Luna Shamsuddoha | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
Nisha Desai Biswal, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs in the outgoing Obama Administration, once famously said that South Asia is one of the least economically integrated regions with about 6.0 per cent of its...
Neil Ray | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
The traffic of Dhaka city has long earned the infamy of giving commuters a nightmarish time. On Thursday last, the regulators of traffic at Shahbagh and the intersections around it were perhaps determined to enter the city's name in the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
The stock market is in an upbeat mood. If not in terms of flow of investors, turnover and indices are indicative of a surge. Since the introduction of new indices on January 28, 2013, the general index at the Dhaka...
Mohammad Nahian Mursalin | 2017-01-16 00:00:00
Of the four macroeconomic accounts, balance of payment is critically important, next to monetary and fiscal account. It is a well-recognised term since it is widely used as an indicator of economic growth and also reflects the state of the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
A new 'tax-benefit policy' now in the offing would deny revenue defaulters the state facility of tax waiver, officials said. They said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has made the move to frame the policy to filter the tax-benefit...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh will request Cambodia to strengthen bilateral trade and investment during this month's business promotion meeting in Phnom Penh, officials said. The two countries approved a trade and investment agreement and granted each other the most-favoured nation status in 2006....
Potato cultivation faces serious attack in Rangpur | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
iqbal1527@hotmail.com | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
SYLHET, Jan 14: The Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) has been implementing a programme to supply electricity in the rural areas of four districts of Sylhet division and the adjoining Brahmanbaria district under a countrywide special project titled '1.8 Million...
People's Daily | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming state visit to Switzerland, which will be his first overseas trip in 2017 and first visit to the country by a Chinese President in the 21st century, will help open a new chapter in bilateral...
Tim Smedley of BBC | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
For three days in March 2016, 10 London pigeons became famous. Seeing pigeons take to the sky from Primrose Hill in north London was not unusual in itself. But these pigeons were wearing backpacks. And the backpacks were monitoring air...
Saleh Akram | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
Financial literacy is about making people financially literate aimed at enabling them to manage their finance adeptly and making their decisions judiciously. The significance of financial literacy can hardly be overemphasized particularly at a time when policy-makers and planners alike...
Li Yan and Bai Yang | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
The World Bank forecasts a 2.7 per cent growth for world economy and 6.5 per cent growth for China's in 2017, according to the organization's latest World Economic Prospects on January 10. Experts believe that Chinese economy will achieve a...
Paola Subacchi in London | 2017-01-15 00:00:00
Is the economics profession "in crisis"? Many policymakers, such as Andy Haldane, the Bank of England's chief economist, believe that it is. Indeed, a decade ago, economists failed to see a massive storm on the horizon, until it culminated in...
Syful Islam | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
Land ports on the country's borders are found sinking in problems, especially for poor infrastructure, absence of banking facility, corrupt practices by members of various agencies and lack of coordination, according to a latest report. It says people using the...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
The government has reduced the urea use target for the fiscal year (FY) 2016-17 due to growing use of diammonium phosphate (DAP) and muriate of potash (MOP) in farming, officials said. The government had set the target at 2.7 million...
Ismail Hossain | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
Sales of motorcycles rose by 15 per cent to 20 per cent and prices went down by around 15 per cent last month as major importers are registering themselves as 'progressive manufacturers' to enjoy 20 per cent tax waiver. Sources...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
The Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF-2017) drew a huge number of visitors on Friday, the second weekend after the beginning of the country's biggest trade exposition. People from all strata, especially youths and women, thronged the annual fair to spend...
Babul Barman | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
Stocks witnessed yet another bullish week, extending the gaining spell for the eleven weeks in a row, as enthusiastic investors continued their buying spree on large-cap stocks. Following the consistent rally, DSEX, the prime index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSEX),...
Abdul Hannan | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
We six friends - Jamil Mazid, Tazul, Jamal Khan, Yasin and Bashar - were returning to Dhaka after spending a three-day vacation at a tea garden in Moulavibazar. Jamil Mazid wished that our vacation would be wonderful if we could...
Prof. Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
It has been observed after six months of the deadline set by the government that nearly 90 per cent of the brick-makers have not updated their production process in keeping with new environmental regulations on fuel, location and use of...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in his famous poem, "Ode to the West Wind" writes, O, Wind/ If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? By this he actually presents the contrasts of conditions and situations man faces throughout his...
Ali Abu Maryam of Al Jazeera in London | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
There is something conspicuously selfish about the generational behaviour of people. On the atomic level, we, as parents, are willing to give everything to our children and we dedicate our lives to their well-being and happiness. We are not familiar,...
Geeta Pandey of BBC in Delhi | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
Ten years ago, India was gripped by serial murders in Noida, a wealthy suburb of the capital Delhi, where at least 19 children and women were raped and killed. Businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, in whose house the murders took place,...
Nick Perry of AFP in Sungai Liat, Indonesia | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
Deep beneath the murky ocean, Paci breathes through a thin plastic tube as he dredges the seabed for tin, a vital component inside smartphones and tablets that's brought riches and ruin to his island home. One-third of the world's tin...
Hussain Imam and Ghulam M Suhrawardy | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
The eleventh annual meeting of the Alumni Association of Bangladesh Marine Academy, popularly known as Juldia Marine Academy, was held at ARAAZ convention hall at Rapa Plaza, Dhanmondi, Dhaka on January 2, 2017. It was well attended by the alumni...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
In rural Bangladesh, mobility of farmers between farm and non-farm activities has increased. This mobility is from farms to non-farms and not the other way round. As far as primary occupation is concerned, the proportion of cultivators has declined substantially...
Saleh Akram | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
Use of polythene paper and bags were banned in the country by laws a few years ago. There was a marked improvement immediately afterwards and it prompted a mercurial rise in use of paper as packing materials. Polythene with a...
Shamsul Alam concluding a three-part article on SDG implementation | 2017-01-14 00:00:00
Through the current 7th Five Year Plan 2016-2020, the government of Bangladesh has begun the journey of sustainable development goals (SDGs) as a 'whole of government' approach, which includes health as a prominent sector. The subsequent two Five Year Plans...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
Income tax collection faced an aggregate shortfall of Tk 26.51 billion against its target until November of the current fiscal year (FY) mainly due to sluggish trend in corporate tax collection from commercial banks, poor bank interest rates and downward...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
The number of pending proposals to float open-end mutual funds (MFs) has increased substantially with such MFs more popular than the closed-end ones, according to the officials and experts. The officials of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) said a...
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