Khaled Mahmud Raihan | 2014-09-12 00:00:00
World Economic Forum (WEF), a Switzerland-based independent international organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas, has released the Human Capital Report...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-09-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been pursuing two well-set targets -- one is the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the other is the attainment of the middle-income status. The deadline for the first one is 2015 and for the second one is 2021....
Naimul Gani Saif | 2014-09-12 00:00:00
Without any doubt, the two major forces that are driving the economy of Bangladesh forward for the last couple of decades are export earnings and inward flow of remittance. However, remittance inflow has not shown much promising sign for the...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-09-12 00:00:00
A draft feasibility study for constructing 50-kilometre long Dhaka Bypass Highway under public-private partnership (PPP) has been submitted to the office of the Mass Rapid Transit Bangladesh (MRTB). After a final checking, the PPP office is going to issue request...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-09-12 00:00:00
The government has extended its Boro rice and paddy procurement period for one month to achieve the target, officials said. The ongoing Boro procurement drive started in May last and was supposed to end in August. The government has extended...
FE Online Report | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
Stocks ended higher for the third running session on Thursday with turnover improved further as investors' buying spree continued. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,675.91 points, gaining 12.78 points or 0.33 per cent...
FE Online Report | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
The prices of shares on the country’s twin bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – rose in early hours of trading on Thursday, the last session of the week. DSEX, the benchmark index of the...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
The Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane highway project cost is set to spike once again, as less than 50 per cent work could be done with the December deadline looming. The project cost on revision once again could be higher by over 40...
Syful Islam | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
Dhaka will press for removal of various kinds of barriers that are hindering its trade as the joint consultative commission of Bangladesh and India is meeting next week in New Delhi, official sources said. This is for the third time...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Hide & Skin Merchants Association (BHSMA), have expressed concern over the higher price of its prime processing ingredient - salt, saying if this persists, it would gravely affect the tannery business significantly. They wrote a letter recently expressing...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
T-shirt now leads the overall export of readymade garments following a phenomenal change of consumer taste for this wear across the globe, making Bangladesh second to only China in this trade. Industry-insiders informed The Financial Express about what is being...
Tania Sultana | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
Human trafficking, particularly trafficking of women and girls has been a grave concern today. Media reports or various studies indicate that it is increasing at a fast pace and agencies responsible to stop the heinous act is not in position...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
Japan has been Bangladesh's most trusted friend. It has always treated Bangladesh as special since recognising the country in February 1972. Bangladesh was the largest recipient of Japanese ODA (official development assistance) for a long time. In the 1970s 80s...
Naimul Muquim | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
The concept of enforced disappearances is not a new one as it predates the twenty-first century and was by and large, for instance, committed during Germany's occupation of Europe between 1939 and 1945. Even to this day, this phenomenon persists...
Manoj Kumar of Reuters in New Delhi | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
India will soon revise the way it measures gross domestic product to reflect under-represented and informal economic sectors, two government sources have said, in an initiative that is expected to show the economy is larger than previously thought. India usually...
Isabel Coles of Reuters in Baghdad | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends and relatives. Some had brought spades to help dig...
FE Online Report | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
Stocks ended higher for the second session Wednesday with improvement in turnover as investors' buying spree continued. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,663.13 points after gaining 15.70 points or 0.33 per cent from...
FE Online Report | 2014-09-10 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 Wednesday, the 4th session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
The government owns a number of commercial and specialized banks. But it can hardly relish the ownership since most banks under its control are troubled ones. The Ministry of Finance (MoF), which exercises control over the state-owned banks on behalf...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
Government payments for fertiliser import shot up by around 40 per cent to Tk 75.16 billion in the last fiscal (2013-14) following a drastic fall in the domestic production of the agricultural input, official sources said. Production in the state-owned...
Munima Sultana | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
The financial proposal for awarding the river training work of the Padma Bridge project to the Chinese company is expected to get the purchase committee's nod today (Wednesday), officials said. The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has already sent the proposal...
Asjadul Kibria | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
It was a few years back when export of a Bangladeshi beverage manufacturing company had been growing modestly in the north-eastern states of India. All on a sudden, a consignment of exportable beverage, consisting of fruit drinks, was halted by...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
Why should Taka leave Bangladesh? This could be a better way of asking a question: who takes the Bangladesh currency out of the country? It is mainly because our favourite novelist Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay once advised us to hate sin,...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe conveyed, during his visit to Dhaka on Saturday-Sunday last, the eagerness of Japanese businessmen to undertake comprehensive investment packages in Bangladesh. He urged businesspeople of both the countries to explore avenues of heightened economic and...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
Intermittent shelling and gunfire shattered the shaky truce in the eastern Ukraine. There is a fear the government troops and the pro-Russian separatists are taking advantage of the slackening of the war to shore up their respective strength for a...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-09-10 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will sit with the policymakers and business leaders today (Wednesday) to discuss pros and cons of new VAT and SD law, 2012 in a bid to resolve confusion about implementation of the law. The...
FE Online Report | 2014-09-09 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the green on Tuesday after two sessions’ correction with turnover rose slightly as investors took position on large-cap stocks. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,647.43 points, gaining 38.47 points or...
FE Online Report | 2014-09-09 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 Tuesday, the third session of the week. Today’s (Tuesday) trading at DSE started by five minutes...
FE Online Report | 2014-09-09 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 Tuesday, the third session of the week. Today’s (Tuesday) trading at DSE started by five minutes...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-09-09 00:00:00
Bangladeshi mobile-phone networks are allegedly being used as key communication tools for growing smuggling and crimes, intelligence sources said. They said by using such mobile networks, a large number of unregistered SIM cards from several operators are being used in...
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