NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-10-08 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 07: The hydraulic survey of Karnaphuli River was completed last month and the survey report will be submitted to the concerned department of the government next month, officials said. Started in 2019, the survey, styled "Karnaphuli Hydrologic and...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-10-08 00:00:00
A consumer rights agency has recommended monitoring liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) prices with a view to stopping the practice of making excessive profits from its sales.The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) has also suggested strengthening monitoring by Bangladesh...
SYFUL ISLAM AND SAIF UDDIN | 2022-10-08 00:00:00
Sharp price rises of newsprint of both local make and imports have put Bangladesh's publishing industry and other consumers in a quandary, as one of fallouts from the current global turmoil.Prices of all kinds of newsprint papers have made a...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-10-07 00:00:00
Resumed with enhanced safety measures after a six-week suspension, the implementation work on the under-construction dedicated bus corridor between Gazipur and Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) is now being affected due to heavy rain. Sources said rains might hinder completing...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-10-07 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 06: The construction work on setting up railway tracks on the underconstruction Chattogram-Dohazari-Cox's Bazar-Gumdhum train route is going on in full swing, an official said. Project Director (PD) of the multi-billion Taka rail line project Md Mofijur Rahman...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-10-07 00:00:00
Low levels of labour productivity have always remained a cause for concern in this part of the world. Even South-east Asian nations not so famed for tall and muscular physical build have long accounted for higher performance in the manufacturing...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-10-06 12:00:00
We are losing Dhaka. Or, more appropriately, Dhaka is getting submerged under the weight of the problems piling on it on an everyday basis. The tranquil city we once knew, in the 1960s and 1970s, went out of our lives...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-10-06 00:00:00
Aggregate collection of consumption tax from large general insurance companies declined last fiscal year (FY), 2021-22, reflecting slowdown in their business as an impact of import restriction.Industry insiders said almost all companies, irrespective of large and small, are bearing the...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-10-05 00:00:00
Airport traffic in Dhaka is likely to get worse even after completion of ongoing airport expansion work as the congested lone road cannot manage thousands of vehicles carrying airport-bound passengers.The lone airport-connected north-south road gets over 21,000 passengers of domestic...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-10-04 12:00:00
As modern day warfares go, the Ukraine war is unique. It has defied the Aristotelian template of linear narrative so far, with many twists and turns. The latest is the gaping holes in the gas pipeline of Nordstream l and...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-10-04 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to bring foreign nationals working for various government bodies without work permits under the tax net, aiming to enhance income-tax collection.The NBR has recently requested all the ministries and departments concerned to...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-10-04 00:00:00
The submission of returns by individual taxpayers has gone up threefold this year, as the revenue board made submission of tax-return receipts mandatory while seeking services from various entities. Tax offices across the country under the National Board of Revenue...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-10-04 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 03: Capital dredging of Karnaphuli River, including the port channel, will end this month as 99 per cent dredging work was completed last month, sources said. Officials at Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), implementing agency of the Tk 2.42...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2022-10-04 00:00:00
With so many distressing news reports of mismanagement in the banking sector in Bangladesh people have a conception that banks are all full of deceits. And telling anything good about any bank is not something that someone is very happy...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-10-04 00:00:00
Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, founder of SpaceX with its idea of reusable rocket and maker of electric cars from his company, Tesla inc., has now embarked on his new project of making humanoid robots. Recently, he presented...
Neil Ray | 2022-10-03 00:00:00
The rogue state Myanmar is, it seems, in irredeemable turmoil. Ever since the usurpation of power from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), the junta government has mercilessly steamrollered its opposition forces in Myanmar. With the resistance...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-10-02 00:00:00
The hospitality industry is making a resounding rebound in Bangladesh, as in other South Asian countries, following the easing of corona-induced travel restrictions and resumption of corporate events globally. Luxury hotels are witnessing bustling business as seminars and conferences have...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-10-02 00:00:00
For financing climate-and environment-friendly sustainable-development projects, green bond is a popular tool across the world. Introduced by the European Investment Bank in 2007 and followed by the Word Bank in 2008, the green bond now boasts a market size of...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-10-02 00:00:00
According to the NGO 'Ain O Salish Kendra' (ASK), a total of 3,376 women were killed or forced to commit suicide between 2017 and July 2022 across the country due to incidents of repression or torture. The annual figures for...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-10-01 00:00:00
Only 393 digital commerce entities have obtained the digital business identification (DBID) to date after formal inauguration of the registration process five months back. However, a total of 1,382 digital business firms have been rejected due to lack of proper...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-10-01 00:00:00
Drug-import LC is being restricted as inroads of some unauthorised drugs into Bangladesh are ruining the future of hundreds of thousands of youths and teens, officials say. They have said a group of unscrupulous businesspeople are importing those illicit drugs...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-10-01 00:00:00
The stock market returned to the red this week to Thursday amid high volatility, after a single-week break, as wary investors moved to the sidelines after locking in profits from major sector issues.Of the five trading days this week, the...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-10-01 00:00:00
Sarat or autumn, the third season on the Bangla calendar, is unlike the fall in the Western hemisphere. They call it fall perhaps because the trees mostly shed their leaves that turn profusely crimson. Before their demise, the leaves exhaust...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-10-01 00:00:00
The number of older people -- mostly from the middle and upper social class, with difficult, multiple, and long-standing medical conditions -- dying at hospitals has been on the rise over the last few decades in Bangladesh. Instead of staying...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-30 00:00:00
The latest Human Development Report 2021-22 aptly titled, " Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping Our Future in a Transforming World" launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on September 8 last makes a disconcerting read. For the first time...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-09-29 12:00:00
Not very long ago, a newscaster on one of our many television channels had the axe fall on her for her wrong pronunciation of the name of the Chinese President. She had thought the XI in Xi Jinping referred to...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
The Kishwan Group is manufacturing quality food products in the country. The products are meeting the demands of the consumers. The Kishwan Group is exporting the products to other countries including United States of America (USA) and European Union (EU)....
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
The country's telecom regulator is taking up a project to upgrade and strengthen its spectrum-monitoring capacity - either with own fund or social obligation fund. The BTRC's 165th commission meeting approved initiation of the project. To implement the project, the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh invests the lowest among South Asian countries in domestic revenue mobilisation and thus misses out on potential multiple returns in public funds, studies related to budget deficits show. A latest report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) reveals that...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh has requested India to start negotiations on materialising the much-talked-about Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) soon, as instructed by the premiers of the two neighbouring countries early this month.The ministry of commerce (MoC) of Bangladesh recently wrote to its...
© 2024 - All Rights with The Financial Express
