ZM Aminul Islam | 2019-10-16 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Oct 15: Lalon Shah is the king of Bauls, a unique mystical tradition of rural Bengal. In Bengali culture Lalon has become an icon of religious tolerance. Widely celebrated as an epitome of religious forbearance, he was also accused...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2019-10-16 00:00:00
From time to time, discussions on health care in Bangladesh take place in various forums. It is also a subject of some importance in the print media which publishes various news and reports, depending on occasions. Almost the same views...
Mirza Azizul Islam | 2019-10-16 00:00:00
The Government of India recently announced reduction of corporate income tax rates. The highlights of the announced measures are: * Reduction of tax rates for firms that do not seek any exemptions from 30 per cent to 22 per cent.*...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2019-10-15 00:00:00
None of the businesses could submit the online VAT (value added tax) returns until now of this fiscal year due to a technical glitch in the server, officials said.Despite several attempts, they said, a number of large companies could not...
Abdullah A Dewan | 2019-10-15 00:00:00
The US gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a rate of more than three (3.0) per cent for much of the 1980s and 1990s, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). However, the growth rate has slackened remarkably since...
Jeff Gill | 2019-10-15 00:00:00
City of London Investment Management Company Limited (CLIM), an investment management company, has been a significant unitholder of Bangladesh's closed-end mutual fund (CEMF) for many years.However, CLIM's support for the CEMF industry has been severely tested by the recent egregious...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2019-10-14 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 13: The construction work of a hi-tech park in the port city is going on in full swing.The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) is establishing the Tk 250 million (Tk 25 crores) hi-tech park at Bangkok Singapore market in...
Tej Kohli | 2019-10-14 00:00:00
Artificial intelligence (AI) and biotechnology are both on an exponential growth trajectory, with the potential to improve how we experience our lives and even to extend life itself. But few have considered how these two frontier technologies could be brought...
Md. Abu Abdullah | 2019-10-14 00:00:00
Standard is an agreed way of doing something. It could be about making a product, managing process, delivering a service or supplying materials. Standards cover a huge range of activities undertaken by organisations and used by their customers. They can...
Neil Ray | 2019-10-14 00:00:00
The fearsome mighty Padma of the past has mellowed. Naturally, in its heyday it earned the infamy of all-consuming 'rakshusi' (fiendish) Padma. Today, however, in the lean season the shallow channel of the river at some points in Rajshahi can...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-10-14 00:00:00
It is hard to get reliable data on unemployment rate in Bangladesh. The official data puts the unemployment rate at around 4.4 per cent. The figure appears too low given the situation prevailing in the job market. The World Vision...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2019-10-13 00:00:00
The waiver of Value Added Tax (VAT) for international oil companies on local production and supply of gas no longer exists in the new law, although their contract has such a provision.Petrobangla will have to pay the VAT at 15...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2019-10-13 00:00:00
Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help Bangladesh Railway (BR) in establishing direct rail link from Dhaka to Cox's Bazar by converting the metre gauge track into a broad gauge line from Dhaka to Dohazari of Chattogram.At present, BR has a...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2019-10-13 00:00:00
The government will finalise a list of 300 products tomorrow (Monday) for seeking duty-free market access to Indonesia under a proposed Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), officials said.Under the move, they said, the ministry of commerce (MoC) has completed consultations with...
Samuele Furfari | 2019-10-13 00:00:00
Last month, the Akademik Lomonosov, Russia's first floating nuclear power plant, arrived in the remote town of Pevek in the country's Siberian Arctic region. Russian state-run nuclear energy company Rosatom sees this as a pilot project, and hopes eventually to...
REZAUL KARIM | 2019-10-12 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC) has suggested imposing duty on the import of onion during its harvesting time to ensure fair price for the farmers.Duty should be imposed during the January-April period, the harvesting time of the local onion, the...
Munima Sultana | 2019-10-12 00:00:00
The Padma Rail Link Project (PRLP) is fated to be delayed in the absence of confirmation of design and loss of time in land acquisition, sources said.Both the cost and tenure of the project are also likely to increase significantly...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2019-10-12 00:00:00
The government is actively considering waiving port dues and charges for LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals and vessels at Moheshkhali, Cox's Bazar.Officials concerned said the authorities are thinking of giving waiver since the dues and charges will ultimately be a...
Prof. Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2019-10-12 00:00:00
With the country's population rising, the government must devise ways and means to increase fish production through the best use of existing natural water resources, especially major rivers and their tributaries. From time immemorial, fish has been meeting the protein...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-10-12 00:00:00
The Bangalee Hindus' greatest annual festival Durga Puja spanning over long five days came to an end on Tuesday last. It surely is a religious festival as puja (worship) is offered complying with various rites and rituals as enshrined in...
Abdul Bayes | 2019-10-12 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) conducted a research titled "Tracer Study of Graduates of Universities in Bangladesh". The purpose was to look at the nexus between labour market demand for graduates and supply from universities or, pointedly, the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2019-10-11 00:00:00
The country's trade gap with the rest of the world narrowed during the first two months of the current fiscal year, aided by a surplus in current account balance.Negative growth in both export and import during the period helped reduce...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2019-10-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Thailand are set to sign a memorandum of understating (MoU) for cooperation in the fisheries sector for mutual benefits of the two countries, officials said. Under the move, the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL) has recently sent...
Abdullah A Dewan | 2019-10-11 00:00:00
Bond price and interest on bond are negatively related. Understanding this relationship is important to understanding how the central bank conducts monetary policy to influence money supply, interest rate on savings deposits, lending, and so on. Generally, the interest rate...
Natallie Rochester | 2019-10-11 00:00:00
The conclusion of the Uruguay Round and the creation of the World Trade Organisation in 1995 marked the first time commitments on trade in services would be undertaken not only by developed countries, but also by many other economies outside...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-10-11 00:00:00
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal recently spoke in favour of liquidation or merger of 'weak and inefficient' non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs). The minister gave his opinion at a meeting with the chairmen and managing directors of 34 NBFIs. He also...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-10-11 00:00:00
The universities -one after another -are making news for all the wrong reasons. When teachers and scholars of some of the world's prestigious centres of tertiary education are becoming recipients of the Nobel Prize, vice-chancellors (VCs) or teachers of a...
Siddique Islam | 2019-10-10 00:00:00
Managing higher troubled loans and tight liquidity condition on the domestic front alongside external challenges are likely to pose downside risk to the growth momentum, the central bank has said.The external challenges include sluggish global growth, disrupting supply chain by...
Ismail Hossain | 2019-10-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) wants to set up offices at all the eight divisional headquarters to expand its regulatory services across the country. According to its proposal sent to the post and telecommunication ministry last week, the regulator sought...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2019-10-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Uzbekistan are set to sign several memorandum of understanding (MoUs) during an expected visit of a Uzbek government delegation to Dhaka by this year, officials said. They planned the visit following Bangladesh commerce minister Tipu Munshi's visit to...
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