Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-03-03 00:00:00
Egg, milk, chicken, beef, mutton and vegetables including potato, aubergine are most in demand especially in the holy month of Ramadan. But as is the usual practice with the traders of the essential commodities in Bangladesh, they invariably raise the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-03-02 00:00:00
An exhaustive package of dos framed by an expert panel asks the government to abolish zero-rated duty and all concessionary rates and the practice of making midterm changes in duties to maximize state revenue.The 552-page report of the 12-member taskforce...
Khalid Saifullah Khan | 2025-03-02 00:00:00
North South University's Marketing and International Business Club (MIBC) successfully wrapped up Turkish Airlines Presents MarXcellence 2025, powered by AMA Coffee and driven by Garibook recently. Team NSU MIBC organised the event with much care for society broadly; this event...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-03-02 00:00:00
A sound public procurement system that prevents corruption through enhanced transparency and accountability, if ever implemented substantively and meaningfully, can bring multifarious benefits. It can remedy the problem of corruption in the public procurement process. It can maximise value for...
Asjadul Kibria | 2025-03-02 00:00:00
As the holy month of Ramadan starts on Sunday in Bangladesh, there will be a surge in charity as part of the observance of the month by the Muslims. Besides the various forms of voluntary charities to support underprivileged people,...
Nilratan Halder | 2025-03-01 12:00:00
Dawn and dusk are times apparently opposite to each other. Dawn breaks forth before sunrise and dusk sets in before evening. Both are transitory periods that act as the meeting points of two different phases of the 24-hour circle of...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-03-01 00:00:00
Construction cost of the Payra Sea-Port terminal and associated facilities has increased significantly due to delay in project implementation, currency depreciation, and pandemic-induced disruptions.The total project cost is now expected to rise by approximately Tk14.46 billion, officials confirmed.During the Covid-19...
REZAUL KARIM | 2025-03-01 00:00:00
A set of recommendations by the home ministry asks for making it mandatory for traders to supply imported essential commodities to the market on time from their stocks to thwart market volatility.Officials say conducting regular monitoring of corporate businesses, hoarders...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-03-01 00:00:00
The long-standing manpower shortage that Bangladesh Railway (BR) is suffering from is unlikely to be resolved soon due to procedural complexities and a lack of visionary steps. The recruitments of around 40,000 employees were approved more than three years ago....
Sohel Miah | 2025-03-01 00:00:00
Ramadan is a month of restraint, self-purification, and worship for Muslims. However, it also presents a significant challenge for industrial establishments in ensuring the well-being of workers and maintaining a healthy work environment. Fasting for long hours affects workers' physical...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2025-03-01 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 28: The prices of essential commodities have marked a rise in the port city ahead of Ramadan.As retailers are hiking prices, the market monitoring teams are being active just ahead of Ramadan.But, consumers alleged that the prices of...
Sarker Nazrul Islam | 2025-03-01 00:00:00
In an environment marked by high incidence of corruption, largely initiated and promoted by the immediate past corrupt regime, the Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNPs) introduced to the benefits of the poor could not remain immune to the all-pervading pilferage...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-02-28 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 27: The development project proposal (DPP) of the Bay Terminal, a game changer that can potentially revitalise economy, is expected to get the green light by mid-March.Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) chairman Rear Admiral SM Moniruzzaman has said this...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2025-02-28 00:00:00
The auction for the fifth Sukuk bonds will be held at the central bank on March 12, aiming to raise Tk 30 billion for financing smooth implementation of a rural development project.The decision was taken at a Shariah Advisory Committee...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-02-28 00:00:00
The Planning Commission has sent back the Rural Employment and Road Maintenance Programme-4 proposal, a Tk 20.99 billion initiative to provide financial assistance for women by engaging them in rural road repairs in all unions across the country.Instead of implementing...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-02-28 00:00:00
The country's economy is passing through a critical juncture, struggling with both long-standing structural problems and emerging issues, Maria Howlader FCA, president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB), has said. "Though exports and remittances have shown improvements...
Nilratan Halder | 2025-02-28 00:00:00
The country's educational institutions from primary to college level are set to go for a long vacation on the occasion of Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, the Independence Day, summer vacation and observance of a few other religious events. All government and private...
Serajul I. Bhuiyan | 2025-02-28 00:00:00
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world," Nelson Mandela once said, underlining the redemptive power of education in reshaping societies and advancing human progress. In Bangladesh, the growing demand for higher education, coupled...
Selim Ahmad | 2025-02-28 00:00:00
Journalist Amin Al Rasheed, an expert in Bangladeshi politics and parliamentary systems, presents his research-based book, titled Bangladesher Sangsadiyo Bitorko: Jatiyotabad, BAKSAL, Rastrodhormo o Onnanno (Parliamentary Debates of Bangladesh: Nationalism, BAKSAL, State Religion, and Others), at the Amar Ekushey Book...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2025-02-27 12:00:00
For the generation which came of age in the 1960s, the times were interesting, indeed riveting. It is a thought which has been re-emphasised by the American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in her work, ‘An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-02-27 00:00:00
The debt-ridden Beximco Group has sought government assistance to sustain operations through cash credit (CC) of Tk 1.0 billion per month, rather than shutting down the factories under its textile division by settling the Tk 5.5-6.0 billion outstanding employee payments....
SIDDIQUE ISLAM AND JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-02-27 00:00:00
Classified loans in Bangladesh's banking sector keep rising fast with the cumulative volume having made a quantum leap by over Tk 2.0 trillion year on year till last December, official statics show.With such leaps in the volume of non-performing loans...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-02-27 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 26: The Dhaka-Chattogram four-lane highway will be upgraded to a 10-lane road for smooth traffic.Meanwhile, the government has revised a plan to upgrade the highway to a 10-lane one at a cost of Tk 732 billion.Earlier, they had...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-02-27 00:00:00
In recent times some dreadful crimes such as robbery, rent-seeking, mugging, and sexual assault against women and minor girls have been reported with chilling frequency. In Mithapukur, Rangpur, a fourth-grade student was raped while collecting flowers to pay tribute at...
MUHAMMAD ZIAUL ISLAM AKIB | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Artificial turf fields, a platform for outdoor sports, have recently become a rapidly growing trend in Bangladesh, especially among youth and teenagers. These synthetic grass fields provide a structured and well-maintained alternative to conventional playgrounds, attracting sports enthusiasts of all...
Sarker Nazrul Islam | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
The Foreign Affairs Adviser recently urged the Qatar government to recruit Bangladeshi professionals like doctors, engineers, IT professionals and nurses. In connection with this, he invited representatives from that country to visit Bangladesh to meet and recruit professionals. He made...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Ever since countries became intertwined with each other or in a conglomeration, a world order came into effect, whether it was recognised as such or not. Political and economic interests of countries served to underpin and sustain particular world orders...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2025-02-25 00:00:00
Domestic revenue mobilisation from July to January of the current fiscal year lagged behind the target by nearly 21 per cent, raising deep concerns about the macroeconomic landscape to meet the necessary expenditures, officials said.In the first seven months, the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-02-25 00:00:00
Neither will there be revision of the national pay scale nor a new pay commission be formed during this interim period as the current government decides to leave the onus to its elected successor.Such a stance is taken on assumption...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-02-25 00:00:00
The government is set to launch air conditioned (AC) bus service on one route of the green cluster today (Tuesday) again without adequate preparation due to non-coordination from all bus operators, deviating from its earlier plan to launch buses in...
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