Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-11-03 00:00:00
The troubles that the Ministry of Food has been experiencing to stem the soaring rise prices should come as an appropriate lesson for it in future years. Complacency over domestic food production led the ministry to go into deep slumber...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-11-03 00:00:00
At a two-day international conference on urbanisation held recently in the capital, a comprehensive review of city planning, investment in urban infrastructures, citizens' role and governance was made. Lead urban specialist at the World Bank (WB), Balakrishna Parameswaran opened his...
Md. Saifullah Azad | 2017-11-03 00:00:00
Waqf is among one of the Islamic institutions, and is believed to be the catalyst of economic development. It has become the foundation for the Islamic social security system in many parts of the globe. Waqf is well known for...
Hou Lulu | 2017-11-02 00:00:00
BEIJING, Nov 01: A new Chinese movie that tells the story of villagers striving to get themselves out of poverty has been praised for epitomizing China's nationwide campaign.The movie Hold Your Hands was screened last month. The village of Shibadong...
Munima Sultana | 2017-11-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh's prime airport, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), may get overcrowded with passengers far beyond its handling capacity next year for neglecting timely expansion.Sources said its management is already getting into difficulty in passenger handling and the growing pressure of...
Siddique Islam | 2017-11-02 00:00:00
Rupali Bank Limited (RBL) has vowed to improve its overall financial health by the end of this calendar year through strengthening classified loans recovery drives.The state-owned commercial bank (SoCB) is also giving top priority to invest in the small and...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2017-11-02 00:00:00
Countries responsible for global carbon emissions should provide sufficient financial and technical support to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh, to tackle the adverse impacts of climate change. Despite having little contribution to global carbon emission, the LDC are...
Nicholas Davis in Geneva | 2017-11-02 00:00:00
GUTENBERG PRINTING PRESS: "A central piece of the puzzle is the role of emerging technology. A few decades before Luther developed his argument, a German blacksmith named Johannes Gutenberg had invented a new system of movable-type printing, allowing the reproduction...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-11-01 00:00:00
A move is underway to introduce cattle insurance for small and marginal farmers to reduce the risk of death of their cattle during natural calamities, officials said.Financial Institutions Division under the Ministry of Finance is working on the issue, they...
Syful Islam | 2017-11-01 00:00:00
Switzerland based agrochemicals and seeds producer Syngenta International AG has expressed the interest to purchase shares in its Bangladesh entity, held by Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC), but received lukewarm response from the state-owned enterprise, officials said.After making repeated abortive...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-11-01 00:00:00
Taxmen started checking payroll status of foreign workers in Bangladesh through visiting corporate taxpayers' offices, and an oil giant came first under the probe. A taskforce team of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Tuesday visited the US oil-and-gas company...
Emdadul Haque | 2017-11-01 00:00:00
BOGRA, Oct 31: Over 8,000 female labourers from different remote villages of the district have attained self-reliance by working at the jute mills over the last few years.Source said a total of 15 jute mills have been set up since...
Sharmin Sultana | 2017-11-01 00:00:00
In order to maintain nutrition of the body, we need to consume the right food in adequate proportion. Nutritious foods keep our body healthy and active. Everyone should take the required amount of food from all the food groups based...
Neglected foot over-bridges | 2017-11-01 00:00:00
I do not know about the rest of the country, but in Dhaka city alone, most of the foot over-bridges are avoided by pedestrians and they are found risking their lives by crossing the roads indiscriminately. These foot over-bridges were...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2017-11-01 00:00:00
There is general perception that the existing Income Tax regulations in Bangladesh are British by birth, too much intricate in attitude and curiously cumbersome for enforcement. Though Taxation, as an influential instrument for revenue income of the state, was very...
Liu Junguo | 2017-10-31 00:00:00
BEIJING, Oct 30: China is hastening its march towards an innovation-driven country, with a recent report placing it 17th out of 40 major countries on the innovation capability index.The Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED)'s 2016-2017 national...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-10-31 00:00:00
The government has prepared the draft policy guidelines for providing financial assistance for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects aiming to attract private investments in such projects, officials said."A draft policy styled Guidelines for Viability Gap Funding (VGF) for Public-Private Partnership (PPP)...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-10-31 00:00:00
The ministry of commerce (MoC) sits with onion importers and traders today (Tuesday) aiming to contain its soaring prices, officials said. "We will hold a meeting with onion importers and traders tomorrow (Tuesday) to discuss ways of containing the prices...
Munima Sultana | 2017-10-31 00:00:00
Within over two years of enactment, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Act is being amended to suit construction of subway as government high-ups want the high-speed train lines installed underground. Official sources said Dhaka's transport planners got down to remaking...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-10-31 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority has added rice to the list of items allowed to come in through a few more land customs stations (LCS) from India to make the staple available on the overheated domestic market.Officials said the Customs wing of...
Iqbal Siddiquee | 2017-10-31 00:00:00
SYLHET, Oct 30: The Water Development Board (WDB) would face a little to implement the crop protection schemes under the new systems and time-frame, set by the government due to delay in water recession from the different haor in Sunamganj.A...
Tofazzul Hussain | 2017-10-31 00:00:00
Capital is never quiet - it is always risk-oriented. Capital grows faster when per capita annual savings as cash, land, domestic assets, and investments are equal to or less than per capita annual income. From the country's perspective, net public...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-10-31 00:00:00
'Pass the books. Hold the oil' is an interesting article by Thomas L Friedman (published in The New York Times). It is an insightful article that this scribe read five years back. It is related to the quality of education...
Siddique Islam | 2017-10-30 00:00:00
The central bank is scheduled to meet top executives of 29 commercial banks today to review the credit exposure of offshore banking units (OBUs) of the banks as well as the overall credit and deposit situation.The latest move of Bangladesh...
Syful Islam | 2017-10-30 00:00:00
Signing free-trade area (FTA) deal with Sri Lanka may enhance bilateral trade and benefit Bangladesh through access to an untapped market, an official feasibility study suggests.Based on its findings, the tariff commission says Bangladesh has enormous untapped potential on the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-10-30 00:00:00
Industries set up in the country's economic zones (EZs) are now required to pay duty and taxes on imported raw materials if they sell their finished products in the domestic market.The same industries are entitled to enjoy duty-free benefit under...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-10-30 00:00:00
A high-powered Bangladesh delegation that embarks on a visit to Japan today (Monday) will seek to establish direct air connectivity between the two countries and have the rules of origin simplified, officials said.The delegation will also persuade Japanese entrepreneurs to...
Rafiqul Islam | 2017-10-30 00:00:00
KHULNA, Oct 29: Prices of shrimp (galda) have been declined around 50 per cent in the international market. Exporters are also experiencing internal problems. As a result, they are trying to recover the losses buying shrimp at a low rate....
Neil Ray | 2017-10-30 00:00:00
So, the members of the Detective Branch (DB), one the country's prime intelligence agencies, have been applying their specialised intelligence for special purposes. The special purpose in the latest case is extortion of ransom money by abducting a businessman. Involved...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-10-30 00:00:00
'New gas field found in Shahbazpur of Bhola', screamed the headlines of last Tuesday's newspapers. None other than an important government official like the cabinet secretary had made the disclosure about the new gas field at a press briefing held...
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