Salma Afrose | 2014-11-01 00:00:00
Malnutrition is one of public health problems in our country. Most of our mothers are unaware of the importance of eating nutritious foods while they are expecting baby. Experts said many children suffer from severe malnutrition as most mothers do...
Masum Billah | 2014-11-01 00:00:00
Scottish voters headed to the polls on September 18, 2014 to answer a simple question whether Scotland would be an independent country. Scotland has been under British rule since 1707. If 'Yes' vote would win, it meant its separation from...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-11-01 00:00:00
Sports and games are no forte of this nation. On the global stage, the country's presence in this area is conspicuous either by its absence or unenviable performance. The country's participants in such meets are encouraged by the hackneyed mantra,...
Siddique Islam | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
Banks are lowering the interest rate on deposits continuously to match their earnings with expenditures, bankers said Thursday. The interest rate on deposits, particularly fixed ones, dropped around 3.0 percentage points in September last compared to the corresponding period of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is set to extend the deadline for submission of income tax returns for 2014-15 tax-year by individual taxpayers following a poor trend in submission of tax returns until Thursday. The deadline is scheduled to...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
Different social, economic, political, cultural, ethical, and moral, factors ultimately determine the socio-economic growth-path of a nation-state. Economic development is, therefore, a multi-dimensional process involving a multitude of economic and non-economic factors. It is an all-encompassing phenomenon involving numerous variables...
Mashiur Rahman in the first of a two-part article | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
Aid Information Management System Project (AIMS) was launched by the Economic Relations Division on October 26, 2010. The technical assistance project would consolidate aid related data on a single portal, which would make access to data effortless, relatively speaking. Co-financed...
Md Badrul Islam | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
Think about a state where life expectancy has more than doubled in twenty years, where a million people have overcome poverty, where 63.8 per cent women are the majority of the legislators, where 95 per cent of the people have...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
When Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu comments that women cannot count on their safety even from the police, the depth of the rot set in society can really be fathomed. A survey conducted by the ActionAid Bangladesh reveals that as...
M Jalal Hussain | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
As advancement of science and information technology (IT), globalisation of businesses, industries and finance raise the international capital flows, determining the appropriate monetary policy is becoming more multidimensional for developing countries. The challenges for policymakers are to gauge the different...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
Domestic logistics business is growing with a positive trend through direct penetration of consumer products and services everywhere in the country, sources said. Along with the professional logistics entrepreneurs the corporate houses and industries are developing their own resources for...
Mohammad Ali | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
Construction materials like iron bar, cement and other machinery equipments could be potential items for Bangladeshi businesses to export to neighbouring Myanmar, enhancing bilateral trade volume between the two countries. "We import raw materials for construction like iron bar, cement,...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green on Thursday after two sessions’ marginal correction with turnover improved further as the investors took position on large cap stocks. Despite the countrywide shutdown, the market started with an upbeat mood at 10:30am which sustained...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw upward trend in early hours of trading on Thursday, the last session of the week amid countrywide shutdown. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE went up by 26.26...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
Tax revenue collection grew by 16 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, banking largely on a bonanza of car sales and Eid shopping. Officials attribute the robust growth to an impressive performance by three of...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh Sugar & Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC) plans to export some 50,000 tonnes of sugar produced by the corporation to the European Union (EU) countries, officials have said. The Ministry of Industries (MoI) has sought permission from the Ministry of...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
Facebook co-founder and CEO MarkZuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have recently announced they will donate $120 million to San Francisco's Bay Area schools. Wow! Priscilla in her first television interview (since she wed the billionaire), told NBC television's Savannah...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
In the recently-concluded conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) held in Dhaka, Maros Ivanic and Will Martin (from World Bank) dealt with an interesting area of investigation on which researches seem to be rare. It is the...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
The latest: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its 2014 global growth forecast to 3.3 per cent from 3.4 per cent, the third reduction this year as the prospects for a sustainable recovery from the 2007-2009 global financial crisis...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-29 00:00:00
Stocks edged lower for the second running session on Wednesday with turnover improved slightly as the investors went for late hours selling binge. The market opened with a positive mood, but could not sustain. At the end of the session,...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-29 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday, the fourth session of the week, amid volatility. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 7.96...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-10-29 00:00:00
The government and the local apparel sector entrepreneurs have finally taken a decision that was long overdue. They have decided to allow conditional entry of foreign investors in the readymade garment (RMG) sector outside the export processing zones (EPZs). A...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-10-29 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) moves to make a roadmap for raising the country's tax-GDP ratio by 4.0 per cent in the next four years at government's directive. Officials said the revenue agency made the move following a directive...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-10-29 00:00:00
The Privatisastion Commission (PC) virtually does not have any business to do following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent announcement to stall privatization of state-owned enterprises (SoEs). The government had a decision to transfer a number of textiles and jute mills...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-10-29 00:00:00
A major accident involving a launch or a bus or a train usually triggers a lot of activities on the part of the ministers and officials concerned. But such hyper response to the post-accident situation tends to be short-lived. For...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-10-29 00:00:00
Share price of Shahjibazar Power Company Limited (SPCL) rose by 94.30 per cent in seven consecutive trading sessions despite the company's profit declined in third quarter (January-March, 2014) as per special audit conducted following the regulatory instruction. On Tuesday, in...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-10-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh has sought favourable consideration of India for a second LOC (line of credit) in the third meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC), sources said. The meeting was held on September 20 in New Delhi. Foreign Minister Abul...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-28 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the red on Tuesday after previous day’s upturn with turnover on the prime bourse hitting a three-month low as investors went for late hour selling binge. The market opened with an upward mood, but could not sustain...
FE Online Report | 2014-10-28 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the third session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-10-28 00:00:00
A 75 per cent increase in subsidy expenditure on power between the months of June and August last has stirred up worries among finance ministry officials. The ministry of finance (MoF) at its recent meeting has reviewed the issue and...
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