T I M Nurul Kabir | 2015-10-03 00:00:00
Internet is an amazing technological innovation that has revolutionised the entire range of economic, social and personal interactions. Internet merges notable features of traditional media like broadcasting and telecommunications. Internet has removed the barriers to information access and communication in...
Abu Afsarul Haider | 2015-10-03 00:00:00
Out of 160 million people of the country, only 1.1 million pay income tax. This is shameful and unbelievable, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith at a seminar held in Dhaka recently. It is true that Bangladesh has one of the...
Nabil Azam Dewan | 2015-10-03 00:00:00
Bangladesh has drawn up a plan to reclaim land from the Bay of Bengal. The government wants to relocate and even rehabilitate thousands of people who have lost their homes due to extreme weather, erosion and a rise in sea...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-10-03 00:00:00
The Bangalees live on fish and rice -was once the tagline. That was the time when fish were in abundant supply. Even the poorest could manage fish for their meals with little effort from water bodies all around. However, with...
Syful Islam | 2015-10-02 00:00:00
The government is set to brief the country's development partners on six thematic areas centering Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Vision-2021 at a meeting of the Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF), slated for November 15-16, officials said. The thematic areas are...
Siddique Islam | 2015-10-02 00:00:00
Overall interest rate spread in the country's banking sector fell slightly further in August as the commercial banks are slashing their lending rates to attract clients, particularly corporate ones, bankers said. The weighted average spread between lending and deposit rates...
Mohammad Ali | 2015-10-02 00:00:00
Assessment plays a very significant role in the development of students' English language. In Bangladesh, there is a big gap between the curriculum guidelines and that of assessment practices in the schools. This is why most students fail to achieve...
Ziaul Haque Howlader | 2015-10-02 00:00:00
Tourism is going to herald a new era of enhanced economic activities throughout the world. The world will witness movement of more than one billion tourists at the end of this year, 2015. By the year 2030, it will touch...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2015-10-02 00:00:00
The initiatives of BIG-B (The Bay of Bengal Industrial Growth Belt) led by Japan and the BCIM (Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar) economic corridor officially classified as closely related to the 'One Belt and One Road' ( OBOR) initiative of China are slowly emerging...
writes Imtiaz A. Hussain in the first of a ten-part write-up on the theme, \'Infrastructure-Building & Diplomacy\'. | 2015-10-02 00:00:00
The Brahmatputra-Gangetic delta is not the Central Asia of the 19th Century, when rivalry between Great Britain and Tsarist Russia prompted Halford John Mackinder's Heartland thesis: that whichever country controlled East Europe controlled the Eurasian "heartland", the "world islands" of...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green zone on Thursday with falling turnover as the investors followed cautious stance. The market opened higher, but mid-session witnessed downturn. However, late hour buying helped to close marginally higher. DSEX, the prime index of the...
FE Online Report | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hour of trading on Thursday with marginal volatility, the last trading day of the week. After first 30 minutes of the day’s trading, DSEX,...
Munima Sultana | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
Japanese consultants have recommended that the government should start the process of building another line of the metro rail on the east-west communications corridor in the capital, officials said. The city has no direct east-west transport link and it is...
Siddique Islam | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
The central bank purchased more than US$560 million from banks in September to help keep the inter-bank foreign exchange (forex) market stable before and after the Eid-ul-Azha festival, officials said. "We've bought more US currency from the banks directly in...
Special Correspondent | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
The ensuing 5th Capital Market Fair, to be arranged by Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) will help broaden the financial literacy among the investors. "CSE realises the significance of financial literacy.The fair is part of our enduring efforts to create awareness...
M. Shahidul Islam | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
China was well-connected with its immediate neighbours as well as Europe, Middle East and Africa through the Silk Road for centuries. There were two components of the Silk Road- Overland Silk Road (OSR) and Maritime Silk Road (MSR). The former...
Maeesha Tahsin Mitul | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
CreADive, an inter-university business communication and advertisement making competition organised by Bangladesh University of Professional's Communications Club (BUPCC), is expanding across Bangladesh for its second incarnation. The mega event is being supported by Sena Kalyan Sangstha and Trust Bank Limited....
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
The 1993 bombing of World Trade Centre and the ghastly attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001 have so vastly shaped the American perception of the Muslims that politicians find issues with Muslims as easy tools...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2015-10-01 00:00:00
Seasonal raw hide traders this year suffered losses as they bought skins of sacrificial animals at prices higher than the rates set by merchants and tanners ahead of Eid-ul Azha. When the seasonal traders approached the merchants and tanners for...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
Stocks closed almost flat on Wednesday with higher turnover as investors were active both side of the trading ahead of third quarter earnings declaration. The market opened positive for a brief period, but slowed down later part of the session,...
FE Online Report | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday with choppy trading. After the first 30 minutes, DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 6.93...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
The Urdu saying 'Jo dikhta hai woh hota nahi aur jo hota hai woh dikhta nahi' (what you see is not the reality and whatever is the reality you don't see), seemingly, explains well the ongoing developments surrounding the BASIC...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
The tax authority has moved to compile a statement of international transaction (SIT) for the first time by collecting details of all of the cross-border financial transactions conducted by the taxpayers across the country. The Income Tax wing under the...
Siddique Islam | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
The government is going to issue four more foreign-currency bonds for the non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) who live in the European countries to make risk-free investment on high stakes. Officials said the proposed Euro Premium Bond, Euro Investment Bond, Pound Sterling...
Siddique Islam | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
BRAC Bank has vowed to create entrepreneurial ecosystem supported by all the stakeholders to take the growing SME businesses in new height. "BRAC Bank Limited is giving emphasis on creation of an entrepreneurial ecosystem through providing collateral-free loan for strengthening...
Syful Islam | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
Only one-third of the diplomatic missions of the country could help achieve export targets during the July-August period of the current fiscal year, officials said. Most others miserably missed the marks set for them. Out of 53 diplomatic missions, they...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
US oil major Chevron is expected to launch an enterprise development programme in Bangladesh today (Wednesday) as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). BRAC, one of the largest non-government organisations (NGO) in the world, will implement the 18-month pilot...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established on December 08 of 1985 although its idea was floated earlier on May 02 of 1980 by former Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman. The organisation's principal objective is to undertake a...
Greg Williams | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
Pope Francis promoted a series of specific economic policies on debt, trade and tax to alleviate poverty in his address on Monday to the United Nations General Assembly. The Pope's UN speech followed his address to a joint session of...
Taslima Ahmed | 2015-09-30 00:00:00
While global attention is now focused on refugees from trouble-torn Middle Eastern countries, the issue of the Rohingyas from Myanmar has sadly been left to the backyard. They face similar brutalities as the Arabs face in their home countries. Influx...
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