Aloysius Milon Khan | 2014-12-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh is still largely an agrarian country. Nearly 70 per cent of its population is living in villages, of which 54 per cent live on agriculture and the remaining on rural non-farm sectors. Agriculture is one of the most crucial...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-03 00:00:00
Stocks ended higher for the third running session on Wednesday amid high turnover as optimistic investors' buying spree continued. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) went up by 59.10 points or 1.19 per cent to close...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-12-03 00:00:00
Tax fairs and surveys designed to rope in new tax payers have been regular events in recent times. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) does spend a lot of time and resources on those every year. But the ultimate outcome...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-12-03 00:00:00
The government has sought partial waiver of the policy condition tagged by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to the release of an aid installment after it missed the deadline for enacting a new customs law. As per ADB's major policy...
Mohammed Norul Alam Raju | 2014-12-03 00:00:00
When we reached Haji Nurunnabi Colony in Chittagong city, it was midday --- sunny and highly humid. Due to the day being the first working day of the week, we were prepared to find hardly any to have conversations. We,...
Julian Francis | 2014-12-03 00:00:00
My elder brother, James, who was born in 1943 with a genetic chromosomal abnormality, Down's Syndrome, and who had a severe learning disability, died in 1999 in the U.K. as a result of negligence. He died of bronchial pneumonia because...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-12-03 00:00:00
The last stage of food deprivation is generally called famine. Some would say it is the last nail in the coffin of food crisis. About 175 years back (1840s), Ireland was caught by a severe famine, called 'potato famine' that...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2014-12-03 00:00:00
As the leaders are suggesting various measures to 'kick start' the world economy, financial analysts and economic observers in Europe are apparently giving contradictory signals. Last week, two international news agencies - London-based Reuters and Paris-based AFP from Brussels and...
Shamsul Alam | 2014-12-03 00:00:00
The recent trends of foreign policy of the Bangladesh government may be delineated as: i) maintaining a balanced relationship with the USA, India, China and Japan, ii) carefully crafted relationship with India, iii) more cooperation with the neighbouring countries like...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-02 00:00:00
Stocks rose sharply for the second running session on Tuesday with turnover value improved slightly as optimistic investors took position on large cap stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed the 4,900-mark after nine sessions...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-02 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, maintaining the previous sessions’ upward trend. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-12-02 00:00:00
The ongoing drives by the government's revenue authority could hardly raise the number of individual taxpayers amid relatively higher dropout of the existing ones, tax officials said. Official figures revealed a stagnant state in the number of individuals' tax returns...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2014-12-02 00:00:00
The bicycle and bicycle spares industry in a big scale is a recent development in the industrial domain of Bangladesh. According to a World Bank report Bangladesh: Diagnostic Trade Integration Study, 2013, the growth of this industry in the country...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-12-02 00:00:00
Zaglul, M Ziauddin, Bangladesh Ambassador to the US, Iqbal Mahmud, a common friend and I spent a long evening at the house of his daughter Ontora in Virginia over a dinner little over a month ago. We reminisced about friends...
Pamelia Khaled | 2014-12-02 00:00:00
Criminal activities, including armed robbery, have of late become common in the capital. There has been an increase in criminal activities since the beginning of 2009 in areas like Gulshan, Banani and Uttara of the capital where residents, expatriates and...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
Stocks witnessed sharp gain Monday after passing sluggish days in the last few trading sessions as investors went for buying spree amid optimism. The market opened with a positive mood which continued till the market closure. At the end of...
FE Online Report | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) rose in early hours of trading on Monday, the 2nd session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up...
Siddique Islam | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The country made higher import of petroleum products and capital machinery in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY), as the overall imports grew over 11per cent during the period. Officials said the actual import in terms...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The cabinet is set to approve draft of 'Bangladesh Tea Labour Welfare Fund Act 2014' today (Monday) that includes welfare of the workers and ensures their children's education, healthcare and other facilities, officials said. The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The government has planned to evaluate performance and spot gaps in its previous financial expenditure and management reforms, officials said. "We've initiated a move to identify gaps and evaluate performance in different financial reform activities such as public expenditure, accountability...
Syful Islam | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has claimed that operating the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) by appointing private operators and buying equipments from its own fund will bring more profit for the country compared to the proposals given by other...
Khairul Islam | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The telecom regulator will urge the US-based popular social network Facebook and leading search engine Google to open 'admin panel' in Bangladesh, officials said. The officials said Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to send a proposal immediately to...
Md Jamal Hossain from Denver, USA | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
In a conversation on the occasion of Nobel Prize award ceremony in 2005, Nobel Laureate in economics Thomas Schelling said the number of people who die due to road accidents and fatalities in the United States is three times as...
Neil Ray | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
Do thieves have conscience or not? The question is likely to trouble anyone boasting even a tiny fraction of that precious gift when s/he comes across a most moving piece of news. The story in brief is that a blind...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
One handshake salvaged the 18th Summit meeting of the South Asian Association Regional Cooperation (SAARC), held in the Nepalese capital Katmandu last week, from being branded as a total 'failure'. A brief meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) has failed to fly again. It has failed to push through three agreements supposed to be signed at the 18th SAARC summit in Kathmandu on November 26. The agreements are Motor Vehicles Agreement...
Alex Lawler, Amena Bakr and Rania El Gamal of Reuters in Vienna | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
OPEC leader Saudi Arabia and fellow member the United Arab Emirates signalled on November 26 they were unlikely to push for a major change in oil output at the group's meeting this week to prop up prices that have sunk...
Ludwig Burger and Ben Hirschler of Reuters in Frankfurt/London | 2014-12-01 00:00:00
The Western world's first gene therapy drug is set to go on sale in Germany with a 1.1 million euro ($1.4 million) price tag, a new record for a medicine to treat a rare disease. The sky-high cost of Glybera,...
FE Online Report | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
The stocks ended flat on Sunday amid choppy trading with turnover hitting a fresh 4-and-half-month low as investors remained mostly inactive amid lack of any clear direction. The market opened with a positive mood, but could not sustain the trend...
FE Online Report | 2014-11-30 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
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