Sayed Kamaluddin | 2017-09-15 00:00:00
A guard keeps watch at Gwadar Port, Balochistan. — AP photo The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which has become known as Pakistan leg of Beijing's new Silk Road, has attracted a number of Chinese entrepreneurs for the economic opportunities opening...
Harold James in Princeton | 2017-09-15 00:00:00
US President Donald Trump and his advisers' fierce rhetoric on trade and immigration has led some to wonder if our current era of globalisation is now at risk. If it is, an even more pertinent question is whether the end...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-09-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC) is yet to be fully functional due to lack of adequate manpower, thus failing to ensure consumers' rights as well as forging healthy competition among the businesses in the country. Its organogram, recently submitted to the...
Munima Sultana | 2017-09-14 00:00:00
Cargo vehicle operators have been carrying goods beyond the allowed level by taking advantage of paying only Tk 2,000 as fine, fixed by the authorities concerned for the time being.The operators are also not increasing the number of wheels/axles of...
Md Rabiul Hassan | 2017-09-14 00:00:00
For years, people want a secured way to facilitate their transaction, payment, title transfer etc. With the advancement of technology, we have seen many changes within financial industry to ensure trust. While we are still incurring a huge cost to...
Kemal Dervis in Washington, DC | 2017-09-14 00:00:00
About 1,530 African migrants have died in Mediterranean sea in 2017, according to UN Migration Agency. For citizens of poor countries, migration often is a highly appealing option. The journey to a new country is often perilous, but it promises...
Syful Islam | 2017-09-13 00:00:00
The last barrier to foreign direct investment (FDI) in apparel sector beyond the export processing zones (EPZs) is now removed as the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has expressed its readiness to issue utilisation declaration (UD) certificates in favour of externally-financed...
Siddique Islam | 2017-09-13 00:00:00
Four state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) received Tuesday directives for largely lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), particularly manufacturing ones, rather than disbursing large loans. Officials said the redirection of the public banks' credit operations came as a remedy for...
Cleve R. Wootson Jr of The Washington Post | 2017-09-13 00:00:00
The outside world might never have heard about the suspected massacre if not for some barroom boasting by a group of miners fresh from working an illegal gig in the Amazon jungle.The garimpeiros had bragged that they'd come across members...
S M Didarul Hasan | 2017-09-13 00:00:00
All languages are sweet to their patrons, but none can be sweeter than one's own mother tongue. The language children learn since birth is derived from their surroundings, especially from the parents, and it is their mother tongue. People may...
Md. Abul Basher | 2017-09-13 00:00:00
Spanish wholesale markets are a direct link between farmers and end-user markets La Almunia de Doña Godina, a small town situated in the fertile plains of Valdejalón in northwestern Spain, was buzzing with unusual activity one late afternoon a few...
Md. Abul Kalam Azad and Qimiao Fan | 2017-09-13 00:00:00
Community-Led Total Sanitation might be the greatest Bangladeshi export. In countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, a consensus has emerged that the best approach is Community-Led Total Sanitation, which is widely credited with changing people's behaviour around the world...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2017-09-13 00:00:00
The very name of the venue evokes a feeling of not only ordinariness but also of a non-event. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the town with 15000 population, that has been hosting summit of the world's most powerful central bankers since 1978...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2017-09-12 12:00:00
Strategic Transport Plan (STP) says that the average speed of motor vehicles on the roads of Dhaka city is only 6.4 km per hour. — bdnews24.com photo There have been many dialogues, researches, plans and master-plans on reducing the intolerable...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-09-12 00:00:00
A move is under way to organise a platform styled Financial Inclusion Network-Bangladesh (FIN-B) for developing, sharing and disseminating knowledge and expertise in financial inclusion.Its main objective will be leveraging expertise in advancing financial inclusion as a key instrument for...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-09-12 00:00:00
Taxpayers have expressed their resentment over a penal measure that deprives them of tax-exemption benefit of certain incomes.According to the current income-tax provision, tax-exempted income or income entitled to reduced tax rate cannot enjoy the facility if mentioned later in...
Siddique Islam | 2017-09-12 00:00:00
The central bank has decided to strengthen monitoring of commercial banks' exposure to share market with a view to avoiding recurrence of an unwanted situation, officials said.Under the latest move, the banks will have to submit their reports on fresh...
Sayed Mofidul Babu | 2017-09-12 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Sept 11: Cultivation of Aman paddy is facing setback in different flood affected areas under Rangpur division due to acute crisis of seedlings.Although flood water has begun to recede from the croplands, a severe crisis of Aman saplings has...
M Serajul Islam | 2017-09-12 00:00:00
There still has a little of humanity left among the humans that inhabit planet earth but it is generally confined to the victims of disasters caused by Mother Nature. Humanity or human conscience is practically as good as dead when...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-09-12 00:00:00
After a spell of relatively satisfactory progress on economic fronts for a decade or so in terms of economic growth rate, export earnings, remittance, rice output, etc., the Bangladesh economy now seems to have been suddenly caught in a quagmire....
Syful Islam | 2017-09-11 00:00:00
Industrial conglomerate Akij Group is likely to get permission to invest US$20 million in Malaysia from its exporter's retention quota, officials said.The central bank recently forwarded a proposal in evaluation committee (PEC) report to the finance ministry for a decision...
Shamul Alam | 2017-09-11 00:00:00
The core theme of the 7th Five Year Plan (FYP 2016- 20) is 'accelerating Growth, empowering citizens' with strong emphasis on creating more jobs in the economy and accelerating gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 8.0 per cent for faster...
Neil Ray | 2017-09-11 00:00:00
Fuelling consumerism is a business strategy adopted by industries, manufacturing firms and corporate houses or commercial ventures. Products or gadgets unheard of by a generation are the most sought-after elements or implements for the immediate next generation. But not everyone...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-09-11 00:00:00
The game is, possibly, on once again. Indications are there that some small-time manipulators after a gap of few months have re-entered the bourses with the objective of making quick bucks within a brief period. After the great collapse of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-09-10 00:00:00
A substantial private investment of US$ 1.5 billion is underway to establish petrochemical refinery, petroleum storage, LPG terminal and power plants in Bangladesh.Local company Super Petrochemical Private Limited (SPPL) jointly with a South Korean conglomerate is set to invest in...
Munima Sultana | 2017-09-10 00:00:00
The Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB) is planning to purchase a million-dollar survey ship for exploring resources in the Bay of Bengal within its maritime boundary.Sources said the GSB will buy the ship to develop database of marine resources under...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2017-09-10 00:00:00
National Professor Dr Muhammed Ibrahim, a great and successful physician, a gifted teacher, a talented organiser and a great reformer was born on December 31, 1911 and died on September 06, 1989. His death anniversary is observed as (Diabetic) Service...
Sylvia Yu in Hong Kong | 2017-09-10 00:00:00
Uddin thought he was tapping into a financial lifeline for his future and his family back in Bangladesh when he migrated to Singapore for construction work. He was promised a job as a construction site engineer that would pay a...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2017-09-10 00:00:00
An unprecedented ethnic-cleansing campaign, almost akin to a pogrom, has been unleashed against Rohingya people in Myanmar. According to corroborated reports published in newspapers all over the world and according to thousands of eye-witnesses, the military junta in Myanmar have...
Kazi Anwarul Masud | 2017-09-10 00:00:00
It is commonly believed that economically Bangladesh has done well. Over the last two decades most economic indices show improvement, be it in export, remittance, gross domestic product (GDP), infrastructure (though much remains to be done), external relations, regional connectivity,...
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