Md Mazadul Hoque | 2019-12-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh is in great trouble with the unskilled labor force employed in many countries for long. The employers are now sending the unskilled labor force back to Bangladesh. So, more than 12 million expatriate workers are concerned as some of...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-12-28 00:00:00
Even after a few deaths from stone thrown at running trains, the peril shows no sign of coming to an end. It is hard to believe that any adult person in his (her too!) right senses can do this. Most...
Babul Barman | 2019-12-28 00:00:00
The losing streak continued for the fourth straight weeks on the bourses that ended Thursday as worried investors continued their selling binge on large-cap issues.Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 38 points...
Siddique Islam | 2019-12-28 00:00:00
The flow of inward remittance is set to jump more than 18 per cent or US$2.80 billion in the outgoing calendar year 2019 as the government has provided incentive to the beneficiaries against inward remittance.Depreciation of the local currency against...
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-12-28 00:00:00
Some of the inter-city trains from Dhaka to different big cities and the other way round are mostly run in a jam-packed condition especially in the first and last week days. A good number of commuters purchase standing tickets for...
Abdul Bayes | 2019-12-28 00:00:00
It has long been argued by critics that social enterprises are exploiters, owners of which pay less than poor craftsmen or milk producers and women deserve but pocket hefty profits by selling products in the market. But a case study...
Md. Mahmudul Islam Shakil | 2019-12-28 00:00:00
Although the origin of evidential procedures can be traced from the period of ancient Hindu to ancient Muslim and British India, it was not codified into a piece of legislation until 1872, in the British period, by Sir James Fitz...
Haider A. Khan in Denver, Colorado, USA | 2019-12-28 00:00:00
When I decided to become a US citizen in 1990s, it was a deliberate decision to spend my life fighting for preserving and deepening democratic freedoms at a place where I have spent all my adult life. Having struggled against...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2019-12-27 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has decided to sell all train tickets to general passengers, withdrawing its previous blocking system which was mainly practised at Dhaka and Chattogram stations for influential people.Sources said a large number of intercity train tickets used...
Ismail Hossain | 2019-12-27 00:00:00
The country's mobile operators lost an estimated 0.5-million internet users in November alone, thanks to the telecoms regulator's restrictions on network expansion, industry insiders said.The number of cellular data users dropped by more than 0.5 million in November, with active...
Pamelia Khaled | 2019-12-27 00:00:00
The purpose of creating a human-milk bank is to assist critical neonates. Mothers' milk pack is for supporting kids who are in critical care and can't drink and digest regular milk for their survival. Using human milk is not an...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-12-27 00:00:00
Whatever may be the equation between time and space, one thing is certain that the former is relative and the shape and size of the latter are debatable. For finite mortals comprehension of the infinity is impossible. Before modern science...
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-12-27 00:00:00
The dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is now technically dysfunctional. On December 10 this year, the tenure of three of the two judges of the appellate body of the multilateral organisation ended. Thus there is only...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2019-12-26 00:00:00
The share price of three listed companies hit the rock-bottom following investors' less interest to take part in transactions mainly because of their non-performing status.The companies whose share prices have come down to record low are United Airways (BD), Familytex...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2019-12-26 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 25: Migratory birds have started taking sanctuary on the banks of the river Karnaphuli and the seashore in Chattogram from the second week of this month (December) with the advent of winter.The hillsides, seashore and the banks of...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2019-12-26 00:00:00
The construction of Dhaka bypass expressway begins today (Thursday) a year after the signing with a Chinese concessionaire.The expressway will be built by China-led joint-venture under the Public Private Partnership, or PPP.The state-run Roads and Highways Department, or RHD, has...
BABUL BARMAN | 2019-12-26 00:00:00
Low-cap companies have dominated the initial public offerings, or IPOs, in the outgoing year in what was a bearish market.A total of eight firms raised Tk 5.52 billion combined, including premium, by floating IPO shares in 2019, according to the...
Sayed Mofidul Babu | 2019-12-26 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Dec 25: A vast tract of railway land in Saidpur upazila of Nilphamari district has remained occupied by influential people for long. Sources alleged that thousands of illegal structures have been built on the grabbed railway lands in different...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2019-12-26 00:00:00
A photograph published on a national English daily recently tells us a tale of harrowing condition that the poor and street children live in. It shows that some children are sleeping in an insecure place beside AK Khan Jakir Hossain...
Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, et al in Paris | 2019-12-26 00:00:00
We are living in the Dark Ages of inequality statistics. More than a decade after the "Great Recession," governments are still unable to track accurately the evolution of income and wealth. Statistical agencies produce income-growth statistics for the population as...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2019-12-25 12:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) will sit with the finance minister to seek effective policy support for bringing back investors' confidence in the moribund stock market.The country's premier bourse fixed January 02 for the meeting as per the consent of...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2019-12-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is set to introduce a new train service between Dhaka and Tarakandi in Jamalpur and inaugurate newly installed tracks in Pabna and Faridpur next month.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the train and 53 km of new...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2019-12-25 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) board of directors has approved a proposal on a single-digit lending rate for industrial manufacturers to add an impetus to the country's economic growth.The approval came at a meeting of the board of directors held at...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2019-12-25 00:00:00
The Sundarbans (meaning 'beautiful forest' in Bengali) is the biggest contiguous mangrove ecosystem in the world comprising 6200km² of forest and riverine areas and 108 swampy, low-lying islands. Roughly, 60 per cent of the Sundarbans is in Bangladesh, located on...
Siddique Islam | 2019-12-24 12:00:00
The central bank is set to issue a circular on single-digit interest rate on industrial loans after getting approval from its board of directors, officials said.A draft of the circular is expected to be placed in a meeting of the...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2019-12-24 00:00:00
Train schedule on the country's northern and southern parts have been shattered during the last few days mainly due to prevailing heavy fog that took several additional hours to reach destinations from Dhaka.The highest delay in train operation is recorded...
Ruslan Hossain | 2019-12-24 00:00:00
Fitness never looked better, not until the social media swept in! Living in an era that is more loyal to tabloids and screens, the electronic media play a dominant role in people's life. Not only has it given more means...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2019-12-23 12:00:00
When the death of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was announced on Friday night, a deep note was struck in our lives which must have resounded in the minds of those who care about the future of our country, who cry...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2019-12-23 00:00:00
The government has recently replied to the Telenor Group's legal notice, served on President Abdul Hamid to pursue an arbitration to resolve audit dispute amicably between the Bangladesh Telecom-munication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) and the Grameenphone (GP). "The Attorney General office...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2019-12-23 00:00:00
The government has reduced the rate of advance income tax (AIT) on import of cement raw materials to 3.0 per cent from 5.0 per cent.National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a SRO (statutory regulatory order) in this regard on Thursday,...
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