Gulfam Tasnim | 2017-05-06 00:00:00
Malnutrition is one major challenge for Bangladesh to achieve the related sustainable development goal by 2030. The potentials of youths' engagement in addressing the nutrition-related challenges and encountering malnutrition in Bangladesh came into focus during the Nutrition Olympiad 2017, held...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-05-06 00:00:00
As the country is grappling with the shock from the knowledge that stent price is outrageously high here, three leading cardiologists of the world have come up with a controversial theory. Their contention, unlike the widely held one, is that...
Nabil Azam Dewan | 2017-05-06 00:00:00
Since the government implemented a ban on CNG-run auto-rickshaws and other slow-moving vehicles on the country's highways in 2015, many rural and suburban residents have been facing difficulties in their movement. They can use the autos on feeder roads up...
Asjadul Kibria from Yokohama | 2017-05-05 00:00:00
China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has already cast a shadow on the 50th annual meeting of Asian Development Bank (ADB) which started on Thursday in Yokohama, the port city of Japan. At the opening press conference of the 50th...
Syful Islam | 2017-05-05 00:00:00
The country's state-owned banks (SoBs) have moved to realise 1.0 per cent charge against various services they provide to the government, officials said. Since their establishment, the SoBs have been providing the services to the government free of charge. Now...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-05-05 00:00:00
The government has taken up a project to develop regions on both sides of the Padma River to help spur the economic growth, officials said. The project will be implemented with the financial support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB),...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-05-05 00:00:00
Nowhere is there in Bangladesh such a concentration of public hospitals, all being specialised except one, as it is in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. Starting with the Shaheed Suhrwardy Hospital, the only general one, there are the National Heart Institute (NHI), the...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-05-05 00:00:00
Ground water availability and, in consequence, access to irrigation in the dry season have much to do with the production of high yielding rice in the winter season that has bid a bye to low yielding traditional varieties. Irrigation, particularly...
Ismail Hossain | 2017-05-04 00:00:00
The Savar Tannery Estate authority is going to dump solid waste of tanneries in Amin Bazar landfill for the time-being as setting up of a sludge-based power plant for managing such wastes will take two more years. The estate authority...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-05-04 00:00:00
YOKOHAMA, (Japan) May 03: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to sit for a landmark meeting here today (Thursday) amid geopolitical tensions brewing at the backyard and protectionist waves sweeping the world over. A broiling geopolitical strain between the...
Special Correspondent, from Yokohama | 2017-05-04 00:00:00
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has voiced concern over Asia's future growth story amid rising water insecurity in the region, where demand for water would rise by 55 per cent by 2050. The regional development bank at a media briefing in...
Mohammad Wazed Ali, back from Bogra | 2017-05-04 00:00:00
Alauddin Belal has been running a light engineering workshop in the Railway Market of Bogra city for more than 30 years. He has been producing various kinds of engineering products, which have substantial demand in both local and international markets....
Md Saiful Islam | 2017-05-04 00:00:00
One of the most important implications of technological advancement in banking is that it has made distant customers come closer. Majority of banks are planning to introduce information communication technology (ICT) for integration of banking service and new financial service,...
M. Serajul Islam | 2017-05-04 00:00:00
President Donald J Trump's first 100 days were completed on April 27. During the campaign and while waiting the two months plus a few more days since winning the election for his inauguration, he promised a piece of hell to...
Munima Sultana | 2017-05-03 00:00:00
More than half of the budgetary allocation for the big foreign-funded projects in road transport sector is likely to remain unspent this fiscal year (FY) due to slow progress of their implementation, sources said. They said the progress was relatively...
Siddique Islam | 2017-05-03 00:00:00
The central bank has allowed commercial banks to issue 'Freelancer Card' having dual-currency units with features of being prepaid from abroad to facilitate transactions in the ICT (information and communication technology) sector. On receipt of the payment, up to eligible...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-05-03 00:00:00
A substantial amount of fund, ranging between 12 per cent and 17 per cent of its total trade value, had annually flown out of Bangladesh during last one decade, ending in December 2014, through trade misinvoicing and other illegal transfers. ...
Syful Islam | 2017-05-03 00:00:00
Freedom fighters are likely to get interest-free house-building loans keeping their government-provided monthly allowance lien to banks, officials said. In this case, the government will provide the interest amount to banks from its own coffer, considering their contribution to independence...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2017-05-03 00:00:00
With a surge in investment in the renewable energy sector within and outside, China has clearly targeted to lead the world in promoting non-fossil fuel based power production. Because of this and a few other related developments, the world has...
Anatole Kaletsky in London | 2017-05-03 00:00:00
The British election called by Prime Minister Theresa May for June 8 will transform the outlook for Britain's politics and its relationship with Europe, but not necessarily in the way that a vastly increased majority for May's Conservative Party might...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-05-01 00:00:00
A national minimum wage structure in the country is unlikely to be in place in the near future as both the policymakers and representatives of industries were indifferent in this regard. They argued against it as sector-wise minimum wage structures...
Siddique Islam | 2017-05-01 00:00:00
The central bank has advised the banks to fix rationally the exchange rate of local currency against the US dollar, officials and bankers said Sunday. The instruction was given at a review meeting on the recent foreign exchange market volatility...
Munima Sultana | 2017-05-01 00:00:00
Two foreign companies are set to get the city metro rail work despite their unsatisfactory performance in implementing two important infrastructure projects, sources said. The Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development (DMRTD) Project will sign agreements with the Sinohydro Corporation Limited...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2017-05-01 00:00:00
Of the country's total population, 127 million are workable. The government could provide nearly 1.0 per cent of its total population with employment in its existing setup. According to a recent report of the ministry of finance, about 58.1 million...
Shah Kamal Sohail | 2017-05-01 00:00:00
Standard of living, according to many economic scholars, is the single most significant indicator of economic performance of a nation. What generates the long-term upturn in standard of living is economic growth. In fact, economic growth is the most powerful...
Neil Ray | 2017-05-01 00:00:00
On rare occasions does a laundry worker or a salesman of a neighbourhood grocery opens up to confide in one of the customers belonging to a class higher than his/her own about the odds s/he has to struggle against. Workers...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-05-01 00:00:00
Today is the historic May Day or Labour Day. The day that represents the heroic struggle and supreme sacrifices of the workers in Chicago City of the USA to establish their right to eight-hour working day is being observed in...
Experts, civil society leaders say | 2017-04-30 00:00:00
FE Report Bangladesh should ensure accountability and citizens' participation to ensure quality education as the country is in a critical juncture in the context of sustainable development goal 4 on education, experts and civil society leaders told a programme Saturday....
Edward Jung in Bellevue, Washington | 2017-04-30 00:00:00
When business leaders get together to talk about innovating their industries, they typically focus on initiatives like improving government funding for basic research, or building technology hubs and incubators. But a crucial element of "innovation" is often absent from these...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2017-04-30 00:00:00
Jobs of an American president in the First 100 Days are the first few steps he undertakes to fulfill what he had promised before being elected. These first steps are the most important ones that initiate the direction the American...
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