Special Correspondent | 2014-01-06 00:00:00
A top executive of a leading insurance company has demanded that mandatory reinsurance with state-owned Sadharan Bima Corporation (SBC) be relaxed in order to ensure competitive and professional reinsurance services and support by the non-life insurance companies in Bangladesh. "It...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-01-06 00:00:00
The growing automobile body building industry is making over Tk1.0 billion local value addition to the imported chassis and engines of buses, trucks and other vehicles a year, sources said. Approximately one thousand small, medium and large factories are scattered...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
Relocation of tanneries from the city's Hazaribag to Savar will be delayed, if the country's current political volatility continues. Industry insiders opine that tanners cannot bear the cost of relocation at this moment, as the present political stalemate has almost...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
The demand for Smartphone in Bangladesh is rising fast, thanks to the introduction of the 3G (third generation) mobile phone service. Faster internet access through mobile device has made people enthusiastic over Smartphone. Besides, mobile phone operators and handset vendors...
Julia Payne of Reuters from London | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has received substantial imports of Iraqi crude oil from an Egyptian port in the last nine months, shipping and payments documents show, part of an under-the-radar trade that has kept his military running...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
Apart from the existing European market, new export destinations for knitwear garments are helping increase country's export volume every year, sources said. According to BKMEA sources, knit readymade garment export may exceed woven again this year in the next couple...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
A recent study shows that the groundwater level in Dhaka city is falling at a rate of 9.21 feet per year. During the last seven years, the groundwater level has registered a fall of 65.61 feet. Indiscriminate use of groundwater...
Siddique Islam | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
The country's overall imports grew by more than 9.0 per cent in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2013-14, amid the ongoing political turmoil. "The overall imports increased during the period under review mainly due to...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
The year 2013 to which we bade adieu last week, has been quite tumultuous for Bangladesh and the countries beyond it. The developments of the last year would impact the new year in varying ways; it is quite likely that...
Masum Billah | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
As private universities occupy a significant portion of our higher education, quality of education in these universities sometimes makes the newspaper headlines. Now we cannot afford to think of the field of higher education without giving an important consideration towards...
Neil Ray | 2014-01-05 00:00:00
At a time when politics is undergoing criminalisation, thanks to gross miscalculations by the ruling party and unholy influence of the anti-liberation forces on one of the main contending political parties, even the highly optimist sees no light at the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
Decline in operating profits of private commercial banks (PCBs) in 2013 has made the tax authorities worried against the backdrop of the significant fall in collection of corporate tax in the second half of the current fiscal year (FY). Around...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
Implementation of the Annual Development Programmes (ADPs) of Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has been facing disruption due to the frequent countrywide blockades that began in October last year, officials said. "The RHD project implementation has totally been halted due...
Mohsin Ali | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
The civil society leaders spoke out recently in a seminar on our national issues. They discussed about the prevailing situation in the country, especially, terrorism, election and democracy. They blamed the politicians of both the ruling and opposition parties for...
Md A Halim Miah | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been performing well in attaining the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), of which reducing poverty and hunger, enrolling increased number of children with schools and reducing deaths of children below five years of age, are some. We are...
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
Political violence has become pervasive in Bangladesh and part of our life. Political agitation is not new here, but it has now acquired a new dimension which is perhaps both brutal and dangerous. Who does pay the price? Of course,...
Babul Barman | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
Stocks went back to the green last week that ended on Thursday after two weeks' losing streak, powered by the investors' buying spree despite pre-polls unrest. The market witnessed four trading sessions, like previous two weeks as market remained closed...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
Automatic rice mills are expected to dominate the local market over the next couple of years due to more investment in the sector. Investors have started making foray into the sector mainly due to its better quality, cost effectiveness and...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
The ministry of finance (MoF) is likely to reduce further the government's borrowing from the central bank by using the overdraft-current (ODC) tool, officials have said. The MoF has already put a cap on the government's borrowing from the Bangladesh...
Syful Islam | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh will soon request China to extend the tenure of its preferential and concessional loan to buy six vessels for the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) until June this year as difference over their price is delaying the procurement, sources said....
Masum Parvez Nobel | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
It is well-known to everybody that Bangladesh has about 230 small and large rivers, and a big chunk of the country's 160 million people rely on them for livelihood and for transportation. On the contrary experts state many of them...
Khabirul Haque Kamal and Safiul Azam | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
Children are enormous blessings from Allah; at the same time they are Amanah or trust from Him to us. The ultimate aim of preserving that trust is to do our best to protect them from hell-fire in the after-life, "O...
Parvez Babul | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
HUMAN-induced climate change has made our only world fragile and unlivable. Total population, I mean seven billion people of all the seven continents, rich and poor of the world are vulnerable at present due to climate change. Research shows that...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-01-04 00:00:00
What it would be like if the entire population of the globe had suddenly suffered a bout of memory loss or there had been a cosmic conspiracy to eclipse the sun for a day or a two or even the...
Syful Islam | 2014-01-03 00:00:00
A large quantity of soybean oil and lentil is becoming date-expired and stale in the warehouses of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) at a time when people are buying these essential items from the market at an exorbitant price, sources...
Munima Sultana | 2014-01-03 00:00:00
The ongoing political unrest has hit the city's flower traders hard, as their sales declined sharply despite peak season and special occasions. The flower shop owners said they could not get half of their investment back during the New Year...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-01-03 00:00:00
People, both individually and collectively, prepare a wish list for a New Year. What should be the wish list like for an average Bangladeshi and the nation as a whole? A country in the throes of political anarchy and economic...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-01-03 00:00:00
When a months-old political party formed the new government in the important Indian state of Delhi, many rubbed their eyes in utter disbelief. The reason was obvious. How could such a new organisation with virtually no background in politics make...
FE Online Report | 2014-01-02 00:00:00
Stocks ended higher Thursday, the last trading day of the week with lower turnover as most investors followed ‘wait-and-see’ policy on prevailing volatile political situation.Meanwhile, trading and official activities of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) will...
FE Online Report | 2014-01-02 00:00:00
The prices of most of the stocks on both bourses - Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)- witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading Thursday amid see-saw, the last trading day of the week. Meanwhile, trading...
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