Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Women have to increase their participation in the front line jobs, including sales jobs in manufacturing/ marketing companies, so that they can scale up to the top job of the companies, said Rupali Chowdhury, President of the Foreign Investors' Chamber...
talked to the FE on issues of women entrepreneurship and change in traditional mindset of the male-dominated society towards women empowerment | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Following is the full text of the interview: Question (Q): That you being a woman are heading a large insurance company of the country comes as a surprise to many. Possibly, you do notice surprise in their eyes very often....
FE Special | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Governor Atiur Rahman has said the central bank has some women high officials who are competent enough to be governor. He also has expressed the hope that some one from the opposite gender might replace him as governor of the...
Munima Sultana | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
No doubt, like other central banks of the world, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) does have the traditional mandates to work on the monetary policy with a primary goal of maintaining sustainable economic growth of the country. It, however, does have...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
The government is going to bring about major changes in the existing pension system -- seen fraught with hassles -- to provide better services to its retired employees. Officials said the system overhauling will be done in the light of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Bangladesh women's entrepreneurial zeal is widely appreciated around the world. They have proved to be good microcredit borrowers, even compared to their male counterparts. In Bangladesh, women are also the main drivers of the growth of small and medium-sized businesses...
Siddique Islam | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Cybercriminals have digitally stolen around US$100 million from Bangladesh's foreign-exchange reserves deposited with the US Federal Reserve Bank and US$20 million of it was recovered, officials said. Suspected Chinese-origin cybercriminals hacked the forex reserves in Bangladesh Bank's account with the...
Munima Sultana | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Women working in banks are yet to get desired level of facilities in some particular areas despite having certain improvement in respect of getting maternity leave, transport facility and policy for addressing harassment against them. According to reports of the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
A move is underway to allocate 610 acres of land to several private investors for starting the first phase of establishing country's lone industrial city in Mirersarai close by the port city of Chittagong. Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) under...
Michael H. Fuchs | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Amid mounting regional concerns about Beijing's assertive behaviour in the South China Sea, President Xi Jinping stood with President Barack Obama last September in the White House Rose Garden and vowed that China would not militarise its newly constructed outposts ...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Cropping pattern is influenced by a host of factors. It is not only the size of the owned land but other important factors such as subsistence pressure, infrastructural facilities, information base and marketing opportunities. We observe that the dominant cropping...
a 10-part series by Imtiaz A. Hussain examines one sector in one article on each Tuesday and Friday of our independence month, beginning on March 01 and ending on April 01 with an overall appraisal. The third article of the series follows | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Both tea and sugar have long become a part and parcel of our culture: they are intrinsic to our daily consumption, and their cultivation internationalised our commerce under British rule that helped the colony become the crown jewel of the...
Mirza Azizul Islam | 2016-03-08 00:00:00
Though the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not new, it has assumed the status of a movement in recent times. It is being enthusiastically embraced by scholars, policy makers and in many instances, corporate leaders as well. The...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-07 00:00:00
The government moves to cut tax-exemption facilities to help raise the country's 'poor' tax-GDP ratio, officials said. Currently, the ratio of tax to GDP (gross domestic product) is only 10 per cent -- rated one of the poorest in the...
Syful Islam | 2016-03-07 00:00:00
In the face of continued decline in frozen shrimp exports to the United States (US), the government along with exporters has decided to launch a promotional campaign, officials said. "We will sit with US importers to set a strategy for...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-03-07 00:00:00
More than six months ago, 193 countries of the world, also the members of the United Nations (UN), formally adopted the much talked about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The adoption obliges the countries to fulfil a set of 17 broader...
Neil Ray | 2016-03-07 00:00:00
Rags-to-riches stories are no monopoly to fairy tales. Almost two-thirds of the world's 946 billionaires have indeed relied on their financial acumen, perseverance and sense of purpose to acquire wealth from scratch. Some however hit jackpots in lotteries to become...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-03-07 00:00:00
The government has been trying hard to sell Private-Public Partnership (PPP) concept since 2009 to help implement large projects that would benefit the people. But the response from the private sector has been lukewarm. Finance Minister AMA Muhith dedicated a...
Nironjan Roy concluding his two-part article on ATM fraud | 2016-03-07 00:00:00
To repeat the last paragraph of the first part of the article, the first control mechanism in ATM operation is confidential PIN. This PIN has to be very unique in feature. It must have reasonable validity, and on expiry, it...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2016-03-06 00:00:00
Motherhood has a universal appeal. Therefore, one mother's story in one part of the world will resonate with others in a distant part. All mothers do feel the same way about their children at first, but somewhere, somehow, things can...
Nironjan Roy in the first of a two-part article on ATM fraud | 2016-03-06 00:00:00
When the same-day clearing system was introduced last year, this scribe had a discussion with some bankers who were highly complacent about this technologically advanced system that made inter-bank transactions faster. Prior to introduction of same-day clearing system, cheque clearing...
Syful Islam | 2016-03-05 00:00:00
Nepal has again requested Bangladesh to lift the ban that the latter has imposed on raw jute export. Nepal says its factories are in serious trouble due to shortage of the natural fibre, officials said. The government on November 03...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-03-05 00:00:00
France is set to formulate its country strategy for Bangladesh aiming to identify the priority sectors of investment for next five years, a senior official has said. The AFD, a French public development finance institution and a bilateral agency, is...
Munima Sultana | 2016-03-05 00:00:00
A foreign-aided special fund fuelled performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with turnover, profit and job creation marking significant increases. Bangladesh Bank's SME and Special Programmes Department gave an account of such advances, crediting the improvements largely to loans...
Ohidul Alam | 2016-03-05 00:00:00
The People's Republic of China (PRC), located in South Asia, is an industrialised country posting fast economic growth. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion and covers an area of 9.6 million square...
A B M Ahsanullah | 2016-03-05 00:00:00
In recent times, a local TV channel ran a series titled "Sultan Sulaiman". It became popular very quickly and is being re-run. By now, most viewers know that "Sultan Sulaiman" was an Emperor of the Ottoman Empire. But a large...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-03-05 00:00:00
Eleven, five, three, four and 11 are no figures for a quiz. Audience or viewers of the Z Bangla have now become accustomed to such quizzes courtesy of Dadagiri hosted by Sourav Ganguly. But those numbers are in fact errors...
K M Murtoza Ali | 2016-03-05 00:00:00
Insurance represents a tool of prime importance in modern economies. It enables the insured to reduce and better manage their risk exposures. The basic feature of an insurance contract is that the insured buys a future promise of payment contingent...
Harold James in Princeton | 2016-03-05 00:00:00
The British government's recent announcement that a referendum on Britain's European Union (EU) membership will be held on June 23 was quickly followed by a sharp drop in the pound's value. Exchange rate volatility for the pound is bound to...
M A Taslim | 2016-03-04 00:00:00
The Finance Minister will soon commence his annual ritual of consulting the high and mighty of the populace to prepare the draft of the next budget. This is a good way to make them a party to the eventual text...
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