Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
At first sight the first news cheered us up somewhat while the second created a dash of despair, cancelling the feel-good effect engendered by the first. The two news items on business environment in the country prepared by the World...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
Dhaka and Delhi will sit later this month to finalise the draft agreement on the proposed US$ 2.0 billion worth of Indian Line of Credit (LoC), paving the way for assistance for Bangladesh, officials said. The official level meeting, scheduled...
Ismail Hossain | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
A section of CNG-run auto rickshaw drivers and owners is not complying with revised fares and rents due to lack of proper enforcement and monitoring by the authorities concerned. Many owners of CNG-run auto-rickshaws have already been charging their drivers...
Munima Sultana | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has come up with US$ 1.0 billion investment proposal for constructing a new metro rail in the city. But the bank wants to conduct studies of its own prior to committing the fund, official sources...
Syful Islam | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
A large volume of goods, some stuck for 15 years, occupying significant spaces of the Chittagong port area, are disrupting operational activities of the country's prime seaport, officials have said. Until September last, some 63,000 tonnes of such goods had...
Siddique Islam | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
The import of capital machinery recorded a fair growth in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY) though country's overall imports slowed. The actual import of all commodities, in terms of settlement of letters of credit (LCs),...
Talha Bin Habib | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
Fonterra, a globally renowned dairy products giant of New Zealand, is now eyeing to invest in Bangladesh's dairy sector considering its potential, officials said. To this end a high-powered delegation of Fonterra is expected to visit the country early next...
Babul Barman | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
Stocks extended their losing spell for the five weeks in a row that ended Thursday as concern over security and political front kept the investors in gloomy mood. Analysts said deadly attacks on secular publishers and killing of a policeman,...
Fida Hasan from Brisbane, Australia | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
We are living in the age of information and science. Society without strong scientific basis is therefore unimaginable in the race of today's world and no nation can survive without adaptation of the knowledge of Science and Technology. The seventh...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
The Trans-Paciific Partnership (TPP) deal was finalised on October 05, 2015 by 12 member- states to promote economic growth, job creation, innovation, productivity, competitiveness, and living standards, reduction of poverty, transparency, good governance, labour and environmental protection among them. Member-countries...
Tarequl Islam Munna | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
Today's Buriganga River is extremely polluted and it is close to biological death for several reasons. The tremendous increase in population of Dhaka City over the last three decades has created enormous environmental problems. Human sewage coupled with municipal garbage,...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-11-07 00:00:00
Many pulls and pushes are responsible for bringing a raw, rustic and uninitiated person out of his/her quiet and sleepy surrounding to the capital cauldron. But there are others who do not feel the temptation strong enough to leave their...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-11-06 00:00:00
Many pulls and pushes are responsible for bringing a raw, rustic and uninitiated person out of his/her quiet and sleepy surrounding to the capital cauldron. But there are others who do not feel the temptation strong enough to leave their...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2015-11-06 00:00:00
The Trans-Paciific Partnership (TPP) deal was finalised on October 05, 2015 by 12 member- states to promote economic growth, job creation, innovation, productivity, competitiveness, and living standards, reduction of poverty, transparency, good governance, labour and environmental protection among them. Member-countries...
Tarequl Islam Munna | 2015-11-06 00:00:00
Today's Buriganga River is extremely polluted and it is close to biological death for several reasons. The tremendous increase in population of Dhaka City over the last three decades has created enormous environmental problems. Human sewage coupled with municipal garbage,...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-11-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh ranks 103rd among 142 countries in the 2015 Prosperity Index, prepared by London-based Legatum Institute, having risen by one step from that of last year. The index revealed on Thursday globally put Norway atop for the seventh year followed...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam, while reviewing the book | 2015-11-06 00:00:00
From time to time we get people who enrich society and the country through their knowledge, intellect, dedication and work. Khanbahadur Ahsanullah (1873 - 1965) was such a great person. He was a renowned educationist, writer, social reformer, philanthropist, literary...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-11-06 00:00:00
Society seems to have accepted that sexual assaults are normal and there is no redress for the crime. Everyday the media, newspapers in particular, carry a number of incidents of rape, gang rape and murder after rape, rape attempt, sexual...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-11-06 00:00:00
Many Americans who do not believe in the politics of the Republicans are fearful about what would be happening to them and the country if one of the Republicans like Donald Trump or Dr. Ben Carson were to become the...
Imtiaz A. Hussain concluding his ten-part write-up on \'Infrastructure-building and diplomacy\' | 2015-11-06 00:00:00
Once the "necessary" condition of political order satisfies foreign investors, shifting to the "sufficient" conditions becomes neither automatic nor uphill. For Bangladesh there is both a domestic and external context involved, but the meat is in the intertwining. Bluntly put,...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh ranks 103rd among 142 countries in the 2015 Prosperity Index, prepared by London-based Legatum Institute, having risen by one step from that of last year. The index revealed on Thursday globally put Norway atop for the seventh year followed...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
From time to time we get people who enrich society and the country through their knowledge, intellect, dedication and work. Khanbahadur Ahsanullah (1873 - 1965) was such a great person. He was a renowned educationist, writer, social reformer, philanthropist, literary...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
Many Americans who do not believe in the politics of the Republicans are fearful about what would be happening to them and the country if one of the Republicans like Donald Trump or Dr. Ben Carson were to become the...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
Society seems to have accepted that sexual assaults are normal and there is no redress for the crime. Everyday the media, newspapers in particular, carry a number of incidents of rape, gang rape and murder after rape, rape attempt, sexual...
Claims Imran H Sarkar | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
Dr Imran H Sarkar, spokesperson of a faction of Ganajagaran Mancha, claimed on Thursday the recent killing incidents prove that the ‘government is pampering militants,’ reports online agency “The killings of bloggers are repeatedly being taken place for not arresting...
FE Online Report | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
Stocks edged lower for the two running sessions on Thursday with high volatility as investors followed cautious stance. The market opened with a downbeat note, which sustained till end of the session. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
FE Online Report | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hour of trading on Thursday, the last session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 9.81 points or 0.21...
Siddique Islam | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) took a firsthand account of internal control and compliance (ICC) situation of three leading state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) in direct consultation with them in the capital on Wednesday. IMF's Article IV Consultation Mission met with...
Munima Sultana | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has set next December as the deadline for the Bangladesh Railway (BR) to complete the process of train fare adjustment and corporatisation of container services for getting its pledged fund. Besides, the ADB also hinted...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-11-05 00:00:00
Although cost of intra-regional trade in Bangladesh has fallen sharply since 2009, it is still considered costlier for trading partners to trade with the country. A slow progress in implementation of paperless trade as well as trade facilitation made trade...
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