A K Enamul Haque, Sakib Bin Amin, Abul Kalam Azad, Anu Muhammad, Badrul Imam, Humayun Rashid, M Tamim, Md Shamsul Alam, Moshahida Sultana, Shafiqul Alam, and Shahriar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2024-01-13 00:00:00
As Bangladesh moves forward, issues of energy transition are expected to assume heightened importance. Energy has emerged as a key factor for productivity enhancement, increasing competitive strength and raising quality of life and well-being of citizens. Ensuring affordable and clean...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-01-12 00:00:00
There used to be a time —- and that was in my youth —- when I thought I would be a politician. On a monsoon evening before the gates of the old Ganabhaban, where I stood nearly every evening to...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-01-12 00:00:00
By the time the new government takes over in Bangladesh, the Global Economic Prospects Report released by the World Bank makes a projection of slowdown of the country's GDP (gross domestic product) growth to 5.6 per cent for the current...
Md. Ariful Islam and Syed Md Aminul Karim | 2024-01-11 12:00:00
In recent years, Bangladesh's economy has witnessed a vitriolic phenomenon in handling its non-performing loans. According to the Bangladesh Bank, at the end of Sep 2023, the total gross non-performing loans ratio of the banking sector of Bangladesh stood at...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-01-11 00:00:00
Banks are looking forward to a revival of the equity market to inject money into it from the special funds that they have created or have taken approval of from their boards. The five-year special-purpose funds were intended to solve...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-01-11 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 09: The construction work of the Bay Terminal at Chittagong Port in Bangladesh is expected to commence this year. Initially, the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) planned to construct three terminals, but the master plan has been expanded to...
K Salahuddin | 2024-01-11 00:00:00
"I sometimes hold in half a sin,/To put into words the guilt I feel/ For words like nature half reveal/And half conceal the soul within."I heard the late Justice Murshed recite these lines of Alfred Lord Tennyson quoted above on...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-01-10 00:00:00
The construction of a double-track railway line between Khulna and Darshana, crucial for boosting regional trade and revitalising Mongla Port, is facing a further delay of at least a year. This comes seven years after the project's approval, raising concerns...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-01-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh's merchandise exports through its largest seaport registered a double-digit increase in both volume and value during the first half of the current fiscal year, except for the United States and the European Union.Export volume surged by 21.75 per cent,...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-01-10 00:00:00
Two listed cement makers have been adopting technologies in moving towards high production at an expense of less energy and less emission of dust. Though the primary motive in this is to scale up production, energy efficiency has encouraged Crown...
Abdullah A Dewan | 2024-01-09 12:00:00
The genesis of the term banana republic dates back to the early 20th century to countries like Honduras and Guatemala whose economies were largely dependent of the export of bananas. These countries were often politically unstable, with weak, corrupt, and...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-01-09 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 08: The gas crisis that gripped the port city since October 20 last year due to a shortage of supply is likely to be resolved after March this year, sources said.The port city has been facing the gas...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-01-09 00:00:00
Nurul Amin, a salesman at a pharmacy in Dhaka's New Eskaton area, has witnessed a sharp rise in vitamin D supplement sales these days, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. Having worked at the pharmacy for a decade, he mentions a...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-01-09 00:00:00
The number of cell phone users in the country crossed 190 million at the end of November last year, according to the telecom regulator, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). Given that the country's population is over 170 million, the cell...
Neil Ray | 2024-01-08 00:00:00
Relentless Israeli bombardments have been killing civilian Palestinians in the range of scores to hundreds every day. By now one per cent of the 2.3 million Palestinian population in the Gaza strip has been annihilated. At the rate the indiscriminate...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-01-08 00:00:00
In 2024, the world will experience history's biggest ever show of electoral exercises as half of the world's total population will participate in elections in over sixty nations to choose their new national leadership to run governments. Of those countries,...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-01-07 00:00:00
Import of top twenty products contributed 7.33-percent higher taxes despite fall in both volume and value in the last calendar year, as penalizing fake declaration and trade-based money laundering pays off.Watchdog action in gate-keeping at the prime port worked such...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2024-01-07 00:00:00
Spinners had the worst year in a decade in 2023 as yarn became cheaper in the global market, dragging most companies in the red. Of the companies, Metro Spinning Mills experienced a loss of Tk 192.40 million in FY23, whereas...
IFTEKHARUL ISLAM | 2024-01-07 00:00:00
Amy Edmondson's Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well challenges conventional perspectives on failure, providing a nuanced framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely. The book explores transformative concepts, covering the archetypes of failure, the science of...
TAZRIAN IQBAL | 2024-01-07 00:00:00
The 9-to-5 grind has long been the quintessential marker of corporate conformity and routine. But fear not, my dear readers, for the tides of time have swept away the monotony and brought in remote work, an era where the boundaries...
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-01-07 00:00:00
Is there any strong correlation between national elections and economic growth? The answer is yes, although, in many cases, it is difficult to establish the correlation supported by adequate evidence and statistics. The most popular tool to explain the relationship...
REZAUL KARIM | 2024-01-06 00:00:00
After the Covid-induced disruptions, micro-lending in Bangladesh is experiencing a severe slump in funding, resembling an El Niño-like dry spell. Small and medium-scale microfinance institutions (MFIs), which rely on bigger institutions for funding, are bearing the brunt, according to microfinance...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-01-06 00:00:00
Private companies should pursue a "wait-and-see policy" before going for foreign borrowing as interest rate spiked on the global financial market nowadays, economists suggest. Many firms are on the hunt for forex support. The cost of foreign funds has increased...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-01-06 00:00:00
The world of entertainment has gone through transformation of epical proportion. It is not so much in content but in its digital make-up to make the make-believe world not only realistic but also much too overwhelming for the viewers at...
Asif Ibrahim, Jinnat Ara, AHM Saiful Islam, Ahsan Khan Chowdhury, Ferdaus Ara Begum, K A S Murshid, Kazi Iqbal, M Asaduzzaman, M. Masrur Reaz, Md Farid Uddin Khan, Md Tanjil Hossain, Mohammad A Razzaque, and Mohammed Nurul Amin | 2024-01-06 00:00:00
The spirit of ‘Leave no one behind’, which informs the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stipulates that issues of concern and interest to the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in society ought to be prioritised in view of...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2024-01-06 00:00:00
The beleaguered and battered Palestinians received two gifts on new year's eve and one on the first day of the new year. The greetings on the eve of new year were in stark contrast while the one the day after...
BABUL BARMAN | 2024-01-05 00:00:00
The key index of Bangladesh's stock market secured a 0.64 per cent gain in 2023, the lowest among its peers, for policies not in sync with reform measures taken globally to overcome impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war. The failure to...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-01-05 00:00:00
In the face of sustained food inflation, often a handiwork of dishonest business coteries, the general consumers in this country have vented their frustration and learnt to resign to the oppressive price infliction. But when the authorities have let them...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-01-04 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 03: In response to the demand from the business community, the authorities have put forth a plan to install a total of 1460 CCTV cameras at 490 locations along the 265-km Dhaka-Chattogram highway. This demand came as a...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-01-04 00:00:00
Despite debt-equity ratio of some private companies already having crossed the permissible limits, they have been allowed to take foreign-currency loans from multilateral lenders while Bangladesh reels from depleting foreign-exchange reserves.The companies sought the funds to open letters of credit...
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