Rezaul Karim | 2015-01-09 00:00:00
A novel government initiative to launch a fund styled 'Stand Alone Fund' to boost country image abroad couldn't take off for delays in making necessary money available, officials said. Allocation for overseas campaign funds to mobilize support for the government...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-01-09 00:00:00
Once again viewing television programme has been a cause of a tragic death. This time it is more than death -a plain murder, to go by reports carried in the media. Once again, the watching involved one on the Indian...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2015-01-09 00:00:00
The latest amendment to the Book Building (BB) method has yielded little results due mainly to alleged 'nexus' of institutional investors in fixation of indicative price of the companies moved to go public, insiders and experts said. They said the...
Talha Bin Habib | 2015-01-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh is all set to export rice to India as it is now waiting to get response from the latter over price proposals, officials said. The country sent price proposals to India last month. "We had sent a letter to...
Amy Sawitta Lefevre of Reuters in Bangkok | 2015-01-09 00:00:00
Thailand's legislature will start impeachment hearings this week against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who faces a lengthy political ban that could test a delicate calm established after a military coup last year. The case hands the ruling junta its...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-01-08 00:00:00
A number of taxpayers are using fake e-TINs or TINs of others in their bid to hoodwink the taxmen apparently to escape hassles and expenses associated with paying taxes, sources have said. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has identified...
Mohammad Ali | 2015-01-08 00:00:00
Audit and assurance quality of majority firms engaged in auditing the financials is not up to the mark, sources said, as questions cropped up over the certification standards of many companies' financial statements. Experts in this job say that the...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-01-08 00:00:00
The recent (December 27-29, 2014) visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Bangladesh was an important one not just in terms of Bangladesh's relations with the world's number 2 economic power but also in terms of its impact...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2015-01-08 00:00:00
A retiree dreams to pass his leisure time listening to music of his choice sitting in his living room or to the rustling sounds of a of summer wind sitting in a garden. Taking a tea or a coffee is...
Shihar Aneez and John Chalmers of Reuters in Colombo | 2015-01-08 00:00:00
In a measure of how far presidential election on January 08 (Thursday) in Sri Lanka has become a knife-edge contest, diplomats here have been checking the rules in case of a dead heat: according to a 1981 act, the rival...
Paul Lienert of Reuters in Las Vegas | 2015-01-08 00:00:00
Germany's Daimler AG wants to reset consumers' expectations about self-driving cars with its futuristic Mercedes-Benz F 015 concept, unveiled January 05 evening at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. "Anyone who focuses solely on the technology has not...
Vladimir Soldatkin of Reuters in Moscow | 2015-01-08 00:00:00
Russia's 2014 oil output hit a post-Soviet record high average of 10.58 million barrels per day (bpd), rising by 0.7 per cent helped by small non-state producers, Energy Ministry data showed on January 2. Oil and gas condensate production in...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Tax authorities will install 'data forensic laboratory' next month to detect tax evasion through paperless accounts system of the corporate taxpayers. The lab is set to start its operation from February at the Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) with advance devices...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Two important issues concerning inflow and outflow of remittance were brought to the fore last Sunday. A Bengali business daily, quoting an International Labour Organisation (ILO) report, said remittances worth in between $4.3 billion and $5.7 billion are being sent...
Munima Sultana | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The basic design of the capital's metro rail project is expected to get approval of the fast track monitoring committee meeting today (Wednesday), paving the way for its speedy implementation. Officials said the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transport Development (DMRTD) project...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The foreign missions have come under government's close watch aiming to expedite and complete the Machine Readable Passports (MRP) to Bangladeshi expatriates before the global deadline expires, officials said. Under the move, a taskforce of the ministry of foreign affairs...
Saleh Akram | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The RMG sector of Bangladesh has set itself an export target of $50 billions by 2021. The target appears slightly ambitious and quite a few people are sceptical about its attainability. In the backdrop of pronounced scepticism of some quarters,...
Md Abdul Halim | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The Pay and Service Commission has recommended an increase in salary of public servants by 100 per cent on an average. Its full implementation would raise the government spending on salary and allowance by 63.7 per cent. According to the...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Hartal at the beginning of the year does not augur well for the economy. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has indicated the prospect of high inflation. Investment is already in jeopardy because of high interest rates. Banks have a lot of...
M. Aminul Islam Akanda | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The price of fuel oil is in a free fall in the international market after four years of stability. Brent crude oil came below $60 a barrel in December, 2014, from $115 in June 2014. This large fall is not...
Reuters’ Fayaz Bukhari in Srinagar and Katharine Houreld in Islamabad | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Pakistan accused India of killing four civilians on the border of the two nuclear powers and India said one of its border guards was killed, heightening tensions before a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. India said its forces had...
Sui-Lee Wee of Reuters in Beijing | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
China has protested to the United States after Taiwan's de facto embassy in Washington hoisted a Taiwanese flag on New Year's Day, and urged the United States to respect the "One China" policy, the foreign ministry said on January 5....
Kay Johnson of Reuters in Kabul | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
US Army Major Eric Lightfoot, serving at a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan, knows NATO has its work cut out to prepare local forces to go it alone against Taliban insurgents once its training mission ends in two years' time....
Bryan Early of Reuters in Tokyo | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Responding to the cyber attack against Sony, the US government recently issued new sanctions against North Korea. There are few reasons to be optimistic that this newest round of sanctions will change Pyongyang's behavior. Like Cuba and Iran, the country...
Jeb Blount and Anthony Boadle of Reuters in Brasilia | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
When federal investigators first identified signs of corruption at Petrobras in 2009, Dilma Rousseff insisted Brazil's state-run oil company had nothing to hide. "Petrobras has one of the most accurate accounting standards in the world," said Rousseff, who was then...
Shah Alam Nur | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Country's readymade garment industry faces a number of challenges in 2015, compliance with western consumer standards and fresh political fracas being among major ones, sector-insiders said. Restoring the GSP facility on the US market and finding new export markets for...
Siddique Islam | 2015-01-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank is set to gear up its activities to curb the illicit outflow of funds through establishing a separate wing, as the financial offence called 'capital flight' accelerates. The new combat wing of the BB will be created under...
Shamsul Huda | 2015-01-06 00:00:00
An inter-ministerial meeting recently turned down a proposal of framing separate building construction rules for the areas under the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), officials said. The LGED had earlier sent a proposal to the Ministry of Housing and Public...
Neil Ray | 2015-01-06 00:00:00
Dr Richard Smith, a former editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), has virtually exploded a bombshell by making a contentious claim. His suggests that it is wise to 'stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer'. Because, he thinks, 'it...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-01-06 00:00:00
The fisheries sector contributes about 5.0 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 9.0 per cent of the labour force of the country. There was a time when the fisheries sector at large was ignored for production...
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