Nilratan Halder | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
In the preamble of the National Education Policy 2010, its overall objective has been summed up succinctly. The objective is to create a knowledge-based society that draws its strength from moral values and advanced science and technological knowledge. The nation's...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Conventional taxation system is considered as one of the major barriers to expediting growth of the country's tax-GDP ratio. The country's tax-GDP ratio is less than 10.0 per cent, which is one of the poorest in South-East Asia. There are...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
A large section of the media, both electronic and print, has apparently become obsessed with the wealth statements submitted by a few high profile candidates of the ruling 14-party alliance to the Election Commission in connection with the 10th parliamentary...
Jamal Uddin | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Rules for operating the Social Obligation Fund (SOF), to be used for telecom infrastructure development, will get final approval of the telecom ministry soon. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication (MoPT) sources said they have almost finished scrutiny of the...
INDIA : Bhutanese Buddhist monks play traditional instruments during the Jonag Monlam prayer offering at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya in the northern Bihar state Sunday. — AFP | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Yemen court condemns Qaeda suspect to death SANAA, Dec 29: A Sanaa court Sunday sentenced to death a Yemeni Al-Qaeda suspect for his role in a deadly attack on a security headquarters in Aden in 2011, an official said. Al-Qaeda...
Siddique Islam | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
The central bank has relaxed the loan rescheduling policy for the non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) for the next six months to facilitate financing for the businesses, affected by the ongoing political unrest. The NBFIs have been allowed to reschedule loans...
Rezaul Karim | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of agriculture (MoA) has made 16-point proposals to boost up the country's agriculture sector. The move came following the visits of officials of the MoA parliamentary standing committee who observed the agricultural activities...
Babul Barman | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Six listed companies raised Tk 1.80 billion from the stock market through issuing rights shares in 2013. The figure is 79 per cent lower compared to previous year. According to statistics from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), six companies issued...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
In a previous article published on December 19, 2013 in the Financial Express, we tried to argue why higher risk and higher premium rule doesn't work well for banks and why this rule causes in most of the cases problems...
Neil Ray | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Arvind Kejriwal has exploded like a time bomb on Indian political scene. His year-old political outfit, Am Aadmi Party (AAP) is perhaps the first such organisation to have formed a government, Kejriwal being the youngest chief minister of Delhi. With...
Mollah Md Nurul Islam | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Although Bangladesh insurance market is rather small, considering that current penetration rate is low at only 1.0 per cent, there remains an immense potential for future expansion. The future expansion of Bangladesh insurance market and increase of insurance penetration in...
Md Mushfiqul Huq | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
The former president of the United States Thomas Jefferson had this to say about Recreation: "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more...
Washim Palash | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
`Salimon Begum, 76-year-old widow and mother of nine from Gaibandha district is struggling to survive. For more than six decades she has been struggling in the same pattern though the magnitude of her distress varied over the period. She does...
Abdul Bayes | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Eminent economist Debraj Ray once remarked: "economic development is probably more like a treacherous road, than a divided highway where only the privileged minority is destined to ever drive the fast lane. Although there appears to be no evidence that...
Mohammad Alamgir | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Water-logging is a curse for the people of south-west part of Bangladesh. Tala, Satkhira Sadar and some parts of Jessore are severely affected since cyclones Sidr and Aila. Other than these natural events, a few man-made factors are most pronounced...
Shamsul Alam concluding his two-part article on public investment management | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
The projects in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) are expected to serve as the main tool to implement strategies and achieve targets of the Perspective Plan and the SFYP (Sixth Five Year Plan). However, many of the ongoing projects in...
Mohammed Rakib-Ul-Hassan | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
The issue of application and implication of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the developing world came up for discussion while I was gossiping with a fellow student of master's course in the university. According to that friend of mine, the...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Forecasts were glibly made by media-savvy pundits with dark forebodings about the days in the run up to the general election but those were taken with a grain of salt by many. After all, Bangladesh had seen hartal, even oboodh...
M. Serajul Islam | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
One by one, the European Union, the Commonwealth, the United States and at the time of filing this article even Russia (!) have distanced themselves from the January 05 election. Their decisions have rendered the election to parliament irrelevant and...
Munima Sultana | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Uncertainty has developed over timely completion of Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane project as work on the country's vital highway expansion project remained almost suspended during the last few months because of the ongoing political stalemate. Officials said the three assigned contractors of...
Khalilur Rahman | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Civic amenities now being provided by the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) are far from satisfactory. Two years ago, the DCC was split into DCC (North) and DCC (South) for providing, as per government announcement, improved civic amenities to nearly...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Two developing democracies - Thailand and Turkey - are evidently in troubles and the governments in both the countries are grappling with fresh crises that have threatened their rule. Both the nations were striving to strengthen their democracies that are...
Michelle Martin and Steve Gutterman of Reuters from Berlin/Moscow | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said last week he would not seek power in Russia but fight for the freedom of political prisoners, challenging Vladimir Putin two days after the president freed him from jail. After more than a decade...
Sanjeev Miglani of Reuters from New Delhi | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
India has sought details about staff in American schools in the country for possible tax violations and revoked ID cards of U.S. consular officials and their families, retaliatory steps for the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York. The...
Kathryn Doyle of Reuters from New York | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Less than half of people with diabetes-related eye disease have been told about it, which means they're also missing out on treatment that could save their sight, U.S. researchers say. In nationwide surveys of adults with diabetic macular edema -...
Jonathan Leff and Dmitry Zhdannikov of Reuters from London | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
As US and European banks drop out of commodity trading, Russian, Chinese and Gulf state firms are filling the gap in an attempt to exert greater control over the pricing of the raw materials on which their economies so heavily...
Shadia Nasralla of Reuters from Cairo | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
The Egyptian government intensified its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, formally listing the group as a terrorist organisation after accusing it of carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a police station that killed 16 people. The move...
Humeyra Pamuk and Orhan Coskun of Reuters from Istanbul | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan still enjoys the fierce loyalty of pious voters and wealthy elites, which should be enough to keep him in power in the face of a corruption scandal that has rocked his government and reached his...
Shamsul Huda | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Power generation from renewable energy sources is growing by 100 per cent every year both in grid and off grid zones, according to market data. The small unit based solar home systems (SHS) are growing by 100 per cent every...
Badrul Ahsan | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Export earnings from jute and jute goods declined drastically in July-November period of the current fiscal year (FY) due to the sanction on Iran and price cuts of the products, industry insiders said. Exporters also linked political turmoil in the...
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