NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-09-14 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 13: Almost all of the low-lying areas of the port city were submerged due to heavy rain on Friday. The meteorological office said that the rain would continue for two more days.The heavy showers and the waterlogging disrupted...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2024-09-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh's current interim government eyes enhanced IMF credits as a fact-finding mission from the Washington-based Fund arrives here shortly for reappraisal of progress on an ongoing lending package worth US$4.7 billion, officials say. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission is...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-09-14 00:00:00
If Dhaka is the third most populous city in the world after Mogadishu of Somalia and Tanta of Egypt, the concentration of beggars is likely to be the highest in the Bangladesh capital. But if the Dhaka South City Corporation...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2024-09-14 00:00:00
An ordinary college girl named Farzana Sithi fiercely arguing about punishment of a sex offender before a police station in Dhaka; a India-wide protest movement over gang rape and murder of Dr Moumita in a hospital in Kolkata; the Home...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2024-09-13 00:00:00
Dampened credit demand, particularly from private business, and higher remittance inflows signal an oncoming downturn in the yields on government securities (G-Sec), bankers predict.The yields on G-Sec, like Bangladesh Government Treasury Bonds (BGTBs) and Treasury Bills (T-bills), have already seen...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2024-09-13 00:00:00
An eerie sense of unease hangs at the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), with its staffers divided into groups fighting with each other and seeking protection from the wrath of the changing political landscape. Regular operations are hampered as...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-09-13 00:00:00
In his second address to the nation, Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus has made the most important announcement of forming six reform commissions assigning those with the task of recommending amendments to provisions in their respective areas. The purpose is...
Afrin Noor and Hasnat M Alamgir | 2024-09-13 00:00:00
Little research in occupational health and safety has been done to date in Bangladesh to identify the types of events, causes, or the specific groups of workers at risk of developing allergies or irritations at work, despite the persistent and...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2024-09-12 00:00:00
Six bigwigs, including former army chief Aziz Ahmed, and a journalist couple get under the scanner of tax sleuths for suspected money laundering-and tax-evasion offences, officials say.The Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) will seek...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-09-12 00:00:00
The ongoing labour unrest since August 29, which has led to several factory closures across the industrial hubs of Ashulia and Gazipur, has brought the lucrative Bangladesh readymade garment (RMG) sector to a critical crossroads, sending warning signals to buyers...
Fahmidul Haq | 2024-09-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh recently experienced a student-led anti-dictator uprising that resulted in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fleeing the country on August 5, 2024. The movement was initially sparked by university students demanding reforms to the quota system in civil service.Despite the government's...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-09-12 00:00:00
There was regime change in Indonesia in the mid-1960s. And there was regime change in Chile in the early 1970s. Those were times before the term ‘regime change’ became fashionable. But the consequences of what transpired in Jakarta and Santiago...
Munima Sultana | 2024-09-11 00:00:00
The Dhaka metro rail company plans to reopen Kazipara station of MRT line 6 this month, much earlier than it earlier announced which officials said due to less damage to its machinery than that of Mirpur 10 station.Mirpur-10 and Kazipara...
Iftekharul Islam | 2024-09-11 00:00:00
In 2023, Bangladesh had 27,624 fire accidents, and electrical short circuits caused 35% of them, the main cause of such accidents. The total damage from these fires was Tk 7.92 billion, and more than a hundred casualties, highlighting the serious...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2024-09-10 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) on Monday asked taxmen not to select tax return afresh for auditing, finding the existing audit system faulty that causes unusual harassment to taxpayers.Use of discretionary power of the taxmen has been allowed to...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-09-10 00:00:00
At the fag-end of the expensive 3rd terminal-development project, the government has to go for dispute board to settle “undue claim” by joint-venture foreign contractor of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport expansion.A disagreement over claims of at least Tk 30 billion...
REZAUL KARIM | 2024-09-10 00:00:00
Maintaining smooth supply of petroleum products looks challenging for LC payment backlog against the fuel imports amid forex crunch, sources said. State-run Sonali Bank PLC is also reluctant to open letter of credit (LC) besides clearing dues against imports made...
Golam Rasul | 2024-09-10 00:00:00
The Interim Government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus was formed on August 8, 2024, following the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina’s government by a student-led popular uprising. Although interim governments are not new in Bangladesh, the current government is different from...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-09-10 00:00:00
At a time when impacts of climate change caused by human actions including burning of fossil fuels has been wreaking havoc on the life and livelihood of people across the globe, the urgency of finding a viable, cleaner alternative to...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2024-09-10 00:00:00
Many constitutional experts opine that the fallen autocrat Sheikh Hasina Wajed has brought the country's constitution to such a ramshackle state by resorting to reckless doctoring that it has now become almost impossible to follow it by letter or spirit....
Doulot Akter Mala | 2024-09-09 00:00:00
S. Alam's family members and their associated two companies have transacted cash worth Tk1.8 trillion so far in some six private commercial banks which law enforcers suspect earned through illegal means.Official sources said account transactions in only six banks reveals...
Neil Ray | 2024-09-09 00:00:00
The attack in two spells on Dewanbag mazar (shrine) followed by vandalism, looting and arson adds a new dimension to the growing intolerance to diversity of faith, opinion, sectarian 'otherness' and practices. In fact, the rising intolerance is conversely proportionate...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-09-09 00:00:00
The finance and commerce adviser to the interim government Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Saturday last told the media that the government is going to crack down on the corrupt tycoons in the financial sector. Earlier, on September 5, too, in...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-09-08 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 07: At least 12 workers sustained critical burn injuries following a gas tank explosion at the green ship-breaking yard of SN Corporation in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Saturday morning.The injured were taken to Chattogram Medical College Hospital...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2024-09-08 00:00:00
The interim government's initiative to scrap the provision for whitening black money remained incomplete as such provision is still applicable in case of purchasing apartment and land. The provision has been offering a blanket facility for years to whiten money...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2024-09-08 00:00:00
As the pharmaceutical sector suffers due to widespread workers' unrest, labour unions emerge to be an important facilitator in efforts to quell the tension. While many companies have still been struggling to return to operations nearly a week after the...
Moslem Uddin Ahmed | 2024-09-08 00:00:00
Begin with the formation of constitution commission, now that 'rebuilding the state' comes out as a common ground for three major stakeholders of the August 5th or 'July 36th' student-mass uprising billed by the vanguards as 'revolution'. The Anti-discrimination Student...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-09-08 00:00:00
The recent directive by Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid Islam for Bangladesh Television (BTV) to function as the people's media rather than the government's mouthpiece is a step in the right direction. Historically, BTV has been perceived to be a...
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-09-08 00:00:00
More than two decades ago, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), after forming the government, published a two-part white paper on the corruption of the Awami League government in 1996-2001. The 750-plus pages of documents examined 40 incidents of corruption and...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-09-07 00:00:00
A potential venture like an inland container and bulk terminal misses time and turns wasteful as the project authority has sought over 62-percent cost hike, sources say. The plea for more than doubling the cost comes four years after the...
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