Jessica DiNapoli and Lauren Hirsch of Reuters | 2017-01-06 00:00:00
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc and teen apparel store chain Forever 21 Inc are among the companies weighing offers to acquire bankrupt American Apparel LLC, people familiar with the talks said on Wednesday. The bankruptcy auction of Los Angeles-based American Apparel,...
Amelie Baron of AFP in Port-au-Prince | 2017-01-06 00:00:00
Jovenel Moise, a Haitian banana exporter who has never held political office, has survived the country's long-running electoral nightmare to become its next president. Moise's victory in the November 20 election, made official Tuesday by the Provisional Electoral Council, puts...
Olivia Alabaster of Al Jazeera in Beirut | 2017-01-06 00:00:00
In what could prove a victory for women's rights activists in Lebanon, a parliamentary committee recently recommended striking down a law that allows rapists' sentences to be commuted if they marry their victim. Although it is difficult to say how...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2017-01-06 00:00:00
Social scientists, specifically the anthropologists, conduct their researches in many ways, but the method most characteristic of the discipline is that of fieldworks based on 'participant observation'. This usually means spending a long period (a year or more) living as...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-01-06 00:00:00
A report prepared by the Nirapad Sarak Chai (NISACHA), a social campaign group, claims that the number of road accidents in 2016 came down to 2,316 from 2,626 in the year before it. The number of casualties also dropped to...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-01-06 00:00:00
According to Becker's household labour allocation model, each household member spends his/her total time in three ways: leisure, productive activity at home (non-market work producing utility) and productive activity outside (market work). Given a fixed time allowed for sleep and...
Harold James in Princeton | 2017-01-06 00:00:00
The past year will be remembered as a period of revolt against what US President-elect Donald Trump likes to call "globalism." Populist movements have targeted "experts" and "elites," who are now asking themselves what they could have done differently to...
Doulot akter Mala | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
All the income tax offices are getting armed with intelligence and investigation cell for the first time to deal with critical tax-related cases and detect tax-dodging offences through intensive scrutiny. Officials said a total of 31 field-level income tax zones...
FE Special | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
The Blue Gold Innovation Challenge (BGIC) launched its activities at a ceremony on December 18, 2016. It was held at Moar, Banani 11, Dhaka Bangladesh. The launching ceremony was attended by representatives from NGOs and entrepreneurs from all over Bangladesh....
Omer Fayshal Pavel | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
International conference on ‘Envisioning Our Common Future 2016’ was held on December 22 and December 23, 2016 with about 200 paper presenters and participants, 15 international registered delegates with more than 25 national and international professors and scientists. The conference...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
The government has prepared a draft of the proposed National Dairy Development Policy (NDDP) 2016, which is being formulated to help develop the sector in an organised manner. "We've prepared the draft. It will go to the cabinet anytime soon...
Babul Barman | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
The government revenue earnings from the Dhaka bourse marked 11 per cent rise in first half (July-December) of the current fiscal year (FY) compared to the same period a year ago, as trading volume was on the rise. Analysts said...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
The ICB Securities Trading Company Limited and ICB Capital Management Limited have decided to waive interests of around Tk 3.59 billion counted in margin accounts having negative equity, the officials said. Of these two companies, ICB Capital Management will exempt...
Ali Abu Maryam in Al Jazeera | 2017-01-05 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,...
Juliet Perry of CNN in Seoul | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
It's a bitterly cold, bleak day on a military base in South Korea. People are milling around calmly, clutching hot coffees, making small talk. Kids are chasing each other around an air hangar. It's hard to believe they are practicing...
M Serajul Islam | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
The New Zealanders retaliated the 4-0 whitewash by Bangladesh during its 2011 visit to the country in the 50-50 series by whitewashing Bangladesh 3-0 in the same format in its current tour of their country. On the last day of...
Emdadul Islam | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
It is usually heard that China is putting up the shutters on its textile mills and garment factories and as a result Bangladesh's industry is going to be flooded with business migrating from there. Some others think otherwise. They are...
Luciano Floridi in Oxford | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
Galileo viewed nature as a book written in the language of mathematics and decipherable through physics. His metaphor may have been a stretch for his milieu, but not for ours. Ours is a world of digits that must be read...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
Is Dhaka destined to remain congested or jammed forever? Does the city have any alternative to save the wasting hours trapped in the terrible traffic? These are the questions that have been haunting millions of city dwellers and commuters for...
Nironjan Roy from Toronto, Canada concluding his two-part article on interest rate | 2017-01-05 00:00:00
In our country interest rate on deposit is relatively very high and one of the reasons for high deposit rate is the government's deficit budget. Every year the government undertakes budget with substantial deficit financing and part of this huge...
Munima Sultana | 2017-01-04 00:00:00
Government agencies make-do with experts hired from one another in executing mega-projects in transport sector as the authorities overlooked one essential task -- raising a pool of skilled manpower. Sources pointed out that the departments and agencies under the Ministry...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-01-04 00:00:00
The Bangladesh passport is one of the least powerful ones in the world as its holders could travel only 37 countries without visa or visa on arrival. The list of the Global Passport Power Rank, prepared by Arton Capital, a...
Siddique Islam | 2017-01-04 00:00:00
The central bank of Bangladesh moves to import cash US dollar through a commercial bank to feed a growing demand for the greenback on the market. Officials said the disclosure was made at a meeting of bankers, held in the...
Selim Raihan and Wahid Ferdous Ibon | 2017-01-04 00:00:00
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the set of seventeen Global Goals, initiated by the United Nations as the 2030 global agenda for sustainable development. Whilst the SDGs have come as the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the successful...
Nironjan Roy from Toronto, Canada in the first of two-part article on interest rate | 2017-01-04 00:00:00
The financial turmoil of 2008 has introduced some new economic concepts and terminologies and among them, near zero per cent, zero per cent and negative interest rates are very popular concepts. Many countries in the developed world viz. Switzerland, Sweden...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-01-03 00:00:00
City's fairly large business establishments that are paying package VAT will be identified and asked to pay VAT (value added tax) at regular rates. Officials said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) recently started a move to collect names of...
Siddique Islam | 2017-01-03 00:00:00
Banking sector created some concerns, mainly for enervating spike in classified loans, in the first quarter (Q1) of this fiscal although country's overall economic activity gathered momentum. The central bank released the measure of macroeconomic conditions in its latest Bangladesh...
Md Shamsul Arefin | 2017-01-03 00:00:00
Corruption is not a new phenomenon. Two thousand years ago, Kautilya, the legendary philosopher and Prime Minister of the ancient Indian kingdom had written about corruption in his book Arthashastra. Seven centuries ago, poet Dante placed bribers in the deepest...
Bernard Haykel in Princeton | 2017-01-03 00:00:00
In 2017, Saudi Arabia will continue to pursue the two key goals that King Salman set when he acceded to the throne in January 2015: to reduce the economy's dependence on oil revenues and government spending; and to position the...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-01-03 00:00:00
Income is considered to be one of the most important determinants of livelihoods in a society. But it must also be admitted that ignoring distributional issues, the goal of increasing per-capita income alone does not ensure welfare for all. It...
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