Maswood Alam Khan | 2015-12-15 00:00:00
More than 250,000 people have died since the violence broke out in Syria in 2011, and at least 11 million people in the country of 22 million have fled their homes. Syrians are now the world's largest refugee population, according...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2015-12-15 00:00:00
The print and electronic media are once again abuzz on a report from Washington-based research organisation named Global Financial Integrity (GFI) regarding $9.66 billion illegally transferred from Bangladesh in 2013. An English daily, known for its penchant for sensationalising ordinary...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-12-15 00:00:00
In a regime of unequal ownership of land and inequitable social structure, institutional credit is likely to reach larger farmers first ignoring the poorer ones despite their dire needs for adoption of input-intensive modern agricultural technologies. As a consequence, differentiation...
HC upholds jail term for Osman Gani | 2015-12-15 00:00:00
The High Court upheld the jail term for Osman Gani, former Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF), in a case for acquiring illegal wealth. A High Court division bench comprising Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty passed the order,...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-12-15 00:00:00
The Value Added Tax (VAT) wing has asked for Tk 5.10 billion from the Power Development Board (PDB) after it found its outstanding dues following analysis of the latter's annual audit report. The Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) under the VAT...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-12-15 00:00:00
NAIROBI, Dec 14: Immediately after arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, one thing becomes clear. The country is 'very excited' for a mega international gathering. From immigration to exit points, all the staffs...
Siddique Islam | 2015-12-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh government needs to speed up regulatory process and cut business cost for attracting investors, particularly foreign ones, to achieve a faster growth in few years. A top World Bank (WB) economist expressed such view based on his close look...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2015-12-15 00:00:00
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on November 30, 2015 welcomed China's Yuan - also called the renminbi (RMB) - into its elite reserve currency basket known as Special Drawing Rights (SDR), recognising the ascendance of the Asian power, already the...
Siddique Islam | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
The central bank relaxed foreign-exchange regulations allowing all C- category industries in the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) to borrow from the Export Development Fund (EDF). Under the relaxed rules, the commercial banks are now allowed to extend their foreign-currency loans...
Syful Islam | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
China has proposed that Bangladesh sign a loan contract on procurement of six vessels in Renminbi (RMB) instead of US dollar (USD) as part of its move to establish its official currency as an international one, officials said. The Bangladesh...
Babul Barman | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
The initial public offerings (IPOs) witnessed sluggish trend in the outgoing calendar year 2015 compared to a year ago, when a record number of IPOs hit the stock market. Market insiders attributed the slowed-down growth of IPOs to the "go-slow-strategy"...
Md. Aslam Uddin and Mahamudul Hasan | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
Youth marketing is a term used in the marketing and advertising industry to describe activities to communicate with young people, typically in the age range of 13 to 35. Youth marketing includes teen marketing, targeting people aged between 13 to...
Talukdar Rasel Mahmud | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
Genocide is a heinous crime that includes intentional killing of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group of people. The common meaning of 'genocide' is the systematic destruction of all or a significant part of a racial, ethnic, religious, political...
write Monica de Bolle and Ernesto Talvi in Montevideo | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
Brazil's economy is in intensive care. And its intensifying political crisis - impeachment proceedings have now been initiated against President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly using irregular accounting maneuvres to disguise the size of the budget deficit - is raising serious...
Neil Ray | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
The dichotomy involving the phasing-out of rickshaws from the streets of the capital or not has supporters divided for and against with the majority willing to see those off. It is not for nothing that fresh licences to these manually...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
'Coordination' is the rarest commodity as far as the decision making by regulatory bodies and government agencies in Bangladesh is concerned. The policymakers do often mention about the problem, but instead of getting resolved it becomes more acute. The other...
Paola Subacchi in London | 2015-12-14 00:00:00
The Nobel laureate Robert Mundell once said, "great powers have great currencies." China, whose government Mundell long advised, seemed to take this notion to heart, prodding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for years to add the renminbi to the basket...
Md. Aslam Uddin and Mahamudul Hasan | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
Youth marketing is a term used in the marketing and advertising industry to describe activities to communicate with young people, typically in the age range of 13 to 35. Youth marketing includes teen marketing, targeting people aged between 13 to...
Talukdar Rasel Mahmud | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
Genocide is a heinous crime that includes intentional killing of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group of people. The common meaning of 'genocide' is the systematic destruction of all or a significant part of a racial, ethnic, religious, political...
Monica de Bolle and Ernesto Talvi | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
Brazil's economy is in intensive care. And its intensifying political crisis - impeachment proceedings have now been initiated against President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly using irregular accounting maneuvres to disguise the size of the budget deficit - is raising serious...
Paola Subacchi | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
The Nobel laureate Robert Mundell once said, "great powers have great currencies." China, whose government Mundell long advised, seemed to take this notion to heart, prodding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for years to add the renminbi to the basket...
Neil Ray | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
The dichotomy involving the phasing-out of rickshaws from the streets of the capital or not has supporters divided for and against with the majority willing to see those off. It is not for nothing that fresh licences to these manually...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
'Coordination' is the rarest commodity as far as the decision making by regulatory bodies and government agencies in Bangladesh is concerned. The policymakers do often mention about the problem, but instead of getting resolved it becomes more acute. The other...
FE Online Report | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
Stocks witnessed steep fall Sunday, extending their losing spell for five consecutive sessions in a row with sluggish tunrover as nervous investors went selling frenzy. The market opened with a positive note, but could not sustain the momentum as the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has offered duty exemption to help investors import products for developing hi-tech parks. Hi-tech park developers will now be able to get exemption from all types of import duty, regulatory duty, supplementary duty and...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
In my May 26th column, I wrote about Bollywood star Salman Khan's release on bail after a Mumbai Sessions Court found him guilty of culpable homicide in the 2002 hit-and-run case. He was given five years' imprisonment and Rupees 25,000...
Lutfor Rahman | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
More than 900 scientists and science leaders from 100 countries gathered at the World Science Forum (WSF) 2015 held recently in Budapest, Hungary. The forum was organised with the support of the World Science Forum (WSF), UNESCO, ICSU, the Hungarian...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
The President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has recently said in an interview with a local newspaper that high interest rate is the main obstacle to the rise in investment. It will not be...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-12-13 00:00:00
This week is the last busy week for global leaders as trade ministers and negotiators are now gathering in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to put their final efforts for reaching a minimum consensus on future course of action on multilateral...
Lutfor Rahman | 2015-12-12 00:00:00
More than 900 scientists and science leaders from 100 countries gathered at the World Science Forum (WSF) 2015 held recently in Budapest, Hungary. The forum was organised with the support of the World Science Forum (WSF), UNESCO, ICSU, the Hungarian...
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