Lamia Mohsin | 2016-07-16 00:00:00
"The Age of Chivalry is gone, and that of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded" While skimming through the television sets, we come across talk shows and live telecasts of conferences and roundtable meetings, where somber, placid-looking politicians, economists and...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-07-16 00:00:00
Lionel Messi is in a soup. His and his father's 21-month sentence in prison and a fine of 3.6 million euros by a Spanish court for tax evasion has come as a great shock to millions of his fans the...
Blerta Cela | 2016-07-16 00:00:00
Dhaka is still reeling from the tragedy that hit the heart of the city last Friday night. The unprecedented terror attack is a direct threat to what Bangladesh stands for; a threat to human rights, diversity and women rights. I...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2016-07-16 00:00:00
Despite all odds against it, Iran seems to be doing reasonably well in terms of economic development since the withdrawal of sanctions by the West after signing of a nuclear agreement with the UN Security Council's 5 veto powers plus...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-07-16 00:00:00
Economic diplomacy is a tool of a government to achieve the country's national interests. It should also remain focused on economic policy issues. Economic diplomats are to monitor and report on economic policies in foreign countries and give the home...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-07-15 00:00:00
The government has scrapped turnover tax facility for manufacturing industries located in Dhaka South, North and Chittagong City Corporation area to bring them under VAT registration network. Value added tax (VAT) officials have to issue Business Identification Number (BIN) to...
Siddique Islam | 2016-07-15 00:00:00
The government's borrowing from the country's banking system jumped in the last week of June to partly finance its budget deficit in the just concluded fiscal year (FY), 2015-16, officials said on Thursday. The government's net bank borrowing stood at...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-07-15 00:00:00
The special tribunal on capital market has been sitting idle since May last as there is no case for trial. The tribunal sources said a total of 24 cases, including some cases related to the 1996 stock market scam, were...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-07-15 00:00:00
The University of Dhaka, the oldest and largest University in today's Bangladesh, started its journey on the first day of July in 1921. Its role in the sovereign Bengalee nation's formation and the emergence of independent Bangladesh is a widely...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-07-15 00:00:00
The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,/ That ever I was born to set it right! Thus Hamlet shares his frustration with the ghost. Not only has the prince of Denmark in that Shakespeare's famous drama felt the...
Siddique Islam | 2016-07-14 00:00:00
Overall interest-rate spread in the country's banking sector widened further in May as commercial banks cut interests on deposits deeper than that on lending. The weighted average spread between lending and deposit rates offered by the commercial banks rose to...
Munima Sultana | 2016-07-14 00:00:00
The Panel of Experts (PoE) for the Padma bridge construction meet at the project site from today (Thursday) as the Chinese contractors could not solve the problem with finalising the design of the main bridge and the river training work...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-07-14 00:00:00
Three companies have re-submitted their IPO (initial public offering) proposals under the book building method as per the mandatory requirement of the revised Public Issue Rules, officials said. They said the companies which submitted their revised IPO proposals are STS...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-07-14 00:00:00
The main challenge in the way of progress towards food security comes from continuing growth of population. The progress in reducing population growth in Bangladesh, from 3 per cent per year at 1971 independence to about 1.2 per cent now,...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2016-07-14 00:00:00
Every knowledgeable person in Bangladesh knows that next to garment sector migrant workers are the second biggest source of foreign exchanga earning in the country. About eight million Bangladeshis working abroad, mostly in the Middle-Eest, send on average $15 billion...
Siddique Islam | 2016-07-13 00:00:00
A bilateral meeting between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bangladesh Bank (BB) will be held in New York in August to speed up efforts for recovering the stolen US$ 81 million from the Philippines, officials said....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-07-13 00:00:00
The ministries and other government agencies as usual got their respective magic wands during the penultimate and final months of the just concluded fiscal year (FY), 2015-16, and spent (?) 42.5 per cent of the total allocations, Tk 390 billion,...
Syful Islam | 2016-07-13 00:00:00
The ministry of shipping (MoS) has found the proposal of the UK-based DP Rail on connecting the new sea port at Paira with capital Dhaka through railway feasible, officials have said. The rail connectivity of the port with Dhaka is...
Marie-Helene Carleton of Al Jazeera in Paris, France | 2016-07-13 00:00:00
Docked along the Seine, the Petit Bain is a floating cultural event space that features musicians, DJs and artists. Recently, the venue was host to several refugee chefs who prepared their recipes for hungry and curious Parisians as part of...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-07-13 00:00:00
Swiss secrecy again makes headlines in the newspapers around the world. The amount of financial assets of Bangladeshi individuals and entities allegedly stashed in different banks in Switzerland increased by 10 per cent in 2015 over 2014. Though such an...
Siddique Islam | 2016-07-12 00:00:00
The country counted a 2.55 per cent fall in inward remittances in the just-concluded fiscal year principally for slower development activities in the Middle East. According to the central bank statistics, released Monday, the inflow of remittances came down to...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-07-12 00:00:00
A government move is underway to review and update the relevant international treaties with different countries as the instruments proved obsolete in dealing with external trade and vices like capital outflow in the digital era, officials said. They said the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-07-12 00:00:00
The removal of the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of the state-owned Agrani Bank on June 30 last and arrest of the acting managing director of the same bank on the same day stirred up surprise in...
Syful Islam | 2016-07-11 00:00:00
The Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) has sought the rescheduling of Tk 12 billion borrowed from the government and development partners to lend to poor people for employment generation, as it faces fund crunch, officials said. Established in May 1990,...
Siddique Islam | 2016-07-11 00:00:00
The government is set to borrow significantly high amounts from banks in July for adjusting higher expenditure in June and part financing of its budget deficit for the current fiscal. Officials said the borrowings from the banking system could run...
Munima Sultana | 2016-07-11 00:00:00
Full-scale construction work is set to begin by December to upgrade Dhaka-Joydebpur road to a multimodal transport corridor with a dedicated bus lane as this gateway carries the highest traffic volume. Official data show that this corridor takes the load...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2016-07-11 00:00:00
While the Indians are grappling with apparent uncertainties caused by a sudden change of the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country's central bank, a top private banker has accused the banking sector of not being honest...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-07-11 00:00:00
Until recently women in Bangladesh hardly participated in agricultural activities outside their homes. A number of studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s found that their contribution to socio-economic development was not visible due to a set of social norms...
Neil Ray | 2016-07-11 00:00:00
One casual but often spontaneous answer to the common question, 'how are you?' is obviously, 'fine' (Kemon achho? Bhalo achhi). The answer may be quite honest at times but definitely not all the time. On many occasions it may be...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2016-07-11 00:00:00
Britain’s vote to exit from the European Union signals the end of a love story-- Shakespearian love story, you can say-- that did not end, as usually it does, with the pair living happily ever after. The romance, in fact,...
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