Syful Islam | 2016-10-01 00:00:00
Sonali Bank's exclusive right to collect various government fees and bills and have access to the latter's account with the central bank, is likely to be over soon. Officials said the ministries concerned are working to engage other banks, too,...
Muhammad Mahboob Ali | 2016-10-01 00:00:00
Autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder that was first described by Hans Asperger in 1944. Some individuals with ASD engage in stereotypic and repetitive behaviours while others are very highly functioning and contributing members of the...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-10-01 00:00:00
Lightning or thunderbolt has become the latest addition to natural calamities to strike terror into people's hearts. It has become a highly potent killer of late. Recently its casualties only for two days were reported to be 24 across the...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-10-01 00:00:00
It is indeed a piece of good news that Dr Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, a Bangladeshi by birth, won the Josef G. Knoll European Science Award-2016 for his outstanding PhD research work. He worked in the Centre for Development...
Munima Sultana | 2016-09-30 00:00:00
The Exim Bank of China agreed Thursday to provide US$ 705.10 million as loan for constructing the country's first tunnel under the Karnaphuli River. A delegation of the bank sat with the Economic Relations Division (ERD) and Bangladesh Bridge Authority...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-30 00:00:00
Country's banking sector performance caused some concerns in areas including classified loans in the final quarter of the fiscal year (FY) 2015-16 compared to that of the previous quarter, according to the central bank's latest quarterly report. "Several key indicators...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-09-30 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) is set to launch container service soon considering the growing demand for transportation of cargoes through waterways inside and outside the country, officials concerned said. It'll get four ships soon for its first...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-09-30 00:00:00
Women at Work: Trends 2016 Published by International Labour Organisation (ILO), 2016 Pages 138, ISBN: 978-92-2-130795-2 We are living in a world which is undergoing deep changes and global challenges affecting both women and men. Throughout their working lives, women...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-09-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh boasts accomplishment of quite a few Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -a couple of them ahead of time. The MDGs are only a step towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Set by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015,...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
The securities' regulator is set to include a provision of completing the vetting on the scheme prepared for merger and acquisition before seeking the court's approval. The regulatory plan comes in the backdrop of some complexities while executing the merger...
Sharnila N. Kabir | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
Let us imagine this: Free, clean drinking water available for the masses, twenty four hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year. Statistics, reports and various articles are constant reminders of how the lack of clean drinking...
Shamsul Alam | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
Empirical evidences suggest that the share of agriculture in overall economy of the countries always decreases as structural transformation and urbanisation occurs. The labour force engaged in agriculture also has a declining trend. However, many poor countries still show high...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
Participatory governance or citizen participation in public administration is a concept widely practised by many western developed countries. But developing countries like Bangladesh still lag far behind in this area. Participatory governance may be defined as a process in which...
A. F. M.Mainul Ahsan | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
Even public offices today all over the world are getting creative to increase their revenue. Apparently this practice is now being adopted by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). As the part of continual development process, DSE has launched its upgraded version...
M. Serajul Islam | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
A record 84 million people watched the debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, held last Monday evening. Interest in the debate was enhanced because the polls had shown leading to the debate that Hillary Clinton's unassailable lead of a...
Mohamed A. El-Erian in Laguna Beach | 2016-09-29 00:00:00
The aftermath of the United Kingdom's unexpected vote in June to leave the European Union (EU) is being monitored closely. People all over the world - and particularly in Europe - want to know how Brexit will unfold, not just...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Country's apex chamber body has urged the government to amend some of the key fiscal measurers for the fiscal year 2016-17 as it found small and medium-scale businesses facing difficulty in running their operations. Officials said the Federation of Bangladesh...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
The issue of urban poverty that hitherto escaped attention of the policymakers deserves a close scrutiny. With the process of urbanisation gathering speed, the problem of urban poverty has grown bigger. In Dhaka city that is marked by tall buildings,...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Classified loans belonging to the industries increased by more than 32 per cent to Tk 250.68 billion in the fiscal year (FY) 2015-16 for lax repayment by the debtors. Official sources also pointed out slower recovery drives by banks and...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
The Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and Information Technology (IT) graduates now occupy major chunk of the country's job market thanks to fast expansion of digitization and ICT activities both at public and private levels, market insiders said. Besides these...
Saeba Ruslana Abedin | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Developments in the global economy raise three basic questions about government: what its role should be, what it can and cannot do, and how best to do it. According to World Bank's World Development Report: The State in a Changing...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) are rising across the world. It is like moving towards the opposite direction of tariff liberalisation and tariff elimination. Though all NTMs are not trade restrictive or curb the effort of trade liberalisation, there are a number...
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
International trade, which is completely different from the domestic one, refers to movement of goods, services and capital across the borders of different countries. A port is the gateway for international trade which has another name cross-border trade. As Wikipedia...
Shamsul Alam | 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh, a low-income country (LIC) since independence, was upgraded, in accordance with World Bank definition, to the status of a low middle-income country (LMIC) in July 2015. This higher status was achieved six years earlier than which was envisaged to...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-09-27 00:00:00
The government is set to overhaul the Siddhirganj Power Plant (SPP) for smooth power generation and transmission following recent breakdown of some mechanical equipment of the plant, officials said. The move comes due to recurring breakdown of the plant that...
Md. Ziaul Haque Howlader | 2016-09-27 00:00:00
All the member-countries of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) have been celebrating, since 1980, the World Tourism Day on September 27 with a specific theme. This year the theme is 'Tourism for All: Promoting Universal Accessibility'. The approach of the...
Saleh Akram | 2016-09-27 00:00:00
The migrant issue that raised a furor across the world a couple of months ago is neither a forgotten nor a foregone one. Although the dust has apparently settled down, the issue is very much alive particularly in countries braving...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-09-27 00:00:00
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), a research institution, has long been playing an important role in the field of nutritional research in South Asia. LANSA has been campaigning for research to find out how agriculture and agri...
Munima Sultana | 2016-09-26 00:00:00
The government has taken a move to complete feasibility studies and detailed designs of the existing national highways for further development and making suitable for serving as regional corridor. Of the total 2,352-kilometre (km) national and regional roads of the...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-26 00:00:00
Non-performing loans (NPLs) net of provisions to capital in Bangladesh's banking sector is higher than in India and Sri Lanka, which is also responsible for higher interest rate spread, experts and academics said. Among the three countries, the banking sector...
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