Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-01-10 00:00:00
Md. Rabbi, a 22 years old youth, who was an assistant to a cycle-van driver, was killed when a bus hit his van at about 6 am on Sunday (January 8) morning in the Mohammadpur area of the city. Without...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2023-01-09 00:00:00
A curious person comes up just as a likely one crosses the road in front of a building in Dhaka's Karwanbazar. "Were you looking for any service for company registration?" He asks. On queries from this correspondent, the person says...
Ismail Hossain | 2023-01-09 00:00:00
The telecom regulator is planning to bring all its licencees under the purview of the Social Obligation Fund (SOF) to spread technology to the remotest corner of Bangladesh.The country's mobile network operators (MNOs) have been contributing to the fund since...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-01-09 00:00:00
Index Agro Industries foresees a double digit growth this year as well, supported by the increasing demand for eggs, meat and chicken.Its revenue rose 13.12 per cent year-on-year to Tk 4.14 billion for the fiscal year 2022. The company expects...
Neil Ray | 2023-01-09 00:00:00
Is not it anachronistic that the country with a rising share in the global export of fashionable winter wear still has to import second-hand warm clothes? In 2021, a senior additional secretary of the commerce ministry went so far as...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-01-09 00:00:00
Every bad experience in life has a silver lining. So, has the one gathered from the coronavirus disease that struck the world in 2020. Of the many changes it has forced upon our life, flexible working time is one. Since...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-01-08 12:00:00
As in previous years, this year also marks anniversaries of a number of historical events. The occasions will be observed or commemorated commensurate with the importance and interests of the nations linked to the happenings. Some of the anniversaries are...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-01-08 00:00:00
Work on the extended part of the just-launched metro rail started on Kamalapur rail station site on Saturday with a target to develop 1.16-kilometre track from Motijheel by June 2025.The work began with the boring job on the west side...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-08 00:00:00
The government is planning to introduce a unified system of tax collection at certain rates on total income of an individual or company instead of the existing fragmented system.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been asked to prepare a...
REZAUL KARIM | 2023-01-08 00:00:00
Bangladesh is contemplating revoking the requisite for fumigation of cotton imported from the United States following a recommendation by officials after a field-level inspection there, sources said.To this end, agriculture ministry has sought commerce ministry's steps to urgently exclude such...
Munima Sultana | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
Shifting three crammed inter-district bus terminals from Dhaka city virtually loses gear in land-acquisition hurdles, thus deterring route rationalization and franchise transport service in the capital. The land-acquisition process was launched for setting up five new depot-cum-terminals in city suburbs...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
The benchmark equity index retreated marginally at the end of the first trading week of 2023 as there is no sign of economic pain ending anytime soon.Buying activity remained subdued as investors are worried over what the country's economic condition...
NAZIMMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 06: The Chittagong Customs House (CCH) will destroy five types of goods lying at jetties of Chittagong Port and sheds of privately-owned inland container depots (off-dock) as importers did not take delivery of the shipments paying taxes within...
Md Shafiqul Islam | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
Stroke prevalence has already surpassed pandemic levels. 1 in 4 persons above the age of 25 experiences a stroke globally. In Bangladesh, the prevalence of stroke is 11.39 per thousand people. After heart failure, stroke is the leading cause of...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
When global warming has raised the spectre of toothless winters and burning temperature in summer months, this part of the country is defying any such prediction. Indeed, Tentulia recorded the lowest ever temperature at 2.6 degree Celsius on January 8,...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
Healthcare access is vitally important to improving health, preventing disease and death, and improving the quality of life of the population. Access to healthcare has been commonly described and understood by geographic, economic, or cultural terms or determinants by public...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-06 00:00:00
Nepal has proposed that Bangladesh rationalise high tariffs and eliminate other duties and charges (ODCs) levied on Nepalese export products to Bangladesh.The Embassy of Nepal in a recent letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the proposal, in order...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-01-06 00:00:00
The government's tax revenue from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) dropped 30 per cent year-on-year to Tk 1,661 million in the first half of the current fiscal year, owing to a plunge in turnover.The market was sluggish throughout the period....
Nilratan Halder | 2023-01-06 00:00:00
A UNESCO research paper prepared with contribution from the BRAC titled, "Global Education Monitoring 2022" released on Tuesday last has focused primary on South Asia's expenditure on education with special emphasis on the role of educational institutions in the private...
REZAUL KARIM | 2023-01-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh seeks WTO-recognised Net Food Importing Developing Country (NFIDC) status to continue providing agricultural export-credit subsidy even after its LDC graduation, as its current edible imports outweigh exports. As the graduation process is on stream, the Ministry of Commerce has...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2023-01-05 00:00:00
The latest scam of Tk 1.57 billion by an asset manager came as a fresh blow to the mutual fund sector as a sense of insecurity is feared to prompt open-end unit holders to mount a liquidation pressure. Fund manager...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2023-01-05 00:00:00
It is rare, if ever, for multi-lateral institutions like World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to go public on the state of global inequality, presumably on the ground of the subject being ideologically incorrect for...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2023-01-05 00:00:00
Every day is a story. Every week is an event. Every month is a narrative. Every year is history in the making.In January 1964, President Charles de Gaulle energised the world and left his western allies stunned when his government...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-01-04 00:00:00
The Dhaka metro authorities seek investors for its fourth metro-rail project as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is unlikely to invest in the entire part of Mass Rapid Transit Line-05 South (MRT-05 South).The MRT-05 costs an estimated $5.05 billion for...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-01-04 00:00:00
Factories had closed following years of losses. Then the economy plunged into turmoil. But nothing seems to have kept the stocks of Imam Button Industries and Meghna Condensed Milk Industries from making giant leaps in the gloomy stock market in...
Nowshaba Achal | 2023-01-04 00:00:00
The traditions of Italian food, art, music, architecture and literature are extensive. Italian cuisine is regarded as one of the world's best and most diversified ones. It is enriched with unique flavours, which will certainly tempt your taste buds and...
Md Masudul Haque Prodhan | 2023-01-04 00:00:00
Marine overfishing is a crucial issue around the world. Overfishing can ultimately reduce global fish production if higher reproduction rates are not in place. Thus the contribution of this sector to global food and nutrition security may be seriously affected.Overfishing...
Munima Sultana | 2023-01-03 12:00:00
A special fund of at least Tk 1.5 billion is going to be created for road-accident victims and fatally injured people, as the Road Transport Rules 2022 (RTR) has kept the provision of forming the fund by collecting fees from...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2023-01-03 00:00:00
Return submission by individual taxpayers grew by a modest 21.74 per cent by the extended deadline in the current tax year, belying taxmen's expectation of a quantum leap.Some 2.8 million taxpayers had submitted returns until the January 1, 2023-deadline by...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2023-01-03 00:00:00
The securities regulator seeks policy support, especially from the revenue board, to attract non-listed but good companies into the stock market so it gets strengthened when majority securities are lying low amid heightened economic threats this year. The market would...
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