Jamal Uddin | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
The country's land phone business is on the verge of extinction. This has been attributed mainly to a rapid growth of mobile phone services and absence of proper initiatives from both the government and the operators. Already, nine private PSTN...
Badrul Ahsan | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
The Department of Cooperatives (DoC) is going to take action against a good number of its audit officers for their alleged negligence in auditing multipurpose co-operative societies which resulted in massive financial loss to hundreds of thousands of people across...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
The securities regulator is set to extend the timeframe of provisioning the unrealised losses calculated against the merchant banks' own portfolios up to December 31, 2014, officials said. The provisioning facility will be applicable for the losses counted in the...
Venkatachalam Anbumozhi | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
Negotiations at the Warsaw Climate Change Conference in November culminated in a compromise deal that commits the parties to a new international mechanism to address losses and damages linked to climate change. Under this plan rich nations are to pay...
Shariful Alam Bhuiyan | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
Since the era of IBM computers, technology has created many more new business opportunities. The Internet era has just done the wonders. New business models have been created and implemented in the age of technological revolution. Even this is not...
Abdul Bayes | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
We made a field survey to Rashun Shimulbari village under Fulbari upazila of Kurigram district. Kurigram was once known for serious food scarcity. For decades, the people of the village suffered from serious food shortage and were occasionally attacked by...
Abul Basher | 2013-12-03 00:00:00
Thousands of workers left the building couple of hours before the fire was set in the Standard garment in Gazipur on November 29, 2013 but a few of their co-workers stayed back. For the former, walking into the building in...
Syful Islam | 2013-12-02 00:00:00
The United States treasury department has informed Bangladesh about some individuals and entities involved in the acts of jeopardising the international financial system, sources said. Recently, the US embassy in Dhaka in a letter informed the ministry of foreign affairs...
Siddique Islam | 2013-12-02 00:00:00
The central bank has relaxed its rules, allowing the non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) to collect fixed deposit from individuals and organisations for three months instead of six months earlier, officials said Sunday. Under the amended rules, the NBFIs are allowed...
Babul Barman | 2013-12-02 00:00:00
The portfolio investment on the country's prime bourse has increased 21.1 per cent in November as foreign fund managers now consider the market lucrative for long-term investment due to low prices of fundamentally strong stocks. The local investors were in...
Neil Ray | 2013-12-02 00:00:00
The death toll in political programme-related violence has risen to about three dozens since October 25 last. Nine people succumbed to their burn injuries in just a month. In the latest major attack, thought to be the detonation of a...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2013-12-02 00:00:00
The implementation of the annual development programme (ADP) has never been without troubles. Poor coordination among various government agencies, delayed release of funds, political interference etc., are factors that have constrained the implementation of development projects at the expected pace....
M. Serajul Islam | 2013-12-02 00:00:00
The TV talk-show guests have run out of their wits. They cannot give the nation any hope any more. The international players also have played out their cards but the nation is still very much on the brink. The only...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has once again written to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia on the political situation prevailing in Bangladesh. The content of the two letters is not known, but...
Khalilur Rahman | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
Dhanmondi playground at Road No 08 is now under illegal occupation of a private club. Members of the public are not allowed to use the playground. According to press reports, Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, a private organisation, has taken security...
Talha Bin Habib | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
The Directorate of National Consumers Rights Protection (DNCRP) will form committees at the union level during the current month aiming to make consumers conscious about their rights, official said. In this regard the DNCRP will issue circular shortly to form...
Shah Alam Nur | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh is yet to formulate a gold import policy. Its absence has led to a hike in smuggling depriving the country of millions of taka revenue earnings, officials and business concerns said. They said due to lack of a government...
Shamsul Huda | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
Prices of medicine, software and other IT products may increase in the local market as under the recently-signed TICFA the local manufacturers may have to pay royalty for US patented products. Pharmaceuticals and software industry experts said, though just after...
Steve Stecklow of Reuters from London | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
A multi-billion dollar organization controlled by Iran's supreme leader shook up the management of its charity division, appointing as its new chief a man involved in the confiscation of thousands of properties from Iranian citizens. Aref Norozi was named director...
Joshua Schneyer and Nicolas Medina Mora Perez | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
China's aggressive quest for foreign oil has reached a new milestone, according to records reviewed by Reuters: near monopoly control of crude exports from an OPEC nation, Ecuador. Last November, Marco Calvopiña, the general manager of Ecuador's state oil company...
Ralph Nader of Reuters | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
It's not just the NSA that has been caught spying on Americans. Some of our nation's largest corporations have been conducting espionage as well, against civic groups. For these big companies with pliable ethics, if they don't win political conflicts...
Masum Billah | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
We are to prepare our learners to face the challenges of the 21st century. So, the old-school model of passively learning facts and reciting them out of context is no longer sufficient to prepare them to survive in today's world....
Mohammad Ali | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) has expressed zero level tolerance to any kind of unethical audit practice by its members as the revenue board recently claimed such professional misconduct. The institute also requested the NBR to provide...
Akhter Zamil | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
Value Added Tax (VAT) is initially payable to the government by three categories of people-the manufacturers or producers, suppliers and then the buyers and service providers apart from the end-users. The time schedule for payment of VAT by classified people...
Md Abdullah Al Helal | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
Citizens of the country, irrespective their occupations, are passing through a hard time due to extreme political unrest. Political violence has reached an intolerable state and no one is feeling safe as the fallout from violence is seriously affecting the...
Salman Sakir | 2013-12-01 00:00:00
The Millennium Develop-ment Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established in 2000. An initiative of the United Nations, the MDGs have led to significant improvement in welfare of citizens around the world. Countries like Bangladesh, Ghana and...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-11-30 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has witnessed a sharp rise in registration online for taxpayers' identification numbers (TINs) ahead of the December 1 deadline for submission of individuals' income tax returns. A total of 817,000 taxpayers registered online for...
Syful Islam | 2013-11-30 00:00:00
The state-run Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) is mulling taking over management of the ICB Islamic Bank Ltd through acquiring majority shares of the bank, sources said. In this regard, the ICB is in the process of buying 52.76 per...
Shamsul Alam | 2013-11-30 00:00:00
The paper Bangladesh Economy in FY 2014: Three Months after the Budget, Three Months before the Elections prepared by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), which was released to the press on October 22, 2013, mainly discusses about (i) what...
Muhammad Aminul Hoque | 2013-11-30 00:00:00
Recently, this writer attended an annual general meeting of a listed company. Among the six agenda that were on the to-do list of the meeting, the second was the adoption of the financial statements. Before adopting the financial statements, shareholders...
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