Ahsan Mansur, Abdur Razzaque and Bazlul H Khondker | 2020-05-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh is widely recognised for its disaster management successes. Temporary relocation of people to storm shelters during cyclones, feeding the flood-victims through mass gathering, and distribution of basic necessities during natural calamities are areas of work where Bangladesh has developed...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2020-05-21 12:00:00
Future of all nations depend on their younger generation, more specifically children. But they suffer numerous kinds of deprivations in developing countries like Bangladesh, especially in the areas of access to education, nutrition and healthcare. The current Covid-19 pandemic has...
Siddique Islam | 2020-05-21 00:00:00
The inter-bank call money rate remained almost stable on Wednesday, the last working day before the Eid vacation, despite higher cash withdrawal from banks, bankers said.The weighted average rate (WAR) on call money rose to 4.99 per cent on the...
Nafisul Abrar | 2020-05-21 00:00:00
Running businesses through Facebook is very popular in Bangladesh. The formal term used for such businesses is called F-commerce businesses. Facebook has been a source for thousands of micro entrepreneurs to run businesses from the comfort of their homes. According...
Ahsan Mansur, Abdur Razzaqu and Bazlul H Khondker | 2020-05-21 00:00:00
One critical element in determining the support programme to the needy is the amount of transfer. At the outset, we would like to highlight that a standard suggestion could involve considering the poverty line income as worked out in Bangladesh...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2020-05-20 00:00:00
Yields on the government approved securities increased slightly on Tuesday, as the banks were reluctant to invest their funds in the instruments ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.The cut-off yield, generally known as interest rate, on 91-Day treasury bills (T-bills) rose to...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2020-05-20 00:00:00
The government is likely to offer a set of tax incentives for both individual and corporate taxpayers, including black money whitening opportunity, in the budget for upcoming fiscal year (FY), 2020-21.In an effort to bring informal economy under tax net,...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2020-05-20 00:00:00
Railway is fast becoming a vital option for onion transportation from India following suspension of road network between the two neighbouring nations for the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said.Bangladesh Railway's freight trains, noted for bringing stones and fly ash as raw...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA | 2020-05-20 00:00:00
Scientists and political leaders have been struggling hard to track the course of coronavirus. They made projection that the virus will lose its steam after taking about 60,000 human lives in the United States. This projection has been proved untenable...
Ahsan Mansur, Abdur Razzaque and Bazlul H Khondker | 2020-05-20 00:00:00
Covid-19 has now turned into a major global health and economic crisis unprecedented over the past 100 years since the Spanish flu of 1918. Economic activities across the world have grounded to a dramatic halt. Countries and multilateral agencies (Asian...
Rezaul Karim | 2020-05-19 00:00:00
The government has approved a mega purchase plan for Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) aiming to supply essential commodities to the people at affordable prices and help stabilise the market during the pandemic. An inter-ministerial committee has approved the plan...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2020-05-19 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 18: Cargo handling has been suspended at the outer anchorage of Chittagong seaport following weather alert-2 issued by the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) today. As the cyclonic storm 'Amphan' was moving towards the coast of Bangladesh, meteorological department...
Mohammad Alauddin | 2020-05-19 00:00:00
Solar energy is the largest energy resource on earth that offers abundant renewable energy resource to mankind relatively well-spread over the globe. It can be captured and transformed into heat or electricity. There are several technologies commercially available for converting...
Nilratan Halder | 2020-05-18 12:00:00
The nation's guiding lights are leaving us one by one. First, it was national professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury who was on his eternal journey and now national professor Anisuzzaman follows suit. Their departure, particularly within so short a time and...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2020-05-18 12:00:00
The world is eagerly waiting for an effective vaccine against novel coronavirus that has been wreaking havoc for the past three months. Though the peoples across world got disheartened, to some extent, by the World Health Organisation's latest observation that...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2020-05-18 00:00:00
The newly-appointed chairman of the securities regulator, Professor Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam, joined on Sunday with a vow to ensure 'proper characteristics' of the country's capital market like the other markets of developed countries."I have just joined as new chairman...
Siddique Islam | 2020-05-18 00:00:00
The central bank has enhanced the loan ceiling for the members of textiles and clothing exporters under its export development fund or EDF scheme to help boost proceeds from overseas sales, officials say. "It has now been decided to enhance...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2020-05-18 00:00:00
The collection of valued added tax or VAT against returns slipped by over 38 per cent in May, although the number of filing rose by 11,000 month on month.Despite lockdown, the return submission has jumped by 34.81 per cent this...
Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem and Towfiqul Islam Khan | 2020-05-18 00:00:00
The agriculture sector should get special priority in the national budget for FY21. The economic adversity caused by Covid-19 has reemphasized the importance of food security through food production, and also the need for increased public food stockholding. FY21 will...
Siddique Islam | 2020-05-17 12:00:00
NCC Bank has planned to expedite deposit mobilisation particularly core or retail one aiming to improve financial health further through reducing its cost of fund, the bank's top executive has said."In the present scenario it is very difficult to sustain...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2020-05-17 00:00:00
Benapole customs house has strongly pleaded for introducing container trains between Benapole and Petrapole land-ports in a bid to reducing cost of transportation.The customs authority also alleged that prices of products, imported through the Benapole port, go up due to...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2020-05-17 00:00:00
The mills at BSCIC industrial estates have been producing rice to ensure its smooth supply in the market during the coronavirus pandemic, an official said.There are a total of 76 industrial estates under BSCIC. Of them, 13 estates have been...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2020-05-16 00:00:00
Upscale private hospitals remain out of the purview of serving Covid-19 patients even as the rush of sick people has almost overwhelmed dedicated public facilities.The private players are willing to serve as multidisciplinary hospitals for non-COVID patients claiming that their...
Mohammad Tarikul Islam | 2020-05-16 00:00:00
As Bangladesh is fighting coronavirus pandemic that has affected 212 countries and territories, assumptions about the virus, prediction of severity, and pattern of genome have all been changing, puzzling scientists and perplexing policymakers, disaster management experts in particular. It is...
Sadequl Islam | 2020-05-16 00:00:00
Tragedy in the Greek literature is driven by character flaws in heroic figures while tragedy in the English or Shakespearean literature is more nuanced and complex. In contrast, tragedy or misfortune for garment workers in Bangladesh is simpler yet more...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2020-05-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh has sought cooperation from the European Parliament for the restoration of apparel work orders, suspended or cancelled by various European brands and retailers after the COVID-19 pandemic.The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) made the appeal on Wednesday since the work...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2020-05-15 00:00:00
India has invited Bangladeshi officials to discuss as New Delhi seeks to protect its mills by imposing yet another bout of safeguard duty on jute products of Dhaka. Anti-dumping duties are slapped by a country on the imported products that...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2020-05-15 00:00:00
Local cement manufacturers have urged the government to refund an accumulated advance income tax (AIT) worth Tk 7.5 billion to offer a "breathing space" for the cash-strapped companies.The Bangladesh Cement Manufacturers Association or BCMA made the appeal in a letter...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2020-05-15 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 14: Normal activities at Chittagong Port are being hampered as many importers of refrigerated containers (refer containers) are not taking delivery of the shipments on scheduled time.Port officials and traders said container congestion at the jetties of the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2020-05-15 00:00:00
The progress made in the country's health sector over the past two decades has earned international plaudits. However, most part of the appreciation has been for notable improvement in a few key health indicators such as life expectancy, immunisation coverage...
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