necessary as...
Munima Sultana | 2020-09-22 00:00:00
Execution of a modern road transport project, designed to ease traffic movement between Gazipur and Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), within the deadline---December 2022--- is highly unlikely. Food dragging by its two Chinese contractors is largely responsible for the delay....
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2020-09-22 00:00:00
The kitchen staple, onion, has again taken the centre stage. As its price doubled at the India's, or rather Asia's largest wholesale market for onion at Lasalgaon in the Nasik district of Maharashtra state, the central government in Delhi did...
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg | 2020-09-22 00:00:00
The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have curtailed globalisation in ways that the current US administration could scarcely have dreamed up even a year ago. But, viewed in a broader context, this year's retreat from globalization is merely the latest chapter...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2020-09-21 00:00:00
The relocation of the ICD (Inland Container Depot) from the Kamalapur railway station in the city will be delayed because of a shift in the mode of financing for implementation of a project to this end. The project is going...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2020-09-21 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is set to introduce a VAT payment system next month that would allow the taxpayers to use their debit and credit cards of 27 commercial banks. The VAT Online Project (VOP) would introduce the...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2020-09-21 00:00:00
Online marketplace for hiring trucks is becoming popular in Bangladesh, lowering trading costs and making business globally competitive as well, said industry insiders.Many mobile app-based new-generation IT start-ups have grown in the past few years, although apparently not reaching profitability...
Bertrand Badré and Aurélie Jean | 2020-09-21 00:00:00
Trust will be key to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. Yet over the past ten years, people's trust in governments, public and private institutions, and one another has declined across many of the advanced economies. As is...
Neil Ray | 2020-09-21 00:00:00
Forced into long five to six months' confinement, if most people start fidgeting about and looking for an excuse to get over the monotony and boredom with gay abandon in any recreational site, they cannot be blamed. Now that the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2020-09-21 00:00:00
In the national budget for the current financial year (2020-21), the government has earmarked allocation of Tk 7.4 billion in addition to the usual one under its social safety net programme (SSNP). The amount is meant to help more than...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2020-09-20 00:00:00
The authorities of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) resumed ferry services between Shimulia-Kathalbari route on Saturday on a limited scale."We (BIWTC) resumed ferry services on Shimulia-Kathalbari route on Saturday morning considering the safety of the passengers," General Manager (Commerce-Cargo...
Nowshin Islam | 2020-09-20 00:00:00
The world is now struggling to combat the deadly coronavirus pandemic. The virus has already reached every corner of the world. In many cases, it is spreading at different paces and intensifying in other regions. The pandemic has brought severe...
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Adeeba Kamarulzaman | 2020-09-20 00:00:00
The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not only led to the global Covid-19 pandemic, but also fuelled an accompanying onslaught of misinformation. Some have promoted drugs such as hydroxychloroquine as cures for the disease, despite insufficient scientific evidence of...
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