Ali Al-Sadiq | 2021-02-17 00:00:00
The ability to renew your passport or driver's license, pay a tax bill, or access government data with the click of a button or swipe of a screen, anytime and anywhere, has grown more important during the Covid-19 pandemic to...
Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, and Towfiqul Islam Khan | 2021-02-17 00:00:00
Halfway through the fiscal year 2020-21 (FY21), the Bangladesh economy is still reeling from the adverse consequences of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as manifested by key macroeconomic and sectoral performance indicators. Although, in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Bangladesh...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2021-02-16 00:00:00
The central bank is going to introduce an automated trading platform - Electronic Dealing System for lnterbank Money Market (EDSMoney) - within the third week of March to facilitate liquidity movement in the banking sector.The decision was taken in a...
SYFUL ISLAM AND REZAUL KARIM | 2021-02-16 00:00:00
The country's labour law is set to come under a fresh review for addressing the concerns of different global groups about workers' rights situation here, officials said. The government is expecting to submit a roadmap in this regard before a...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2021-02-16 00:00:00
The world's current preoccupation with the pandemic has pushed the other still greater threat not just to human life, but to life in its entirety on the planet Earth into the background. Climate change is the issue in question. Even...
Hasnat M. Alamgir | 2021-02-16 00:00:00
To develop more effective export strategies that yield better and sustainable results, the Bangladesh pharmaceutical manufacturers need to continually monitor and assess their performance in terms of sales volume, changes in product demand and sales trends for each major destination...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2021-02-15 00:00:00
The majority of small and medium scale shopping outlets are yet to install the automated sales transaction system despite repeated reminders coming from the National Board of Revenue (NBR) since 2009.A good number of these shops operating without electronic fiscal...
By David Randall | 2021-02-15 00:00:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are watching next week's earnings reports from hotels, cruise lines and other businesses that have been hard hit by COVID-19 for indications of which companies could be the first to bounce back when the pandemic...
Salwa Islam Audrika | 2021-02-15 00:00:00
For the past decade, the silver lining for Bangladesh has been its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. While Bangladesh boasts development in infrastructure, exports and GDP per capita, the country still needs to address the lack of job opportunities for...
Neil Ray | 2021-02-15 00:00:00
Beware of brides to be! Yes, this is a warning for bachelors looking for their partners. There is no reason to think girls of marriageable ages are weak and vulnerable. At least a betrothed girl Rabeya Sultana Ritu from Jashore...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-02-15 00:00:00
Mr. AMA Muhith, former finance minister had made contrasting statements on the merger and acquisition (M&A) of banks in Bangladesh on two successive dates in the month of December 2016. He seemed very unhappy about the existence of too many...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2021-02-15 00:00:00
A crisis often brings out the best in people. We have experienced it politically in this land, having been witness to history many times over. We have observed this reality in the past many years, with our Gross Domestic Product...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-02-14 12:00:00
Industries ministry has suggested that the National Board of Revenue (NBR) take its recommendations before allowing the import of any type of salt.It sought detailed information regarding salt import, including importers' names and the volume of import, before giving permission...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2021-02-14 00:00:00
A Japanese company is interested in developing a multimodal transport hub at airport rail station on condition that it operates the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.Officials said Mitsubishi Corporation has proposed the Public-Private Partnership Authority to invest in...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2021-02-14 00:00:00
The regulatory measures against the issuers and market operators continued to rise to ensure the compliance in market operations.The data regarding the securities regulator's enforcement actions reveal that the number of the regulatory measures gradually rose during January to December,...
Nilratan Halder | 2021-02-13 12:00:00
This winter is definitely a reminiscence of those bone-chilling ones down the memory lane. Yet it must be admitted that it is not like any of the ones experienced 50-60 years ago. Even if it were colder, in the jungles...
REZAUL KARIM | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
The government plans to import or buy locally around 0.143 million tonnes of key essential items to face any crisis or price spiral in future especially during the holy month of Ramadan, officials said. A buffer stock of such products...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) mulls establishing a separate specialised bank to help grow the country's cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) sector.The BSCIC has already sought the Ministry of Industries' (MoI) consent and necessary support...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
The government has decided to keep the domestic resource allocation in the annual development programme (ADP) for the current financial year unchanged.The budget for the FY2021 is now undergoing a revision, officials said.The external assistance component of the ADP has...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 12: The trade and business of commercial hub Chattogram is suffering a lot, as the local businesses cannot supply the imported goods to other parts of the country smoothly due to the restriction at the weighing scale at...
BABUL BARMAN | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
Stocks extended the losing streak for the fourth straight week as risk-averse investors kept their sell-offs to avoid further losses amid persistently lackluster trading.The government rolled out the nationwide mass coronavirous vaccination drive on first day of the week but...
Dilip Barua | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
The Trans-Himalayan economic forum is mainly a forum that plays a catalytic role in bridging the gap between China and South Asia, encompassing part of China's Belt and Road Initiative - a global development initiative that develops connectivity, especially across...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
In their second attempt to impeach former US president Donald Trump, the Democrats have presented before the Senate more vivid pictures with graphic details of the insurrectionist attack of January 6 on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. And the...
Md Joynal Abdin | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
National Industrial Policy 2016 is going to be replaced by its upcoming version National Industrial Policy 2021. Before that, we had National Industrial Policy 2010, 2005 etc. A policy comes into effect every five years. But how much of the...
Susmita Dasgupta, David Wheeler, Mainul Huq and Utpal Roy | 2021-02-13 00:00:00
Worldwide sea levels will continue rising beyond 2100, even if greenhouse gas emissions are halted today. The current scientific consensus projects at least a one-meter-rise this century. New evidence on ice-cliff instability in the Antarctic suggests that a three-meter increase...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2021-02-12 00:00:00
The 20-year transport plan for the mega city will be revised in a gap of five years to identify lapses and deviations in executing the proposed options.With this, the strategic transport plan (STP) will be revised twice since the first...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-02-12 00:00:00
The countrywide Covid-19 vaccination programme on the first day of its launch received a somewhat lukewarm response. But from the third day, the people in greater numbers started taking the jab at designated vaccination centres. On the fourth day, over...
Nilratan Halder | 2021-02-12 00:00:00
Apparently there is hardly any connection or similarity between the glacial burst that triggered a disastrous flash flood in Uttarkhand, India and the tar-like colour of water flowing down the Buriganga River. But a probing eye may discover some common...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-02-11 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has warned the taxmen against black money accumulation by some people, showing income from fake fish, poultry and dairy farms or other businesses relating to stock of goods.On several occasions, the watchdog found that a number...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2021-02-11 00:00:00
The provisioning shortfall against loans in the country's banking system fell by over 98 per cent in the last quarter of the year 2020 as the non-performing loans (NPLs) declined to some extent, officials said.It came down to only Tk...
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