Neil Rays | 2020-01-13 00:00:00
Pitha's English translation is cake but the twins hardly ever meet to convey the same tasty treat. While pitha has a local, rather rural flair about it, cake has an aura of foreign culinary elitism. In cities and towns pithas...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2020-01-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh bond market, where the government remains the key player, has been more of a non-entity. The corporate bonds are fewer in numbers and funds against those are generally raised through private placement. The truth is that the prevailing environment...
Anis Chowdhury in Sydney and Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur | 2020-01-13 00:00:00
The latest November 2019 UBS/PwC Billionaires Report counted 2,101 billionaires globally, or 589 more than five years before. Earlier, Farhad Manjoo had seriously recommended, 'Abolish Billionaires', presenting a moral case against the super-rich as they have and get far, far...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2020-01-12 00:00:00
The return on depositors' money in banks has been shrinking gradually, mainly due to regulatory and fiscal measures.A bank depositor receives a minuscule slice of profits or a negative return after deduction of source tax on interest, excise duty on...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2020-01-12 00:00:00
Listed pharmaceutical company Renata witnessed a steady growth in net profit for the last three fiscal years (FYs) as the company maintained its high professional standard in manufacturing 'quality' medicines.The company reported its net profit of above Tk 3.82 billion...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA | 2020-01-12 00:00:00
The assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a powerful Iraqi militia leader at the Baghdad International airport on January 03 escalated tension between Iran and the...
Abdul Bayes | 2020-01-11 12:00:00
A research by the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn, reveals interesting insights into the changing agriculture and small farms throughout the world. It sheds light on how small farms have evolved in the changing agricultural...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2020-01-11 00:00:00
The government has moved to bring all public and private buildings under the mandatory insurance coverage to reduce the losses caused by disasters, officials said.A pilot project will be taken soon to expedite the process, they said.The decision was taken...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2020-01-11 00:00:00
Local mobile apps have failed to fully penetrate the market for a lack of both big investment and quality Internet service, experts and industry insiders said.Digitisation of data and the total Internet ecosystem are also responsible for the use of...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2020-01-11 00:00:00
A move to raise the level of platforms of all rail stations to train floor height is likely to slow down most development projects of the Bangladesh Railway (BR) and increase the project cost. The decision taken by the government...
Luke Emeka Okafor and Muhammad Shafiullah | 2020-01-11 00:00:00
Following India's ban on onion export aimed at controlling its own domestic market, the onion prices rose dramatically in Bangladesh in late 2019. A number of factors have contributed to a sharp increase in onion prices, such as over-reliance on...
Nilratan Halder | 2020-01-11 00:00:00
Protests were massive and loud on Dhaka university campus. Yet it must be admitted that the national revulsion and outrage at sexual violence perpetrated on a DU student fell far short of the desirable. Students of the premier university are...
Neena Bhandari in Sydney, Australia | 2020-01-11 00:00:00
As nature's fury wreaked havoc across Australia, reducing to ashes all that came in its way - people, flora, fauna, picturesque historic towns and villages once popular with local and overseas tourists - it was unlike anything the country had...
K Sallahuddin | 2020-01-11 00:00:00
I met Justice Murshed in his twilight years when he had become frail and ailing, yet one could notice his greatness and the respect he commanded. Having been introduced by the late Shamsur Rahman as a young poet, whenever I...
Asjadul Kibria | 2020-01-11 00:00:00
A platform is an integral part of a rail station. It is a solid ground infrastructure alongside a railway track and provides convenient access to and exit from trains. Generally, almost all train stations have some type of platforms. Without...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2020-01-10 00:00:00
The government has started building 54 temporary godowns at Shyampur in the city cost around Tk 800 million.Once constructed, the inventories will store chemical products while ensuring public safety. Industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun laid on Thursday the foundation...
ASJADUL KIBRIA | 2020-01-10 00:00:00
Membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has boosted the GDP of Bangladesh by $1759.73 million in 25 years, according to a study conducted by a global think-tank. The country has gained 2.47 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2020-01-10 00:00:00
The content of a report published recently by the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the food ministry is enough to arouse both frustration and hope as far as the production of food is concerned. The report said the...
Nilratan Halder | 2020-01-10 00:00:00
At a time when the economic growth the world over has been forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October at 3.0 per cent -the lowest since 2008-9, Bangladesh has recorded its highest ever growth rate at 8.15. The...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2020-01-09 12:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has relaxed conditions for availing VAT waiver by the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) industries.From now on, the API industries will be able to avail the VAT benefit on import of raw materials by adding...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2020-01-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh will request India to notify it at least six months before it slaps ban on any commodity export, officials said.They said the urging will be made at the Indo-Bangla commerce secretary-level meeting scheduled for mid-January in New Delhi.A sudden...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2020-01-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is reassessing the cost of the Padma Rail Link Project (PRLP) estimating an increase of Tk 10 billion for land acquisition (LA) to the government agencies for their land, sources said.Besides, they said the project office will...
REZAUL KARIM | 2020-01-09 00:00:00
The government is working on a proposal to ban frozen meat import for promoting local production and saving foreign currency, sources said."A meeting is scheduled to be held on January 15 to take a decision is this regard," said an...
Abdullah A Dewan | 2020-01-09 00:00:00
Former Finance Minister AMA Muhith, while speaking at a two-day research almanac organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in Dhaka, has applauded the studies and research pursued at BIDS while deprecating research pursued at private institutions. He...
Kemal Dervis in Washington, DC | 2020-01-09 00:00:00
There is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that this decade will be the last window for humanity to change the current global trajectory of carbon dioxide emissions so that the world can get close to zero net emissions by around...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2020-01-08 00:00:00
At least five large commercial banks paid less in corporate tax in the last fiscal year than that of the previous year, thus, adding to the woes of the National Board of Revenue (NBR).The five were among the top nine...
Rezaul Karim | 2020-01-08 00:00:00
The government is close to formulating a new policy on national savings instruments with setting an investment ceiling of Tk 10 million on three schemes, according to Department of National Savings. The three schemes are: 5-year Bangladesh Sanchayapatra, 3-monthly profit-bearing...
Steven Goldfinch and Rebekah Beatrice Ramsay | 2020-01-08 00:00:00
Almost 75 per cent of the world's disaster displacement in 2018 - that's over 12.6 million people forced to relocate from their homes - occurred in Asia and the Pacific.According to recent modeling by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, an...
Asjadul Kibria | 2020-01-08 00:00:00
Slower growth of private credit has sparked a debate in the country. Some argue that it reflects lower demand of capital for private investment which may ultimately affect the overall economic growth. Again, some others argue that excessive borrowing by...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2020-01-07 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 06: Though tea production has increased significantly in Bangladesh in the just-ended decade, the country's annual tea production has not yet surpassed its domestic demands, industry insiders and officials said.The total annual tea production in the country is...
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