Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The government is likely to introduce online Business Identification Number (BIN) for the businesses from January 2015 in a bid to bring them under automated taxation system. With the introduction of the system, both the existing businesses and the new...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Tannery owners are trying to get $1.0 billion loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for meeting the cost of relocation from the city's Hazaribagh to Savar. Recently, they wrote a letter to the JICA for providing the financial assistance...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The government is examining the proposal of the telecom ministry to halve the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call rate from the existing US$0.3 cents considering the negative impact on revenue earning from the sector. Sources said two issues are...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The securities regulator is giving first priority to the introduction of commodity exchange and clearing corporation by relevant formulating rules and conducting required feasibility study, officials said. The necessity of introducing the commodity exchange and clearing corporation has become stronger...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
As European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos said, greater emphasis has to be given to two factors for modernising agriculture. These are innovation and youth. Young farmers naturally bring innovative and progressive ideas in line with the...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Research studies indicate that the shrimp industry is one of the most important contributors to economic development of the country. Foreign exchange earnings from frozen shrimp exports in 2009-2010 were US$ 400 million. The main cultured species is the tiger...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Aid for Trade (AFT) has been at work for quite some time in Bangladesh. It is an initiative of the World Trade Organistion (WTO) aimed at enhancing developing countries' capacity to promote trade. The assumption behind this is that there...
Charles R. Morris writes for Reuters | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
The United States was the world's first middle-class nation, which was a big factor in its rapid growth. Mid-19th-century British travellers marvelled at American workers' "ductility of mind and the readiness…for a new thing" and admired how hard and willingly...
Alamgir Kabir | 2014-02-18 00:00:00
Scarcely our banking sector had time to recover its equilibrium unsettled by the Hallmark scam when it was further undermined by the shuddering revelations of irregularities by the BASIC Bank. The bank's disbursement of loan worth of Tk 30 billion...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The market ended lower for the third running session Monday with key index of the premier bourse dipped below 4,700 point-mark as investors went for selling spree amid cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note, but could not...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The market ended lower for the third running session Monday with key index of the premier bourse dipped below 4,700 point-mark as investors went for selling spree amid cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note, but could not...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The prices of most of the stocks on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading Monday amid volatile trading. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE went up by 18.37...
Khairul Islam | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The country's public universities are likely to plunge in severe financial crisis during the final quarter of the current financial year as the government has declined to make available any additional fund as requested by the University Grants Commission (UGC),...
Syful Islam | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has sought permission from the ministry of finance (MoF) to give the local banks a waiver on setting up separate subsidiary companies for carrying out securities custodial business, sources said. Earlier, the BB gave such a...
Neil Ray | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
A great civilisation flourished on the Indus-Saraswati basin 3,500 years before the birth of Christ. The Indus civilisation at Mohenjodaro and Harappa reached great height in terms of architecture, defence, water supply and sewerage systems. According to one theory, climate...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
Illegal connections and pilferage are endemic in the public sector utility services such as gas, electricity and water. In most cases, an unscrupulous section of officials and employees is always found to be involved in all the mischievous acts of...
Md. Jamal Hossain | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
Dr. Abul Basher in an article published in the FE, February 03, rightly expressed his concern that the Bangladesh Bank's effort to keep the inflation rate at the target level will prove very much challenging. He suggested that to bring...
Anatole Kaletsky of Reuters | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
This has been a banner week for the world economy, inspired largely by events in the United States. In Washington, the first congressional testimony from Janet Yellen in her position as new Federal Reserve Board chairwoman on February 11 reassured...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-02-17 00:00:00
Within one month of assuming power for the third time, the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has initiated the process of raising power tariff. During her previous tenure as prime minister, the power tariff was raised six times, the...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
Stocks went down Sunday with turnover on the premier bourse dipped below Tk 4.0 billion-mark as investors went for selling spree amid cautious stance. The market opened with a positive note, but could not sustain. At the end of the...
FE Online Report | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
Share prices on the both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
The leader of a new political party that caused a great deal of sensation by taking a pro-people stance, has resigned as the chief minister of Delhi, failing to fulfil his electoral pledge. Arvind Kejriwal lasted for only 49 days...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
The readymade garment (RMG) owners are finding it difficult to shift their factories from buildings they are sharing with others mainly due to scarcity of industrial land and its high price, industry insiders said. Shifting garment factories from shared buildings...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
A report on mixing formalin in ice for preserving fish, published in some newspapers last week, has surprised consumers. It is known to all that widespread application of formalin in fresh fruits, vegetables, fishes, liquid milk and a variety of...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
The standard of education at private medical colleges has come into question, as most of the institutions are not following the government rules properly. As per the related rule of the government, every college must have a 250-bed general hospital....
Khairul Bashar | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
What are the possible reasons behind the poor performance of our mutual fund (MF) industry? Why are the MFs being less attractive with 41 closed end mutual funds? Why is a sophisticated industry in developed and emerging countries still in...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
One must wonder whether between former US ambassador to Bangladesh Patricia Butenis and the present ambassador Dan Mozena, the United States of America has slipped from being a superpower to one that Bangladesh could ignore at will. In 2006, Patricia...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
For the last few years TV channels are routinely treating us to a spectacular animated view of what could have been our fancied Dream Bridge across the Padma. The dream, however, remained only a dream. What we were instead treated...
Mohammad Ali | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) is set to deliver its final judgment anytime on another legal battle regarding the much-talked about mandatory 2.0 per cent share holding requirement issue, sources in the court said. "The HC has already concluded hearing on...
Md Sazedul Islam | 2014-02-16 00:00:00
Our modern world would be inconceivable without computer science. From engineering to business management, medicine to biology, and language processing to psychology, sociology and archaeology - all the sciences today need computer science for the evaluation of their data. At...
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