Mohammad Towhidul Islam | 2021-09-11 00:00:00
Early last year, two well-known international publishing companies and probably a few years ago a professor working at the World Trade Institute in Geneva sent me specimen copies of several textbooks on intellectual property law to my Dhaka University address...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2021-09-10 00:00:00
Re-export of products returned by foreign buyers to Bangladesh has been simplified through relaxing restrictions in customs rules under a special order, now that a crunch time prevails over the world.To this end, the customs authority allows exporters to re-export...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2021-09-10 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 09: Construction work on a project launched in 2011 to set up 129-kilometre-long railway tracks from Chattogram to Cox's Bazar is going on in full swing now after halts multiple times during coronavirus outbreak last year and a...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-09-10 00:00:00
The job of regulating a stock market is akin to that of flying a kite. One needs to unwind thread from the spool (locally known as natai) to help the kite go up and become steady on its own in...
Nilratan Halder | 2021-09-10 00:00:00
The decision taken in favour of opening schools and colleges have pleased most people, only more so the learners ---the number one stake-holders. No wonder, the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which has been pleading with the governments the...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2021-09-09 00:00:00
Amid a bull run of the bourse, the regulator moves to check what lies behind abnormal share-price surge of many listed companies with poor fundamentals, so no bubble does occur.The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) Wednesday asked the premier...
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid | 2021-09-09 00:00:00
After an interlude of two decades, Pakistan has conquered Afghanistan, again. Or so you would think, looking at the reactions of Pakistani leaders over the past three weeks. From leaking intelligence meetings to celebrating Western leaders' calls, Islamabad is relishing,...
Mwayiwathu Mkwala | 2021-09-09 00:00:00
Covid-19 (coronavirus) has negatively affected Malawi in various dynamics of development sectors, hence pushing more people towards extreme poverty than before the pandemic. Many people lost jobs; businesses shut down. Congestion in health services led to shortage of health personnel...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2021-09-09 00:00:00
The plastics industry basically emerged in Bangladesh during the 1980s as a backward linkage for supplying items required for readymade garments (RMG) sector, such as plastic hangers and other accessories. By now, the country has a large and diverse but...
Brajesh Panth and Jukka Tulivuori | 2021-09-09 00:00:00
The global learning crisis is actually a teaching crisis. The quality of teachers has the greatest impact on improving student learning outcomes. Most developing countries in Asia and the Pacific face major challenges in recruiting the best candidates for a...
Paul Akiwumi | 2021-09-09 00:00:00
According to recent United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) analysis, most Least Developed Countries (LDCs) will likely take several years to recover the level of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita they had in 2019. And compared to...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-09-08 00:00:00
The fastest-growing e-commerce that has been carrying out trade transactions worth billions is yet to get government recognition as a business category, sources say. The e-commerce businesses do not exist in the listed categories of company registration, trade-licence application or...
Fariza Alia and Ameer Danial | 2021-09-08 00:00:00
In February 2021, Malaysians began to see the light at the end of the tunnel that is the pandemic. Malaysia announced that it targets to vaccinate 82.8 per cent of its population. There is a growing concern among policymakers regarding...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2021-09-08 00:00:00
The beauty of poetry, of literature and love for literature, of the grandeur of power has been a truth with many among the political class we have known in our times and in our studies of history. Bahadur Shah Zafar...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2021-09-07 00:00:00
A law for the Bangladesh Railway (BR) is being amended 133 years after it was enacted in 1890.The BR has drafted the 'Bangladesh Railway Amendment Act' with the aid of the Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Company (IIFC) as it had failed...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2021-09-07 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 06: Prices of essential items continue to rise in the port city, leaving the middle- and low-income people struggling to cope with the cost of living. The price hike of essentials such as rice, wheat, sugar and oil,...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2021-09-07 00:00:00
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) data show that 49 people have died of dengue, while 11, 236 people have been infected with the mosquito-borne disease so far since July this year. Globally, around 400 million people in more...
Kelly Levin and Andrew Steer | 2021-09-07 00:00:00
When we gathered in Paris in 2015 to hammer out the historic climate deal, few of us dared hope that by 2021 more than 60 countries-representing over half of global emissions-would have committed to net zero emissions by mid-century. In...
Afshana Choudhury, Fahim S Chowdhury, Sadril Shajahan and Faria Ahmad | 2021-09-07 00:00:00
Using different tools and maps for disaster risk reduction, hazard preparation and emergency response is a common practice for years. However, evidence of effectiveness of this approach is still hard to find in the industrial sector. Ericsson (a leading telecom...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2021-09-06 12:00:00
National Professor Mohammad Ibrahim (1911-1989) was a celebrated physician, a gifted teacher, a talented organiser and a great reformer. His contributions in the field of medicine in general and diabetes in particular was phenomenal. He spent the major part of...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2021-09-06 00:00:00
Credit flow into private sector grows gradually as July demand for loans, particularly for working capital, rose for Eid-ul-Azha festival and the after-lockdown reopening of businesses began creating needs for funds. Such credit flow rose to 8.38 per cent in...
Neil Ray | 2021-09-06 00:00:00
The good news is that the positivity rate of Covid-19 cases has dropped below the double digit in the 24 hours till Saturday, September 3 last after three months. Also the number of death from the disease came down to...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-09-06 00:00:00
Two government stalwarts, reportedly, engaged in a verbal duel over rice production in the country at a virtual event, held in Dhaka early this week. One claimed Bangladesh produced surplus food while the other suspected some problem with food production...
former ambassador Humayun Kabir says in an exclusive interview with Khawaza Main Uddin of The Financial Express. | 2021-09-05 12:00:00
The Financial Express (FE): How far do you foresee stability and possibility of people's wellbeing in Afghanistan this time around, after the takeover by the Taliban forces despite bitter experiences of the land-locked country located at a strategic crossroad?Humayun Kabir...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-09-05 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority has issued new directives to check VAT evasion and also simplify the process of business operations of cigarette companies, who, nevertheless, pay a king's ransom to the exchequer. The Value Added Tax (VAT) policy wing under the...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2021-09-05 00:00:00
Mobile financial service Nagad has suspended around 13,000 accounts suspecting fraudulent transactions with e-commerce sites and set sleuths for a probe. The public-sector MFS outfit, Nagad, Saturday sent the list of these accounts to Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), law-enforcing...
Asjadul Kibria | 2021-09-05 00:00:00
For the fifth consecutive year, Bangladesh recorded the deficit in current account balance with the rest of the world. The deficit stood at its highest level of US$9.56 billion in FY18. In the later years, it gradually declined to $4.79...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2021-09-04 00:00:00
The regulator seeks cooperation from ministers concerned in implementing mandatory group insurance in all industrial units pursuant upon the Bangladesh Labour Law, as the issue comes to the fore following recent tragedies.The Insurance Develop-ment and Regulatory Aut-hority (IDRA) recently req-uested...
BABUL BARMAN | 2021-09-04 00:00:00
Dhaka stocks extended their rally for the eleventh straight week that ended on Thursday.The key index closed near to 7,000 mark as the buoyant investors continued their buying spree riding on regulatory measures.DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
Tapash Chandra Paul | 2021-09-04 00:00:00
The outbreak of Covid-19 forced the world to witness serious economic emergencies, social constraints, financial crisis, and loss of lives. The wave of coronavirus creates a threat to the global and domestic economic and financial stability worldwide. Developing and emerging...
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