Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
A little bit of generosity on the part of the central bank in the matters of loan rescheduling has, apparently, helped a section of banks and their errant borrowers reap benefits. It also has the potential to benefit the government...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The number of actual Taxpayers Identification Number (TIN) holders crossed 1.06 million until Monday following positive response of taxpayers to the online TIN system. The e-TIN registration system will continue until March 31 next that the government introduced in the...
Md. Rabiul Hoque | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
In 2008 and 2009, global economic crisis unfolded. After the crisis, a question was raised as to whether the kind of economics taught to students in economics departments was responsible for the widespread failure to predict the timing and magnitude...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The loss in the legal battle for the opposition, seeking to nullify the February 02 controversial national elections in Thailand, has come as a relief for the government, but the crisis remains unresolved. The kingdom's constitutional court declined to consider...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
There is no major headway in meeting the realtors' recommendations made to the government to help them out after the political turmoil late last year. The Real Estate & Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) earlier recommended creation of a long-term...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
Country's US$ 23 billion worth apparel industry is set to be equipped with modern machinery and tools which garment makers believe will make their products cost-effective and enhance their ability to compete in the global market. A number of garment...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The market extended losing streak for the fourth running session Tuesday as investors continued to sell stocks amid cautious trading. The market opened with a positive note, and the main index of the premier bourse gained 29 points within first...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The prices of most of the stocks on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading Tuesday, the third trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE...
Munima Sultana | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
A move is underway to set up a cantonment on around 200 acres of land on both sides of the Padma bridge project for ensuring fool-proof security of the country's key installation. The Bangladesh Army was going to place a...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The Rajuk might cancel anytime all the remaining contracts on construction of 6,000 flats under the Uttara Apartment Project because of the contractors' poor performance, an official said. A source at the project director's office at Rajuk said: "Everything is...
Siddique Islam | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The central bank has intensified its monitoring and supervision of investment in share market by the commercial banks aiming at avoiding any unwanted situation in future, officials said. "We've taken the issue as a top priority matter to minimise risks...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
A good number of international ready-made garment (RMG) buyers have been cancelling their import orders at the eleventh hour without assigning any reason hitting hard the local RMG suppliers. For cancellation of the import orders country's RMG exporters counting losses...
Syful Islam | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh will seek duty-free market access of 21 products including apparels, cement and leather goods to Sri Lanka under preferential trade agreement (PTA) as the joint working group of two countries is meeting in the capital today (Tuesday), sources said....
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The government is likely to introduce online Business Identification Number (BIN) for the businesses from January 2015 in a bid to bring them under automated taxation system. With the introduction of the system, both the existing businesses and the new...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Tannery owners are trying to get $1.0 billion loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for meeting the cost of relocation from the city's Hazaribagh to Savar. Recently, they wrote a letter to the JICA for providing the financial assistance...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The government is examining the proposal of the telecom ministry to halve the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call rate from the existing US$0.3 cents considering the negative impact on revenue earning from the sector. Sources said two issues are...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The securities regulator is giving first priority to the introduction of commodity exchange and clearing corporation by relevant formulating rules and conducting required feasibility study, officials said. The necessity of introducing the commodity exchange and clearing corporation has become stronger...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
As European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos said, greater emphasis has to be given to two factors for modernising agriculture. These are innovation and youth. Young farmers naturally bring innovative and progressive ideas in line with the...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Research studies indicate that the shrimp industry is one of the most important contributors to economic development of the country. Foreign exchange earnings from frozen shrimp exports in 2009-2010 were US$ 400 million. The main cultured species is the tiger...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Aid for Trade (AFT) has been at work for quite some time in Bangladesh. It is an initiative of the World Trade Organistion (WTO) aimed at enhancing developing countries' capacity to promote trade. The assumption behind this is that there...
Charles R. Morris writes for Reuters | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The United States was the world's first middle-class nation, which was a big factor in its rapid growth. Mid-19th-century British travellers marvelled at American workers' "ductility of mind and the readiness…for a new thing" and admired how hard and willingly...
Alamgir Kabir | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Scarcely our banking sector had time to recover its equilibrium unsettled by the Hallmark scam when it was further undermined by the shuddering revelations of irregularities by the BASIC Bank. The bank's disbursement of loan worth of Tk 30 billion...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The market ended lower for the third running session Monday with key index of the premier bourse dipped below 4,700 point-mark as investors went for selling spree amid cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note, but could not...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The market ended lower for the third running session Monday with key index of the premier bourse dipped below 4,700 point-mark as investors went for selling spree amid cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note, but could not...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The prices of most of the stocks on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading Monday amid volatile trading. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE went up by 18.37...
Khairul Islam | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The country's public universities are likely to plunge in severe financial crisis during the final quarter of the current financial year as the government has declined to make available any additional fund as requested by the University Grants Commission (UGC),...
Syful Islam | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has sought permission from the ministry of finance (MoF) to give the local banks a waiver on setting up separate subsidiary companies for carrying out securities custodial business, sources said. Earlier, the BB gave such a...
Neil Ray | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
A great civilisation flourished on the Indus-Saraswati basin 3,500 years before the birth of Christ. The Indus civilisation at Mohenjodaro and Harappa reached great height in terms of architecture, defence, water supply and sewerage systems. According to one theory, climate...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
Illegal connections and pilferage are endemic in the public sector utility services such as gas, electricity and water. In most cases, an unscrupulous section of officials and employees is always found to be involved in all the mischievous acts of...
Md. Jamal Hossain | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
Dr. Abul Basher in an article published in the FE, February 03, rightly expressed his concern that the Bangladesh Bank's effort to keep the inflation rate at the target level will prove very much challenging. He suggested that to bring...
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