Jubair Hasan and Ismail Hossain | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Sales of rawhides of the sacrificial animals have kicked off in the capital amid higher preservation cost triggered by soaring salt prices, prompting the seasonal traders to sell out their stocks due to fear that such skins might get rotten...
Jasim Uddin Haroon, back from Istanbul, Turkey | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Turkish Airlines wants to fly to more cities in Asia as it considers the continent to be "very important" growth play, the head of its national flag carrier has said. "Asian market is very much important for us … ,"...
Andreas Illmer of BBC | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Sprinkled across the oceans around the globe, some 60 of Hanjin Shipping's cargo vessels are stranded at sea. The company filed for bankruptcy two weeks ago. The Hanjin Rome is nestled between countless other ships off the coast of Singapore,...
Elizabeth Garone of BBC | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Alex Tew is not really known for following the crowd. His mantra has always been to see what everyone else is focusing on and to do the opposite. In 2005, Tew was obsessed with one thing: making money, enough to...
Yolande Knell of BBC | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Every year, 3,000 couples fly from the Middle East to Cyprus to get married. It's the easiest place to go if they want a civil ceremony rather than a religious one. A cheesy love song blares out from tinny speakers...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
On any given day, more than a billion children across the world go to primary and secondary schools. But schooling is not always a positive experience for all children. It can mean shivering in cold, in unheated buildings or sweltering...
Saleh Akram | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh produced record quantity of tea last year. The Tea Board suggests that the way things are moving, production this year is expected to beat that record too. Rise of production in any sector is good news - and more...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2016-09-16 00:00:00
China's close attention to the Southeast Asian countries, especially Cambodia and Laos, has started paying off. Their pivotal positions in the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) bloc as well as politically sensitive Mekong region have in fact made them...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
Operations of courier companies are coming under strict regulation as per new rules to prevent duty evasion and offences like couriering contrabands. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has framed the rules to bring activity of courier-service companies under customs...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
Sales of sacrificial animals at different markets in the city picked up on Sunday with prices of cattle head showing a downward trend. According to traders, sales increased nearly 60 per cent on the day against the less than 10...
Syful Islam | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
The department of shipping (DoS) has opposed a proposal put forward by the United Nations (UN) to keep the Shela river route closed permanently to the movement of all vessels, officials said. A team from the World Heritage Centre of...
Babul Barman | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
Seven companies and five mutual funds (MF) raised an aggregate amount of Tk 6.98 billion from the public in eight months (January-August) of the current calendar year. The companies which raised funds through floating initial public offerings (IPO) are Dragon...
Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera in Doha | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
It's terribly annoying - not to say revolting - to read Western "experts" as they present a division of Syria as the "best", "most logical", or even "the only" solution to the civil war there. I remember a few years...
Shamsul Alam | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) opened a new frontier of development for the world community including Bangladesh. The Constitution of the country provides for equal opportunities for all citizens and the present government is committed to implementing this, while mindful...
Neil Ray | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
That the country's under-16 girls' football team have qualified for the eight-team final round to be held in Thailand is an achievement by itself. This is a feat that has made the entire nation proud. But quite a few undesirable...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
Are the days of distributing favour to a selected few through licence and permits back? Officially speaking, there is nothing like it. But one particular action says otherwise. The action relates to import of one essential item -- salt. With...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-09-12 00:00:00
The Eid ul-Azha derives its origin from the 196th verse of second Surah, Al Baqara ( The Cow), and the word "Eid" appears in the fifth Sura al-Mai'da (The Table Spread), of the Holy Qur'an, meaning 'solemn festival'. The days...
M Serajul Islam from Maryland, USA | 2016-09-11 00:00:00
In New York, on board the aircraft carrier Intrepid of Second World War vintage that is now the Intrepid, Sea, Air and Space Museum, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump told the voters how they would act as the commander-in-chief if...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2016-09-11 00:00:00
The growth of gross national product (GDP) is important for increase in national output, income and last but not least, for employment generation. In this equation employment generation has a pivotal place. Without employment of people national output and income...
Jubair Hasan and Talha Bin Habib | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
Transactions in the capital's cattle markets did not pick up Friday as sellers were asking higher prices for sacrificial animals despite satisfactory supply. Although many city-dwellers massed at 24 cattle markets across the city on the first day of the...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
The government is set to make it mandatory for traders to take trade licences for 12 essential commodities aiming to help boost its revenue and prevent syndication, officials said. The items include paper and paper products, various products made of...
Syful Islam | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the ministry of shipping (MoS) to take necessary steps for providing transit facilities to India, Nepal and Bhutan to use Mongla port, official said. Prime Minister's economic affairs adviser Dr Mashiur Rahman conveyed...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
An increased success rate in the higher secondary school certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations has widened further the gap between the existing number of seats and admission seekers, thus creating a big challenge for students vying for higher study. Only...
Babul Barman | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
Stocks returned to green last week that ended Thursday, snapping a two weeks losing spell, as optimistic investors took position on some large-cap stocks, the last week before 9-day Eid vacation. Analysts said the market returned to green after two...
Md Maqsudul Hassan Howlader | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
Cattle fattening is the process of improving the health condition of the food animals, mostly en and bulls in a scientific way by ensuring their proper health care, providing quality feed, controlling fatal diseases through vaccination, using anthelmintics for de-worming...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
When a factory is gutted, it is certainly a loss to its owner and by extension to the nation. But not all burnt down factories cause national losses. For example, if a clandestine arms factory or a deadly alcohol or...
Md. Shafiqul Alam | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
The 21st Century business world demands better corporate culture, corporate governance, standard reporting, strong internal control, efficiency, KPI-based performance, quality, growth and expansion etc. Business automation through enterprise resource planning (ERP) acts as synergy to fulfill these objectives and helps...
Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, concluding a three-part discourse on 'The Independence of the Central Bank' | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
When the responsibilities of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are fuzzy, its actions can continuously be questioned. Instead, if the constitutional authorities outline a framework for the responsibilities of the RBI, it can take actions consistent with those responsibilities...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
As a natural corollary of the long-drawn multiple wars in the Middle East, millions of people from the war-ravaged region have been fleeing in search of a safer place to live. While most of them are being said to be...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
'Availability of food' and 'Access to food' have always been subjects of discussion on food security. It took a long time to grasp that the former does not necessarily imply the latter. However, the belated realisation is what matters most...
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