Abdul Bayes | 2016-02-19 00:00:00
In assessing the impacts on the livelihoods of rural people, sample households and their villages can be grouped into three groups: (a) 'developed' - where both paved roads and access to electricity exist; (b) 'semi-developed' with either paved road or...
Fahimul Huq | 2016-02-19 00:00:00
What if the EBL ATM booth had an automated security system where, anyone spending more than a specific number of minutes would instigate a signal to the EBL security stations? Or what if all the ATM booths had state of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
Payment of wealth tax registered a 22 per cent growth in the last fiscal year over the previous mark, belying a common belief that the number of wealthy people is on a rather faster rise in the country. Some 10,931...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
The securities regulator Wednesday asked the Trustee of the AIMS First Guaranteed Mutual Fund to complete the liquidation of the fund within 14 working days, officials said. The regulatory order came after the Supreme Court SC recently stayed the High...
Munima Sultana | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
The government will seek additional Tk 5.8 billion fund from Kuwait to meet huge financial gap between estimated and contractor costs of the Lebukhaki Bridge project which is to establish direct link of the capital with the southern region. Sources...
Syful Islam | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
A new Indian step has put Bangladesh's rubber export in peril, reducing the price of the item by one-fourth in the domestic market, officials said. Last month, India amended its import policy and specified that natural rubber import will be...
Tanzeela Rahman | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
BRAC Business School (BBS) in association with Office of Career Services and Alumni Relations (OCSAR) of BRAC University hosted a seminar on "Career in Finance: Future Prospects and Possibilities" at BRAC University Auditorium, Dhaka on the 4th of February, 2016....
writes F R Chowdhury from London | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
For the last few days I have been watching with curiosity various news items concerning the above subject. Most of the merchant marine officers, including all of the unemployed marine academy trained cadets, are opposing issuance of CDC (Continuous Discharge...
Polin Saha | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, fuel-based irrigation is still popular with the farming community. According to the World Bank, Bangladesh spends $900 million every year for one million tons of diesel to run its irrigation system. However, over the years, there has been...
writes Ahsan Mansur in continuation of his economic analysis on "Creating an investment-friendly policy ecosystem in Bangladesh" appearing in today's issue of the FE on the front page | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has represented a small fraction of gross domestic product (GDP) and private investment in Bangladesh. FDI inflow in 2015 reached to $1.7 billion (0.9 per cent of GDP). In 2012, FDI stocks remained below 7.0 per...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2016-02-18 00:00:00
When an event takes place, long after it is overdue, much of the novelty, not to speak of sensation, wears off. It does not lose the significance, but bemoans the delay in happening at the opportune time. More worrying is...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-02-17 00:00:00
The government has moved to formulate a comprehensive policy to facilitate the growth of motorbike industry in the country. A draft of the proposed policy is being prepared, officials said. The Ministry of Industries (MoI) has formed a high-powered inter-ministerial...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-02-17 00:00:00
An initiative is afoot now to establish customs missions in ten countries to check duty evasion through under-invoicing, smuggling, money laundering and terror financing, officials said. Customs intelligence and inspection department of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-02-17 00:00:00
The size of the toxic assets of the country's banks, according to the latest statistics of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), stood at Tk.513.71 billion at the end of the final quarter of 2015, representing a 6.0 per cent decline over...
Siddique Islam and Jubair Hasan | 2016-02-17 00:00:00
Banking transactions using the automated teller machines (ATMs) have taken a tumble as the cardholders are shying away from the smart payment system following last week's card forgery, sources said. An analysis of very recent data of such transactions showed...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-02-17 00:00:00
The country's state-owned banks (SoBs) are in deep soup. One recent news report says that the banking division of the finance ministry sought Tk 150 billion for replenishing the six SoBs in next three years. Earlier, another report quoted the...
Lamia Mohsin | 2016-02-17 00:00:00
Just how much the normative terminology of 'development' evolved over the years is a question that renders innumerable contentious responses, based on varying value judgments. An attempt to define a monolithic term of such magnitude compels us to encapsulate the...
Sunil Sachdev | 2016-02-17 00:00:00
The American film of 1970s titled All the President's Men popularised the idea that to find the source of corruption, investigators must "follow the money." In that spirit, the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit (just launched in Dhaka) has...
Masum Billah | 2016-02-17 00:00:00
'Quality education' has become the most talked-about topic in the field of education in this country as well as in the global arena. Different educationists define it in different ways, but they also indicate some common elements of quality education....
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-02-16 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority has moved to raise the import duty on raw materials of some essential drugs, in an extra-budgetary fiscal measure which pharmacists fear would make lifesaving medicines dearer. Officials said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) move, with...
Siddique Islam and Jubair Hasan | 2016-02-16 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued Monday a circular making it mandatory for all banks to install anti-skimming devices in their ATM booths by next one month to prevent losses from credit and debit card fraud. The central bank also asked...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-02-16 00:00:00
The government is in a dilemma over the proposal put forward by the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) to convert its Tk 263 billion official loan into state subsidy. A recent meeting of the finance ministry has failed to reach any...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2016-02-16 00:00:00
Everyone has a different story. It was a day about fifty-five years ago when for the first time I smoked a cigarette at the backyard of a tea stall, near my school at Brahmanbaria, at the behest of one of...
Tarequl Islam | 2016-02-16 00:00:00
The peace talks, brokered by the UN on the Syrian crisis commenced in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 01 this year and are supposed to be continuing for a long time. The Syrians are very hopeful of success of the talks,...
Tarequl Islam Munna | 2016-02-16 00:00:00
The government has apparently begun enforcing a complete ban on the sale and use of polythene bags in the capital. Such a move was first undertaken on January 01, 2002 to save the city from an environmental disaster. Though there...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-02-16 00:00:00
Not all lands are of the same quality. Land at higher elevation may suffer from infertility and be exposed to droughts and hence may not be as productive as a piece of land at lower elevation which may benefit from...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-02-15 00:00:00
Private entrepreneurs seeking to obtain customs bond licence for operating private inland water container terminal (IWCT) will have to comply with a multipronged set of guidelines, including one on adequate facilities for external trade. Officials said customs wing of the...
Munima Sultana | 2016-02-15 00:00:00
The proposed Bangladesh Bridges Authority Act, which is expected to be enacted during the current parliament session, would bring new-generation mega-infrastructures like tunnel, expressway etc., under the purview of the Bangladesh Bridges Authority. The proposed law aims at expanding scope...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-02-15 00:00:00
The government, for the first time, is set to create a special fund to finance its mega projects for their smooth implementation, officials said. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) will sit today (Monday) to discuss the pros and cons of...
Syful Islam | 2016-02-15 00:00:00
The United Nations is interested to deepen its engagement in Bangladesh's digital financing looking at new areas in support of the government's vision, officials said. The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), which has been providing financing to small and medium...
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