Munima Sultana | 2016-03-12 00:00:00
The government moves to update the existing three rules on migration and make a new one to ensure registration of all migrant workers and returnees. The move is meant for streamlining the manpower sector, beset with various problems. Officials said...
Syful Islam | 2016-03-12 00:00:00
The government is going to issue new rules putting a cap on holding of shares of insurance companies by individuals, families, and companies at maximum 10 per cent, officials said. Shareholders having less than 2.0 per cent of shares would...
Special Correspondent | 2016-03-12 00:00:00
Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) recently handed over a set of budget proposals to National Board of Revenue (NBR) to make tax measures more business-friendly. BUILD is a joint initiative of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), in partnership...
Babul Barman | 2016-03-12 00:00:00
Stocks posted marginal gain last week that ended Thursday, snapping two weeks of losing spell, as most of the investors were cautious in absence of any powerful motivations. Turnover, an important indicator of the market, however, came down to Tk...
Kazi Md Mukitul Islam | 2016-03-12 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, food is a basic right affirmed by the National Constitution of the country [article 15 (a)]. However, still a large number of people are food- insecure in this land of 160 million people. According to the World Food...
Lutfor Rahman | 2016-03-12 00:00:00
At the moment, the most interesting and exciting message for Bangladeshi citizens is that our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken much interest in empowering the nation, particularly the new generation, with knowledge about science and technology. She is laying...
Masum Billah | 2016-03-12 00:00:00
How does it sound when we hear that in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest? Many of us may get astonished to hear it....
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2016-03-12 00:00:00
Too long time has been given to tanners to shift out of Hazaribagh, the heart of the capital city of Dhaka, to suburban Savar with their factories blamed for environmental pollution of the area and the surrounding river. Not that...
Munima Sultana | 2016-03-11 00:00:00
The metro rail project is set to get its first contractor for developing a site for constructing depot and workshop for mass rapid transit line (MRT-6), officials said. The Dhaka MRT Development (DMRTD) project has already obtained concurrence from the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-11 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to offer full tax exemption to the country's bourses on their income for 2015-16 to facilitate ongoing reform activities and infrastructure development of the capital market. For the current fiscal year (FY),...
SM Jahangir and Siddique Islam | 2016-03-11 00:00:00
The central bank has sought cooperation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to recover the money, stolen from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The assistance was sought when two senior officials of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) met...
Doulot Akter Mala and Ismail Hossain | 2016-03-11 00:00:00
The government-slapped one per cent surcharge on mobile phone talk-time usage has been effective from Wednesday. Cell-phone operators have started deduction of the 1.0 per cent surcharge from the subscribers' talk-time on the day. From now on, mobile phone users...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-03-11 00:00:00
At the Millennium Summit in 2000, the global community committed to achieving sustainable changes on a massive scale for millions of people across the world. To build a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world, the heads of state and government...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-03-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh has a solid history of poverty reduction which it can boast of. Admittedly this has largely been induced by income growth. From a feeble 4.0 per cent or less in the 1980s, the GDP (gross domestic product) growth rate...
Jasper Bovenberg, Judit Sandor and Alexandra Henrion Caude in Haarlem | 2016-03-11 00:00:00
In 1899, the German-American scientist Jacques Loeb engineered the asexual reproduction of sea urchins through artificial parthenogenesis (the manipulation of egg cells to enable embryonic development without fertilization). His speculation about complete parthenogenesis in mammals - not to mention his...
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 fourth article of the series follows | 2016-03-11 00:00:00
We cannot be cowed by fearful climate-change scenarios of the ocean swarming across our green pastures without exploiting oceanic opportunities as level-headedly as possible. In other words, our fishing industry can no longer continue playing second- or third-fiddle in the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
Businesses and the government still stand in disagreement over some provisions of the new VAT law, principally a tall uniform rate of the tax at 15 per cent for all -- small kiosks or big shots. The country's apex trade...
Siddique Islam | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh will need to significantly increase its public sector investments and improve business climate to attract private investments in order to achieve a sustainable growth rate beyond 7.0 per cent by the next fiscal year (FY), 2016-17, according to Standard...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
The area of child budget is set to be expanded from the next fiscal year as the government in its latest move has planned to bring two more ministries under the coverage of financing facility for children, officials said. As...
Mohammad Polash Khan | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
For the last couple of years the whole notion of social business started to have a voice and appeal around the world. Muhammad Yunus and Yunus Centre are emerging to become a household name globally. Recently, some international interns with...
M Serajul Islam from Maryland, USA | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
India won the Asia Cup in style - and deservedly. The Bangladesh team that did not give itself much chance to win surprised itself and all cricket lovers in the country and those watching worldwide with the way it played...
Hassan Hakimian in London | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
Recent gains by pro-government reformist candidates in Iran's parliamentary elections have given President Hassan Rouhani a welcome midterm boost. But huge economic challenges remain. And in the coming months, these challenges are what will determine the battle lines between the...
Ohidul Alam | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
Research is a part and parcel of economic and technological development of a country in order to ensure better living standard for the people and sustainable development. Developing countries like Bangladesh lag behind in research due mainly to financial constraints,...
Imtiaz A. Hussain concluding his two-part article on Donald Trump phenomenon | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
Donald Trump has emerged as the leading Republican candidate in this year's U.S. presidential election for all the wrong reasons: he has not been embraced by the party itself, but worse still the blistering personal attack by 2012 presidential election's...
M Aminul Islam Akanda | 2016-03-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank has put an advertisement as scroll news in television networks encouraging people to use coins. Earlier, in response to complaints from customers of commercial banks regarding the reluctance of bankers to accept coins, the central bank issued orders...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-03-09 00:00:00
The story about the hassles a public servant has to encounter to get his/her retirement benefit file cleared is an old one. The situation in this area has not changed a bit even 45 years after the country's independence. Finance...
Syful Islam | 2016-03-09 00:00:00
The state-owned Sadharan Bima Corporation (SBC) differs with a decision taken at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) allowing public-private partnership (PPP) projects to have 50 per cent overseas insurance coverage, officials said. SBC managing director Shamim Akhter in a letter...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2016-03-09 00:00:00
A programme is a plan of actions made in order to achieve a specific result. In other words, a programme is a plan of things aimed at achieving a clear objective, with details on what is to be done, by...
Saleh Akram | 2016-03-09 00:00:00
The title may raise a few eyebrows. But the title justifies itself if we look at what is happening around us. Urban demand for consumer products continues to be sluggish around the world and to fill the void rural markets...
Imtiaz A. Hussain in the first of a two-part article on Donald Trump phenomenon | 2016-03-09 00:00:00
Mitt Romney minced no words in branding Donald Trump a "con" politician, that is, not meaning a "conservative," but a "phony." He was only asserting something commonly held. Yet, that he did not say so in 2012 when Trump rooted...
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