Munima Sultana | 2016-12-19 00:00:00
The government agencies other than railway have continued to draw up plans for railway infrastructure development, putting billion-dollar investment projects like Jamuna bridge at stake. Analysts said due to such kind of railway plans, Jamuna bridge known as Bangabandhu bridge...
Shah Kamal Sohail | 2016-12-19 00:00:00
We have been exposed to two major economic models since the beginning of this century - Capitalism and Communism. Communism always intended to confront Capitalism by eliminating the latter's major pillar namely "Private Property" or "Corporations". And the rest is...
Shah Md Ahsan Habib in the first of a two-part article titled Effective approach for training and capacity development of bank executives | 2016-12-19 00:00:00
Bank executives need to be up-to-date in knowledge, skills and capacity to address the growing challenges of the banking industry. As the banking industry has been experiencing continuous change, training and capacity development programmes also demand continuous alteration and tuning....
Neil Ray | 2016-12-19 00:00:00
The murder of a Chinese businessman at Uposohor, Jessore could, once again, have brought to the fore the issue of security of life of foreigners in this country but for the nature of killing. Chang Hing Sang, an easybike dealer...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-12-19 00:00:00
The aggregate value of written-off loans in the country's banking sector is now over Tk 423 billion. The amount includes Tk11.20 billion written off during the first half of the current calendar year. Even a bigger amount of defaulted loans...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-12-18 00:00:00
About 28.65 per cent of the Tk 9.0-billion capital market refinancing fund remains unutilised due to poor response from the investors, affected during the 2010-11 stock market debacle, officials said. Despite repeated attempts the fund supervision committee and Investment Corporation...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-12-18 00:00:00
The distribution of cultivated land in different seasons appears to show that the aus season - spanning from March to August - has almost lost its historic importance. This is reflected by a drastic deceleration in the share of land...
Susan Leigh Anderson in Storrs, Connecticut, USA | 2016-12-18 00:00:00
The prospect of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a source of knotty ethical questions. But the focus has often been on how we, the creators, can and should use advanced robots. What is missing from the discussion is the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-12-16 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has instructed its field-level tax offices to compile a list of non-filer taxpayers who have submitted tax returns last year but yet to respond this year. Income tax wing recently forwarded letters to all...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-12-16 00:00:00
The size of economy does not necessarily reflect the vibrancy of a country. As such, despite the size of Pakistan's economy bigger than Bangladesh, the former significantly lags behind in many development indicators. According to the World Bank's estimate, Bangladesh...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-12-16 00:00:00
The government is set to hold the first-ever three-day tea exposition in January next year aiming to promote local tea by boosting production and its export, officials said. The event titled 'Bangladesh Tea Exposition-2017' will be held from January 12...
Munima Sultana | 2016-12-16 00:00:00
The government is set to issue a new note of Tk 5 denomination. With different colour than the existing ones in circulation, it is expected to be circulated next week, official sources said. It will have light blue shed in...
Rashedul Hasan Khan Pathan | 2016-12-16 00:00:00
It is well-nigh impossible to go to any place in Dhaka without delay. The problem of tailbacks started mounting long after the independence. Bangladesh has become a unitary state with Dhaka being its capital city. This city is a tiny...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-12-16 00:00:00
Never before had the Bangalees so great an occasion as the decisive victory in a war against the marauding Pakistani occupation army on this day 45 years ago. The history of this land and the subcontinent was rewritten with the...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-12-16 00:00:00
On December 16, 1971, Bangladesh became an independent nation-state at the cost of a 9-month long war for freedom, democracy, social justice and self reliance. Since independence, the densely populated country has swung between hope and despair, between mass apathy...
Munima Sultana | 2016-12-15 00:00:00
Running of trains over the Padma Bridge on the inaugural day has remained in doubt as the Bangladesh Railway (BR) is yet to start construction of the rail tracks due to absence of an accord with the Chinese EXIM Bank...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-12-15 00:00:00
Six Least Developed Countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh, are projected to graduate from their existing status by 2024, according to a latest report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Seven more LDCs might also come out of...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-12-15 00:00:00
The number of active beneficiary owner's (BO) accounts witnessed no significant rise in last six months due to 'reduced' opportunity for general IPO seekers after enhancement of quota for institutions and others, brokers said. Some stakeholders, however, termed the static...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-12-15 00:00:00
The government is set to increase variation contract price to over Tk 3.15 billion for setting up shock transmission unit (STU) and POT bearings of the Moghbazar- Mouchak flyover project, official said. The local government engineering division is going to...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-12-15 00:00:00
Businesses listed as cottage industry will continue to enjoy the VAT exemption even if they are located in Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation areas. The cottage industries will not require obtaining the VAT registration number on a mandatory basis irrespective...
Lu Yanan | 2016-12-15 00:00:00
China's industrial sector has finally emerged from a sluggish phase as the recent data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that the country's industrial profits rose 8.6 per cent in the first 10 months from the same...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2016-12-15 00:00:00
Biman is going from bad to worse. Technical difficulty in Prime Minister's flight to Budapest shows the condition in which Biman is operating. There are plenty of allegations against Biman. It is said that there is no chain of command...
Jim O'Neill in London | 2016-12-15 00:00:00
A few days ago, US President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter - his medium of choice - to declare that he did not need China's permission to contact Taiwan, because China didn't ask for permission to devalue its currency. At...
Siddique Islam | 2016-12-13 00:00:00
The country's overall import increased by more than 12 per cent or US$416.85 million in November over the previous month, mainly due to higher import of fuel oils and fertilisers, officials said. The actual import in terms of settlement of...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2016-12-13 00:00:00
He was my maternal grandfather, the grand old man of Feni - 'Jalal Sir'. All through my life, he had been my idol, my guru. Tall, slim and upright, and sporting a white pajama-panjabi and cap, I still remember watching...
M. Serajul Islam | 2016-12-13 00:00:00
The US Presidential election 2016 that elected Donald Trump as the 46th president of the country is a unique one in US history. It is not just that Donald Trump has got elected on an agenda that has made the...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-12-13 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, marketing of paddy is mostly done by medium and large landowning households. Nearly one-half of the total marketed paddy comes from 13 per cent of rural households (owning 1.0 ha and above). As against this, about 30 per...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2016-12-12 00:00:00
He was my maternal grandfather, the grand old man of Feni - 'Jalal Sir'. All through my life, he had been my idol, my guru. Tall, slim and upright, and sporting a white pajama-panjabi and cap, I still remember watching...
M. Serajul Islam | 2016-12-12 00:00:00
The US Presidential election 2016 that elected Donald Trump as the 46th president of the country is a unique one in US history. It is not just that Donald Trump has got elected on an agenda that has made the...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-12-12 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, marketing of paddy is mostly done by medium and large landowning households. Nearly one-half of the total marketed paddy comes from 13 per cent of rural households (owning 1.0 ha and above). As against this, about 30 per...
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