Nilratan Halder | 2022-11-25 00:00:00
A sumptuous feast of entertainment, thrill, suspense, excitement, upsets, burst of joy or a frustrating breakdown is what this World Cup Football 22 is proving to be. But can it be a panacea for the woes and sufferings of the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-11-24 00:00:00
Technology transfer from the developed world in most cases turns unsuccessful in Bangladesh as it is found least prepared yet with sufficient homework on specific needs assessment. Relevant factors have to be considered in identifying areas where the country required...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-11-24 00:00:00
Science matters. With COP-27 drawing to a close in Sharm el-Sheikh, the need to have the planet pulled back from the brink assumes greater importance than ever before. If on the one hand science, in the form of unbridled industrialization...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-11-23 00:00:00
Square Pharmaceuticals has yet again proved its dominance in the industry and business acumen. Just like many other pharma and non-pharma companies, it has experienced a significant rise in administrative and operating expenses because of the today's macroeconomic realities -...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-11-23 00:00:00
The Bangladesh High Court directive on the government to ban the operation of all illegal brick kilns and the use of fuel woods is a welcome move. The petitioner's lawyer argued that no brick kiln should be operated without obtaining...
Lubaba Mahjabin Prima and Omar Raad Chowdhury | 2022-11-23 00:00:00
It is now more or less evident that the world economy is heading for a recession. The promise of the post-COVID economic recovery that marked the beginning of 2022 now lies shattered, thanks to the European military crisis and the...
Md Arifur Rahman, FHM Humayan Kabir, Md Rafiqul Islam and SM Salahuddin | 2022-11-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh is a development surprise to many global economic researchers and policy makers. In the last 50 years after the independence from Pakistan in 1971, Bangladesh has steadily accelerated its economic growth which helps achieve its human development and reduce...
Mohammad Nazmul Avi Hossain | 2022-11-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh progressed impressively during its 50 years' journey after independence in terms of social and economic development. Bangladesh's average per capita GDP growth rate has been over 5 per cent for the last four decades, which is impressive compared to...
Shafiun N Shimul | 2022-11-23 00:00:00
Recently, the possibility of a financial crisis in Bangladesh has been looming. Even though Bangladesh has achieved sustained growth in recent years, this pace of consistent growth appears to come to be coming to a standstill. The Covid-19-induced economic downturn;...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-11-23 00:00:00
Global Gender Gap report of the World Economic Forum (WEF) said talent of women in finance is one of the most untapped business resources.Bangladesh has made considerable development to ensuring participation of women in the key positions in finance. It...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-11-23 00:00:00
As has been said so often, journalism is the first draft of history. That being so, newspapers are the manuscripts that go into print, to re-emerge as full-fledged accounts of history.It is a truth I have increasingly encountered, and embraced,...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-11-22 00:00:00
Tailbacks of vehicles on the toll bridges at the city's entry points continue to increase in absence of efforts to introduce an electronic system for speeding up the process of automatic toll collection.The Road Transport and Highways Division (RTHD) introduced...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-11-22 00:00:00
Compliance requirements in submission of documents by corporate taxpayers should be reduced in the new income-tax law to make it business-friendly, says a report on overhaul of Bangladesh's 'outmoded' taxation system.Currently, corporates have to submit 29 returns for 'at-source tax'...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-11-22 00:00:00
Rice being the staple food in Bangladesh, its price matters. And when the price is forever going up and never down, rain or shine, it is intriguing. In fact, there is no justifiable reason why rice price should go up...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-11-22 00:00:00
As is customary, almost de rigueur, the conference of parties (COP) on climate change held in Sherm el Sheik, Egypt, went into overtime and reached a deal late into the Sunday (November 20) night. Another milestone was passed under the...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-11-21 00:00:00
The country's telecom regulator has decided to conduct financial audits on three leading mobile network operators (MNOs) - Grameenphone (GP), Robi Axiata and Banglalink - although settlement of the previous audits on GP and Robi is yet to reach an...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-11-21 00:00:00
The operations of fuel and power companies depend entirely on imports, and so when taka loses its value against dollar, pricier fuel in the global market gets even pricier, pushing several listed companies into the red. A majority of those...
Neil Ray | 2022-11-21 00:00:00
The World Cup Football in Qatar, first in a Gulf country of the Middle East kicked off yesterday with the host country taking on Ecuador. But only a small fraction of football fans the world over will be lucky enough...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-11-21 00:00:00
When the world should have been more united to fight climate change, delegates of 200 countries participating in the climate talk at the UN's 27th climate summit (COP27) at the Red Sea port of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt have worked...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-11-20 12:00:00
Initial public offering is a means to raise capital from public investors for the expansion of a business. But when companies are making less money, battered by inflation and other global worries, any plan for further growth is put on...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-11-20 00:00:00
The revenue board has identified four policy measures that could prove barriers to achieving revenue collection targets unless effective actions are taken to offset the fallout, according to a policy paper prepared recently.The measures are: higher import margins due to...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-11-20 00:00:00
Bangladesh is now significantly linked with the global economy mainly through trade, remittance and investment. The country's trade value in goods reached US$141.24 billion in the last fiscal year (FY22), and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is estimated at $464.98...
Karimul Tuhin | 2022-11-20 00:00:00
Financial actors are realising that the impacts of climate change they predicted as a matter of distant future are, in reality, much closer. Since the Paris Agreement's signing in 2015, climate change has gained massive attention from the financial system....
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-11-19 12:00:00
Stocks witnessed yet another downbeat week, with the benchmark index plunging deeper into the red as investors, reeling from market turbulence, raced to sell off their holdings to avoid further erosion of their portfolios. The growing economic worries, dismal earnings...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-11-19 00:00:00
The government has awarded conditional licence to some 150 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to run microcredit operations across the country.The licence of the new microfinance institutions (MFIs) is conditional for three years to prove their capabilities, according to the Microcredit Regulatory...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-11-19 00:00:00
India has requested Bangladesh to take steps for starting full-scale use of Bangladesh's Chattogram and Mongla seaports as early as possible for regular transhipment operation as the neighbouring country has already completed necessary trial runs.Recently, Indian High Commission, Dhaka sent...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-11-19 00:00:00
The railway is going to declare a misspent project 'completed' without any work as it failed to get any bidder from three rounds of tender in several years, officials said.A recent meeting of the project steering committee of Bangladesh Railway,...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-11-19 00:00:00
Hemanta has at last returned at its mystical ---and perhaps magical --- best. Yes, for many years, maybe decades, the six seasons in this part of the world have gone berserk either losing their distinctive sights, sounds and colours or...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-11-18 00:00:00
The telecom regulator has decided to make a fresh attempt to appoint auditors to inspect information systems of Airtel Bangladesh Ltd, which has merged with Robi Axiata. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) at its recent meeting took the decision...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-11-18 00:00:00
The 2010 capital market crash dragged the mutual fund sector into a dark abyss, but it started coming into light with the help of open-end MFs four years ago attracting new investments. Fund managers during the time emphasized more on...
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