Ismail Hossain from Beijing | 2019-10-01 00:00:00
China is holding a grand celebration, followed by a military parade and mass pageantry at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing today (Tuesday) on its National Day, marking the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC). More than 100,000...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2019-10-01 00:00:00
Private credit growth decelerated further in August as some banks had to prepare for complying with the central bank's revised advance-deposit ratio rules. Lower import growth also pushed down the private sector credit growth last month, bankers said.They, however, expected...
Babul Barman | 2019-10-01 00:00:00
Fundraising through initial public offerings (IPOs) remained sluggish as only seven companies raised Tk 4.95 billion, including premium, through IPOs in January-September period of this year.The nine-month figure is down 1.20 per cent year on year, according to the Dhaka...
Thalif Deen at UN Headquarters in New York | 2019-10-01 00:00:00
When the Youth Climate Summit concluded on September 21, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres predicted that if governments still lack the political will to make peace with nature, "there is huge hope in what the youth is doing all over the world"."And...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2019-09-30 00:00:00
The Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) saw a drop in revenue collection in the July-August period of the current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20. The revenue collection growth took a hit as two large sectors -- gas and tobacco -- have witnessed...
Siddique Islam | 2019-09-30 00:00:00
The government's net borrowing from the country's banking system is set to be negative in October, as it is scheduled to repay more than Tk 10 billion from surplus, officials said.The Ministry of Finance has set the net negative bank...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2019-09-30 00:00:00
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has suggested addition of more ports of call in the Indo-Bangla water transit protocol with a view to offering alternatives to users, officials said."Inclusion of more ports of call widens choice, (but) doesn't compel businessmen...
Dilip Barua | 2019-09-30 00:00:00
The Chinese are an innovative and diligent nation. They have created a highly sophisticated civilisation and contributed significantly to human progress over the course of 5,000 years. In the past, China was ruled by landlords and kings as well as...
Neil Ray | 2019-09-30 00:00:00
In this age of social media, there is an overpowering drive among people to be under the spotlight. So people look for ways and means that would set them apart from the rest of society. Surely they are after accomplishing...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-09-30 00:00:00
For the National Board of Revenue (NBR), the immediate past financial year (2018-19) was not anyway notable. Like the previous years, it had to downsize its tax revenue target halfway through the year. Yet it could not hit that revised...
Harold James in Princeton, New Jersey, USA | 2019-09-30 00:00:00
In remarkably similar ways and almost at the exact same time, US President Donald Trump and Brexit have destroyed transatlantic conservatism. Yet while American conservatism has always had rather shallow roots, British conservativism is the product of a long and...
Munima Sultana | 2019-09-29 00:00:00
The under-construction metro rail is facing space shortage for its elevated stations as adequate land beneath the facilities have not been acquired, sources said.For lack of space, they said, the movement of passengers of Mass Rapid Transit line-06 (MRT-06) and...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2019-09-29 00:00:00
The customs authority has issued a rule to allow duty-free import of products without insurance and freight charges valued lower than Tk 2,000. The similar facility will be applicable to a product whose import duty is below Tk 2,000.The 'Customs...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2019-09-29 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 28: The supply of gas to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Industrial City at Mirsarai Economic Zone (MEZ) will start this year, officials said.The MEZ is being developed as the largest industrial zone in the country with a target...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2019-09-29 00:00:00
The securities regulator has developed an automated system to dissolve customers' complaints within quickest possible timeframe without imposing any fee.Using the system namely Customer Complaints Address Module (CCAM), the customers will be able to submit their complaints and receive solutions...
Iqbal Siddiquee | 2019-09-29 00:00:00
SYLHET, Sept 28: Tea of Bangladesh is facing multifaceted challenges like inadequate investment, increased price of inputs including fertilisers, underdeveloped infrastructures, lack of irrigation facilities and above all lack of initiatives to introduce better cropping and management for raising per...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 2019-09-29 00:00:00
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can only be achieved by 2030 with the political will to change international economic rules and mobilise resources needed for a massive public sector-led investment push to reinvigorate world economic progress sustainably,...
REZAUL KARIM | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
The country's apex apparel body has called for government intervention to address banking disputes with China to save the reputation of the local financial sector, officials said.It has sought commerce ministry's cooperation in facilitating talks with the agencies concerned in...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
Bangladeshi exporters have expressed reservations about an Indian proposal for onsite visit of factories linked to the duty-free access of goods under a regional free trade pact, officials said.They said Bangladeshi goods meet the 30 per cent value addition criteria...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh will seek more Australian investment during the upcoming bilateral trade conference to be held in Sydney this year, officials said. The trade conference titled 'Australia-Bangladesh Trade Conference (ABTC)' will take place on November 12-15.The Australia-Bangladesh Business Council and Bangladesh...
Babul Barman | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
Stocks rebounded strongly in the outgoing week, snapping a four-week losing streak, as optimistic investors showed their buying spree on large-cap shares.Week on week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went up by 112 points or...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
It was not for nothing that the Keralites call their land the God's own country. Richly endowed with backwaters like those of Poovar, Kochi and beaches like the Golden Sand Beach and Kovalam beach, it is indeed an Eden on...
Thalif Deen at UN headquarters in New York | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
The United Nations is an institution which promotes multilateralism and preaches some of the basic tenets of multiparty democracy and liberalism, including the rule of law, universal human rights, free speech, civil liberties, the rights of refugees and freedom of...
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
The busting of casinos at a number of sports club in the city may, on paper, look puzzling. A series of stories have been appearing in newspapers and electronic media about the casino operations. A few leaders of the political...
Abdul Bayes | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
In Bangladesh today, we often hear about an increase in the disbursement of agricultural loans to farmers. More often than not, the presumption of policymakers is that more disbursement means more accesses by farmers. But that assumption might turn out...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2019-09-28 00:00:00
It is a tragedy that the administrative tradition of British colonial rulers still seems to persist in many ways in present-day Bangladesh. Sadly, socio-economic and technological advances over two centuries have not yet been able to completely erase some fundamentally...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2019-09-27 12:00:00
Paper making technology invented by the Chinese two thousand years ago reached the shores of Europe after a long period of one thousand years via the Islamic world. Compared to the laidback environment of that era, new technologies invented in,...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-09-27 12:00:00
The observance of the World Rivers Day, as customary on the 4th Sunday of September, last Sunday could not get over the ritualistic and archetypal. Banners, festoons, street marches and seminars marked the day but apart from members of a...
REZAUL KARIM | 2019-09-27 00:00:00
Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the authorities concerned to hand over lease deeds on plots in the Savar tannery estate to tanners urgently to help them get bank loans to meet their capital shortage, officials said.The higher authorities of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2019-09-27 00:00:00
The export-oriented sectors will get full exemption from payment of value-added tax (VAT) on utility services like gas, water and electricity bills only for the units manufacturing exportables.The facility will not be valid for other purposes like offices and administrative...
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