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...
Ferdaus Ara Begum concluding her two-part article | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
Since the last few years, the NBR's tax target has been increasing exponentially. The principles of fixing the targets on each category of taxes, i.e., income tax, import tax and VAT, are not sometimes well-discussed with the private sector before...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-01-10 00:00:00
In the realm of land management in rural Bangladesh, one important question often raised is how the farmers use the meagre amount of land that they have, and what factors determine their decisions about which crops to grow and on...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-01-09 00:00:00
The government has started an initiative to introduce CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) guidelines for organisations to spend a portion of their profit on social activities under certain bindings, officials said. They said Finance Minister AMA Muhith has directed the bank...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-01-09 00:00:00
The government has started preparing the draft trade facilitation agreement (TFA) to submit it to BIMSTEC, proposing duty-free market access to the member countries of the regional group, officials said. To prepare the draft agreement, a committee has been formed...
Sayed Mofidul Babu | 2017-01-09 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Jan 08: Farmers of Kawnia upazila in the district are expecting to produce around 16 tonnes of peanut seeds this season under the initiative of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) and Upazila Agriculture Office. Such new initiative has...
Arundhati Nath of Al Jazeera in Bangalore, India | 2017-01-09 00:00:00
Madhu Singhal started working with people with disabilities in the slums near her neighbourhood in the early 90s, helping them find education and professional training centres. With the help of hospitals and other organisations operating in the area, she initially...
Yara Bayoumy and Warren Strobel of Reuters in Washington | 2017-01-09 00:00:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an effort to help Republican Donald Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign, US intelligence agencies said in an assessment. Russia's objectives were to undermine public faith in the...
Ferdaus Ara Begum in the first of a two-part article | 2017-01-09 00:00:00
Widening of tax net is one of the most discussed and debated issues in Bangladesh. It is a fact that while Bangladesh is aspiring to graduate from the present level of the economy to the status of Middle-Income Country and...
Neil Ray | 2017-01-09 00:00:00
It may not be a police state but at times a section of the law enforcers gives the impression that it is, by all means, one. There is a long list of wayward behaviours by the men in uniform. In...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-01-09 00:00:00
The current account deficit during the first five months of the current financial year (FY) reached a record level, in monetary terms, in the country's history. It was $726 million during the period under review, official statistics show. Such a...
Munima Sultana | 2017-01-08 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has proposed to conduct study on numerous metro rails along different corridors of Dhaka city that reels from perennial traffic chaos. Officials said the needs study will be based on the findings in revised strategic...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-01-08 00:00:00
Bangladesh will negotiate with India for a review of the latter's decision to impose anti-dumping duty on jute and jute goods. The Indian government imposed the duty on Thursday last on jute products being exported from Bangladesh and Nepal. However,...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2017-01-08 00:00:00
Some factors, including rise in portfolio investment and the government's policy supports, have given an impetus to the country's capital market in the recent times, experts and stakeholders said. Besides, gradual cut in bank deposit rates, some large transactions in...
Dai Lina | 2017-01-08 00:00:00
The US has always presented itself as a model in terms of democracy and freedom of the press. It not only points fingers at other country with different systems, but also interferes in their internal affairs. However, does the so-called...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2017-01-08 00:00:00
Every literate person knows that the relation between inflation and cost of living is positive, when the former rises the latter follows in on the heel. This is particularly so when the increase is in the consumer price index that...
Syful Islam | 2017-01-07 00:00:00
The government has agreed to provide state counter-guarantee tied with tough strings for Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) to borrow US$50 million from ITFC to import fuel oils, officials said. Under one of the four conditions binding the surety, the state-run...
Gracia Fellmeth of BBC | 2017-01-07 00:00:00
After an hour's bus journey through forest from the town of Mae Sot, Mae La appears suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere. In the morning mist, thousands of bamboo huts cling to steep limestone crags. It is the largest of nine...
Sunaina Kumar of Al Jazeera in Srinagar | 2017-01-07 00:00:00
On a wintry November morning in Srinagar, the largest city in Indian-administered Kashmir, Mohammad Abdullah sits on the carpeted floor in his living room, with a black and white portrait of his father, Haji Abdullah Karem, hanging on the wall....
Babul Barman | 2017-01-07 00:00:00
Stocks extended their winning spell for the 10th straight week that ended on Thursday, the first week of 2017, as enthusiastic investors continued their buying spree on large-cap stocks. Analysts said the upbeat trend sustained having optimistic support of some...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2017-01-07 00:00:00
Foreign drugs are entering the country's local markets through informal channels due to lax monitoring and supervision, insiders have said. According to them, though authorised agencies are allowed by the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) to import only registered...
Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath, and Oleg Itskhoki in Cambridge | 2017-01-07 00:00:00
Now that Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States and Republicans control both houses of Congress, corporate tax reform is coming to America. The package currently being discussed includes two important features: a cut in the tax...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-01-07 00:00:00
A mild tremor, measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale, shook Bangladesh along with neighbouring Myanmar and some north-eastern states of India Tuesday afternoon. Two people, including a school girl, were panicked to death in Sunamganj district. Tuesday's earthquake had its...
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