Noore Alam Siddiqui | 2018-10-14 00:00:00
Financial inclusion efforts seek to ensure that all individuals, households, and businesses - regardless of net worth, size, income level - have access to and can effectively use the appropriate financial services they need to improve their lives. This is...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2018-10-14 00:00:00
Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) registered a growth of 39.77 per cent in net profit to Tk 2.46 billion in 2017 as compared to that of the previous year.According to the DBBL, the bank's profitability rose moderately in 2017 due to...
Syful Islam | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue has been asked to permit direct delivery of all types of FCL (full container load) containers to importers' premises.According to officials, only industrial items are now allowed to be delivered as FCL containers.Chittagong Port Authority...
Babul Barman | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
Stocks edged higher last week, extending the gaining streak for the second week in a row, as some investors showed their buying appetite on sector specific issues.Market insiders said most of the investors were buying shares, particularly from power, food...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
Following the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, there were hopes and expectations galore in all areas of national life including games and sports. Over the years, those lofty aspirations may not have fully materialised, but there were pioneers and torch-bearers...
Md Abu Abdullah | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
Imagine a world where your credit card would not fit into every cash machine. Also, imagine a world without telephone codes, country and currency codes and access to internet. If we don't have standards, or communication between people and machine,...
Asjadul Kibria | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
The growing chaos in the public transport system in the capital city originates from multifarious issues. Over the years, a series of factors have contributed to the disorder. Day by day, the number of unruly vehicles and careless pedestrians is...
Abdul Bayes | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
Farmers of Bangladesh cultivate their land in three different seasons each having its own characteristics. Once agriculture in this part of the world was rain-dependent, then turned into a mechanised system of lifting water from the underground.The distribution of cultivable...
Nina L. Khrushcheva | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
Why do conspiracy theories so often receive their strongest support from the world's dictators? Dictators are almost always oddballs, but it is worth asking: Is quackery a required trait of authoritarian rule?Having grown up in the Soviet Union, I am...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
Previously at the initial stages of development, moving a worker from farmland to factory usually fetched a very high value-added contribution to the economy. Much of South Asia's extraordinary growth in the decades has been underwritten by this conversion, but...
Sanjali Yadav | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
From a war-torn nation in 1971, Bangladesh has turned itself into a 'Role Model for Development' in less than fifty years. The country recorded impressive progress in poverty reduction and numerous other parameters of socioeconomic development in the last few...
Nilratan Halder | 2018-10-13 00:00:00
If Durga Puja is not the most colourful of all festivals, it surely is one of those. So far as the Bangalee Hindus are concerned, it is the greatest and most colourful festival to them. The untimely invocation of Goddess...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2018-10-12 12:00:00
Muslim women and girls are usually viewed as oppressed victims of their families, communities, and orthodoxies. Prominent feminist scholars like Lila Abu-Lughod, Joan Scott, Saba Mahmood, and others have shown how the concept of Muslim women as victims of their...
Siddique Islam | 2018-10-12 00:00:00
The exchange rate of Bangladesh Taka (Tk) depreciated further against the US dollar (US$) on Thursday, despite the central bank's foreign currency support to the commercial banks.The local currency depreciated by three paisas on the day, mainly due to higher...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2018-10-12 00:00:00
That their passports are not held in high esteem by immigration people at many international airports is often noticed by Bangladeshis who travel widely. Their sense of pride as citizens of a country that came into being at a huge...
Nilratan Halder | 2018-10-12 00:00:00
How is the country's young population? In a country where about 48 per cent of the total population are young people, the question is even more pertinent when the International Labour Organisation (ILO) reports that 40 per cent of the...
Mandy Slutsker from Washington, DC | 2018-10-12 00:00:00
A disease that we know how to prevent, treat, and cure has become the world's leading infectious killer: tuberculosis (TB), an airborne bacterial infection.A new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), launched in New York on September 18, found...
Siddique Islam | 2018-10-11 00:00:00
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) has planned to inject fresh funds into the capital market to keep the market stable ahead of the upcoming general election.Under the move, the state-run investment agency is now working to collect funds worth...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2018-10-11 00:00:00
Tax collection by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) from financial institutions fell short of the target by Tk 3.0-billion in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY).Officials attributed the shortfall to 2.5 per cent cut in...
Salsabeel Khan | 2018-10-11 00:00:00
Toru Institute of Inclusive Innovation has recently launched the 'Impactor' programme for early-stage entrepreneurs. The Impactor programme is an eight-month long business incubation programme for entrepreneurs who want to transform their idea, early form of a product or an early...
Masih Malik Chowdhury | 2018-10-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh had a GDP growth of 7.86 per cent in the last fiscal. This is welcome news as this performance is the resultant effect of all activities & performances by the nation. The global credit ratings of Bangladesh have also...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed | 2018-10-11 00:00:00
The Congressional mid-term elections are extremely important in the US political system. The event draws nationwide attention and debate and is also watched globally. The elections, this time, with higher stakes compared to many previous ones, will be held on...
Babul Barman | 2018-10-10 12:00:00
Fund raising by companies through initial public offerings (IPOs) surged by 194 per cent in the nine months of this year compared to the same period of the previous year.During January-September 2018, 11 companies raised a total of Tk 5.01...
Munima Sultana | 2018-10-10 00:00:00
The design of piers for the Dhaka Elevated Expressway (DEE), a public-private partnership (PPP) project, has been changed halfway through the first phase work of the project, sources said.They said the Thai concessionaire of the PPP project changed the pier...
Syful Islam | 2018-10-10 00:00:00
The government has moved to formulate regional policy on decentralisation of loading and unloading of goods to reduce pressure on Chittagong port and ensure optimum use of capacity of other ports, officials have said.An eight-member committee, led by additional secretary...
Rezaul Karim | 2018-10-10 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has sought details on the payment of dividends by 10 state-owned entities in the one decade from 2009.The government expressed resentment over the poor dividend payments to the state coffers, a senior official of finance division...
Abdul Bayes | 2018-10-10 00:00:00
There are various factors to fuel income of rural households. Land - irrespective of owned or rented - has historically been the most important asset in generating household income. Household income also depends on the number of working members within...
Asjadul Kibria | 2018-10-10 00:00:00
The final estimate of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) showed that the size of the economy crossed Tk 10-trillion mark in the past fiscal year (FY18). The GDP (at constant price) stood at Tk 10.22 trillion in FY18 recording...
Kemal Dervis and Caroline Conroy in Washington, DC | 2018-10-10 00:00:00
Since World War II's end, trade has grown 50 per cent faster than global GDP, owing largely to successive rounds of liberalization under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation or WTO (previously the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,...
Munima Sultana | 2018-10-09 00:00:00
The government has planned to issue passport in a single day to meet emergency needs of citizens.Officials said before introducing the super express service, the Department of Immigration and Passport (DI&P) delivered 1,896 'reissue' passports from the venue of Development...
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