Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-09-24 00:00:00
The revenue board is likely to extend the deadline for submission of tax returns by individuals, to November 30, following requests from a cross-section of people including taxpayers, lawyers and trade leaders. The deadline for tax-return submission is scheduled to...
writes Abdul Bayes while discussing Dr. M.S. Swaminathan\'s seminal book titled Combating Hunger and Achieving Food Security | 2015-09-24 00:00:00
Agriculture and food systems worldwide are passing through a difficult time. Climate change, environmental degradation, profit hunting motives, urban-bias etc. allegedly bedevil the process of sustainable agricultural development. Unfortunately, the upcoming challenges and the solutions are rarely put in layman's...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2015-09-24 00:00:00
Eid ul-Azha, celebrated after two months and ten days of Eid ul-Fitr, is known as the Feast of Sacrifice, as animals are sacrificed in commemoration of willingness of Hazrat Ibrahim (pbh) to sacrifice his dearest son Ismail as an act...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2015-09-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank has the rare distinction of being the only central bank in the world that has pursued inclusive growth as a consistent policy in recent years. It has assumed this role on its own volition without prodding from any...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-09-23 00:00:00
Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mr. Annisul Huq likened Dhaka to an 'ICU patient' and himself to a doctor sans medical knowledge while discussing Dhaka's unfixable problem of traffic congestion at a function last Sunday. The comparison would...
Munima Sultana | 2015-09-23 00:00:00
The government has planned to expand the 20-kilometre metro rail line which is being set up from Uttara to Motijheel in the city. Officials said as per the plan, rapid transit line-6 (MRT-6) will be extended to Export Processing Zone...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-09-23 00:00:00
China's devaluation, followed by knock-out in the stock market in the midst of its economic slowdown, became a global hot topic for free-for-all talk shows and news analyses that have apparently confounded the confusion. The contradictory conclusions drawn by different...
PhumzileMlambo-Ngcuka | 2015-09-23 00:00:00
At the end of this month, thousands of representatives from all over the world will gather in New York. They will witness the launch of the most ambitious universal effort since the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in 1948....
Syed jamaluddin | 2015-09-23 00:00:00
People are curious about border haats. They want to know how these haats operate. Haats sit once a week for a short time. People can walk in within five miles of the border with identity cards. Only 25 listed businessmen...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2015-09-23 00:00:00
In Germany, political pressure to do more for migrants has been building for months. That is partly because of the country's tragic history; after neo-Nazis attacked refugee centres this year 2015, there was a nationwide backlash. "This can make us...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-09-23 00:00:00
Having successfully pushed the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicle Agreement (MVA) to roll on, India is now actively working for another MVA. It is the India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) MVA that will be finalised in November this year. Earlier in July this year,...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
Stocks edged higher for the four straight sessions on Tuesday, but turnover dipped below the 4.0 billion-mark as most of the investors were reluctant to inject fresh funds ahead of Eid vacation. It was the last trading day before Eid...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hour of trading on Tuesday amid marginal volatility, the last trading day before five-day Eid vacation. After first 30 minutes of the day’s trading,...
Siddique Islam | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
The inter-bank call money market did not show Monday the faintest sign of volatility though the celebration of Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, remained only days away. Banks' treasury officials attributed the lack of volatility in...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
After taking their financial crunch into account, the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has recommended full tax exemption facility for the country's two bourses for the current fiscal year (FY). The BSEC made such recommendation after Finance Minister AMA...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
The government is scrutinising a proposal for allowing tax and duty exemption facilities for the SAARC Development Fund (SDF) in Bangladesh, officials said. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the SDF Secretariat Dr Sunil Motiwal recently sent the proposal to the...
Sharjil Haque | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
The recent depreciation of emerging market currencies across Asia has sparked considerable debate in Bangladesh on whether or not to weaken the Taka. The general consensus among economists and the corporate sector is that Bangladesh should indeed depreciate to revive...
Saleh Akram | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh is now a lower middle income country. Its annual average per capita income which was only US$129 in 1972 has risen to US$1314 in 2014-15. Although the increase is 11 times over the period, the purchasing power has not...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
Policy-makers in South Asia are stuck in a quagmire. On the one hand, they have genuine grounds to celebrate achievement of self-sufficiency in foodgrains production, mostly led by the Green Revolution. Agriculture ministers are happy over better performance of the...
Rokon Zaman concluding his two-part write-up on software and ITES industry | 2015-09-22 00:00:00
A strong interest shown by different stakeholders in an earlier write-up on the subject has prompted this writer to share further his views about what we should do to enable the software industry of Bangladesh to grow. To begin with,...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-21 00:00:00
Stocks posted marginal gains Monday, extending the positive trend for the third sessions in a row amid choppy trading. Analysts said the market witnessed a choppy trading throughout the session as both the optimist and shaky investors demonstrated their active...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-21 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hour of trading on Monday amid slow trend, the second trading day of the week. After the first 30 minutes of the day’s trading,...
Siddique Islam | 2015-09-21 00:00:00
Four state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) are set to disburse around Tk 6.45 billion as loans among tanners to help them procure raw hides of sacrificial animals during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. Among the banks, Sonali Bank Limited will provide around Tk...
Syful Islam | 2015-09-21 00:00:00
New Delhi has recently requested Dhaka to cut import duty on salt and sugar, so that Indian traders can enter Bangladeshi market with 'greater competitiveness', officials said. In a recent letter to the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) the Indian High...
B. K. Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2015-09-21 00:00:00
Innovation in steel has been helping human civilisation to smash through new barriers, strengthen our lives, and hit new heights. Recently, Dutch company MX3D has embarked upon an innovative project to construct a steeled hanging-bridge over an Amsterdam canal using...
Neil Ray | 2015-09-21 00:00:00
The arrest of an assistant director of the University Grants Commission (UGC) along with two others for alleged leakage of question papers of various written tests points out the bad blood within. This is a sequel to the earlier arrest...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-09-21 00:00:00
Obviously, the government did not relish the withdrawal of the value added tax (VAT) on private universities and medical colleges following 'peaceful' demonstrations by students of those institutions in Dhaka and some other major cities of the country. All sections...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-20 00:00:00
Stocks edged marginally higher on Sunday for the second consecutive day with choppy trading as investors relocate their portfolios ahead of Eid vacation and third quarter earnings declaration. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, (DSE) went up...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-20 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Sunday, the first session of the week. After first 30 minutes of the day’s trading, DSEX, the prime index of...
M. A. Taslim | 2015-09-20 00:00:00
When the World Bank withdrew its proposed funding of $1.2 billion for the construction of Padma Bridge alleging 'corruption conspiracy' at the high level of the government, the latter responded by promising the people that the bridge would be built...
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