Waliul Huq Khandker | 2015-10-15 00:00:00
Politicians determine policy for running the country while government servants give concrete shape and implement the policies. Putting theory into practice or materialising a desire is not an easy task. It requires intelligent, hard, dedicated work and must be carried...
writes Shah Md Ahsan Habib writes in the first of a two-part article on the Bangladesh Bank | 2015-10-15 00:00:00
Alongside supporting and guiding the regular banking activities of the country, the Bangladesh Bank has in recent years brought in a paradigm shift in banking with multiple approaches of inclusive financing, women empowerment, corporate social responsibility and poverty alleviation. This...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
Share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday, the fourth session of the week. DSEX – the prime index of the DSE – went...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
'Gune gune ghush khan tini' (he counts before pocketing the bribe money) was the headline of the front-page lead item of the October 09 issue of a leading Bengali contemporary. That was quite a catchy headline, no doubt. Readers must...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
The government has moved to identify its different projects under Annual Development Programme (ADP) which are not implementable at all, officials said. They said the government has planned to identify the projects which will not be possible for it to...
Munima Sultana | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
Over a dozen public-private-partnership projects under road sector have been laid on the backburner for their inclusion in the PPP list without any groundwork three years ago, sources said. Officials said only two out of 13 projects listed for implementation...
Mohammad Mufazzal and Babul Barman | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
Only twenty listed companies are dominating the capital market as those companies capture more than 55 per cent of total market capitalisation of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), officials said. As a result, the market observes unusual see-saw movement in...
T I M Nurul Kabir | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
World leaders attended the UN Sustainable Development Summit on the occasion of the 70th UN General Assembly and formally adopted the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These are universal goals and targets which involve both developed and developing countries alike....
Md. Shahidullah Azim | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
There goes a well-known saying-- 'success does not come on a silver platter.' This writer understood the inner meaning of the saying when he entered the readymade garment (RMG) business as an entrepreneur. It was indeed extremely difficult for a...
Md. Badrul Islam | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
The international engagement of the People's Republic of China (PRC) by use of its soft power policy, especially since 2000, has been a focus of attention for the international community. Soft power is a non-coercive tool in international relations, a...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
Nutrition has always been a key driver of development. It is in fact a key indicator of children's growth and development. The capacity of an individual to work is intimately connected with nutrition intake - not with food intake per...
Md. Abu Abdullah | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
Imagine a world where your credit card would not fit into every cash machine or where you could not just stroll into a shop and find the right light bulb for your lamp. Also imagine a world without telephone codes,...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-10-14 00:00:00
When the world leaders gathered at the United Nations headquarters last month to formally adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the next 15 years, they were well aware of the wars and savageries running riot across the world. While...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-13 00:00:00
Stocks ended flat on Tuesday with turnover improving further as late sale pressure wiped-out early gains. The market opened with an upbeat note but couldn’t sustain at the end of session. The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-13 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hour of trading Tuesday, maintaining the previous day’s upturn. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 23.59 points or 0.49 per...
Syful Islam | 2015-10-13 00:00:00
India has decided to launch an investigation into allegation of dumping hydrogen peroxide on its market by Bangladesh without properly following SAFTA rules, trade officials have said. After investigation the country may consider slapping anti-dumping duty on export of the...
Siddique Islam | 2015-10-13 00:00:00
Government borrowings from the banking system soared nearly 166 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of this fiscal year (FY) mainly for settling its liabilities with the central bank, officials said. Its net borrowings from the banking system shot...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-10-13 00:00:00
Costs and returns are important considerations in day-to-day business including agriculture. This is because farmers all over the world are assumed to be rational - maximising profits and minimising costs. The general perception is that farmers in Bangladesh, especially rice...
writes Imtiaz A. Hussain in the fourth of a ten-part write-up on \'Infrastructure-building and diplomacy\' | 2015-10-13 00:00:00
It was observed in the September 15 Scopus article that Bangladesh was not among 57 countries in the 2014 Quality of Life Index (QOLI) list: India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka only made it from South Asia. In the same year,...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-10-13 00:00:00
Despite disinformation about the ground realities in battle-scarred Syria going in full swing, the political differences between the US and the Russian-led coalitions are perceptibly undergoing visible changes in their strategies to dislodge the Islamic State (IS) extremists from vast...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-12 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green zone on Monday, a-day after steep fall, as investors went on a buying spree on lucrative stocks. Analysts said stocks rebounded as buyers came back to the trading floor after previous day’s panic sell-offs. Stock...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-12 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened higher on Monday after previous day's sharp fall, the second trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 39.34 points or...
Siddique Islam | 2015-10-12 00:00:00
Private-sector credit growth remained on a downturn as lower import-payment obligations and availability of low-rated overseas loans subdued demand for local funds, bankers said. The growth in private-sector credit flow came down to 12.69 per cent in August from 12.96...
Munima Sultana | 2015-10-12 00:00:00
A planned Bangladesh-Myanmar road link for continental communications remains still a distant dream as there has been no move yet to execute an official decision on rerouting it through Bandarban hill district. Competent sources said the fresh move, decided in...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-10-12 00:00:00
The capital shortfall of the country's aviation regulator may swell to over Tk 10 billion at the end of the current fiscal year (FY) mainly due to a sharp rise in its overhead expenditures, officials said. The shortfall of the...
Neil Ray | 2015-10-12 00:00:00
Some call her 'rajkumari' others 'rajkannya'. In English, though, princess is enough for both words. Twenty-three days' old, the baby is yet to have a name. In fact, she could die unnamed but for the providence that had intervened before...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-10-12 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR), apparently, is now in a buying frenzy. It has purchased a good number of locomotives, passenger coaches, wagons and DEMU trains from different sources with both hard and soft foreign loans. It intends to procure many...
Belkis Wille and James Ross for Reuters | 2015-10-12 00:00:00
For the first time, the International Criminal Court in The Hague has opened war crimes proceedings against an Islamist militant accused of leading in the destruction of historical monuments. The charges reflect a heightened global concern about the safety of...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-11 00:00:00
Stocks fell sharply on Sunday with turnover remaining sluggish as investors went on panic-driven sell-offs. Stock trading resumed with a dismal note in the morning which continued till closure of the session. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-11 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed steep fall in early hour of trading on Sunday, the opening day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, plummeted 26.17 points or 0.54 per...
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