Abdul Bayes | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
A worker or labourer is a person who is engaged at least for one hour in activities that increase or save income of the household. Under this definition are included both full-time and part-time labour, whereas in the discussion on...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh is the lowest tax effort country among the developing countries. This was confirmed by a study of Bangladesh Bank. The study, conducted recently, found that Bangladesh was the lowest tax effort country in the sample with an average tax...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
Stocks extended their gaining spell for the 3rd running session on Monday as investors showed buying interest on large-cap stocks. The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange – DSEX – went up by 17.89 points or 0.37 per cent...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
The formal announcement of withdrawal of value-added tax (VAT), imposed by the government in the FY16 budget on tuition fees of private universities, will come shortly. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is expected to make the announcement on Monday...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Monday, the second trading session of the week. After first 30 minutes of the day’s trading, DSEX, the prime index of...
Syful Islam | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
Trade Commissioner of the European Union (EU) Cecilia Malmström is set to skip a crucial review meeting on Sustainability Compact in November in Dhaka reportedly for government's failure to enact rules on Bangladesh's labour law, officials said. The law was...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
Country's private universities have paid 38 per cent of the total demanded income taxes in the last 15 years while a major part remained stuck in court cases. The tax authority, in an analysis, has found the private universities having...
Moslem Uddin Ahmed | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
Heavy-duty freight trucks will be roaring in Dhaka, so will passenger buses on trans-border trips. The vehicles will come-and some are already on run-from Bhutan, Nepal and India. How will the caravans pass through the already-congested routes through the capital...
Neil Ray | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
A woman is in labour right on the busy footpath. Her body is twisting in excruciating pain. The place is Badamtali under Agrabad of the port city Chittagong. Passers-by there look on, some take pictures or do video-record on their...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
The country's technical and vocational education arena is marked by confusing and at times discouraging developments. While the government leaders concerned do often harangue about the need for creating a large pool of technically qualified people and the signboards of...
Sharjil Haque | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
Long considered the engine of global growth, emerging markets in Asia are finally running out of steam and experiencing alarming economic and financial market volatility. Leading financial institutions have been cited in the international media warning of an emerging market...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Stocks edged slightly higher on Sunday, the opening day of the week with turnover improving marginally, as investors took position on lucrative stocks. The market opened higher in the morning and the positive vibe sustained till end of the session...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hour of trading on Sunday, the first trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 8.53 points...
Munima Sultana | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh Railway (BR) is yet to get back its past glory by increasing passenger and good transportation services despite the sector's bulging budget which rose, on an average, by 100 per cent during the last six years. According to official...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
The government will sit with stakeholders on September 20 next to fix the procurement prices for rawhide of sacrificial animals amid strong opposition from the tanners, sources said. The procurement prices of rawhide are likely to be fixed at the...
Doulot Akter Mala Back from Bibiyana, Sylhet | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
None of the micro-credit borrowers is a defaulter in Bibiyana, unlike many who have gone far deeper in debt after taking such small loans elsewhere in Bangladesh. They happen to be fortunate ones, who are able to run successful, profitable...
Siddique Islam | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
The central bank is set to boost purchase of the US dollar from banks ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha festival in an attempt to keep the inter-bank foreign exchange market stable, officials said. "We may expedite purchase of the US currency...
Dilip Barua | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh and China have a rich heritage of cultural interactions and trade, which developed on the south-west silk route, the ancient tea route and the maritime silk route. After the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...
Syful Islam | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
Dhaka has sought Thimphu's opinion about whether it is interested to join a consortium aiming to get regional IDA assistance from the World Bank to increase navigability on Indo-Bangla water protocol route through dredging, officials said. To get the assistance...
Talha Bin Habib | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
The country's ceramic industry, despite attaining a healthy growth over the years, is now facing some challenges, including suspension of GSP, high import duty on raw materials, and the latest gas tariff hike, industry insiders have said. Besides, high bank...
Shahidul K K Shuvra | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh has decided to provide national ID card in the format of smart card when the country is struggling in providing its citizens better quality passports on time and in an efficient way. It is almost three decades that the...
Masum Billah | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
The World Vision, an NGO working in Bangladesh since 1971 with focus on child care, concern and protection along with its other areas of intervention, arranged a seminar at BRAC Centre on 5 September, 2015. At the event a researcher,...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
Both China and India - the two Asian leading economies - have started to experience the inevitable and inherent defects like economic ups and downs, characteristics of the traditional capitalistic economic development process. The capitalistic economics scholars are yet to...
Saleh Akram | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
The majority of people in Bangladesh, a basically and traditionally agricultural country, live in rural areas. More importantly, around 60 per cent of the country's labour force is engaged in agriculture directly or indirectly. Agriculture contributes less than a quarter...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
In a recent book titled Poverty and Vulnerability in Rural Bangladesh (2015), S.R. Osmani, with others on board, reinforces the positive role of microcredit in alleviating poverty in rural Bangladesh. His findings are based on a large sample drawn from...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-09-12 00:00:00
The world is now waiting for the last week of September when top-level representatives of 160 nations of the world will formally launch the post-2015 development agenda in the United Nations (UN). Officially dubbed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 15-year...
Siddique Islam | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
The government's borrowing from the banking system soared more than 77 per cent year-on-year in the first 63 days of the current fiscal year (FY), 2015-16, partly to finance its budget deficit, officials said. Its net borrowing from the banking...
Syful Islam | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
New Delhi has requested Dhaka to take advantage of the simplified duty-free tariff preference (DFTP) scheme it offered to the least developed countries (LDCs) to raise their exports to India, officials said. The Indian High Commission in Dhaka in a...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
The government is planning to establish two border economic zones (BEZs) in Ukhia and Teknaf under Cox's Bazar, officials said. The initiative has been taken mainly to generate large-scale employment in these border areas for discouraging illegal drugs business and...
FE Online Desk | 2015-09-10 00:00:00
Stocks on the DSE Thursday witnessed mixed trend amid a rise in the turnover which rose to Tk 4.48 billion, a rise of Tk 320 million against the previous day. DSEX Broad Index rose to 4760.14 while DS-30 declined to...
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