Haseeb Md Irfanullah | 2023-01-31 00:00:00
In December 2022, a United Nations (UN) biodiversity meeting, formally known as the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was hosted by Canada in Montreal. In this recent-most assembly (COP15), 188 governments approved their...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-01-31 00:00:00
Suicidal tendency among school and college students has risen alarmingly as more than 532 students took their own lives last year. And every month on average 37 students committed suicide in 2022. Majority (about 84 per cent) of the suicide...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-30 00:00:00
Collection of value added tax (VAT) from 17 large banks fell nearly 7.0 per cent or Tk 1.53 billion short of target for the first half of the current fiscal year (FY2022-23).Until December 2022, the large taxpayers unit (LTU) under...
Babul Barman | 2023-01-30 00:00:00
Crown Cement returned to profit in the second quarter of the FY23 ended in December, having suffered losses in the previous two quarters, as it boosted revenue while cutting down costs. It secured a profit of Tk 147.32 million in...
Neil Ray | 2023-01-30 00:00:00
When does a mother sell her baby? In today's world human beings are legally not for sale anywhere. But even in this country, reports are there ---albeit infrequently---of parting with babies by desperate mothers in exchange for money. The latest...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-01-30 00:00:00
On January 24, a mass shooting occurred at two spots, both mushroom farms, in the US city of Half Moon Bay in the central Northern California.The shooter, an employee of one of the targeted farms, killed seven people.But it was...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2023-01-29 00:00:00
Lengthy bureaucratic process, lack of technological expertise and less return on investment are the major barriers to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh, said a former prime minister of Denmark.Positive treatment on trade; net investment returns and technical assistance...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2023-01-29 00:00:00
If there is an issue in hand, such as non-payment of dividends, delay in the settlement of share transactions or forced selling of holdings, investors have an easy tool to make a complaint.The remedy is quick, thanks to the Customer...
Md Morshedul Alam Mohabat | 2023-01-29 00:00:00
The denizens of Dhaka have to step out of their homes, more or less every day to make a living or for some other purposes as most of the urbanites belong to the working class. Living in a mega city...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-01-29 00:00:00
From the look of a livelihood-pattern change around, a question crops up if the size of Bangladesh's informal economy has been expanding under the push of the Covid-19 pandemic that upended set order globally. Though no up-to-date study or comprehensive...
REZAUL KARIM | 2023-01-28 00:00:00
Direct government buy of edible oils and sugar from overseas sources is under consideration to secure timely and affordable supply of the essentials, sources said, especially to avert any crisis.Government authorities have already started search for potential markets, especially South...
Munima Sultana | 2023-01-28 00:00:00
Twelve years have elapsed since Dhaka Elevated Expressway was conceived but its design has yet to be finalised as Bangladesh's first public-private partnership (PPP) project stalls over a snarl-up of variegated projects. Official sources said such stalemate occurred as the...
Brian Allan | 2023-01-28 00:00:00
Time is a commonly used word, and from birth to death it affects every single part of our lives, but it has elements that are very difficult to define. The consequences and anomalies of time continue to mystify us; but...
Morshed Alam | 2023-01-28 00:00:00
The kind of education the Bangladeshi students receive from schools and universities is not enough to make them ready to deal with market challenges and future trends, various reports suggest.An Asian Development Bank (ADB) survey shows that about 62 per...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-01-28 00:00:00
This is the time for picnics. Well, is picnic an urban edition of bonbhojon or charaibhati/charuibhati? Bonbhojon has in the very word its explicit meaning. Bonebhojon means a sumptuous dish in forest or wilderness. What about charaibhati? Charai is sparrow...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-01-28 00:00:00
A number of new textbooks for primary and secondary level students have given rise to controversy in the county. The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) has published a new set of textbooks in line with the revised curriculum with...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-27 00:00:00
The government is set to inaugurate the new 12-storey building of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) at the city's Agargoan on February 4.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the modern building built for the revenue authority spending...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-01-27 00:00:00
The apprehension was there all right. What was however not known is the enormity of the problem of dropout and learning losses arising out of the prolonged closure of educational institutions in the country. While the number of dropout learners...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2023-01-27 00:00:00
It is passé to say, inequality is as old as civilisation but critique and attempts at resisting and alleviating it is recent. While the beginning of inequality with the rise of private property in place of communal ownership of means...
Sadique Mahbub Islam | 2023-01-26 12:00:00
There are about two million retail shops in Bangladesh, and for a giant corporation spanning all parts of the globe, maintaining the logistical chain and keeping the supply mechanism to stratify the sales process is as hard as it comes....
REZAUL KARIM | 2023-01-26 00:00:00
Refiners moved to hike again the price of sugar by Tk 12 per kilogramme, rather preemptively, while the government prepares for adequate supply of essentials during Ramadan buying binge. Meanwhile, as part of market-management to thwart perennial pre-Ramadan price spiral,...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2023-01-26 00:00:00
Some years ago, before he was shown the door, Paul Wolfowitz had precious little plan of quitting his job at the World Bank. In a very moral sense, he should have on his own been making his way out of...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh is becoming dependent on coal-based power, as various challenges still remain for development of renewable energy, including inadequate grid infrastructure and lack of robust policies, said a latest report of GlobalData. The report - 'Bangladesh Power Market Size, Trends,...
Munima Sultana | 2023-01-25 00:00:00
Dhaka metro rail company is set to open Pallabi station as a new stop of the MRT-6 today (Wednesday) in a move to gradually make all the nine stations from Uttara to Agargaon operable in next two months.Sources said the...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2023-01-25 00:00:00
A group of environmental scientists led by Alex C. McAlvay of the Institute of Economic Botany at New York Botanical Garden has claimed in a paper recently published in the journal 'Agronomy for Sustainable Development' (October 2022) that the ancient...
MEHNAZ LAMEESHA | 2023-01-25 00:00:00
One day, an old man, a kid, and a wealthy businessman boarded an airliner. An emergency was declared on the plane when a sudden storm started midway. However, there were just two parachutes left on the aircraft.The businessman said, "I...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-01-24 00:00:00
Two axle-control stations on both sides of the Padma Bridge are set to start operations from February 01 to restrict overloaded goods-carrying vehicles, officials said. The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has set up the stations, like the ones of Bangabandhu...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh could tap huge legitimate revenues lost to transfer mispricing by building capacity of taxmen to prevent such intra-company trade tricks also deemed linked to capital flight, according to findings.A report on the findings says economic environment of Bangladesh is...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2023-01-24 00:00:00
Saif Imam Zamir in September last year received Tk 0.142 million in cash dividend after he had claimed returns yet to be paid by a company where his mother invested 29 years ago. As many as 283 more claims of...
Aminul Hoque Tushar | 2023-01-24 00:00:00
In the wake of rising inflation and the recent decline in foreign currency reserve, Bangladesh immensely seeks solutions to control inflation and balance of payment through fostering the flow of wage earners remittances. Therefore, the role of migrant workers has...
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