Labiba Rahman | 2024-05-11 00:00:00
As one of the largest and most disaster-prone populous deltas in the world, Bangladesh is beset by over 10 million climate refugees, with an estimated 2,000 people moving to Dhaka every day. The infrastructurally underdeveloped megacity, already groaning under the...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-05-11 00:00:00
To say it was magical is an understatement. But when the rain came after the longest spell of blistering heat on record pushing the mercury down, it was unbelievable. No, the heavenly blessing did not soak parching Dhaka city all...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
One more Pnochishe Baishakh has gone by. Once more we have had cause to celebrate the Bard whose poetry has lifted us all in the councils of the world, whose assertions of individual freedom have underscored his relevance in the...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Notwithstanding amazing success in agricultural production, both food security and safety in Bangladesh are now suspect. The myth of self-sufficiency in food — actually meaning staples or more precisely rice — has got busted. Earlier there was a litany of...
BABUL BARMAN | 2024-05-09 00:00:00
A strong dollar and runaway inflation continued to hit the businesses of general insurers, dragging down profits of most of them in 2023, compared to the year before.Almost all business activities in the country remained sluggish in 2023, owing to...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-05-09 00:00:00
A tax expenditure committee has recommended narrowing the tax gap between publicly traded and private limited companies. It also proposes phasing out tax exemptions on capital gains for individual investors in the capital market. Share capital gains are the largest...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-05-09 00:00:00
That not a single university from Bangladesh is among the top 300 universities of Asia in the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings 2024 is truly an embarrassing fact. India boasts no less than 40 universities in the prestigious...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-05-08 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 07: Brood fish started to release fertilised eggs in the Halda river, the country's lone natural fish spawning water body, from Tuesday.Earlier on Monday, brood stock released sample eggs in the Halda.Fishermen can collect fertilised eggs from the...
Debapriya Bhattacharya and Towfiqul Islam Khan | 2024-05-08 00:00:00
A complex economic situation - at both national and global levels- is now prevailing. Bangladesh is now going through one of the most difficult macroeconomic situations in recent decades. The country is facing a number of transitional challenges: graduation from...
MEHENAZ SULTANA TISHA | 2024-05-08 00:00:00
Have you ever paused and wondered why you feel obligated to look at your phone and tap on social media applications to fully freshen up your sleepy eyes right after you wake up? With this habit growing daily, the boundaries...
NOWSHABA ACHAL | 2024-05-08 00:00:00
This summer has brought unprecedented heat across the nation. Persistent heat waves and humidity define this time of year and various temperature-related diseases. Hence, maintaining a balanced diet and lifestyle becomes essential. We must adopt a diet emphasising freshness, hydration,...
TAHJIBUL ANAM | 2024-05-07 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, May 06: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park located amidst a beautiful natural setting in Dulahazara Reserve Forest of Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar district is the first of its kind in Bangladesh. In the 23 years since its...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-05-07 00:00:00
The fire service department, forest guards, the Navy, Air Force, members of the Coast Guard and local volunteers who fought together to bring the latest fire in the Amurbania area of Chandpai range in the Eastern Zone of the Sundarbans...
M A Taslim | 2024-05-07 00:00:00
The current economic crisis has developed steadily over the last several years mainly because our aggregate spending far exceeded the national incomeA major manifestation of the current crisis is the high inflation which has imposed great hardship on the ordinary...
BABUL BARMAN | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
More than half of the listed banks posted a double-digit profit growth in 2023 as their net interest income surged up to 92 per cent, owing to the removal of the interest rate cap.The foreign exchange gain was not as...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
The Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company (Dhaka BRT), a state-owned company formed over a decade ago, appears to be stuck in the slow lane compared to its counterpart mass transit company that handles projects from planning to implementation.For planning, executing,...
Neil Ray | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Waves of protest by university students from the United States have now shaken not only the campuses of highest seats of learning in that country as well as Europe and Australia but also the world conscience that went into hibernation...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Lure of jobs has led many youths to go on a perilous voyage across the Mediterranean Sea to the shores of Europe, especially Italy. Of the hundreds of thousands who embark on such a dangerous journey from different countries, thousands...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2024-05-05 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 04: Patenga sea beach, the most attractive tourist spot of Chattogram, is being occupied by some influential persons who have set up shops on the beach in recent times.Sources said the walkways on the sea beach are being...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-05-05 00:00:00
From the beginning of summer this year, a sizzling record-breaking heat wave grabbed the attention of all. Indoors, outdoors - it was impossible to miss or to avoid. It even grasped the attention of the international media because Bangladesh is...
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-05-05 00:00:00
The country's new finance minister and a new state minister for finance are now busy finalising the national budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY25). It will be the nation's 53rd annual national budget, and the ongoing pre-budget consultations suggest...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2024-05-04 12:00:00
State-owned mobile phone operator Teletalk is set to revise its recruitment policy to attract experienced and skilled professionals from the corporate sector, according to officials, marking a major shift from its traditional hiring practices.To adopt the new policy, the company...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-05-04 00:00:00
Substantial taka depreciation having eaten into their allocated funds in a couple of years, state-owned enterprises continue feeling the pinch and keep seeking recompense against cost overruns of projects.Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) and Payra Port Authority are...
Ali Tasjad | 2024-05-04 00:00:00
The country's local market is filled with hundreds if not thousands of e-commerce, retail and f-commerce brands in similar categories like T-shirts, shirts, pants, or punjabis. Only a few people do anything beyond that as it is easier to follow...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-05-04 00:00:00
Women live longer because they don't have a wife. Sarcasm at its worst from the point of male chauvinism! Well, that is likely to be the case but the underbelly punch in the light statement is unmissed. Sarcasm apart, the...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-05-03 00:00:00
When urban cities are the worst sufferers of extreme heat for global warming, Dhaka city has still to address its consequences by tracing extreme heat areas in preparedness to cope with the situation.From policy to sectoral level, dealing with extreme...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-05-03 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 02: The Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC) has earned about Tk 155.6 million (15.56 crore) in tax from 7,627 tonnes of fish that has been sold by four fisheries centres for Kaptai Lake this season.The four marketing centres...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-05-03 00:00:00
Salaried taxpayers have seen their tax liabilities increase over recent years, due mainly to a high rate of inflation that has outpaced wage growth.A proposal to raise the tax rate by 5.0 percentage points in the next financial year (FY...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-05-03 00:00:00
Savar is not light years away from Dhaka, just a little over 30 kilometers separate the satellite town from the Bangladesh capital. But the former normally has temperature 3.0 degree Celsius lower than in the megacity. Still more significant is...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-05-03 00:00:00
The old have throughout the course of history sent the young off to wars. The young have always resisted, have marched on the streets to let the old know of the dangers they are constantly putting the world to.As students...
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