Nilratan Halder | 2021-10-29 12:00:00
Imagine a world without Facebook. The idea looks outlandish, but what if it really happens. A 17 years old company worth $1.0 trillion with 2.8 billion users comprising 60 per cent of the world's internet-connected people suddenly ceases to exist!...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2021-10-29 00:00:00
Dhaka's maiden metro-rail service, which is expected to roll late next year or a little later, would bring about a massive change in the city's age-old mass- transportation systems.Those wishing to take a train travel on the Mass Rapid Transit...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2021-10-29 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 28: Private importers of edible oil are struggling to unload their imported oil at the dolphin jetties of Chittagong port these days. Following an accident on September 30 that left the Dolphin Jetty-5 inoperative, the private importers are...
BABUL BARMAN | 2021-10-29 00:00:00
Most of the listed banks posted higher earnings year-on-year in nine months for January-September 2021 due to suspension of loan classification and bullish capital market.Of the 32 banks listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), 23 have disclosed their un-audited...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-10-29 00:00:00
Finance Minister AFM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday last reminded people investing in the stock market of a normal factor---risk. The finance minister was responding when newsmen asked a question about the continuous erosion in stock prices for the past few...
Md Shamsul Arefin | 2021-10-29 00:00:00
Senior citizens are becoming an ever-greater proportion of the total population everywhere in the world including Bangladesh because average life expectancy has been increasing over the time which has now become 73 years in Bangladesh. At the same time, those...
Vikram Haksar, Yan Carrière-Swallow, Kathleen Kao, and Gabriel Quirós-Romero | 2021-10-29 00:00:00
Companies around the world are engaged in a digital data gold rush, panning the digital economy for our personal data, sifting flecks of it in online pools and streams of our preferences, choices, and locations. Data is the ultimate portable...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-10-28 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) on Wednesday unveiled a draft of new income tax law - 2022 with updated provisions for global business practices.The draft has proposed a changed structure of the existing Income Tax Ordinance -1984 to make...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2021-10-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh won't directly co-sponsor an Indian proposal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for subsidy cut in production of agricultural items in the developed world, officials said, as it involves twin bets on export and import.The stand is taken as...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2021-10-27 00:00:00
The telecoms regulator made a move regarding the sale of mobile network operators' (MNOs) network-locked handsets to increase 4G penetration in the industry, according to insiders.In its 255th commission meeting, the BTRC set some conditions for marketing carrier- or network-locked...
Mohammad Towhidul Islam | 2021-10-27 00:00:00
Venue 1: John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, USAAn immigration officer, while checking the passport of a passenger saw that his name began with 'MD'. He asked the passenger if he was a medical doctor; the passenger replied in...
A H M Mustafa Kamal | 2021-10-27 00:00:00
After achieving above 7.0 per cent growth since FY 2015-16 to three consecutive years, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in Bangladesh has reached 8.15 per cent in FY 2018-19. This feat of achieving continued growth in Bangladesh's GDP has been...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-10-26 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) approved a new private inland container depot (ICD) in a bid to enhance container-handling capacity in the Chattogram Port.The ICD would be set up at an estimated cost of Tk 3.0 billion. It is...
Arpita Sarkar, Helen Luskin Gradstein, Imtiaz Ul Haqe and Doardo Totolo | 2021-10-26 00:00:00
Lack of trust in financial institutions is a key barrier to financial inclusion in many sectors. Disclosure and transparency are keys to building trust in the financial system. Misleading advertising and sales practices, along with low levels of financial literacy,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-10-25 12:00:00
Is there none to listen to the consumers' voice? One of the country's leading Bengali dailies wrote in its editorial on Friday last while commenting on the latest hike in edible oil prices. Going by the developments in the kitchen...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2021-10-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh held back from agreeing to cut customs charges further for India's use of Chittagong and Mongla seaports as transhipment routes for transporting cargoes to its landlocked northeastern states, officials said.At the same time, no decision is taken regarding amendment...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2021-10-25 00:00:00
Dhaka metro-rail company is likely to award the construction works on an extended part of the Mass Rapid Transit line 6 (MRT 6) to any of the already-hired contractors to save the time of tendering process.Official sources say as the...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2021-10-25 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 24: More than 60 per cent of works of capital dredging of Karnaphuli River have been completed after the project was started afresh by Bangladesh Navy in April this year, sources said.Stopped multiple times in the last three...
REZAUL KARIM | 2021-10-25 00:00:00
A move is underway to establish a central storage facility in Savar industrial hub to help ensure fair prices and quality of rawhides and skins as well as for proper management of the items, officials said.The Bangladesh Small and Cottage...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2021-10-25 00:00:00
First Security Islami Bank Limited (FSIBL) is shifting its focus to small businesses and small deposits through introducing new and innovative products and services using digital technologies, the bank's top executive said.The Shariah-based Islamic bank has also put emphasis on...
Stephan Lewandowsky and Philipp Schmid | 2021-10-25 00:00:00
Opposition to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself. Although vaccines save five lives every minute, and even though 85 percent of children worldwide are vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, some people are resisting the life-saving shots. A...
Neil Ray | 2021-10-25 00:00:00
Not many so young catch the attention of the best in the business. When games and sports are concerned, the maxim, 'catch them young' is prized at its highest. Now, a boy from Barishal still in class-I in one of...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2021-10-25 00:00:00
General Colin Powell's death from Covid-related complications at the age of eighty-four is reason once again for one to go back to recent history. There is little question that Powell was an important establishment figure in the United States, having...
REZAUL KARIM | 2021-10-24 00:00:00
The government has taken an initiative to devise strategies for the country's apparel sector so that it could face competition and expand its market in the post-LDC graduation era, officials said.They said the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) of Bangladesh would...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-10-24 00:00:00
The collection of tax revenue registered a 16.72 per cent growth in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY) as compared to the same period last FY, thanks to economic reopening after the Covid-induced lockdown.Increased prices of...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA | 2021-10-23 12:00:00
Abol Hassan Ban Sadr, Iran's first elected president following the Islamic revolution, died in a hospital in France on October 9. He was living in France for the past four decades far away from Iran where he, like many of...
Ismail Hossain | 2021-10-23 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Mobile Phone Consumers' Association (BMPCA) has sought intervention of the Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC) to curtail dominance of the biggest market player in the mobile financial service (MFS) industry. In a memorandum, submitted recently to the commission, the...
BABUL BARMAN | 2021-10-23 00:00:00
Stocks plummeted for a second consecutive week that ended on Thursday, as jittery investors were on a selling spree, particularly in the first three trading sessions of the week.Although the market ended higher on the last trading day riding on...
Nilratan Halder | 2021-10-23 00:00:00
The governing instinct in animals is self preservation. But should it clash with self-preserving instinct of others? Until or unless there is an urgency to dominate fellow beings and stake a claim to the lion's share of anything and everything,...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2021-10-23 00:00:00
One need not be a Sherlock Holmes to understand that the incident of placing the Muslim's holiest scripture, the Quran, on a temporary Puja pavilion was ill-intentioned. Also, the masterminds behind the incident have been eminently successful in their design....
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