Neil Ray | 2017-02-13 00:00:00
Muggers are on the prowl with malevolent intention. For quite sometime they remained inactive. Now these criminal gangs seem to have stepped up their activity with renewed vigour. In the past week alone muggers carried out three operations -all in...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-02-13 00:00:00
That the majority will get less and the minority more has become more of a rule in this part of the world. This is proved to be true in the distribution of subsidised farm inputs and disbursement of loans among...
Munima Sultana | 2017-02-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh Railway reels from dilemmas with its nine ongoing and new study projects pending with the Planning Commission for long awaiting approval, officials said. They said many of these projects have been pending for over six months although the project-evaluation...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-02-12 00:00:00
Government revenue receipts in July-November period amounted to Tk 639.20 billion, 8.11 per cent short of the target for the period by official count. The target was Tk 695.64 billion for this period of first five months of the current...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-02-12 00:00:00
Despite a lot of tension over the future of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the relevance of the regional grouping still exists and it will continue to do so. Commerce minister of Nepal Mr Romi Gauchan Thakali...
Jamaluddin Ahmed concluding a four-part article titled Economic rationale of stock exchange demutualisation | 2017-02-12 00:00:00
Good corporate governance should provide proper incentives for the board and management to pursue objectives that are in the interests of the company and its shareholders and should facilitate effective monitoring (OECD, 2004). European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-02-12 00:00:00
Belated though, perhaps an enquiry into the performance of the Bangladesh economy for the year that passed would not be out of tune. Normally an economy like that of Bangladesh is forced to pass through a set of shocks and...
Richard Baldwin in London | 2017-02-12 00:00:00
Donald Trump's ignominious executive order barring entry into the United States for refugees and others from seven predominantly Muslim countries has dominated headlines in recent weeks. But the damage done to America's image, and to the global economy, will only...
Richard Baldwin in London | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
Donald Trump's ignominious executive order barring entry into the United States for refugees and others from seven predominantly Muslim countries has dominated headlines in recent weeks. But the damage done to America's image, and to the global economy, will only...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
The government will review and re-fix soon the yield rates of different national savings certificates aiming to make them time-befitting, officials said. The finance minister in a letter on Tuesday last asked the senior secretary of the finance ministry to...
Syful Islam | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh will seek from the United Kingdom (UK) additional trade benefits after the latter's exit from the European Union (EU), officials said. Presently, Bangladeshi goods enjoy duty-free and quota-free market access to the UK under EU's Everything but Arms (EBA)...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
The ministry of commerce (MoC) will finalise a plan of action to boost exports from three sectors, officials said. The sectors are Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredients (API), renewable energy and jute products. To this effect, the MoC will hold a stakeholders'...
Babul Barman | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
Stocks returned to higher last week that ended Thursday, snapping a single-week downturn, as investors took position on some large-cap stocks amid optimism. Analysts said the market showed signs of recovery last week, having optimistic support of large-cap stocks, especially...
Special Correspondent | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
William, Steven and Caroline, three students from TianYi High School in WuXi, JiangSu, China visited Dhaka recently and were saddened to see the poverty-ridden life of the slum-dwellers. They came to Bangladesh during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday from...
Nasurl Hye Nizami | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
Nilratan Halder | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
Of the many festivities and social events held during the winter, flower show is one. Cities and even a few towns -not only the capital - now arrange flower shows. They pull a large crowd. Not necessarily all who visit...
John Tarduno and Vincent Hare of Al Jazeera | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
The Earth is blanketed by a magnetic field. It's what makes compasses point north, and protects our atmosphere from continual bombardment from space by charged particles such as protons. Without a magnetic field, our atmosphere would slowly be stripped away...
Jamaluddin Ahmed in the third of a four-part article titled Economic rationale of stock exchange demutualisation | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
The investor-stock exchange relationship has changed to seek better liquidity and services. Members' interests become increasingly divergent and benefits of the cooperative structure are greatly reduced. Another issue is the ability of the cooperative structure to raise new capital and...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
Despite 11 ultimatums, the Ministry of Industries has not succeeded in shifting tanneries from Hazaribagh. The last deadline has expired but raw hides are entering Hazaribagh as usual. Leather is being processed there. There is no police patrol for preventing...
Kemal Dervis in Washington, DC | 2017-02-11 00:00:00
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front, may be a charter member of what New America Senior Fellow Scott Malcomson calls the "Nationalist International." But she is not the only "maverick" who is polling well in the...
Siddique Islam | 2017-02-10 00:00:00
The country's overall trade deficit widened by 25 per cent or US$902 million in the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY) following higher growth of import payments than export earnings, officials said. The trade gap rose to...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-02-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh will send a draft proposal to Cambodia soon to form a joint trade commission (JTC) needed to boost bilateral trade and investment, officials said. They said the ministry of commerce (MoC) was now preparing a draft proposal for forming...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2017-02-10 00:00:00
Inequality is one of the key challenges of our time. Numerous studies conclude that in 2015 almost half of all household wealth was owned by 1 per cent of the global population (Crédit Suisse, 2015) and that the sixty-two richest...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-02-10 00:00:00
The month-long Ekushey book fair at the Bangla Academy has transcended from a modest promotion of creativity in print form into a national cultural surge centring around books. Hundreds of titles make their appearance on the occasion of this fair....
Anders Åslund in Moscow | 2017-02-10 00:00:00
After more than two years of economic contraction, Russia seems to have achieved some semblance of stability. Though economic growth is expected to reach only about 1.0 per cent in 2017, the fear of economic destabilisation that has permeated the...
Shamsul Alam | 2017-02-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh submitted its climate action plan called as Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) well in advance in September 2015. This was submitted for a new universal climate change agreement which is...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-02-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh's economy is likely to grow at the fastest rate after Vietnam and India in the next 34 years, according to the latest report of a global professional service network group. The country will maintain an average growth rate of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-02-09 00:00:00
Businesses will be exempt from depositing advance amounts of VAT for goods and services from July 01 next. The exemption will come into effect following enforcement of the new VAT law. Officials said the revenue board will abolish the provision...
Siddique Islam | 2017-02-09 00:00:00
The central bank has asked the commercial banks to maintain the interest rate spread below 5.0 per cent, without slashing the deposit rates, officials said. The banks have been advised to reduce the intermediation spread through improving management efficiencies, including...
Jamaluddin Ahmed in the second of a four-part article titled Economic rationale of stock exchange demutualisation | 2017-02-09 00:00:00
The decision to demutualise is initially undertaken because of several external and internal factors related to stock exchanges. While it is important to look at the external factors that may drive stock exchanges to demutualise, it is more important to...
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