Neil Ray | 2020-09-14 00:00:00
Of all the roving vendors, the ones vending candy flosses, balloons and air-tight toys hovering overhead are surely a different species. Unlike fried peanut, chickpea, instant tea and concoction of fried-rice vendors, any one of the above does not look...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2020-09-13 00:00:00
The securities regulator has not yet published its annual report for the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 despite another fiscal year -- 2019-20 -- gone on June 30, 2020.The officials of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) said the report...
TALHA BIN HBIB | 2020-09-12 00:00:00
The ferry services on Kathalbari-Shimulia route was restored on Friday afternoon on an experimental basis after a suspension of over one week for safety reason, an official said."Ferry services on Kathalbari-Shimulia route restored at about 4:20pm today under experimental basis,"...
Says Fakhrul | 2020-09-12 00:00:00
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged on Friday that the Awami League government is trying to make enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings a part of 'the national culture', reports UNB."The Awami government, which usurped power, has now reached...
BABUL BARMAN | 2020-09-12 00:00:00
Stock prices are soaring with the core index of the major bourse hitting a 12-month high in the outgoing week as investors put fresh stakes in stocks amid high expectation.Week-on-week, DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE),...
Polin Kumar Saha | 2020-09-12 00:00:00
Agro tourism is a multi-disciplinary concept of a tourism industry that has been developed with quite few literatures rather than with several aspects of the subject matters. In general, the phenomenon is expressed as some thematic areas in the literature...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2020-09-12 00:00:00
The Seventh Five Year Plan is due to come to a close this year and the Eighth Five Year Plan is to follow in its wake in what has become a seamless process. Perhaps preparations have begun to initiate the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2020-09-12 00:00:00
Already into the seventh month of our struggle with the Covid-19 pandemic, can we stand back and say: well, here we are, now? It has been a war that we did not choose. But then no nation did either; but...
Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, and Geneviève Verdier | 2020-09-11 00:00:00
Covid-19 has had a profound impact on people, firms, and economies all over the world. While countries have ramped up public lifelines to individuals and firms they will face enormous challenges to recover from the pandemic, amidst low economic activity...
Abdul Bayes | 2020-09-11 00:00:00
Any person deeply delved into Bangladesh's macroeconomic health should hurriedly access the most recently released book: "Bangladesh's Macroeconomic Policy: Trends, Determinants and Impact". Edited by Monzur Hossain of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), the book has been published...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2020-09-11 00:00:00
The government servants, these days, are a pampered lot. The perks and privileges enjoyed by them are highly attractive compared to what their predecessors were entitled to during the period between 1971 and 2010. The salary and allowances of the...
Nilratan Halder | 2020-09-11 00:00:00
Although no decision has been taken yet to open primary schools shuttered since the pandemic began in early March, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has prepared a set of health guidelines to be followed when they reopen. Sure...
Md. Abdul Karim | 2020-09-11 00:00:00
The impact of climate change-- floods, drought, extreme weather, growing food/water insecurity etc., disproportionately affect the world's 1.3 billion poor, the majority of whom are women. 70 per cent of fatalities from 2004 Asian tsunami and 96 per cent of...
Mohammad Saiful Islam | 2020-09-10 12:00:00
The doctor in Singapore informed Safia that she was diagnosed with stage-3 cancer and explained about the side effects and rigorous process of chemotherapy. Safia instantly nodded her head that she was ready for it, ready to go through hell...
REZAUL KARIM | 2020-09-10 00:00:00
Businesses have been locked in a row over the proposals for establishing two separate new trade bodies under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), sources said.Two separate proposals have been put forward to the commerce...
Edoardo Campanella | 2020-09-10 00:00:00
The Great Lockdown in response to Covid-19 has altered billions of people's perception of geographic space. For weeks, social and professional interactions were mediated by digital technologies that compressed physical distance and blurred the boundaries between the digital world and...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2020-09-10 00:00:00
A sound public procurement system contributes directly to the proper utilisation of invested resources and thereby wields a positive influence on economic development of a country. Optimising the utilisation of public resources through a good procurement system is also critical...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2020-09-09 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) is gradually normalising rail services across the country despite the scourge of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.As part of a plan for fresh operations, the BR has announced to restart 84 more express, commuter, mail and local...
REZAUL KARIM | 2020-09-09 00:00:00
The government has taken initiative to engage the line ministry/different state agencies in ensuring smooth supply of onion in the market, officials said. It has also asked the authorities concerned to take effective measures for speedy release of onion from...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2020-09-09 00:00:00
The group of least developed countries (LDCs) has opted to request the rich nations for extending support measures, available to the graduating LDCs, for at least a period of 10 years after they are excluded from the category, officials said.The...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2020-09-09 00:00:00
The tax authorities are hopeful about a substantial increase in corporate tax returns this year as they have put in place a number of measures to rope in the tax-evading companies and the companies that submit fake audit reports. They...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2020-09-08 12:00:00
There has never been a dearth of forecasting by experts and non-experts alike on the possible consequences of the pandemic on life and livelihood of the people in general and on the different sectors of society and the economy in...
Munima Sultana | 2020-09-08 00:00:00
Public-Private Partnership Authority (PPPA) is going to cut its projects from the pipeline finding many are neither bankable nor marketable.Officials said since the authority has already developed a good number attractive and well-designed projects with the possibility of attracting foreign...
REZAUL KARIM | 2020-09-08 00:00:00
Business activities of the community and convention centres as well as catering services across the country have virtually come to a halt due to the Covid-19 pandemic, industry insiders said.The entrepreneurs in the sector have also been facing difficulties in...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2020-09-08 00:00:00
Many brokerage firms are not paying the dues of government, securities regulatory and depository authority despite the firms realise BO (beneficiary owner's) account maintenance fees from their clients on regular basis.According to information of Central Depository Bangladesh Limited (CDBL), a...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2020-09-08 00:00:00
The incidence of burn injuries is frighteningly high in Bangladesh. A considerable proportion of the population-- both adult and pediatric of both gender-- suffers from preventable burn injuries. According to one estimate burn injuries account for an estimated 265,000 deaths...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2020-09-07 12:00:00
The government is set to allow all banks to carry out treasury activities in places in an attempt to expand such services in the countryside, officials say. If and when implemented, the move will bring an end to the treasury...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2020-09-07 12:00:00
The government, to a great extent, does have a laissez-faire attitude when it comes to fixing consultation fees by doctors both at private hospitals and their own chambers. The same is true in the case of fees for diagnostic tests...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2020-09-07 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 06: A total of five metric tonnes (MT) of date-expired hazardous chemicals which remained stored at P-Shade of the Chittagong Port for one decade will be destroyed to make the port risk-free.Besides, another stockpile of undelivered, abandoned goods...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2020-09-07 00:00:00
The securities regulator has planned to hold public hearing on different issues of capital market including investment safety.The officials of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) said the hearing will be held once in each quarter.Initially, the hearing will...
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