Rezaul Karim | 2015-03-09 00:00:00
Garment makers and textiles producers are locked in a row over the formation of a panel intended to regulate local cotton yarn prices, officials said. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association handed a proposal to the ministry of commerce...
Shah Alam Nur | 2015-03-09 00:00:00
Non-resident Bangladeshis have started buying flats or plots at home after efforts by realtors to boost sluggish sales, industry people said. The Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) has also taken a set of initiatives such as promotional...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-03-09 00:00:00
Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley presented the 2015-16 Union budget in Lok Sabha on February 28. Think tanks and trade bodies here in Bangladesh have been studying Arun Jaitley's budget proposals as a routine exercise. In fact, the economic and...
M Jalal Hussain | 2015-03-09 00:00:00
It's known to everyone in the modern business world how political instability, slugfests and hostilities affect the economy of a country. The people of Bangladesh have been struggling since independence 42 years ago. The economy of the country is stained...
Neil Ray | 2015-03-09 00:00:00
If picture speaks what thousands of words cannot, there was one on the front page of this newspaper last Saturday. The picture concerns makeshift open shops of readymade garments for children, which give a disconcerting look in the absence of...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-03-09 00:00:00
Owners of private 'referral' hospitals are like scores of other businessmen who are guided by profit motive. They are happy with the fiscal benefits that have been coming in the form of reduced duties and taxes on the import of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Contribution of women taxpayers to the public exchequer has marked a significant rise over the years following their greater participation in businesses and other income generating activities. Among 10 tax-card winners in 2013-14 five were women. In 2010-11 only one...
Munima Sultana | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Banks may know its total clients based on gender. But they may not know how much potential women clients have to make business profitable. Amid such scenario, a private bank has taken the challenge of providing all kinds of banking...
Syful Islam | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
The country's business community continues to put pressure on the government to have VAT (value-added tax) Act 2012' amended to make it 'more business and compliance-friendly', officials said. The leaders of the apex trade body, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of...
Munima Sultana | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
The Tk 1.0 billion block allocation for women entrepreneurs has either remained unused or spent in projects other than entrepreneurship development in the budgets since the fiscal year (FY) 2012-13. Women entrepreneurs, however, claimed that in absence of availability of...
Munima Sultana | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
It is indeed a good news for the nation. At least for those who want to take up jobs abroad in a bid to change their lot. Since labour market in Saudi Arabia has been reopened recently for Bangladeshi job...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Economic contribution of women, especially in informal sector, yet to be taken into account while estimating the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Women, involved in household work, are widely regarded as 'unsung heros' as their mammoth contribution remained unaccounted for...
Md Mahbub Alam Prodip | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
March 08 is observed every year as 'International Women's Day' (IWD) around the world. Different kinds of events are organised with a view to inspiring women's activities and reflecting on their achievements. The celebrations take place locally and nationally where...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Moody's has assigned a 'Baa3' rating on India, with a stable outlook. The global credit rating agency's Investors Service said the lower oil prices is expected to alleviate India's high inflation and spur economic growth. Its research report "Global Macro...
Talha Bin Habib | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
The government has a set a target to produce 3.5 million tonnes of fish by the end of 2015 under its ongoing rehabilitation project that involves Tk 1.28 billion (128 crore). The "Rehabilitation of Infrastructure of Fish Seed Multiplication Firm...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) under the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has sought an allocation of Tk 65.62 billion (6,562 crore) for acquisition of land for the proposed Economic Zones (EZs) across the country. The fund is badly needed...
Syful Islam | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
The economic relations division (ERD) has requested ministries and departments to submit detailed status of their ongoing and newly-approved foreign-funded projects to help it start preparing the Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the next fiscal year (FY) 2015-16, officials said....
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
It was more than a year ago when the country's tea producers sought remedial measures from the safeguard authority concerned against huge import of the commodity from other countries. In response to the appeal, the safeguard authority, the Bangladesh Tariff...
Munima Sultana | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
The Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB) Project is likely to create more job opportunity for skilled and semi-skilled professionals than unskilled labourers, officials said. They have initially estimated that more than 1,500 engineers and technicians of international standard will be engaged...
Shamsul Huda | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
Having incurred massive losses in the peak time tour operators, hoteliers, resort owners and a good number of service providers are worried that they would also suffer further loss in the coming lean period. The January-March period is considered as...
Babul Barman | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
The stock market passed yet another bearish week, extending the losing streak for the third week straight as the investors were in selling spree amid the deepening political strife. The week retraced in all five trading sessions as depressed investors...
Ismail Hossain | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
Adhesive manufacturing industry in the country has been growing at a 20 per cent rate annually over the last few years thanks to the expansion of shoe, plywood, furniture, packaging and many other gum-consuming industries in the country. "The size...
Md Nayem Alimul Hyder | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
The subject of the rights of persons with disabilities is one of the least understood or rather one of the most misunderstood issues in Bangladesh. It has remained as one of the most neglected development agenda both by the state...
Shoriful Islam | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh's ambition to become a middle-income country by 2021 faces great challenges. One of these is to provide gainful employment to over 2 million people who will join the labour force each year over the next decade. Moreover, 51.5 million...
F R Chowdhury from London | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
Shipping is an international business. It cannot operate globally under any unitary regulatory control of an individual state. It has to comply with common standards developed at international forum; and that forum is now IMO - International Maritime Organisation, a...
Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi and more popularly and simply as Rumi (1207 - 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turkish, Greeks, Pashtuns, other...
Silvia Zaman | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
The term HIV/AIDS is known to all of us and different initiatives have been taken for last few years to address it. If a sustainable development goal is set to achieve zero level of HIV infection prevalence, then the monitoring...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
Records fell like nine pins in this year's World Cup cricket till the group stage contest. Chris Gayle's 215 score was the highest and first double tons in any World Cup match. De Villers then put paid to Gayle's superhuman...
Syful Islam | 2015-03-06 00:00:00
The department of shipping (DoS) has been asked to clarify signing of two memoranda of understanding (MoU) with Iran without prior consent of the shipping and foreign ministries, officials have said. In a letter to the DoS this week the...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-03-06 00:00:00
The sight of a fruit vendor displaying good quality luscious strawberries at the unlikely street corner no more surprises the Dhakaites. In fact, this exotic fruit announces its ubiquitous presence almost anywhere in the city. Its price too is unexpectedly...
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