MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), a state-owned company, is yet to prepare and submit any financial statement to the authorities concerned since its inception nearly a decade ago in 2013, sources said.They said the Road Transport and Highways...
Thomas Van Der Wielen | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
We often teach our children to focus on their grades and reward them when they answer correctly. Unfortunately, many schools worldwide, including Bangladesh, rely heavily on textbooks and other traditional materials. Hence, the fixed curriculum has been criticised for stifling...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
A host of factors determines our health. For making health policy, and developing and delivering health programmes, it is very important to know what these determinants are, how these influence health, and then develop a useful framework to understand it....
SYFUL ISLAM | 2023-06-14 00:00:00
The government wants ministries and departments to explore ways to get foreign financing - instead of local funds - to implement climate change (CC)-related projects, as foreign currency reserve is under pressure and macro economy is facing stresses.The Cabinet Division...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-06-13 00:00:00
The authorities would consider private provident fund (PF) as a taxable entity and impose corporate income tax on it from July 1, 2023.However, the government's provident fund would likely be exempted from the tax.The Income Tax Bill-2023 has withdrawn the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-06-13 00:00:00
An uphill task it looks as the revenue authority has to realise nearly Tk 900 billion in revenue in June to reach the target for this fiscal year, passing through financial austerity. Its track record shows the National Board of...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL and BABUL BARMAN | 2023-06-13 00:00:00
The highest annual tax rebate on investments in listed securities of the capital market will be reduced by one-third, or 33 per cent, to Tk 1 million if the draft income tax act 2023 is approved by parliament. In that...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-06-13 00:00:00
How overuse of the internet is affecting the young generation is often the stuff of various researches and studies. The Sunday (11 June) issue of this paper on its Metro/News page published a report that deals with such a study,...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-06-12 12:00:00
Are the severe dry, hot spells that this part of the world including China, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh and India recently experienced the fallout from the dreaded climate change? Or was it just a sudden change in the weather pattern? Though...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2023-06-12 00:00:00
The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) authority wants to cover the civil liability for nuclear damage through furnishing a government guarantee instead of buying insurance policy until the plant begins power generation.The authority considers it necessary to cover the possible...
Neil Ray | 2023-06-12 00:00:00
Up until now the much vaunted super-specialised hospital, the first of its kind in the country, has proved to be a super flop. But it could be a different story and make a difference in the country's medical service. Belying...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-06-11 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, June 10: Construction work of the 136km-long Chattogram-Cox's Bazar Expressway is likely to begin in the current year, official sources said. The government will take decision soon regarding initiating work of the project to be implemented under Public Private...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-06-11 00:00:00
The Income Tax Bill-2023, which was placed in the parliament on June 8, has provided for legalising undisclosed income by investing in land as well as residential and commercial building structures.The investors will have to pay taxes at specific rates...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2023-06-11 00:00:00
The stock market took 15 months to stride past the bar on price movement after its introduction for the first time in March 2020, benefiting from stimulus measures and idle cash with scanty investment opportunities during the pandemic. Flooded with...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-06-10 12:00:00
The sudden resignation by Golam Rabbani Choton from the elevated post of head coach of the Bangladesh National Women's Football team has stirred quite a ripple in the sport arena of this country. Men's football here has long been in...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2023-06-10 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, June 09: The construction work to set up the second unit of the Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL) is likely to be started very soon as the government has already allocated the fund for the project.ERL Managing Director Engineer Md...
S M Abdullah and Rumana Huque | 2023-06-10 00:00:00
Tobacco is a man-made menace the world is confronting for decades. Bangladesh is very much within the risk arena of this menace. The country is listed among the world's top 10 tobacco consuming countries. According to Global Adult Tobacco Survey...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-06-09 12:00:00
The current heat waves now sweeping all across the country are not like those of the month of April and May. In the middle of April temperature soared as high as the year's record so far at 43 degree Celsius...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2023-06-09 12:00:00
The title of Arther Koestler's eponymous novel was a political metaphor. But for millions of Bangladeshis who cannot afford generators to supply electricity, it has become an everyday reality for past several weeks, perhaps months. The shortage of power has...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-06-09 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rejected the pleas of two Dhaka city corporations to share revenue earnings from the Dhaka Elevated Expressway (DEE) project, which is being implemented under a public-private partnership (PPP) initiative.The prime minister also dismissed the mayors'...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-06-09 00:00:00
Investors in government securities may experience a reduction in their investment rebate on tax filings starting from July 1, 2023.According to the new Income Tax Bill-2023, which was placed in Parliament on Thursday, the government is going to establish a...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-06-09 00:00:00
With the bus rapid transit (BRT) project linking Gazipur with the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport nearing completion, the authorities concerned are now considering the option of extending the dedicated bus corridor allowing more mixed modes of traffic on it. BRT...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2023-06-08 12:00:00
Good wars are always few and far between. Most wars are horror stories, leaving societies and nations involved in them in a huge mess. There are wars of national liberation, wars which are directed at pushing oppressors out of occupied...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-06-08 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, June 07: The Chattogram district administration allegedly felled more than 5,000 trees of a reserve forest in Salimpur coastal area on World Environment Day on June 05.The trees were chopped down in order to build a road through the...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2023-06-08 00:00:00
Latest data points to an increased interest of foreign investors in putting money in stocks rather than selling off their holdings. In April, share purchase by foreign investors amounted to Tk 1.31 billion while sales were worth Tk 507 million,...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-06-07 00:00:00
The government has announced an extension of fiscal benefits for companies operating within the country's Export Processing Zones (EPZ) as part of its ongoing efforts to streamline business processes and reduce operational costs.Effective immediately, the customs authority, which falls under...
FHM Humayan Kabir from Colombo, Sri Lanka | 2023-06-07 00:00:00
Experts and stakeholders at a regional conference on Tuesday said that modern aquaculture technology can help Bangladesh and neighbouring countries boost fish production by 5.0 to 10 times.At "Aquacon" in Colombo, they pointed out that lack of technology transfer and...
Khalilur Rahman | 2023-06-07 00:00:00
One of the significant achievements of Bangladesh over the last 15 years is our global recognition as a development miracle and economic powerhouse of Asia under the visionary and dynamic leadership of the Hon'ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. While Bangladesh...
Khaled Mahmud Raihan | 2023-06-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh, the newly independent nation, inherited a fragile banking structure. Just after independence, Bangladesh government nationalised the entire domestic banking system with six nationalised banks namely Sonali Bank, Agrani Bank, Janata Bank, Rupali Bank, Pubali Bank and Uttara Bank under...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-06-06 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, June 05: The natural environment of Chattogram is under hazardous threats due to the river pollution, uncontrolled hill and tree cutting, poor drainage and sewerage system, and discharging of clinical, industrial and household wastage everywhere. Sources said that the...
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