Jamaluddin Ahmed in the first of a four-part article | 2017-02-08 00:00:00
Prior to 1990s, stock exchanges all over the world used to operate as mutual organisations. In early 1990s, these started to undertake major organisational and operational changes. One of the most noted changes was the trend towards demutualisation. The demutualisation...
Ismail Hossain | 2017-02-07 00:00:00
The Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) has taken a move to define micro enterprises as part of its plan to promote selective microcredit clients and help them graduate to micro entrepreneurs. The regulator formed a committee, headed by an MRA director,...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-02-07 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has taken an initiative to involve government ministries in its ongoing efforts to ensure favourable investment climate in the country, officials said. As part of its initiatives, the BIDA sat with the ministry of...
Ismail Hossain | 2017-02-07 00:00:00
The Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) has taken a move to define micro enterprises as part of its plan to promote selective microcredit clients and help them graduate to micro entrepreneurs. The regulator formed a committee, headed by an MRA director,...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-02-07 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has taken an initiative to involve government ministries in its ongoing efforts to ensure favourable investment climate in the country, officials said. As part of its initiatives, the BIDA sat with the ministry of...
Kate Mayberry of BBC explores this changing demographic trend | 2017-02-07 00:00:00
Wan Norafli Razali leaves the restaurant and strolls around to the left-hand side of his car to open the door. Then he remembers. He's back home in Malaysia and the driver's seat is on the other side. "See," he chuckles....
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury in the third part of a series titled President Obama's two terms in office | 2017-02-07 00:00:00
US-EGYPT: The United States maintained cordial relations with Egypt for decades despite the latter having abysmal records of human rights. According to the Human Rights Watch Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has presided over the most serious human rights crisis...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-02-07 00:00:00
There are a number of studies on labour market and employment of Bangladesh but very few of these focus on the dynamics of female labour market participation in Bangladesh. A research of this kind warrants attention for several reasons. First,...
Siddique Islam | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
Top 20 remittance-recipient banks proposed to meet their commission on maximum US$200 inward remittance from their own CSR funds instead of deducting it from the remitter's money. Such waiver of commission on small amounts of remittance, they think, will encourage...
Munima Sultana | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
A 1909-strong organogram has been approved for the country's maiden metro-rail company, which is seen bigger by any available standards, including that of India. Sources said per-kilometre manpower for the 20-kilometre metro rail has been approved to be 95.45 against...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
The government is set to approve a project for building infrastructure for the proposed Chinese Economic and Industrial Zone (CEIZ) at Anwara in Chittagong this week, officials said. The zone will be built under the Chinese government soft loan of...
Clare Baldwin and Manuel Mogato of Reuters in Manila | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
The Philippines' Catholic Church assailed President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs for creating a "reign of terror" among the poor, in sermons read out at Saturday services that will be repeated to congregations across the country. In its most strongly...
Stephen Starr of Al Jazeera in Nahr al-Bared camp, Lebanon | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
Souafa Abbas has lived in a temporary shelter in Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, since 2009, after the camp was levelled in clashes between the Lebanese army and Islamist fighters two years earlier. "It's a boring...
Saleh Akram | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
As Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen points out, economic growth is only one aspect of the process of economic development. Other economists are also of the view that economic growth and economic development are not synonymous although the former is...
Neil Ray | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
Two pictures of an upazila chairman and a donor of school land walking on human bridges formed by students of two schools -- one in Chandpur and another in Jamalpur -- have gone viral on the social media. Both the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
The country's major trade bodies of late have been making strong pleas to the policymakers to improve infrastructures and do the needful for reducing the cost of doing businesses in all possible ways. They have reasons to do so. The...
M. A. Taslim | 2017-02-06 00:00:00
Some people of Bangladesh are happy that Donald Trump has made it to the White House. Many of them belong to the business community and to those allied to them. One of the reasons for their support of Trump seems...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-02-05 00:00:00
The national anti-graft body recommends allowing unaccounted- for money to be invested in flats or lands under a legal measure 'once for all'. In giving such a view the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) noted that granting legal cover to such undisclosed...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2017-02-05 00:00:00
The import of reconditioned cars has increased by around 15 per cent in the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY), 2016-17, over the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, importers have said. Some 7,455 reconditioned cars were...
Saleque Sufi | 2017-02-05 00:00:00
Japanese development partner JICA-assisted Matabari Coal-Fired Power Generation Project is finally on a roll again. Some uncertainties were created in the financing and implementation of the project following the unholy incident of Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan. But strong actions...
Syful Islam | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
A joint feasibility study on a bilateral free-trade area (FTA) between Bangladesh and China has yet to begin even after the lapse of three and a half months of signing an accord. The two nations signed the Memorandum of Understanding...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
The government is mulling installation of a multimode surveillance system (MSS) at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on its own instead of proposed PPP arrangement, officials said. To this effect, a proposal will be placed at the next meeting of...
Munima Sultana | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh Railway has proposed two projects to get fund from the 3rd line of credit (LoC), which India has recently proposed to Bangladesh. The projects are Monsur Ali station at Sirajganj (next to Bangabandhu Bridge) to Bogra dual-gauge track development...
Scott Bridges of Al jazeera | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
On January 14 came the surprising announcement that Al Jazeera America (AJAM), the not even three-year-old US news franchise of the Arab media giant, was shutting down. Come April this year, up to 800 journalists may be looking for work...
Antoni Slodkowski of Reuters at Thengar Char, Bangladesh | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
The island is two hours by boat from the nearest settlement. There are no buildings, mobile phone reception or people. During the monsoon it often floods and, when the seas are calm, pirates roam nearby waters hunting for fishermen to...
Babul Barman | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
Stocks tumbled last week that ended on Thursday, snapping a 13-week winning spell, as worried investors booked quick-profit on large-cap stocks. Analysts said the market faced a major setback as investors sharply retorted to the monetary policy statement (MPS) which...
Md Sayed Mofidul Babu | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
Halima Begum, a married woman in her early thirties in Rangpur, was passing her days in extreme poverty even few years ago. Married to one Mokhlesar Rahman of Kafrikhal Baluapara village under Mithapukur Upazila of the district, she said, "It...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
At a time when a common practice is to take life, it was a rare act of courage and sacrifice. An employee at the bottom of the railway hierarchy gave away his life in order to save a woman and...
Mohammad Ishaq Dar concluding his article on Pakistan's public debt management | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
THE BURDEN OF PUBLIC EXTERNAL DEBT HAS FALLEN: Some analysts are often misquoting the level of public external debt in media as US$73 billion. They lump together public debt with private debt, which includes foreign exchange borrowings of banks as...
Mohamed A. El-Erian in Laguna Beach | 2017-02-04 00:00:00
The retreat of the advanced economies from the global economy - and, in the case of the United Kingdom, from regional trading arrangements - has received a lot of attention lately. At a time when the global economy's underlying structures...
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