Nilratan Halder | 2016-04-01 00:00:00
The murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu is still shrouded in mystery. Many suspect that the autopsy carried on her body was done casually in order to suppress the real cause of death. Also the failure on the part of the...
Paola Subacchi in Milan | 2016-04-01 00:00:00
Over the last 20 years, roughly a half-million Italians aged 18 to 39 have moved abroad, especially to more economically dynamic European Union (EU) countries such as Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. And those are just the official figures;...
Paola Subacchi in Milan | 2016-04-01 00:00:00
Over the last 20 years, roughly a half-million Italians aged 18 to 39 have moved abroad, especially to more economically dynamic European Union (EU) countries such as Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. And those are just the official figures;...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-04-01 00:00:00
It is generally alleged that researches hardly reach policymakers and hence research results hardly see its implementation mainly for two reasons, operating both from supply and demand sides. On one hand, there is an acute dearth of research results written...
a 10-part series by Imtiaz A. Hussain examines one sector in one article on each Tuesday and Friday of our independence month, beginning March 01 and ending on April 01 with an overall appraisal. The last article of the series follows | 2016-04-01 00:00:00
How has our industrial sector changed after 45 years of independence? What will the country look like on its 50th birthday anniversary? Those were some of the questions addressed in a 10-part "Independence & Industry" series. In this concluding part,...
Siddique Islam | 2016-03-31 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank-hired jurist sounded upbeat Wednesday about retrieving the entire US$81million stolen out from the BB foreign-exchange reserves through a trans-national cyber heist. Necessary steps are being taken to bring back the entire amount stolen, said Ajmalul Hossain QC...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-03-31 00:00:00
No tangible progress has yet been made in formulating a national guideline on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in the country, mainly due to bureaucratic tangles, officials said. The Ministry of Planning (MoP) took the initiative to formulate the uniform...
Jamaluddin Ahmed in the first of a five-part write-up on Political economy of uniform Value Added Tax and tariff system | 2016-03-31 00:00:00
The literature on agency problems of representative democracies is extensive on the possible outcome of government behaviour trying to increase public expenditure when the political cost to do it is low. This is evident in the studies of Henderson, J....
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2016-03-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh has some US$28 billion in foreign currency reserves. A comical typo saved Bangladesh's central bank from losing as much as US$1.0 billion to hackers. But of the US$101 million stolen, US$81 million is yet to be found. Now the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-03-30 00:00:00
Playing too much with law or anything else does always bear the risk of producing unpalatable results. That is what a noted economist Prof. Wahiduddin Mahumd, as the media reported, reminded the country's revenue authority at a pre-budget view-exchange meeting...
Lauren Colegrove | 2016-03-30 00:00:00
It is often seen as the responsibility of the government or large non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to address societal issues that negatively affect women. After all, it is the government that sets the national legal age for marriage, and the NGOs,...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
Businesses and consumers both may have to bear higher costs under impacts of a new VAT and SD law for reduced protection to domestic industries, the revenue authority forewarns. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) made such forecast in a...
Siddique Islam | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
The central bank, which is going through a leadership change, will hold regional stakeholder conferences to expedite both disbursement and recovery of farm credits in the fiscal year (FY) 2016-17. "We expect that arranging such conferences will be concluded by...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
India has sought permission to export some of its industrial and agri items aiming to tap the growing Bangladesh market, officials said. Bangladesh's trade deficit with India is ballooning in recent years with import continuously rising while export hitting rock...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
The city's Nilkhet area has become a transaction hub of old and rare books as students and academics usually buy and sell different kinds of second-hand ones at competitive prices. Many shops selling old books at Nilkhet do brisk business...
Muhammad Shafiullah and Faridul Islam | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
The concept of terms of trade is important for an open economy. This is so because it can be seen as an indicator of the health for an open economy. So, a relevant question is: what is terms of trade?...
Muhammad Shafiullah and Zarif Iftekhar Rasul | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
For a small open economy, exchange rate stability is vital for promoting trade and welfare. In Bangladesh, sustained stability of its exchange rate has been a cornerstone of the government's prudent management initiatives for the last two years. There has...
M. Serajul Islam from Maryland, USA | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh cricket lovers were never as disappointed as they were the evening Bangladesh lost to India by one run. They expressed their disappointment in so many ways, some in ways unprintable. Many said that for them it was a sleepless...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
Famine, hunger, malnutrition, etc. are often used interchangeably which should not be the case. According to international institutions dealing with food security such as the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), hunger is usually understood to refer to the distress...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
The favourable external economic environment that had made export-led growth strategies viable was severely disrupted by the global crisis in 2008. It was well perceived that export-led growth strategies must sooner or later reach their limits when many countries pursue...
a 10-part series by Imtiaz A. Hussain examines one sector in one article on each Tuesday and Friday of our independence month, beginning March 01 and ending on April 01 with an overall appraisal. The ninth article of the series follows | 2016-03-29 00:00:00
One of the dominant pre-independence tourism selling-points was about Cox's Bazar: "76 miles . . . longest beach in the world." Unfortunately, very much like the Sunderbans being advertised as "the world's largest mangrove forest," we may be building more...
Siddique Islam | 2016-03-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank moved for help of the United Nations, the US Fed and the Philippine authorities in an all-out bid for recovering its money stolen through a trans-national cyber heist. The new central bank governor has sent letters to the...
Ismail Hossain | 2016-03-28 00:00:00
India's northeastern states are unable to import the full load of 10-gigabit per-second (Gbps) bandwidth from Bangladesh under a deal due to their infrastructural constraints. They are taking only 3GBPS now, to start with, officials said. In a swap of...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-03-28 00:00:00
Share trading on mobile phones is yet to attract desired number of investors as many brokers are not willing to provide the service without fees, insiders said. The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) launched the much-awaited DSE-Mobile share trading service on...
Ahamad Tanvirul Alam Chowdhury | 2016-03-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh is producing around 18,144,000 litres of industrial fuel per year, worth US$ 9,072,000 to substitute furnace oil or industrial diesel by adopting pyrolysis technology to recycle around 50,400 tons of hazardous waste tires. Besides, 75 per cent toxic chemical,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-03-28 00:00:00
The headline of the lead story of yesterday's issue of a leading Bengali contemporary screamed, "Tk.300 billion embezzled in seven years". In fact, the amount mentioned in the story was only a part of the money that was literally looted...
Saleh Akram | 2016-03-28 00:00:00
If living quality is an indicator of happy life, the position of Dhaka can better be imagined than described, at least on the basis of successive international survey findings. Not infrequently over the last few years, various survey reports by...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-03-26 00:00:00
More than 40 years after Independence, Bangladesh is now carrying a higher brand value globally than Pakistan in most of the international indices. London-based Brand Finance, a leading independent brand valuation and strategy consultancy entity, in its latest ranking on...
Syful Islam and Srabonty Mazumder | 2016-03-26 00:00:00
Despite having a favourable environment, the country's construction industry could not make a turnaround to its previous state even in a year and is still struggling. Prices of all construction materials remained within people's purchasing capacity for a long period...
Munima Sultana | 2016-03-26 00:00:00
Execution of some 16 projects in road sector has been slow in the current fiscal year due to failure to complete land acquisition and road designs. Sources said four of these projects were taken up 10 to 15 years ago....
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