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...
Harold James in Princeton | 2016-09-10 00:00:00
In today's global culture, where simple models help make sense of so much complexity, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin embody opposing archetypes of national leadership. Like others before them, such icons often have a foil -...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-09-09 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is set to waive Value Added Tax (VAT) on dealers' commission in a bid to ensure smooth operation of open market sale (OMS) of essentials to the poor at reduced prices. The Board has...
Munima Sultana | 2016-09-09 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has taken a move to repair its several hundred age-old coaches and add them to its fleet aiming at improving pro-people service. As a part of the move, sources said, the state-owned agency has already taken...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-09-09 00:00:00
Millers at a meeting on Thursday decided to sell salt at Tk 38 per kilogram (kg) instead of Tk 40 at retail level following the government directives, sources said. The new price chart will come into effect soon. And the...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-09 00:00:00
Total turnover on the call-money market crossed Tk 70 billion-mark Thursday, the last working day before the Eid-ul-Azha festival, while the rate was almost stable, officials said. The total turnover on the call-money market increased by more than 8.0 per...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-09-09 00:00:00
A RAJUK (Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha) messenger known here as a peon has been charged by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) for possessing wealth beyond his known sources of income. Of the Tk 25.3 million (2.53 crore) worth total asset, Mobarak Hossain...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-08 00:00:00
Private-sector credit growth tumbled in July after a continuous increase in last10 months, said officials, who saw the crunch as a seasonal phenomenon. The growth in credit flow to private sector declined to 15.97 per cent in July 2016 on...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-09-08 00:00:00
The securities' regulator has sought 'specific instruction' from the revenue board on deduction of tax at source from unit holders during liquidation of mutual funds (MFs) for the sake of MF industry. "A specific instruction is required for deducting tax...
Syful Islam | 2016-09-08 00:00:00
Bangladesh is eager to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) and a coastal shipping deal with Sri Lanka and wants these to be finalised during the visit of the president of the island nation by the end of this year,...
Mohammad Tofazzal Alam | 2016-09-08 00:00:00
With quality education, low cost of living and a welcoming environment, New Zealand poses as a great destination for Bangladeshi students. Every year Bangladeshi students fight for getting into a university in UK, US or Canada where they face intense...
Md. Abdul Monayem Asif | 2016-09-08 00:00:00
The grand finale of BizAcumen'16 was held on 3rd September 2016 in Bangabandhu Conference Hall, World Trade Centre, Chittagong. BizAcumen'16 is an inter-university business case solving competition organised by Society for Leadership Proliferation (SLP) which is the student organisation of...
Altap Hossain | 2016-09-08 00:00:00
The Payra Sea Port began providing limited services from August 13 last following its inauguration by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Full-fledged function of the port is scheduled to begin from 2018. The government has a plan to develop it into...
Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, in the second of a three-part discourse on 'The Independence of the Central Bank' | 2016-09-08 00:00:00
Growth is good, but growth with stability is better, especially in a poor country where so many people live at the margin. For the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), it means ensuring growth does not exceed our potential, adopting prudential...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-09-07 00:00:00
Offloading of state-owned enterprises' shares for public subscription seems to be a seasonal issue. It was found to be a hotly discussed subject when the market too was 'hot' or buoyant. And the market now being at low ebb, any...
Munima Sultana | 2016-09-07 00:00:00
An enhanced cost of Tk 3.3 billion has been estimated to develop rail links between the multibillion-dollar Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant and two seaports, officials said. The railways will be used for carrying the project's equipment and raw materials to...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-07 00:00:00
The central bank purchased US$60 million more from three commercial banks on Tuesday ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha in an attempt to keep the inter-bank foreign exchange market stable, officials said. "We've bought the US dollar from the banks directly to...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-09-07 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority has rejected a proposal for waiving value added tax (VAT) for brick industry in the country's backwoods north on ground of acute energy crisis in the region. Officials said HN Ashiqur Rahman, Member of Parliament (MP) from...
M. Serajul Islam from Maryland, USA | 2016-09-07 00:00:00
Donald Trump had entered the race for the Republican Party's ticket by making the case of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country that are largely Hispanics the signature of his campaign. On the campaign trail, he called the...
Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, in the first of a three-part discourse on 'The Independence of the Central Bank' | 2016-09-07 00:00:00
Over the last few weeks, I have outlined the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) approach to inflation, distressed debt, financial inclusion, banking sector reform, and market reform. Here, I'd like to first discuss why central banking is not as easy...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-09-07 00:00:00
US secretary of state John Kerry, during his nine-hour Dhaka visit last week, mostly concentrated on security and terrorism. But trade is always on the agenda of any bilateral talk between two countries. When the US secretary of state called...
Georgy Toloraya | 2016-09-07 00:00:00
The Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Hangzhou last weekend is not the first to be hosted by a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) country, one took place in Russia in 2015. But never before has the...
Siddique Islam | 2016-09-06 00:00:00
An all-time-high Tk 1.30-trillion liquidity glut in banks cast a damper on usual pre-festival upswing of call money in inter-bank borrowings, officials said. The inter-bank call-money rate remained stable Monday, barely a week before the Eid-ul-Azha fiesta that sees a...
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