FE Online Report | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index...
Siddique Islam | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh has prepared a roadmap for starting implementation of the Basel-III framework for bank companies from July, 2014, in line with the global standard. Under the roadmap, the central bank will issue guidelines for implementation of the Basel-III within April...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Recently, there has been a surge of both applause and concerns regarding the record foreign exchange reserves announced by the Bangladesh Bank (BB). Suggestions are coming from different corners to ensure the proper utilisation of the reserves so that its...
Lutfar Rahman | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Geo-strategically the Bangladesh-China relations are inevitable for both the countries. Not only for political reasons but also for economic compulsions, the two countries should promote good ties. From the ancient period, the two countries have close ties in political, economic...
Abul Basher | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Professors teach economics in classrooms. Economic reporters explain economic issues, problems and prospects to the rest of society. Therefore, the quality of economic reporting is not less important than the quality of teaching economics, if not more. Economic issues and...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Not surprisingly, India's minorities are being wooed by the political parties ahead of the parliamentary elections, beginning April 07. The voting in the vast country involving more than 810 million voters will be completed in phases on May 14 and...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
The government is going to take steps soon to ensure use of the newly-built Pangaon inland container terminal (ICT) making it attractive to the traders, officials said. "We are trying to increase operation of the modern terminal through motivation of...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-04-01 00:00:00
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipokkho (Rajuk) is likely to approve a scrutinising committee next week to select consulting firms who have applied for getting registration. The authority in a move plans to provide registration to some compliant consulting firms aiming to curb...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
Stocks edged marginally higher on Monday amid see saw trading throughout the session with turnover remaining sluggish as ongoing volatile market sentiment kept investors cautious. The market opened with a choppy trading. At the end of the session, the prime...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Monday amid fluctuation. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 2.46 points or 0.05 per cent to...
Munima Sultana | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) has recently expressed deep concern about lack of coordination in road intersection plans and projects for Dhaka city. The Bank said it was particularly worried about the fate of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line-3. It...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
The listed companies are deliberately hiding important and compulsory information in their financial disclosures, thus misguiding the investors. A research conducted under the Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh and the World Bank (WB)...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
The country's leading footwear manufacturers, mainly the exporters, have now set their sights on grabbing the multi-billion-taka local market, alongside their usual exports, insiders said. They said the present strategy of retail marketing in the country would help the exporters...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
The communications ministry, unfortunately, has been insensitive to the interests of the passengers using all modes of public transports when it comes to the fixation of fares. May it be the fare of passenger buses or of auto-rickshaws, the ministry...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
Political uncertainty is still lingering in the country's industrial sector. Entrepreneurs are not forthcoming in this sector. As investment trend is not positive, bank loans are contracting. According to a World Bank study, private sector investment declined by 1.2 per...
Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard of Reuters from Beijing | 2014-03-31 00:00:00
Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least 90 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) from family members and associates of retired domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is at the centre of China's biggest corruption scandal in more than six decades,...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
Stocks returned to the red Sunday after two session gains with sluggish trading activities as ongoing volatile market sentiment made investors remained shaky. The market opened with a choppy trading. At the end of the session, the prime index of...
FE Online Report | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
Share prices on both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed downward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday amid volatility, the opening trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
Whatever be the future possible scenario involving the "West and Russia centering the Ukraine crisis, Russia's "annexation" of Crimea - the autonomous region of Ukraine- seems to be irreversible. Even as United States president Barack Obama and his counterparts from...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
Illegal hill cutting in Bandarban district of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) poses a serious threat to environment as well as life and property of settlers. A photograph published in a local daily last week showed how a bulldozer was demolishing...
Munima Sultana | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh has failed to achieve any tangible success in the renewable energy sector as it could add only 2.0 per cent of power to the national grid in this particular area after a decade of efforts. In view of the...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
Country's readymade garment (RMG) industry is going to make Tk 80 billion new investments to meet the requirements of full compliance as being demanded by buyers, brands, labour and human rights organizations since Tazreen and Rana Plaza catastrophe, insiders said....
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
Inadequate study and data on bidi industry are making the authorities confused over framing effective fiscal measures to check consumption of health hazardous item. Bidi is also called a common man's 'cigarette'. The bidi industry insiders have been furnishing similar...
Masum Billah | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
The leaders of powerful countries of the world have expressed their reaction against Russia's annexation of Crimea through the Hague Declaration of March 24, 2014. Led by US President Barack Obama they took the decision to expel Russia from the...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2014-03-30 00:00:00
From the pure theoretical perspective, it can confidently be argued that farm size and productivity are negatively related. Small farmers are more efficient and productive than large ones. On the empirical side, such relationship has been documented and confirmed by...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-03-29 00:00:00
The central bank finds it difficult to finance projects under its Equity and Entrepreneurship Fund (EEF) due to dearth of resources, officials said. About 65 per cent projects under the Fund's ambit are eligible for receiving money, sources concerned said....
Syful Islam back from Tokyo | 2014-03-29 00:00:00
Harvesting rainwater in a larger way and recharging aquifers adequately can help Bangladesh ensure safe drinking water to city dwellers as groundwater was depleting alarmingly due to excessive extraction, said eminent Japanese hydrologist Dr Jun Shimada. He said, besides, the...
Babul Barman | 2014-03-29 00:00:00
The stock market extended losing streak for the fifth consecutive week that ended Thursday with sluggish trading activities as investors remained shaky amid ongoing volatile market sentiment. The week featured four trading sessions instead of five due to public holiday...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-03-29 00:00:00
Governor of Yunnan province of China Li Jiheng arrives in the capital today (Saturday) on a three- day official visit to discuss bilateral cooperation including establishment of the proposed BCIM Economic Corridor. The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM)-Economic Corridor (EC) working group of...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-03-29 00:00:00
Hi-Tech Park, to promote country`s information communication technology, is still a far cry as there has been no development in its infrastructure despite initiation of the project 15 years ago. The project, taken in 1999, was designed to be developed...
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