Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2013-12-07 00:00:00
A historical anecdote goes like this. When the soldiers of Robert Clive and Nawab Siraj-ud-Dowla were fighting the Battle of Plassey on June 23, 1757, the local peasants were tilling their lands adjacent to the battle-field. This means the common...
Syful Islam | 2013-12-07 00:00:00
The Ministry of Shipping and the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) are in a hurry to make the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (ICT) operational soon after they were instructed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, sources said. The Prime Minister inaugurated the...
Jamal Uddin | 2013-12-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has taken a fresh initiative to realise Tk 14.486 billion outstanding revenue from Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL), officials said. The regulator has already issued letters in this connection to the ministry of finance, the...
Babul Barman | 2013-12-07 00:00:00
The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange - DSEX - managed to stay positive last week despite bleak investment outlook and political turmoil across the country. The presence of investors was thin on the trading floor throughout the week...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2013-12-07 00:00:00
The matters that have raised heated discussions in the twenty-first century are many. But the question of empowering or raising the capability of the womenfolk occupies here a prominent place. Not only is the emancipation of women from the sub-human...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-12-07 00:00:00
It is a sad story of a Dhaka College student named Ohidur Rahman. But it could be anyone's in this city, other cities or towns in Bangladesh. Coming out from Agamosi Lane on the fateful Thursday, November 28, he got...
Siddique Islam | 2013-12-06 00:00:00
The central bank is set to devise a rescue plan for revamping business activities of the fire-ravaged Standard Group through settling import liabilities with five banks. Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Atiur Rahman will meet chief executive officers and managing directors...
M. A. Taslim | 2013-12-06 00:00:00
After years of fruitless deliberations the government has finally succumbed to internal and external imperatives to sign a Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA) with the USA. The USA had sent the first draft of the agreement under the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-12-06 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to intensify its task of monitoring the large businesses in divisional cities by setting up more Large Taxpayers Units (LTUs). Two more LTUs under the income tax wing will be set up...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury reviewing the book | 2013-12-06 00:00:00
Air Vice-Marshal A.G. Mahmud (retd) would have gone into oblivion like many other chiefs of Air Force or for that matter the Army or the Navy. For, this is the normal way of going into retirement by top brass in...
Sadiq Zafrullah | 2013-12-06 00:00:00
Nowadays social media is in wide currency all over the world including Bangladesh. We often say that technology has made the world smaller, but social media has made the world even more small. The social media has become a place...
Md. Ahsan Ullah Raju | 2013-12-06 00:00:00
Nowadays, 'Bitcoin' is a highly pronounced word in the cyber world, which is an e-currency traded through some stock exchanges. Its price rose to $935 by almost 750 per cent from its base $123 just within two months, from 1st...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-12-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh has improved its ranking on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) as introduced by the Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) by just one point compared to last year. It has been placed in the 136th position this time. Among 177 countries...
Siddique Islam | 2013-12-05 00:00:00
The interest rate spread in the country's banking sector came down to below 5.0 per cent in October because of lower credit demand prompted by the ongoing political uncertainty, bankers said Wednesday. "Most of the entrepreneurs are now maintaining a...
Badrul Ahsan | 2013-12-05 00:00:00
High business officials are hiring ambulances for their safe transportation in the city during the ongoing political programmes depriving thousands of patients of their basic right. People familiar with such incidents said, patients are often unable to hire ambulances even...
Syful Islam | 2013-12-05 00:00:00
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has waived some Tk 175 million as store rent during the last four and a half years ended in June 2013 which puts a negative impact on the port's income, sources said. Of the amount...
Babul Barman | 2013-12-05 00:00:00
The month-on-month government's revenue earnings from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) marked 78 per cent rise in November as the trading volume was on the rise in the month of November. The government bagged tax worth Tk 144.21 million in...
Mohammad Lutfar Rahman (Badal) | 2013-12-05 00:00:00
The stock market has been playing an important role in the industrialisation process of the country for the last few decades. It has been creating an equity pool as well both for institutional and individual investors. The stock market, which...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2013-12-05 00:00:00
Letter of credit, often abbreviated as LC, has by and large become a familiar term among the business community. However, to use a popular cliché, there is more in a 'letter of credit' than meets the eye. Inadequate awareness about...
Nicholas Wapshott writing for Reuters | 2013-12-05 00:00:00
Is America's economy adrift in the doldrums? Lawrence Summers, perhaps the nation's most inventive applied economist, thinks so. Speaking to an IMF forum last month, he described America's current condition as "secular stagnation" in which we are stuck in a...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-12-05 00:00:00
It is a fast developing situation in Thailand. This south-east Asian nation is in the grip of a severe political crisis as the protestors demanding the ouster of the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government are showing increasing toughness...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2013-12-04 00:00:00
The finance ministry, in the face of widespread allegation about a section of auditors' deliberate indulgence in the acts of preparing fabricated or cooked-up financial reports by companies, framed the Financial Reporting Act (FRA) and got it approved by the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-12-04 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to raise the tax benefit ceiling on import of hybrid cars to 2500cc from the existing 1800cc. The NBR will issue a Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) shortly on it following the law...
Munima Sultana | 2013-12-04 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway will deploy more than 8,000 members of Ansar to protect its operational lines along over 2,000 kilometres from violent activities. The decision came as attacks on rail lines and bogies continued throughout the country during the opposition-enforced...
Siddique Islam | 2013-12-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) advised the commercial banks Tuesday to take police protection to ensure security for their cash management, particularly for Automated Teller Machine (ATM) operations, during the shutdowns and blockades. The central bank took the measure against the backdrop...
Mohammad Ali | 2013-12-04 00:00:00
bKash Limited is looking to become the largest mobile banking service provider company in the world within the next few years, chief of the company said. "Branded itself as the world's second successful venture, bKash having stronger customer base in...
Abdulla Al Imran | 2013-12-04 00:00:00
Freedom of expression guarantees right of every individual to speak and write openly without any interference from the government. Individuals or groups can keep the public informed, and advocate in favour of alternative ideas, and provide their opinions about what...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2013-12-04 00:00:00
All hopes for reaching an understanding on election process have not yet vanished. Informal dialogue is continuing after the announcement of election schedule. Different quarters are trying to involve BNP in the election process. If informal contact bears fruit, formal...
Shah Alam Nur | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
The Election Commission (EC) is going to spend nearly Tk5 billion to conduct the tenth parliamentary election scheduled for January 5, 2014. The cost for holding national election has increased nearly three times or 186 per cent compared to that...
Ismail Hossain | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
Tannery owners want Tk 1.0 billion term loan at lower interest rate for bearing cost of relocation from the city's Hazaribagh to Savar. They met Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman recently seeking his help in this regard. They are...
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