Munima Sultana | 2017-08-09 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has taken an initiative to build four bridges in the eastern and southwestern parts of the country to facilitate smooth connectivity. One of these bridges might be a little longer than the Padma bridge, the...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-08-09 00:00:00
Less than one per cent of companies registered with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSCF) are listed on the country's bourses, sources concerned said. Currently, approximately 0.15 million companies are registered with the RJSCF. But of them,...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-08-09 00:00:00
The VAT Online Project (VOP) may linger for two more years at an extra cost of Tk 1.0 billion following the deferment of the new VAT law. The project, undertaken for introducing online payment of VAT under the Value Added...
Siddique Islam | 2017-08-09 00:00:00
The country's overall imports grew by more than 10 per cent in the fiscal year (FY) 2016-17 due mainly to higher import of capital machinery, officials said. The actual import in terms of settlement of letters of credit (LCs) grew...
Le Hong Hiep in Singapore | 2017-08-09 00:00:00
During his visit to Hu?, Vietnam's former royal capital, earlier this year, Japanese Emperor Akihito and his entourage were reminded of their country's longstanding cultural connections with Vietnam. In the eighth century, Phat Triet, a Cham Buddhist monk from what...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2017-08-09 00:00:00
With a higher growth rate (even if by a whisker) than last fiscal (7.5 per cent as against 7.4 per cent) announced in the budget for 2017-2018 and inflation reasonably under control at 5.5 per cent the Monetary Policy Statement...
Ismail Hossain | 2017-08-08 00:00:00
The Savar Tannery Estate project has sought two years of extension to develop the facilities remained to be completed as its tenure expired on June 30 this year. Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC), the implementing agency of the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-08-08 00:00:00
Government passport authority feels it difficult to wrap up the long-drawn-out machine-readable passport (MRP) project for its insufficient delivery capacity, though the MRPs will be redundant pieces of travel document shortly. Another scheme, in the meantime, lies in wait for...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-08-08 00:00:00
The consumers' rights watchdog has failed to carry out its market monitoring drive at the union level because of the shortage of manpower and absence of other logistical support, according to officials. To safeguard the consumers' rights, the government set...
Anna Shen in San Francisco, California | 2017-08-08 00:00:00
Gender inequality is the greatest moral and social issue of our time - and the world's most critical economic challenge. If half of the global population cannot fulfill their human potential, the world's economic growth will falter. We are being...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-08-08 00:00:00
Women's work, particularly in agriculture, has drawn considerable attention. Their involvement in economic activities is generally considered as a boon from the point of earning income for households and women's empowerment. However, such an involvement has also turned out to...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-08-07 00:00:00
The government is set to allow two foreign companies for constructing a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on Kutubdia Island in Cox's Bazar to bridge the existing gap between the demand and supply of natural gas in the country,...
Masum Billah | 2017-08-07 00:00:00
War is a curse to human civilisation. Waging war is the luxury of the powerful who either pretend to hear nothing or hear everything. In either case, the impunity or arrogance with which their measured silence or involvement is maintained...
Md. Sajib Hossain and Enamul Hafiz Latifee | 2017-08-07 00:00:00
In recent times, the structure of global manufacturing businesses has been taking the new shape of eco-friendliness on a sustainable basis. Such a change can be attributed to global warming, climate change, loss of natural resources and biodiversity and various...
José Antonio Ocampo and Jomo Kwame Sundaram from Kuala Lumpur | 2017-08-07 00:00:00
The United Nations recently released the 70th anniversary issue of its flagship publication, the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS). First published in January 1948 as the World Economic Report, it is the oldest continuous publication analyzing international economic and...
Neil Ray | 2017-08-07 00:00:00
If the majority of people have heard of climate change, few are expected to come across wet bulb temperature. This in short is the measure of humidity in atmosphere. The measurement that a thermometer gives when it is wrapped by...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-08-07 00:00:00
Notwithstanding the fact that the country needs to generate more power to meet its ever-growing demand, the government appears to be too generous to the private sponsors of the controversial rental power plants to achieve that objective. The government, as...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-08-06 00:00:00
Md Mofizuddin (65) and her wife Sultana Rezia (55) along with 72 intending Hajj pilgrims who came from Potnitala of Naogaon to Haji Camp at Askona on Friday last are not sure when they will fly to Saudi Arabia. Semona...
Munima Sultana | 2017-08-06 00:00:00
Full functioning of Dhaka's metro-rail company is likely to get delayed for a move to continue implementation of the mass rapid transit (MRT) project under the ministry concerned. Sources said this bid defies agreement with the project's Japanese financier and...
Saleh Akram | 2017-08-06 00:00:00
Recent flash floods in the Sylhet region followed by successive landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains in southeastern Bangladesh again brought to the fore the ravages unleashed by nature in this country from time to time. Natural disasters like cyclone...
M. Serajul Islam | 2017-08-06 00:00:00
US diplomats serving in the developing countries in the pre-Trump period were often condescending and snooty with governments and governance in their host countries because they considered that the system of governance led by their president based on the rule...
Harold James in Munich | 2017-08-06 00:00:00
It has been ten years since the financial crisis went international. Until July 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis seemed like it was strictly a problem for the United States. But then Landesbank Sachsen and IKB Deutsche Industriebank, two publicly-owned regional...
Syful Islam | 2017-08-05 00:00:00
The central bank has suggested formation of a credit registry body in the private sector with information from utility service-providers and commercial organisations to get credit history of borrowers, officials said. Globally, most countries have private sector credit registries which...
Babul Barman | 2017-08-05 00:00:00
Stocks extended the winning streak for the second straight week with high turnover, as investors' appetite for buying large-cap stocks, especially banks, continued to grow. Dealers said the market maintained the gaining momentum riding on the wave of investors' enthusiasm...
Enayetullah Khan | 2017-08-05 00:00:00
On July 4 last Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave away the Bangabandhu Award for Wildlife Conservation to the Village Tiger Response Team (VTRT). When a tiger strays into a village, the Village Tiger Response Team members send it back into...
Prof. Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2017-08-05 00:00:00
To create mass awareness about the beneficial aspects of breastfeeding, the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is being observed across the country as elsewhere in the world from August 01. The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) observes the week for...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-08-05 00:00:00
The tax rates keep changing every fiscal year as is the common practice everywhere. In many cases, it is not possible that all the businesses will be able to keep track of the changes very easily. To ease their task...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-08-05 00:00:00
Waterlogging on account of a moderate shower is giving Dhakaites a nightmarish time. Pundits have failed to suggest any solution to this recurrent problem. Don't worry, the solution is easy and simple. With ingenuity this intractable problem can be turned...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2017-08-05 00:00:00
The South Asian stock markets are spread across a wide geographic region, rich with vibrantly diverse cultural backgrounds and practices. More importantly, the region's jurisdiction operates under different sets of law, rendering it near impossible for the members of the...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-08-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh has done well in terms of some socio-economic indicators, especially compared to its neighbouring countries. But the country continues to grapple with rising income inequality. The growth of slums beside the skyscrapers reveals the harsh reality. Attempts have long...
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