Munima Sultana | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
Half the container service of Bangladesh Railway (BR) remains unused for uniformed apathy of traders in transporting cargos by train, claimed to be cheapest and safest mode of haulage. BR authorities said the state-owned train operator has provided the latest...
Siddique Islam | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
The country's import grew by 14.58 per cent in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY) mainly due to increased purchase of capital machinery, officials said. The actual import in terms of settlement of letters of credit...
Ji Peijuan from People's Daily | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a State visit to Switzerland and attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) on 17th January. Switzerland has always taken the lead in developing bilateral ties with China, more so than many other European or...
Swati Sanyal Tarafdar of Al Jazeera in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
The complete 32-volume set of Encyclopedia Britannica lay strewn over the book counter at Dhananjay Pandey's stall at the Vijayawada Book Festival. Pandey, owner of the Pratik Book Centre in Mumbai, notes that the printing of this enormous collection was...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
As described by the CNN in a recent report, popular but politically humbled, Barack Obama leaves the White House as the President of the world's number one superpower and the richest country, the United States, on January 20 next. And...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
If anything, it is a multi-dimensional textbook imbroglio this time. First, a decision has already been taken to reduce the number of textbooks for students of class VI, VII and VIII from 14 to nine from 2019. This is only...
Shamsul Alam in the second of a three-part article on SDG implementation | 2017-01-13 00:00:00
The government of Bangladesh has done the exercise of SDG Data Gap Analysis with the assistance of all data-generating agencies including the National Statistical Organisation (NSO) of Bangladesh viz. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). The study reveals that of 230...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-01-12 00:00:00
A joint hunt has been launched by income tax (IT) and VAT wings of the revenue board for netting new income taxpayers and detecting businesses ducking out of VAT registration across the country. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has...
Siddique Islam | 2017-01-12 00:00:00
The central bank cut down transaction ceiling on mobile banking to check illegal financial operations through misusing the quick-fire mobile financial services (MFS). Under the restricted provisions, daily maximum transaction limit on cash-in came down to Tk 15,000 from Tk...
FE Special | 2017-01-12 00:00:00
Preneur Lab and Edward M. Kennedy (EMK) centre co-organised another roundtable discussion of CXO Hub on ‘Startup Investment Stories’ on January 07 evening at EMK centre premises in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. The event brought together different stakeholders of the startup ecosystem....
Iqbal siddiquee | 2017-01-12 00:00:00
SYLHET, Jan 11: An early flood control and irrigation project for six low-lying districts, the haor region, is about to get another two-year extension. With a target to save 289,000 hectares in about 52 haors in Sunamganj, Sylhet, Habiganj, Moulvibazar,...
Pamelia Khaled | 2017-01-12 00:00:00
Use of language in Bangladesh school textbooks is spurring battles across the country. The nation is divided on school textbooks that were distributed recently to school students all over the country. Teachers, educators, parents, social groups and lawmakers are protesting...
Saleh Akram | 2017-01-12 00:00:00
Air pollution is a global phenomenon. The two major sources of air pollution in Bangladesh, e.g., vehicular emissions and industrial emissions are mainly concentrated in cities. Moreover, in order to accommodate the growing population, high-rise structures are being constructed and...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-01-12 00:00:00
International trade of Bangladesh has passed another year of buoyancy against the backdrop of global slowdown as well as some internal shocks. Sluggish global demand was particularly a matter of concern for external trade. Overall export earnings in 12 months...
Shamsul Alam in the first of a three-part article on SDG implementation | 2017-01-12 00:00:00
It is well recognised that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are all inter-connected in a system. We cannot aim to achieve just one Goal. Rather we have to achieve all of them, which are called the characteristics of 'integration'. However,...
Syful Islam | 2017-01-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh is likely to ink a deal with Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) for paving the way for duty-free access to the Russian market and exploring untapped export potential in East European markets, officials said. The ministry of commerce (MoC) recently...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-01-11 00:00:00
A task force constituted by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to visit some 15 organisations in the capital aiming to detect tax evasion by their foreign workers through concealment of their actual incomes. Employers of the companies...
Siddique Islam | 2017-01-11 00:00:00
The Bangladesh currency depreciated maximum six paisa against the US dollar in a single-day knock Tuesday, after nearly two weeks' interval. According to treasury officials of commercial banks, the dollar was quoted at Tk 78.70-Tk 78.76 on the inter-bank foreign...
Munima Sultana | 2017-01-11 00:00:00
The government is set to raise the project cost of third Shitalakhya Bridge again following the quoting of different higher expenses than estimated. Sources said Chinese company Sinohydro won the work to construct a third bridge over river Shitalakhya against...
Omid Khazani of Al Jazeera in Tehran | 2017-01-11 00:00:00
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran who died on Sunday evening at the age of 82, was an exceptional figure in the history of the Islamic Republic, and his death has left Iran's moderates orphaned before the forthcoming...
Paul Carrel, Gernot Heller and Arno Schuetze of Reuters in Berlin/Frankfurt | 2017-01-11 00:00:00
Germany is reviewing its powers to block foreign acquisitions after a spate of Chinese takeovers, but the government's commitment to free trade beats its concerns about haemorrhaging strategic technologies and will limit any changes. A more hostile German tone towards...
Muhammad Iqbal Hossain and Alauddin Mohammad | 2017-01-11 00:00:00
"Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies."-- Joseph Stiglitz Bangladesh, a 'paradox' in development literature, is the second fastest growing economy, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The country has reached the magic 7...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2017-01-11 00:00:00
The new Gregorian calendar year is showing some signs of a new geopolitical equation to deal with the American-backed Afghan civil war and the six-year-long Syrian crisis which have defied solution until now. While the ceasefire in Syrian civil war...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
The liability to foreign loans of the national flag carrier, Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBA), has swelled to about US$ 592 million (more or less Tk 46.77 billion) due to its poor operational performance, sources said. The state-owned airlines owe the...
Ismail Hossain | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
A move is underway to impose US$ 1,00,000 daily fine on JLEPCL-DCL-JV, a Chinese company responsible for building and operating central effluent treatment plant (CETP) at the newly-established Savar Tannery Estate, for releasing untreated tannery wastes to the river Dhaleshwari....
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
A proposed sale and purchase agreement (SPA) on drilling offshore Magnama structure in the Bay of Bengal is scheduled to be placed at a cabinet body meeting tomorrow (Wednesday), officials said. Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex) and...
Mohammad Wazed Ali, back from Tangail and Habiganj | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
Cultivation of cassava, popularly known as 'Shimul Alu', is getting popular among the farmers as demand grows for producing starch used in food processing and pharmaceuticals. Starch is a carbohydrate which is a major form of stored energy in plants,...
Frankie Taggart of AFP in Los Angeles | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep berated President-elect Donald Trump for his divisive rhetoric as she received a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes on Sunday. The 67-year-old fought to control her emotions as she received a standing ovation during...
Celine Aswad of Reuters in Dubai | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
Saudi Arabia hopes its plan to bring a further 1.3 million women into the workforce by 2030 will be given a lift from ride-hailing apps Uber and Dubai-based rival Careem. The cars, which the government says should only be driven...
M. Serajul Islam | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
The New Zealanders reversed the 4-0 whitewash by Bangladesh on its 2011 visit to the country in the 50-50 series by whitewashing Bangladesh 3-0 in the same format on its current visit to their country. On the last day of...
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