FE ONLINE DESK | 2024-03-10 00:00:00
Doulat Akter Mala, a special correspondent of The Financial Express, has been honoured by Universal Medical College and Hospital (UMCH) for her contribution to mass media. She is among 12 women UMCH recognised on Saturday for their contribution to various...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2024-03-10 00:00:00
Aviva Finance Limited, formerly known as Reliance Finance Limited, has drawn up a 5-7 year roadmap to clear its non-performing loan (NPL) burden which is around 35 per cent of the total outstanding credit, said M Mostafiduzzaman, managing director and...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-03-10 00:00:00
Publicly-traded companies are in difficulty to comply with the government's instruction to adopt the status as Public Limited Company (PLC). They are obliged to pay Tk 50,000 each to each stock exchange for changing into PLC from Ltd entity, despite...
Farhin Islam | 2024-03-10 00:00:00
Thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder, often remains overlooked in health discussions, yet its impact on individuals and families is profound. WANA, soon to be known as the Bangladesh Thalassemia Patients and Parents' Welfare Association, stands as a beacon of support...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-03-10 00:00:00
In response to a recent question in the national parliament, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Simeen Hussain (Rimi) made a startling disclosure. She said that over half of the girls in Bangladesh are married off before the age...
Safiullah Pathan | 2024-03-09 00:00:00
'Bathua shak' (Scientific name - Chenopodium album; common names include lamb's quarters, wild spinach, goosefoot, and fat-hen) has been consumed in Bangladesh as a nutrient-rich, non-traditional leafy vegetable for hundreds of years. The plant is considered a weed but is...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-03-09 00:00:00
Following the Bailey Road fire tragedy, the restaurant business is witnessing a drastic slump. This is for two reasons: one, those willing to dine out think twice before visiting the more fancied eateries particularly housed in a multi-storey building; second,...
Abdullah A Dewan | 2024-03-09 00:00:00
In a recent article, entitled, “Economic expansion with monetary contraction” Professor M A Taslim presented a blueprint while addressing various aspects of the state of Bangladesh economy and the Monetary Policy Statements (MPS) of the Bangladesh Bank (FE, February 27,...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-03-08 12:00:00
The pictures of emaciated and scrawny newborns and toddlers in Gaza's hospitals, as circulated by the media, are outrageously nightmarish. A disturbing sight of the babies and children in intensive care units (ICUs) or on beds in general wards, it...
Luthmela Farid | 2024-03-08 00:00:00
Googling 'How women can be less emotional at work' generated 630,000,000 search-engine results that give us an idea of the magnitude of the problem. Life of a working woman is stressful, which has a tremendous effect on her emotional, physical...
Nirala Singh | 2024-03-08 00:00:00
It has often been thought that once companies globally attain gender balance, gender gaps will close, and bias will reduce. Management across numerous companies have gone for the 'adding women and stirring' approach, believing that having more women in the...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2024-03-08 00:00:00
At first sight one will be impressed to find that out of the total number of BO (beneficiary owner) accounts for stocks trade in Bangladesh bourses, quite over 24 per cent of the account-holders are women. Apparently, this percentage is...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-03-08 00:00:00
It was 1993. Economic reporters in Bangladesh decided to form a forum to strengthen collaboration and hone their financial reporting skills. They encountered a peculiar but significant hurdle: not a single female reporter covering the economic affairs was then available...
BABUL BARMAN | 2024-03-08 00:00:00
Yusuf Flour Mills, a little known SME stock, has been flying high once again on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), leaving many well-performing stocks behind.The stock price jumped an astounding 86 per cent or Tk 1,307 each share in just...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2024-03-08 00:00:00
In yet another building fire incident in Dhaka, over 46 people lost their lives. According to the details given by the newspapers and electronic media thus far, the story is the same old one with similar causes and circumstances. There...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh moves fast preparing a deal document for procuring rice and farm products from the war-torn eastern neighbour Myanmar to replenish stock, officials said, as market keeps gaining heat.The Ministry of Commerce, after a recent meeting, shared a draft memorandum...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
Having settled 16 cases of unpaid taxes through alternative dispute resolution in 2019, the revenue board is now seeking to claim Tk 1.45 billion in interest on VAT paid earlier from the country's leading telecom operators, according to officials.The officials...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
General investors show more interest in Treasury bonds now than even a few months ago, an outcome of the regulator's unwavering advocacy of risk-free government securities to diversify portfolios. It seems the access created by the capital market watchdog to...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
After decades of steady growth with cotton-made products, it is high time the Bangladesh readymade garment (RMG) industry shifted its gears and strategically focused on man-made fiber (MMF) to drive further growth. A recent study conducted by Wazir Advisors Pvt...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
A day before 7 March fifty-three years ago, as a student of Senior Cambridge in distant Quetta, Balochistan, where our family lived owing to my father's posting in the garrison town, I looked forward to listening to Bangabandhu's speech the...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-03-06 00:00:00
Ongoing development projects, too, may fall into funding uncertainty as major foreign financiers are bound by global decarbonisation deal to cease financing non-green ones from this July.No concern is in the offing, however, for the projects taken or planned with...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-03-06 00:00:00
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is likely to appoint contractors for construction of the Matarbari Deep Sea Port in Cox's Bazar very soon. The CPA has completed evaluating the technical and financial aspects of offers submitted by the Japanese joint...
MEHENAZ SULTANA TISHA | 2024-03-06 00:00:00
"Jesus was killed because people did not like what he was saying, so could you call him the first celebrity victim of cancel culture?" Philomena Cunk from Cunk on Earth once said. Although it is a joke taken from a...
BABUL BARMAN | 2024-03-05 00:00:00
Gas-fuelled 584 megawatt Unique Meghnaghat Power has begun commercial operation and successfully connected to the national grid.Unique Hotel & Resorts, which has a 37.24pc stake in the power plant, expects a boost to its profit with income from electricity generation,...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-03-05 00:00:00
The Ekushey BooK Fair, which had a modest beginning under private initiative immediately after Bangladesh's independence, has meanwhile turned into a big national event organised every year in February. Why the month is important even a child of this country...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-03-04 12:00:00
The springtime in Bangladesh is not all fun and merriment. Because in this pre-monsoon months, dry air and rising temperature turn the environment into a tinderbox. So, it is also the time when deadly fires break out. But though the...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-03-04 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 03: At last, the Bangladesh Railway (BR) is going to build a two-tier road-cum-rail bridge over the Karnaphuli River in place of an old and dilapidated bridge at Kalurghat in the port city.The BR authorities have already sent...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-03-04 00:00:00
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission begins reappraisal of Bangladesh's tax-expenditure status on direct taxes, tax incentives to businesses and compliance issues through consultation with the revenue authority.In a series of meetings scheduled for March 4-15, geared towards necessary reforms,...
TAHJIBUL ANAM | 2024-03-04 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Mar 03: Turtles are floating dead frequently on the Cox's Bazar beach much to the concern of the oceanographers and environmentalists. Carcasses of 95 turtles with eggs have been spotted in the coastal area of Cox's Bazar in...
Kakoly Talokder | 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Over the past month, there has been significant uproar nationwide after the Government of West Bengal in India acquired Geographical Indication (GI) rights for the renowned Tangail saree of Bangladesh. Notably, 'Tangail' is not a place in India but one...
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