F R Chowdhury from London | 2016-01-16 00:00:00
To the best of my knowledge, seafaring is perhaps the only profession where nationality is normally not a barrier. Ships built in China or Korea may have been financed by Hong Kong banks for owners in Norway or United States....
Ajoy Paul | 2016-01-16 00:00:00
A few days ago, I was coming back home from office. On the way, I saw a rickshaw loaded with goods lying behind the road of Dholaikhal because one of its rings fell into a manhole. The healthy rickshaw puller...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-01-16 00:00:00
What are the ingredients of fairness cream? Certainly not wheat and chalk. It was exactly the things a manufacturer was clandestinely using for packaging in empty tubes of different reputed brands. Similarly shampoo containers of different brands were filled with...
Rezaul Hannan Mithun | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh defeated Zimbabwe by four wickets in the first Twenty20 match of the four-match series in Khulna city on Friday evening. Brief scores: Zimbabwe 163/7 v Bangladesh 166/6 (18.4/20 ov) Bangladesh won by 4 wickets (with 8 balls remaining) Zimbabwe...
Munima Sultana | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
Japan is likely to release second phase of its Yen assistance equivalent to US$1.5 billion for the metro rail project in next official development assistance (ODA) package. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has already enlisted the Dhaka Mass Rapid...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to establish five special tax zones to oversee collection of tax at source in a bid to check revenue leakage from the potential sector that contributes 57 per cent of the total...
Siddique Islam | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
The central bank has identified surging domestic demand as a new engine of Bangladesh's economic growth. "We're supporting both engines - export and domestic demand -for achieving maximum economic growth," Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Dr Atiur Rahman said while replying...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
The lack of members of law-enforcement agencies is hampering the kitchen market monitoring, thus leading to price hike in essentials. Presently, the monitoring committee does not get support from the members of law-enforcement agencies for monitoring the price of essential...
writes Bayezid Dawla reviewing it | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
A 'Secret of a War Baby' is a novel with a deconstructive title that puzzles the readers with an overwhelming irony. What is the secret? The dramatic tension informed by the title does not release readers until the end. Novelist...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
A Mail Online story on Stephen Hawking has given an insight into the elan vital of the greatest ever --one who is physically too challenged to be a specially built wheelchair-bound --scientist since Einstein. What keeps the exceptionally gifted brain...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
Public University teachers have launched strong protests for upholding their status that they believe was deliberately relegated through the publication of the gazette in connection with the new pay scale. They have started work stoppage. They are not taking classes....
Sharjil Haque | 2016-01-15 00:00:00
Most international organisations, which carry out periodic macroeconomic analysis on Bangladesh, are fairly optimistic about the country's growth prospects this year. The general consensus is that increased public sector investment in infrastructure development, government employees' wage hike and steady export...
Siddique Islam | 2016-01-14 00:00:00
The central bank appointed an observer to Farmers Bank Limited (FBL) to monitor its operations closely and help improve its financial health, officials said. Such corrective step came following probe findings on the new private bank's lending faults and information...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-01-14 00:00:00
Finance minister AMA Muhith has turned down a proposal for widening tax benefit for investors and developers of the hi-tech park. His rejection came after the ministry of post, telecommunication and ICT recently requested the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
Arun Jaitley | 2016-01-14 00:00:00
Today more than ever, to paraphrase the poet John Donne, “no country is an island entire of itself”. India, too, has recognised this, becoming fully integrated into the world economy by way of trade in goods and services, as well...
writes Sharjil Haque in the first of his two-part article | 2016-01-14 00:00:00
We are again close to that time of the year when the central bank will announce a new monetary policy. We all know that the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has termed its monetary policy in recent times as 'accommodative' and 'growth-supportive'...
FE Special | 2016-01-14 00:00:00
Ateam from University of Dhaka, representing Bangladesh, became the first runner-up at International Convention on Students' Quality Control Circles held in Lucknow, India from 2nd to 5th December, 2015. The convention strongly underlined the need to empower the students so...
writes Jamaluddin Ahmed in the concluding instalment of the three-part series | 2016-01-14 00:00:00
The fifth version of the bureaucrat vs. bureaucrat type of politics is when reform disrupts the balance of power within the organisation or within the sphere of power in policy-making. This could be the competition between old bureaucrats and new...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-01-14 00:00:00
The trend of investment in the country continued to remain sluggish last year despite political stability - a key factor congenial to investment. This is the general conclusion in various analyses and reviews on the country's economic scenario in 2015....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-01-13 00:00:00
The Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (ICT) can be cited as the latest example of how whims, more than reasons, often come into play in taking up public sector development projects. More than 26 months after its formal launch, the government...
Munima Sultana | 2016-01-13 00:00:00
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader rejected a recent study findings on the number of last year's road accidents in the country, terming it 'baseless', as it was contradictory to national and international figures. "What is the basis of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-01-13 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) moves to examine authenticity of SIM replacement by four mobile-phone operators in a bid to check tax evasion, as a big amount already remained tucked under disputes. Officials said the Value Added Tax (VAT)...
Klaus Schwab in Geneva | 2016-01-13 00:00:00
Of the myriad challenges the world faces today, perhaps the most overwhelming is how to shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution that began at the turn of the century. New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds...
Syful Islam | 2016-01-13 00:00:00
China's Exim Bank has offered to finance procurement of four more ships for Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) which is hamstrung by shortage of necessary vessels amid growing shipment, officials said. The BSC is almost in the final stage of preparation...
writes Jamaluddin Ahmed in the second of the three-part series | 2016-01-13 00:00:00
There are constant games of bureaucratic politics among a handful of central agencies in the area of administrative reform. These contestations usually occur among the agency responsible for financial issues or the budget, the agency responsible for human resources management...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-01-13 00:00:00
Poverty can both be persistent or short-lived adducible to structural or temporary factors respectively. Persistent or long-term poverty implies a state of poverty that persists for a longer period of time. It is mainly fuelled by structural problems. On the...
M Jalal Hussain | 2016-01-13 00:00:00
The sustainability of the world economy depends mostly on the demand and supply of energy. The oil industry which supplies more than sixty five per cent of world energy consumption faces major ups and downs, and currently it is in...
Syful Islam | 2016-01-12 00:00:00
The government provided last week details to the UN Security Council (UNSC) about three North Korean vessels which were brought to Bangladesh for dismantling, officials said. The three vessels, namely MV Great Hope, MV Ocean Galaxy, and Ocean Dawning are...
Siddique Islam | 2016-01-12 00:00:00
The inter-bank call money rate has fallen sharply in 2015, as liquidity soared in the banks, the US-based Citibank NA Bangladesh said in its annual market update. The weighted average call money rate, which was at 8.57 per cent in...
Jin Liqun in Beijing | 2016-01-12 00:00:00
The historic launch of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in the coming weeks has been highly anticipated - and rightly so. With the start of operations, the AIIB will join the family of multilateral financial institutions in supporting broad-based...
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