S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2019-04-05 00:00:00
Gone are the days when parents or other guardians in a family would monitor what magazines or periodicals adolescents and youths could bring home and what TV shows/movies they could be allowed to watch. As the world becomes more interconnected...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-04-05 00:00:00
The private sector credit growth in the month of February last was 12.54 per cent, one of the lowest in recent times. It was 13.20 per cent in the previous month. The central bank has set 16.50 per cent private...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-04-05 00:00:00
The eviction drive carried tenaciously to recover the rivers around the capital city has largely paid good dividends. Without a strong political will, this would have been impossible. Buildings from two-storey to seven or eight-storey were demolished at several points...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 2019-04-05 00:00:00
In most cases of privatisation, some outcomes benefit some, which serves to legitimise the change. Nevertheless, overall net welfare improvements are the exception, not the rule.Never is everyone better off. Rather, some are better off, while others are not, and...
Siddique Islam | 2019-04-04 00:00:00
Country's overall imports grew by more than 9.0 per cent in the first eight months of this fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, following higher imports of intermediate goods and fuel oils, officials said.The actual import in terms of settlement of letters...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2019-04-04 00:00:00
The government should conduct an in-depth cost benefit analysis of the possible changes in the new VAT law, and focus on transition of the existing VAT payers to the new regime, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) opined.The fiscal impact of...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, United States | 2019-04-04 00:00:00
No country has suffered more from the aftermath of Arab Spring, as much Syria- the breeding home of Arab language and culture. What began as a peaceful demonstration in Damascus demanding civil liberty, equal opportunity and end of corruption in...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2019-04-04 00:00:00
The household chores and work performed by women are considered to be part of the informal economy and therefore not visible in the calculation of gross domestic product or GDP of a country. At the Beijing Platform of Action for...
Harold James in Princeton, New Jersey, USA | 2019-04-04 00:00:00
Once upon a time, everyone assumed that there was a single phenomenon called globalisation, whereby cross-border flows of financial capital drove innovation, industrialisation, development, and trade. But Chinese President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) advances an alternative vision...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2019-04-04 00:00:00
A recent survey by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) revealed that trade-based money laundering in Bangladesh is rising quite fast. The scope for use, or rather misuse, of this channel has reached menacing proportion in recent years in...
Syful Islam | 2019-04-03 00:00:00
The number of import containers at Chattogram port looks to grow bigger with every passing day, making its yard heavily congested.When things have got this bad, the authorities of the country's prime seaport are making calls for users to take...
Munima Sultana | 2019-04-03 00:00:00
The agencies concerned are likely to shoulder a major cost of the utility shifting work in any road and highway development project under Roads and Highways Department (RHD).RHD is considering taking the move for avoiding complication in dealing with faulty...
Siddique Islam | 2019-04-03 00:00:00
The private-sector credit growth dropped significantly in February as some banks, particularly private ones, faced liquidity pressure due mainly to unavailability of deposits, bankers said.Credit growth fell to 12.54 per cent this February on a year-on-year basis from 13.20 per...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2019-04-03 00:00:00
The country's premier bourse has taken initiative to implement the technical and business proposals earlier offered by its strategic partner, a Chinese consortium comprising Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges.As part of implementing the proposals, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has...
Abdul Wadud | 2019-04-03 00:00:00
Financial discipline has been one of the most discussed terms in recent years, especially when it comes to successful management of organisations. Even a well-performing organisation will not be stable, until and unless financial discipline (FD) is maintained in it....
Michel Forst in Geneva | 2019-04-03 00:00:00
They are ordinary people - mothers, fathers, sisters, sons, daughters, brothers, friends. But for me they are extraordinary people - the ones who have the courage to stand up for everyone else's rights. They are the human rights defenders.Last year,...
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-04-03 00:00:00
The country's trade in services, though lags far behind merchandise trade, is growing gradually. The Service sector accounts for 50 per cent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but its contribution to overall international trade is a measly 5.0...
Babul Barman | 2019-04-02 00:00:00
Net foreign investment in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) entered a negative territory in March again, after two months break, as overseas investors booked profit by selling shares.Foreign investors collected shares worth Tk 3.75 billion but sold Tk 4.98 billion...
Neil Ray | 2019-04-01 00:00:00
The Orwellian dystopia is being staged in the capital of Bangladesh with ruthless intensity and much too often. Human beings have been reduced to mere numbers and turned lives as insignificant as they can be. At a time when the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-04-01 00:00:00
Nothing appears to be working as far as buoying up the country's stock market, a vital economic indicator, is concerned. Since its collapse in December 2010, if not others, the Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), either by its own initiatives...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed | 2019-04-01 00:00:00
In a contentious foreign policy move and violating UN mandates, US President Donald Trump formally recognised Israel's sovereignty over the illegally occupied Golan Heights on March 25, 2019. Trump's action reversed more than half a century of US policy towards...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2019-03-31 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is set to start an onsite inspection from the next month to cross-check whether corporate taxpayers' source tax deduction matches with expenditures, officials said.Taxmen will visit premises of 'withholding authorities' such as public and...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2019-03-31 00:00:00
The independence of the Subcontinent from the British Raj, by partition, as India and Pakistan in 1947 brought about a radical change in the outlook of the people, as well as the topics for discussion in gatherings of friends and...
Rahat Syful Hoque | 2019-03-31 00:00:00
Inequality in the current global economic system is inevitable. As in the advanced economies, wealth inequality in the developing world, too, remains a difficult policy issue. In Bangladesh, the share of total income of the poorest five per cent plummeted...
Babul Barman | 2019-03-30 12:00:00
Stocks plummeted for the ninth straight week that ended on Thursday, while turnover continued its downtrend as edgy investors kept dumping financial shares.The ongoing pessimism coupled with lower than expected dividend declaration by some banks dented the investors' confidence in...
Talha Bin Habib | 2019-03-30 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) will take more time to introduce its new mobile app service for providing information to the customers on the safe foods available in the city eateries, official sources said. The authority has a few...
Munima Sultana | 2019-03-30 00:00:00
Shifting from its earlier stand on self-funding, Bangladesh has decided to seek a Chinese loan to widen the Dhaka-Sylhet-Tamabil corridor into four lanes.Sources said road transport and bridges ministry requested the economic relations division (ERD) to ask for the Chinese...
Syful Islam | 2019-03-30 00:00:00
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) has proposed creation of a Tk 50-billion 'market support fund' to help make the stock market stable.Sources said the corporation made an appeal to the finance ministry amid volatility now prevailing in bourses.Investors are...
Siddique Islam | 2019-03-30 00:00:00
The overall deposit growth in the country's private commercial banks (PCBs) fell further last year despite allowing the state-owned enterprises (SoEs) to deposit of half their funds with them.The falling trend in deposit growth pushed up further advance-deposit ratio (ADR),...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2019-03-30 00:00:00
The killings of journalists are on the rise globally. Most journalists are being targeted and persecuted for investigating and reporting about organised crimes, corruption and other ills of society. They are being targeted by criminals, terrorists and many others simply...
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