Talha Bin Habib | 2017-12-25 00:00:00
Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) has placed a proposal to the government, seeking to conduct a consumer market research during the upcoming Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2018, officials said. With the support of IDE (Institute of Developing Economies) JETRO...
Munima Sultana | 2017-12-25 00:00:00
Involvement of Indian firms has made the selection of contractors for repair and maintenance of RHD roads in the current dry season difficult, sources said.They said the absence of a clear guidance in the procurement rules on the eligibility of...
Adnan Rashid and Kamrul Hasan Azad | 2017-12-25 00:00:00
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are inherently considered risky financing option for financial institutions (banks and non-bank financial institutions) around the world. This is due to their unstructured and low equity position and limited product mix. Thus they have a...
Neil Ray | 2017-12-25 00:00:00
The caption of the picture says that many commuters look at the girl calling passengers to get on board a double-decker bus in disbelief. Not only commuters but also readers who have come across the picture should feel a chilling...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-12-25 00:00:00
All attention, undeniably, is now focused on the country's banking sector. A large space of newspapers and most part of deliberations made at seminars and symposiums are now spent on highlighting the unpalatable developments in the banking industry. The banking...
Patrick Lee | 2017-12-24 12:00:00
China's Belt and Road (B&R) initiative is an ambitious undertaking that has the potential to reshape the global economy and transform world trade.Many governments, multinational development organisations and international corporations welcome the opportunity to support the series of cross-border infrastructure...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-12-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Bhutan initiated negotiations for free trade and transit under bilateral arrangements to augment paltry business transactions between the two countries. Meanwhile, a four-nation sub-regional connectivity deal has been stalled for not being ratified by the upper chamber of...
M. Serajul Islam | 2017-12-24 00:00:00
India's credibility on the world stage has been to a large extent because of the secularism practised in the country. India has not only cashed on this support of the international community for its secularism, it has turned on the...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA | 2017-12-24 00:00:00
The United States has never been an honest peace broker in the Middle East. Since the Balfour declaration, the United States became an ardent sympathiser of the Jews clamouring for a separate homeland for them. The gruesome persecution of the...
Saleh Akram | 2017-12-23 12:00:00
A recent study by the Bangladesh Institute of Development studies (BIDS) reveals that enough attention was not given to create efficient manpower for the readymade garments sector which is our highest foreign exchange earner. The report says the readymade garments...
Babul Barman | 2017-12-23 00:00:00
Stocks witnessed yet another bearish week, extending the losing streak for the four weeks in a row that ended Thursday, as ongoing pessimism kept investors mostly inactive.Dealers said the ongoing pessimism coupled with lack of direction prompted retail investors to...
Pamelia Khaled | 2017-12-23 00:00:00
Curriculum theorist Aoki's planned curriculum reminds us of Leonard Cohen's (1992) song, The Anthem: There is a crack in everything. That's how the light comes in. The meaning of pedagogy is stranded in the relational and intentional responsibility of teachers...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-12-23 00:00:00
Muggers are on the prowl again -this time with renewed vengeance. The other day a woman on a rickshaw in the city coming from Shariatpur for treatment of her son had to suffer the loss of her baby when muggers...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-12-23 00:00:00
To many the adage that truth is stranger than fiction is nothing more than a nebulous conception. But when it appears in all its magnificent or malignant uncertainty or disbelief to an individual, life changes forever. The individual concerned can...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-12-23 00:00:00
Distribution of cultivated lands in different seasons appears to show that the Aus season - spanning from March to August - has almost lost its historic importance. This is reflected by a drastic deceleration in the share of lands in...
Gordon Brown in London | 2017-12-23 00:00:00
Protectionist and "bring-back-control" movements will continue to flourish so long as globalisation remains leaderless, lacks a human face, and advances like a runaway train careening out of control.Sadly, there are good reasons why globalisation has become a dirty word for...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-12-22 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has exempted a fuel import terminal project from paying VAT and duty on materials and services required for construction of the facility.It issued a special order on December 17 last, signed by NBR Chairman...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-12-22 00:00:00
Growing or dealing in potato in recent years has become really difficult. In fact, the problem surfaces when the harvest of new potatoes starts every year. The consumers, naturally, prefer newly harvested fresh potatoes to the old ones that are...
Anatole Kaletsky in London | 2017-12-22 00:00:00
Since last year's Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom (UK) has been likened to a suicide who jumps off a 100-storey building and, as he falls past the 50th floor, shouts "so far, so good." This comparison is unfair to suicides....
Andalip Titam | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
Creativity may be shown in myriad ways but how many can depict it with numbers? How many can look beyond the numbers and come up with excellent implementable ideas? Presumably many may back out when it comes to dealing with...
Munima Sultana | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
The Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges (MoRTB) has finally sought Tk 5.0 billion from the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to make the state-owned metro-rail company functional amid pressure from the project's financier.Sources said MoRTB informed the mission of Japan...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
The process is now at the final stage to amend the existing Consumers Right Protection Act 2009 bringing some more some areas of business under it, officials said.The areas are laundry, tailoring, beauty parlour, courier and Hajj services.The Directorate of...
Special Correspondent | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
IPDC Finance Ltd has achieved resounding successes in all segments of its businesses in the outgoing calendar year and vows to perform better in the coming months with a re-branded image of the company, country's first private sector DFI.In December...
Siddique Islam | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
The central bank has increased the allocation of Export Development Fund (EDF) scheme by 20 per cent or US$500 million aiming to facilitate the country's exporters for boosting their business activities.The EDF allocation rose to $3.0 billion from $2.50 billion...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
Around 95 per cent of the businesses having VAT registration were still conducting import-export and other activities with their old identification numbers (BINs) the validity of which is set to expire just after 10 days.Only less than 5.0 per cent...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
The World Health Organisation (WHO) leads the global anti-tobacco movement. In a report released on the eve of the World No Tobacco Day 2017, WHO said that smoking and other tobacco use kill more than seven million people each year....
Edmund S. Phelps in New York | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
Every country has national problems, such as a dangerous loss of inclusion or a costly loss of growth. We learn that a solution does not happen without society's understanding of the problem and a wide desire for action.But with climate...
Md Rizwanul Islam | 2017-12-21 00:00:00
On November 27, 2017, the US Department of Commerce announced its self-initiation of anti-dumping duty and countervailing duty investigations of imports of common alloy aluminium sheet from China. Anti-dumping and countervailing investigations are routine matters these days but self-initiation by...
Polin Kumar Saha | 2017-12-20 00:00:00
The survival of humankind hinges on a 'sustainable food system (SFS)'. This innovative food system is an advanced system for ensuring food security within a sustainable infrastructure in the community. The system relies on a natural resource-based mechanism. Food systems...
Kemal Dervis in Washington, DC | 2017-12-20 00:00:00
Economic growth is accelerating across most of the world. Yet the world's total gross debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio has reached nearly 250 per cent, up from 210 per cent before the global economic crisis nearly a decade ago, despite...
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