DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-09-28 00:00:00
A major lift in digital technologies has happened in Bangladesh for absorption of technical know-how from Chinese technical assistance and investments, although the technology transfer remains limited for skills deficiency.Investment promoters and industry people are of such view in evaluation...
Karimul Tuhin and Rifa Sajida Antora | 2023-09-28 00:00:00
Climate awareness is on the rise as the tangible negative effects of climate change become more evident with each passing day. Besides, the activism of environmental groups and repeated warnings from the scientific community are further accelerating the transition of...
FE ONLINE DESK | 2023-09-27 00:00:00
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has filed a charge sheet against two for spreading misinformation about the kachchi served at Sultan's Dine, according to a local media report.The charge sheet was filed on September 19 in the Chief Metropolitan...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-09-27 00:00:00
A sudden restriction on extracting sand from the riverbed and Balu Mahals (sand quarries) has created a crisis in managing the high demand for earth needed to widen the country's crucial Dhaka-Sylhet highway.According to sources, the SASEC Dhaka-Sylhet Corridor Investment...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2023-09-27 00:00:00
The Dhaka bourse has seen a marginal rise in its mobile app users since July after it started welcoming new subscribers for a monthly fee of Tk 125 per user. In May, the DSE saw a sharp decline in app...
KHALID SAIFULLAH KHAN | 2023-09-27 00:00:00
Dhaka - the city of people from every walk of life - presents a variety of hawkers in the streets, on public transport, in front of schools and colleges, and nearly everywhere. Yet interestingly, there is a specific kind of...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-09-27 00:00:00
Ease of new-era travels and road safety remain elusive in Bangladesh as the much-vaunted latest law looks lopsided and ramshackle transports, amateurist drivers, outmoded manual traffic controls pose avoidable risks.These are cardinal ones among hazards that are responsible for loss...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-09-26 00:00:00
Scientists of the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) are learnt to have come up with a novel alternative to antibiotics and growth promoters used in the country's poultry farms. The medicine is extracted from 'neem leaves'. Neem is a well-known evergreen...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-09-25 00:00:00
The online portal is not ready yet, offline services are off-limits too, and the revenue authority is still scrambling to grasp the changes in collection rules: this is exactly what happens when a new tax law, incorporating stringent measures, catches...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-09-25 00:00:00
In the face of the runaway food price inflation that reached 12-year high in August, 2023at 9.92 per cent, the fixed-income and the socially less privileged section of the population are in a tight corner. And this has been the...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2023-09-24 00:00:00
Tamha Securities’ paid-up capital was Tk 110 million only when it was caught to have siphoned off Tk 513 million from its clients' funds in November 2021. With such a low investment of its own, the broker had been handling...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-09-24 00:00:00
Countries across the world now appear less interested in extending cooperation with each other. As it is also impossible to entirely delink one from another, the nations are now concentrating more on limited and selective collaboration. Most countries have lost...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2023-09-23 00:00:00
The Department of Shipping (DoS) will prepare a standard operating procedure (SOP) soon with an eye to regulating safe handling of dangerous goods and solid bulk cargoes carried through seaway.According to officials, the formation of a 'competent authority', headed by...
REZAUL KARIM | 2023-09-23 00:00:00
The India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI) has requested the government to allow buffalo-meat import from India to meet the growing demand of the country, sources said.Recently, IBCCI President Abdul Matlub Ahmad has applied to the commerce ministry, seeking...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-09-23 00:00:00
From now on, Bangladeshi Muslim pilgrims can plan and prepare their own Umrah itinerary to visit Makkah and Madina as well as some other tourist destinations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). There will be a little need to...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-09-23 00:00:00
To say he has a heart of gold would be a gross understatement. Well, gold may be a precious metal and its reserves may be quite helpful to size up and stabilise a nation's economy, yet it pales before a...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-09-22 12:00:00
Electronic salary disbursement to employees, as mandated in the new income tax law, eats into low-paid people's paltry pay through cash-out charges, sources say and seek a relief. The newly imposed fiscal measure on mandatory disbursement of salary, irrespective of...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-09-22 00:00:00
It was nearly a Herculean task for the Roads and Highways Department (RHD). The government agency, responsible for the construction and maintenance of highways and bridges across Bangladesh, recently completed the inspection of 5,188 bridges, flagging 184 of them as...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-09-22 00:00:00
For five consecutive days more than 3,000 dengue patients got admitted to different hospitals of the country with the lowest death toll of seven recorded in 24 years by 8 a.m. on Tuesday and the highest 21 by 8 a.m....
BABUL BARMAN & FARHAN FARDAUS | 2023-09-21 12:00:00
Global development institution International Finance Corporation (IFC) has shown interest in extending its support to DBH Finance to help carve out a loan segment exclusively meant for middle-income people. Not only has it come up with a proposal to invest...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN from Shanghai, China | 2023-09-21 00:00:00
In a rapid technological development era, a strong partnership and commitment is needed among the people across the world to encounter the consequent risks and unpredictability that might emerge from the fast-moving tech trend, experts observed at a seminar in...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2023-09-21 00:00:00
The presence of a large Bengali diaspora in such countries as the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada is cause for happiness. Bengalis who reside in these countries as also in other places have in recent times been actively...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2023-09-21 00:00:00
The theme chosen by host country India for the G20 summit this year appeared noble, solemn and even pious: 'one family, one earth, one future.' It has resonated with people across countries through ages while philosophers have envisioned it becoming...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2023-09-20 00:00:00
The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has proposed reintroducing intraday same scrip netting to boost liquidity flow in the market through increased transactions.In a proposal submitted last month to the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), it said it was expecting...
Abdullah Dewan and Humayun Kabir | 2023-09-20 00:00:00
The genesis of the contemplation of writing this article dates to December 2001 at a dinner gathering at Kurmitola Army Club. While introducing me to his friends Col (Rtd) Jafar Imam (Bir Bikram) said, "This is my brother-in-law, Dr Abdullah...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-09-19 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) plans to conduct the first trial run of a train on the newly constructed Dohazari-Cox's Bazar track in mid-October, with the target of officially opening the over 100-kilometre corridor by the end of the month.This will...
SYFUL ISLAM, back from Mirsarai, Chattogram | 2023-09-19 00:00:00
With all facilities readied for the setting up of factories, the authority of the Mirsarai Economic Zone is expecting an 'investment shower' soon in the industrial district, which spans 33,800 acres of land.The EZ has been established with a target...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-09-19 00:00:00
Deposit gains of nontaxable low-income people are even being taxed for enforcement puzzles of the new law that yield revenue growth and depress savings.Kulsum Banu, a part-time domestic help in Dhaka's Shantinagar area, is one who gets in the toils...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-09-19 00:00:00
DBH Finance has decided to raise Tk 5.50 billion by issuing bonds to finance affordable housing against the backdrop of a rise in deposit rates. With the money, it seeks to tap into the demand for home loans among the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-09-19 00:00:00
The operators of the essentials market do not seem to have responded to the commerce minister's directive in the expected way. For the prices of three essential commodities, namely, potato, the local variety of onion and egg were fixed at...
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