Anatole Kaletsky in London | 2017-10-23 00:00:00
Like many divorce proceedings, Britain's negotiations with the European Union (EU) have reached an impasse that can be broken only by compromise. The solution is for both sides to admit that a permanent new relationship cannot be agreed in the...
Siddique Islam | 2017-10-22 00:00:00
Overall deposit growth in the banking sector recorded a falling trend recently while credit growth increased significantly, indicating a strong possibility of a tight liquidity situation in the near future, bankers and officials said. The deposits had a slower growth...
Raj Persaud and Peter Bruggen in London | 2017-10-22 00:00:00
The Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal shows no sign of winding down. Just the opposite: police in the United Kingdom are now investigating several allegations involving the Oscar-winning film producer. While Weinstein has "unequivocally denied" allegations of non-consensual sex, and...
collateral database and collateral locking system | 2017-10-22 00:00:00
Media reports say that Bangladesh Bank (BB) is in the process of developing a database for collateral securities retained by banks against granting loans and advances. The purpose of developing such collateral database is to prevent fraudulent practices of submitting...
Abdul Hannan | 2017-10-22 00:00:00
The government made prompt and sustained efforts to keep the world community informed about the grim situation arising out continuing exodus of more than half a million of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh, fleeing ruthless atrocities, terror and scotched-earth campaign unleashed...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
Release of nearly US$ 1.64 billion worth of pledged Japanese ODA loans for Bangladesh's six projects is being delayed due to complexity arisen over the payment of bank commission, officials said."A meeting has been held on the issue of commission...
Liu Junguo | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
A breeding base run by villager Gao Xueliang in Lankao County in central China's Henan Province. The base was established with the help of a cadre sent to help the villagers. Lankao was singled out as the first county in...
Babul Barman | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
Stocks extended the losing streak for the second straight week that ended Thursday as cautious investors continued their selling binge amid mixed earnings and dividend declarations.Brokers said small investors were cautious about fresh exposure to the market, while institutional investors...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
The military experiences of the Euro-American clique suggest that technology in some way is a dynamic, absolute force to which people's doctrines, strategies and force structures must be adapted and adjusted on a continual basis. An emphasis on efficiency, cost-effectiveness...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
The Blue Whale saga is on a relentless march worldwide. The terrible computer or video game has been making screaming headlines in Bangladesh for a few days now. However, the picture is yet to be clear enough. When the first...
M. Serajul Islam | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Test Captain Mushfiqur Rahim and the Board President Nazmul Hasan aired publicly their differences over the former's media interview following the Team's humiliating whitewash in the two-Test series against South Africa. The Captain was emotional in the face...
Saleh Akram | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
The ministry of agriculture appears to have adapted the most appropriate theme on the occasion of world food day this year in the present context. It focused on the need to bolster development of the rural economy to prevent migration....
Abdul Bayes | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
An article compares livestock transfer with and without training and thus highlights the importance of skill-training in the augmentation of household income. The research has been done by Jonathan Argent, Britta Augsburg, Imran Rasul on "Livestock Asset Transfers With and...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-10-21 00:00:00
More than 23 years ago, Marrakesh, a tourist-loving city of Morocco, witnessed a historical deal and also became a part of the deal by name. On April 15 of 1994, the Marrakesh Declaration was adopted by 124 nations to conclude...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-10-20 12:00:00
The latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), conducted by the national statistical organisation, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), has revealed nothing new --the old trend of widening income inequality is persisting without a pause. The Gini coefficient, which...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-10-20 00:00:00
Exporters will be allowed to get duty drawback without physical inspection of goods as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) relaxed a mandatory provision of a law in this regard recently.The exemption will continue until June 30 next year, according...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2017-10-20 00:00:00
Like in the other countries, 'Education Science' has become an independent discipline in the academic field of Bangladesh. Keen interest in this discipline is growing by the day among the academics, education policy-makers, researchers, development professionals, students and the general...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-10-20 00:00:00
Divers could not recover the body of Hridoy, about a four-year-old boy, who fell into the canal full of obnoxiously polluted water in the city's Mugdapara area in three days. The precariously hanging bamboo bridge, the only means of maintaining...
ABM Nurul Haq | 2017-10-20 00:00:00
The lack of corporate governance is mainly responsible for backwardness of the insurance sector. A comprehensive definition of corporate governance may be as follows:"Corporate governance is the system of rules, practices and processes by which a company is directed and...
Ni Tao, Li Feng, Yu Yichun and Xu Wei | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
BEIJING, Oct 18: A three-episode documentary that introduces Chinese President Xi Jinping's ideas on national governance had its debut on the Discovery Channel early this week as the first time for international media at this level to broadcast a TV...
Kamrun Nahar, back from Nepal | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Director (Marketing and Sales) M Ali Ahsan handing over a crest to one of the top five sales agents of Biman in Nepal during a ceremony in celebrations of Biman’s 43 years of operations on Dhaka-Kathmandu-Dhaka route....
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
Japanese automobile giant Honda is going to set up a motorcycle assembling and manufacturing plant early next month in the country. The company will lay foundation stone of the unit in November in the in privately-owned Abdul Monem Economic Zone...
Munima Sultana | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
A Chinese company is set to get Tk 9.35 billion contract for construction of 4.5-kilometre elevated structure from Uttara House Building to Cherag Ali Market of the bus-based mass transit line from Gazipur to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA).Sources said...
Siddique Islam | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
Country's overall imports dropped by over 8.0 per cent or US$315.20 million in September despite higher import of food-grains to cool an overheated market.Officials believe a slowdown in the import of fuels and intermediate goods tipped the scale down in...
Ehteshamul Arif Anik | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
SELISE started off as a small software company in 2011, when its Swiss CEO flew in from Zurich to see what Dhaka had to offer. What initially was a four-member team comprising fully developers, stands tall and strong today in...
ABM Nurul Haq | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
There is a saying, "A healthy insurance market must have a base and a growing volume of business." In our present market, only a few types of general insurance businesses (schemes of insurance) are underwritten, mostly on compulsion basis. A...
Robert Lawrence Kuhn | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
Foreign analysts and media look to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for clues about China's future. It is no secret that President Xi Jinping, during his almost five years as China's senior-most leader, has...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2017-10-19 00:00:00
South Asian economies are suffering from infrastructure deficit in areas of natural resources, water, energy, roads and rail networks. Infrastructure investment builds the bridge that connects the old growth engine of industrialisation with the new growth engine of sustainable productivity...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-10-18 00:00:00
The revenue board found its online system for submission of income-tax returns largely forlorn and went on a mass campaign for teaching taxpayers how to do it. Sources said less than 100 taxpayers so far obtained user-identification number and passwords...
Siddique Islam | 2017-10-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank advised the banks which have exchange houses abroad to appoint agents in the respective countries to help prop up falling inward remittances.All banks have also been asked to extend cooperation in ensuring mandatory opening of account of each...
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