Emdadul Haque | 2019-09-25 00:00:00
PABNA, Sept 24: The ancestral house of legendary Bangla film actress Suchitra Sen at Gopalpur Himsagor Lane in Pabna town has been lying in a ramshackle state for a long time. Built on 36 decimals of land, the house, where...
Reaz Islam | 2019-09-25 00:00:00
From my experience in trading and investing in both liquid and illiquid markets globally for over 30 years, it appears to me that Bangladesh is not yet adequately ready for open-end mutual funds due to unintended structural risks. Unless it...
Josh Frydenberg, Heng Swee Keat, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, and Bill Morneau in Canberra, Australia | 2019-09-25 00:00:00
Since the creation of the Bretton Woods system 75 years ago, countries have been coming together in pursuit of global public goods, giving rise to both the international trading system and a global financial safety net.It is to this multilateral...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2019-09-25 00:00:00
In a seminar recently organised by Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) speakers expressed concern at the growing inequality in the country, which was also the main theme of the event. Such concern has been aired in public for quite some time...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2019-09-24 00:00:00
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) has moved to resume full operation of the country's largest-ever unit fund - ICB Unit Fund - by opening the scope of purchasing its units for all investors.The state-run corporation has taken the initiative...
Siddique Islam | 2019-09-24 00:00:00
The Bangladesh economy's degree of openness has seen a mixed trend in the last 10 years as economic expansion outstripped foreign trade rise.Bangladesh's trade-GDP ratio reached 46.30 per cent during fiscal year 2012-13 rising from 37.8 per cent in FY...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2019-09-24 00:00:00
Large companies that are producing backward linkage products are facing difficulties in obtaining business identity. The National Board of Revenue issues central Business Identification Numbers.In the 1991 Vat law, companies that maintain a central accounts system were enjoying the central...
Thalif Deen in UN Headquarters, New York | 2019-09-24 00:00:00
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes the ongoing crisis as a "climate emergency"- as the world continues its hard fought battle against devastating droughts, floods, hurricanes and rising sea levels that threaten the very existence of small island developing states located...
Shafiq Alam | 2019-09-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has initiated development of two economic corridors in the country. This are-- North-East Corridor to connect the economic hubs mostly along the Dhaka-Sylhet highway, and the South-West Corridor to connect the economic hubs along the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-09-23 12:00:00
The onion prices have gone through the roof. The pungent tuber has become 40 per cent costlier in past seven days and nearly 70 per cent over a period of one month. The consumers are hard hit as the consumption...
Andrew Norton in London | 2019-09-23 12:00:00
In an alarming imbalance struggling families in rural Bangladesh spend almost US$2.0 billion a year on preventing climate-related disasters or repairing damage caused by climate change ? far more than either the Bangladesh government or international bodies.In the first report...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2019-09-23 00:00:00
The cost of the project for conservation and beautification of the rivers surrounding the capital is set to increase more than three times, according to the officials concerned.To protect Buriganga, Sitalakhya, Turag and Balu rivers from illegal encroachments and give...
Rezaul Karim and Yasir Wardad | 2019-09-23 00:00:00
In the wake of a volatile commodity market, the government has heightened monitoring to stabilise the prices of essentials, officials said.Commerce ministry has doubled its vigilance teams to oversee the kitchen market with intent to give some succour to consumers.As...
Siddique Islam | 2019-09-23 00:00:00
The central bank has announced a fresh policy for providing temporary liquidity support to the scheduled banks for boosting their investment in the country's ailing capital market.Under the new policy, the banks will be eligible to invest such liquidity only...
Munima Sultana | 2019-09-23 00:00:00
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is yet to pick a contractor for carrying out the development work of Elenga-Hatikamrul-Rangpur Highway due to conflicting opinions of the project's financier and the authority concerned.Sources said the tender evaluation committee (TEC) of RHD...
Noore Alam Siddiqui | 2019-09-23 00:00:00
Populism, we may say, springs from activities where policies of a government are driven by popular public demand ignoring rules, regulations or any resultant negative impact in future. From economic point of view, some economists have used the term in...
Neil Ray | 2019-09-23 00:00:00
The ongoing raids on sporting clubs illegally operating casinos, dens of extortionists and tender manipulators are likely to produce a mixed feeling of surprise and nausea among most people. Surprise, because those who are getting caught red-handed were powerful players...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2019-09-22 00:00:00
The central bank has prepared the draft of a first-ever law designed to prevent production, supply and use of counterfeit currency. The draft proposes the maximum life-time imprisonment for the offences.The offences under the law will be 'cognizable, non-bailable and...
Rezaul Karim | 2019-09-22 00:00:00
The Ministry of Commerce has sought a comprehensive proposal from traders' groups for establishing cold storage facilities to help ensure the quality of rawhide and skins, officials said.To this end, they said, the ministry has advised them to submit their...
Talha Bin Habib | 2019-09-22 00:00:00
The government of Bangladesh is set to send Indonesia a list of products next month for getting duty-free access under a proposed Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), officials said.They said the ministry of commerce (MoC) has finalised the list of 300...
ZM Aminul Islam | 2019-09-22 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Sept 21: Revenue generated by Benapole land port has fallen short by Tk 6,000 million in two and a half months as import of goods with high tariff rates through this port has decreased in recent days.Sources said, National...
Mohamed A. El-Erian in Cernobbio in Italy | 2019-09-21 12:00:00
Investors and economic observers have begun to ask the same question that I posed in an article published 18 years ago: "Who lost Argentina?" In late 2001, the country was in the grips of an intensifying blame game, and would...
Talha Bin Habib | 2019-09-21 00:00:00
The government is set to buy six more ocean-going ships from China to expand the fleet of state-run Bangladesh Shipping Corporation, officials said.The purchase is intended to meet the growing demand for large vessels for the corporation. To expedite the...
Babul Barman | 2019-09-21 00:00:00
Stocks continued to plummet in the outgoing week, extending the losing streak for the fourth consecutive week, as investor sentiment remained grim despite the government's move to prop up the market. This week also saw the prime index of the...
Md. Abu Abdullah | 2019-09-21 00:00:00
It was during the time of Lord William Bentinck as a governor general that English was first introduced in this sub-continent. The proposal had then met with strong opposition from many influential quarters; but thanks to Raja Ram Mohan Roy...
M. Zamiul Ahmed | 2019-09-21 00:00:00
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) decided in 1979 to establish the 27th September as World Tourism Day (WTD) and subsequently it started just in 1980. Since its beginning there has been a theme for each year decided by...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-09-21 00:00:00
The full-day package tour arranged by the Vivekananda Kendra could not be more cherishing. Although Kerala is our destination, we begin from a temple called Suchindram Thanumalayan. Like most temples, this one is also a magnificent artwork of Dravidian architecture....
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-09-21 00:00:00
As a lot of development has already taken place in the country bringing many changes in society. Disappointingly quite a good number of the changes is negative. Growing insensitivity is one such thing. In this country, more and more people...
Abdul Bayes | 2019-09-21 00:00:00
Kerina Tull, of the University of Leeds Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, deals with changing food system in a regime of rapid urbanization. It is a part of very recent research (2018) -- a series produced by a...
Myong-Hyun Go, Shafqat Munir, and Ambika Vishwanath in Seoul, South Korea | 2019-09-21 00:00:00
After World War II, Asia emerged from years of conflict and centuries of colonialism. The United States quickly became the main guarantor of regional security, signing bilateral defense treaties and establishing preferential trade and investment relationships with its Asian allies...
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