Moktadir Kabir and Zayed Bin Islam | 2015-04-26 00:00:00
World Malaria Day is observed every year on April 24 to express solidarity with all programmes and actions taken to prevent and reduce malaria around the world. Observance of the day also provides the opportunity for malaria affected countries to...
Md. Nazmul Haque | 2015-04-26 00:00:00
Globally climate change is a crucial issue of the time. The change has already affected environment. The earlier predictions of scientists regarding the effects of global climate change are now coming true: melting of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise...
Syful Islam | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Oil-tankers have again started plying the Shela river route through the Sundabans, where a tanker met an accident in December, spilling 350,000 litres of furnace oil and poising serious threat to flora and fauna of the world's largest mangrove forest....
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Most of the listed mutual funds (MFs) are being traded far below their face value of Tk 10 each and also below their respective net asset value (NAV) indicating a sorry state of the MF sector. Some of the Asset...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
The government may make policy changes to put the public and private sectors on equal footing in a booming electricity-generation business. Striking such parity would need an amendment to the government's power generation policy for the private sector, officials said....
Babul Barman | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Stocks suffered a major setback last week that ended Thursday, after remaining flat in the previous week, as investors went on a selling spree amid concerns about possible bleak economic outlook. The week featured five trading sessions as usual. Of...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
A new world is on its way. We are building it, one day at a time. As natural resource limits and rising social movements incapacitate the once-invincible machine of global capitalism, the world of the future is not written. It...
Sharmin Sultana | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Proper nutrition is a prerequisite for healthy and happy life. Though nutrition plays a vital role in the development of a country, sometimes it does not get proper priority. To combat future challenges and move forward in life sustainable development...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Two incidents involving a class-XI girl student of Holy Cross College and another, a male student of the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), have once again proved the aphorism 'man proposes but God disposes'. If the incident involving...
Saleh Akram | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
If death toll from road mishaps is any measure of the country's calamitous road transport sector, the situation certainly calls for a strategy shift. The gravity of the situation on its roads can be gauged from the simple fact that...
M Serajul Islam | 2015-04-25 00:00:00
Saudi Arabia has ended its three week-long military attack on Yemen to push the Iran-backed Shia Houti rebels that had taken over the Yemeni capital Sana in September last year forcing President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadito flee to Saudi Arabia. The...
Khairul Islam | 2015-04-24 00:00:00
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson aims to introduce its advanced solution to improve indoor mobile network coverage in Bangladesh, officials said. They said the system enables mobile-phone operators to deliver consistently improved voice and data coverage and capacity in the...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-04-24 00:00:00
The beginning of a depressing but highly representative song of the time sung by an artiste of Paschimbango is 'E kon sakal ja rater cheyo andhakar' (What a dreadful morning is this/one that's darker than night). After the systematic molestation...
Mohammed Norul Alam Raju | 2015-04-24 00:00:00
Two years ago, on April 24, 2013, an eight-storied building named Rana Plaza collapsed in Savar. After 21 days of the collapse when the search operation was declared closed, the death toll rose to 1,131. Approximately 2,515 injured people were...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-04-24 00:00:00
Perhaps very few of us know that five Finance Minister/Advisors out of the nine that Bangladesh had so far belonged to a particular batch. They are M Sayeduzzaman, M Saifur Rahman, Wahidul Huq, Maj. Gen (retd) A Munim and AMA...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Government's revenue board is examining the possibility of introducing property tax from the next financial year. Officials said the income-tax wing of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) have got down to work following a recent directive from the finance...
Munima Sultana | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Pre-qualification (PQ) bidding for development of depot land of the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development (DMRTD) project was opened finally on Wednesday after getting go-ahead from the project's Japanese financier. Officials said Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) gave its nod...
Shamsul Huda | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Lending channelled to women entrepreneurs has been rising since 2010 when the central bank relaxed policy on SME or small and medium enterprises loan. The policy has made it easier for women to borrow collateral-free credits up to Tk 2.5...
Syful Islam | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Foreign Ministry officials of Bangladesh and Thailand will meet in Dhaka early next month to discuss various bilateral issues including trade, investment and blue economy, sources said. This is for the first time that officials of the two countries will...
Badrul Ahsan | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
In deviation from its core spirit, the Probashi Kallayan Bank (PKB) is mostly concentrating on migration loan rather than on its focus on employment generation among oversees returnees, the bank's own data showed. The PKB from its inception in 2011...
Nabeela Mobashwer | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Nabeela: What prospects of e-commerce in Bangladesh motivated you to start the business? Didarul: In Bangladesh there is a massive Internet user base of above 4.2 crore, which is growing every year with a double-digit growth potential. We targeted this...
Md Fakhrul Alam Onik | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Australia has built a strong reputation for excellence and quality across its higher education. This global reputation leads a large number of international students who choose to broaden their minds and enrich their lives by pursuing higher education courses here....
Md. Shahidullah Azim | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Success stories are always full of sweet and sour events, happy and sad memories since achievements do not come on a silver platter. What could be a better example of this fact other than our ready-made garment (RMG) industry? The...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), an international body to facilitate rule-based multilateral trading system across the world. Despite very slow progress in implementing a comprehensive obligatory rules and regulations for global trade, the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-04-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh, which is among the world's top 10 remittance earning countries, received around $15 billion from its expatriate workers in 2014. During the same period, foreigners working in different fields of Bangladesh sent back to their respective homes around $6.0...
Siddique Islam | 2015-04-22 00:00:00
The government plans to change its stance on borrowing from the country's banking system in the final months of the current financial year to meet the fiscal deficit. The public sector bank borrowing reached a new low, negative 0.5 per...
Shamsul Huda | 2015-04-22 00:00:00
Shahjalal Fertiliser Factory being set up at Fenchuganj in Sylhet at a cost of $1,062 million will commence operation by June this year, official sources said. Once the fertiliser factory is commissioned, they said, it will produce 1,750 tonnes of...
Saleh Akram | 2015-04-22 00:00:00
For more reasons than one, particularly in the face of declining foreign aid, it has become imperative that internal resources are ideally mobilised and fully utilised to drive economic development. Ideas presented in various consultations and discussions on the post-2015...
M Jalal Hussain | 2015-04-22 00:00:00
The economy has been badly disturbed by political turmoil and instability. To cope with the present situation and to put the economy on the right track, the budget for FY 2015-16 needs special attention, extraordinary prudence and professionalism in utilisation...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-04-21 00:00:00
The revenue board has taken a move to clarify the legal provisions on deduction of tax at source on capital gains of companies and partnership firms from the stock market. Implementation of the new tax measure has been halted following...
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