M A Taslim | 2022-01-27 00:00:00
Since the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country the principal objective of its agricultural policy has been the attainment of self-sufficiency in food production. The tragic experience of the early years, when the country suffered from severe food shortages...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-01-26 12:00:00
The country's tax collection at import stage marks impressive growth as taxmen have been taking a conservative approach as far as rationalisation of tariff is concerned.Import duty rate is one of the highest in Bangladesh, 25 per cent, among top...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-01-26 00:00:00
An over 50-per cent cost hike in Dhaka's metro-rail project has been proposed principally for land acquisition to set up kiosks at stations, not for people's comfort ride anyway.Sources say this business-facilitation work, involving a king's ransom as additional project...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-01-26 00:00:00
Top leaders of two forums of the banking sector are set to meet Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir today (Wednesday) to discuss the BB's latest instructions on minimum salary of entry-level bank officials.The leaders of the Bangladesh Association of...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-01-26 00:00:00
The quality of services provided currently in general by both the public and private healthcare facilities in Bangladesh is certainly not beyond questions. This has been a cause for concern even at the policy level. High level deliberations have failed...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-01-25 00:00:00
It's now commerce ministry's job to coordinate connectivity and transit affairs in line with the allocation of business, a government meeting decides as many trans-border communications deals are being dealt with.Officials say the decision comes as different ministries and divisions...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-01-25 00:00:00
To check the spread of the coronavirus, especially its latest variant, the Omicron, the government has declared closure of schools and colleges. Restricting students' physical attendance in classes will thus, it is hoped, curb the transmission of the virus among...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-01-25 00:00:00
While the third wave of Cov-Sars-3 in its new incarnation as Omicron has placed the Bangladesh economy in tenterhooks threatening to derail the economic recovery, forecasts are being made by multi-lateral institutions (MLI) that sound like sweet music to the...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-01-24 00:00:00
A move to upgrade the signal system in the city's four busy intersections has become unsuccessful as different government agencies damaged the existing underground cables and poles with cameras.Except for the Gulshan-1 intersection, the progresses made under the Dhaka integrated...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-01-24 00:00:00
Adolescents and young children are suffering from mental health problems due to frequent disruptions in academic activities amid Covid-19 pandemic, experts have observed.The adverse social impact allegedly is evidenced from the increasing number of patients of this age group registered...
Neil Ray | 2022-01-24 00:00:00
In this country, even the positive developments are not quite unmixed. At a time when the government has focused on developing technical expertise instead of educating average young learners in general education with no relevance to demand of the employment...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-01-24 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) spends Tk 6.0 against an earning of Tk 1.0, said the headline of a news item published on the front page of a vernacular daily on Sunday last. The daily quoted the figures from the financials...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-01-23 00:00:00
Last year witnessed another surge in the secondary transaction of the government's securities, fixed-income tradable securities to be exact. The rise indicates that the demand for government securities is growing in the financial market of Bangladesh. Total value of secondary...
ISMAIL HOOSAIN | 2022-01-22 00:00:00
The country's mobile operators are required to provide fifth generation (5G) services to at least 50 per cent of the country's total population within five years from the date of issuance of the licence, according to the regulator's recently-set conditions....
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-01-22 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 21: Construction work of Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is going on smoothly with the target to start its operation in the current year. Around 84 per cent of the total construction work...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-01-22 00:00:00
Stocks extended the rally for the fourth straight week that ended on Thursday as the investors continued to bet on major sector shares despite the rising Covid-19 cases.Week on week, DSEX, the prime index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), surged...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-01-22 00:00:00
Apart from some common indigenous fruits, the Bangalees were hardly keen to grow and habituated to eating a variety of those. Even some of the local fruits were not cultivated systematically; only one or two plants of fruits like papya,...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-01-22 00:00:00
When the first wave of the pandemic hit Bangladesh's shore, many thought, as it often happens, this calamity will also pass after running its course. Far from that, it now appears, the pandemic has come to stay. However, many scientists...
Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Salay Mostafa and Shah Md Ahsan Habib | 2022-01-22 00:00:00
Although industrial accidents have escalated in number over the recent years, the matter of industrial safety in non-RMG businesses remains unaddressed. The recent tragedy at a food-processing plant in Narayanganj, which left more than 52 people dead and over 50...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-01-21 00:00:00
A fat sum of over Tk 40 billion is deemed misspent on a misconceived BRT line as officials say the Joydevpur - Airport corridor has been difficult to develop as dedicated bus corridor for surging traffic of 21 districts and...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-01-21 00:00:00
A proposed new bank with cricket-star Shakib as one of the sponsor director fails to set sail as the central bank denies it licence for failing to comply with the set conditions, including raised capital base. The board of directors...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-01-21 00:00:00
The proposal reportedly submitted by the state gas distribution companies to raise prices of natural gas by more than twofold is enough to be a cause for serious concern for the consumers, who are already hit hard by soaring prices...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-01-21 00:00:00
Of late, two news items have drawn global ---by import local too ---attention. One is the dire prediction that 207 million or 5.9 per cent of the working hands the world over are likely to remain officially out of work...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-01-20 00:00:00
The newly-introduced Dhaka Nagar Paribahan is yet to get the required number of passengers so that it could continue the services with decent earnings.The private partners of the single-company service alleged that they were not getting passengers as expected due...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-01-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 19: Construction of the first private dry dock of the country being built by Karnafuly Dry Dock Limited (KDDL) at Anwara upazila in Chattogram is likely to be completed by 2024. The construction of the dock started in...
Farhana Kabir and Maliha Noshin Khan | 2022-01-20 00:00:00
An increasing number of sky lanterns have been flying in the Dhaka sky since the past few years. While it is enthralling to watch hundreds of sky lanterns floating on the new year's eve, we must remember 'What goes up...
Abdul Bayes | 2022-01-20 00:00:00
In his autobiographical book 'Home in the World A memoir', Amartya Sen recollects that '' Dhaka, which is now a lively, sprawling and somewhat bewildering city and the emerging capital of Bangladesh, was then a quieter and smaller place where...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-01-19 00:00:00
The central bank mounts its monitoring of the foreign-exchange market to avert any further volatility as Bangladesh's forex reserves feel stresses, sources say. Higher import-payment obligations from the side of the economy could possibly add to the pressures on the...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-01-19 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 18: Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) is going to procure six ships -- two mother bulk carrier ships, two mother tankers and two mother product oil tankers -- to meet the growing demand for transportation services. BSC has already...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-01-19 00:00:00
These days democracy is the issue to watch and indeed ponder in two countries where it has mattered more than anywhere else in the world. In one, it is being reasserted with a degree of firmness which encourages people into...
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