Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2013-10-14 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the country's longest yet world's most expensive, in terms of per kilomtre construction cost, flyover, popularly known as the Jatrabari-Gulistan flyover on Friday last. Notwithstanding the delays and escalation of construction cost manifolds, the opening...
M. Serajul Islam | 2013-10-14 00:00:00
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), has shut down the Government of the United States of America since the 1st of October. The shutdown occurred when the GOP used its majority in the House of...
Khairul Islam | 2013-10-14 00:00:00
A significant number of deadly road mishaps mainly occur because of carrying overloaded passengers and plying unfit vehicular, especially during the big festivals like Eid, accident analysts observed. They suggested the government and home-bound people to take their own respective...
Siddique Islam | 2013-10-14 00:00:00
The interbank call money rate hit 10 per cent Sunday, the last working day before the Eid-ul-Azha festival, because of higher withdrawal of cash from the banks, treasury officials said. The call rate ranged between 5.80 per cent and 10.00...
Syful Islam | 2013-10-14 00:00:00
Neighbouring India is likely to withdraw the 12 per cent countervailing duty (CVD) it charges on apparel imports from Bangladesh, official sources have said. Indian revenue secretary Sumit Bose in New Delhi recently assured a high-level Bangladesh delegation of positively...
Shamsul Huda | 2013-10-14 00:00:00
The progress of construction of Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane highway has slowed down as Sino Hydro is having trouble with its head office about disbursement of adequate funds for expediting the work, sources said. In 20 months they were able to complete...
Talha Bin Habib | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
The government has moved to strengthen the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) allowing it to build a buffer stock of essential commodities, increase the number of board members and authorise capital. The move came following the approval by the cabinet...
Shah Alam Nur | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
Export order for leather goods in non-traditional markets is on the rise thanks to shifting of the buyers from China and India to Bangladesh. Industry insiders said they have been trying to expand their export market and getting good response...
Sultana Yesmin | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) announced October 05 as World Teachers' Day in 1994. Following the decision of the UNESCO, countries have been celebrating the day with a view to providing support for teachers by ensuring...
Rasel Mahmud Sajal | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
English is considered as the global language but we are far away from fulfilling our target to be able to communicate in that language. As a developing country, we are not aware enough to realise the truth that without English...
M Jalal Hussain | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
Innovation and technology play the most significant role in the lives of billions of people in the present-day world. The decent and luxurious life-styles of the people of the 21st century spring directly from the proliferation of science, technology and...
Masum Billah | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2013. A Canadian, Munro well-acclaimed for her short-stories is the thirteenth woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The last woman to receive it was Herta Muller of...
Abul Basher | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
In addition to the flight of people leaving town in flocks for their roots in village and bumper-to-bumper traffic jam in the highways, the collection of rawhides also makes headline news on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha. Total demand for rawhides...
Mohammad Ali | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
Workers' retirement age irrespective of their public or private employment has been adjudicated as 60 years, instead of 57 years, sources said. "Workers at state-owned enterprises (SoEs), corporations and private institutions will retire at their 60 years of age as...
Khalilur Rahman | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
A front-page photograph appeared in this newspaper last week showed how rickshaws and rickshaw-vans are plying the main road in front of the Bangladesh Secretariat at ease. Despite the ban now in force on plying non-motorized transports imposed by the...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
Is Narendra Modi inching towards assumption of the most powerful office in India? This is the most talked-about issue in India and beyond, at the present moment. The matter has assumed a particular significance, in view of the next general...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-10-13 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has started refunding excess income tax to the individual taxpayers from this year. This is being done to help the people who are paying advance tax despite having below taxable income. The Board has...
Abu Sayed Md Shaykhul Islam | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh wants to eradicate poverty as soon possible and looks forward to become a mid-income country by 2021. For this purpose, the country gives emphasis on both local and foreign private investments. In reality, private investment is the engine of...
Muhammad Anisul Islam | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
Financial market facilitates transfer of funds from surplus areas to deficit ones in exchange of handsome returns to lenders. This convinces the savers to forgo their current consumption. But it is unlikely that the lenders will give their valuable savings...
Lutfor Rahman | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
During the past few years, people suffered a lot due to shortage of electricity in urban as well as rural areas. They are now habituated to use electricity. Life becomes a hell without it. At the beginning of the century,...
Rezaul Karim | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh finalised a list of 35 products, for which the government would seek the facility of their duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) access to the Saudi market aiming to boost exports to that country and reduce the wide trade gap between...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam reviewing the book | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
The expression 'sustainable development' has for quite some time been used by economists, environmentalists, development professionals and academics, who are concerned about the bleak scenario of ignoring environmental dimensions in the efforts to promote development. In the 1980s, the term...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
In economics, the usual perception about the term 'rational' is not so comfortable at all. People usually think that the term means a self-centred or selfish behaviour of economic agents. This is in fact true, and it is what we...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
The concept of "senior citizen" hardly exists in out society even though there are talks galore about the aging people. True, like many other advanced or even developing nations, no scopes are in place here for genuine care of the...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
This is festival time. Right at this moment the Bangalee Hindus are observing their greatest religious festival, Durga Puja (worship of the goddess Durga) spanning over long five days. The Muslims are all set to observe Eid-ul-Azha, one of their...
Talukdar Rasel Mahmud | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh is a developing country. In order to turn it into a developed one, the protection of trademark plays an important role in its cultural, industrial and economic uplift. But it is a matter of great concern that counterfeit products...
S. A. Mansoor reviewing various operational aspects of the proposed Rooppur nuclear plant | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
The Government appears to be all set to buy a U236-fuelled nuclear power plant (2 X 1000MW units) from Russia of all the countries. Russia has the highest number of civilian casualties from the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. It killed...
Siddique Islam | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
Four state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) have started disbursing around Tk 7.56 billion as loans among tanners to help them procure raw hide of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha. Only those parties, who already repaid their earlier dues, are qualified for fresh...
Munima Sultana | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
Is the Bangladesh Secretariat turning into a place for begging? So far known as a centre for lobbying, the highest seat of government administration is now gradually becoming an ideal ground for beggars. But it is difficult to find how...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-10-11 00:00:00
The government has moved to increase the authority of spending on the part of the government offices after more than seven years in a bid to streamline their existing expenditure limit. The move is underway in line with the present...
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