REZAUL KARIM | 2024-05-22 00:00:00
Commerce ministry seeks fixed-rated duties on edible oils and sugar to keep market supply sufficient and prices stable while the state minister in charge pledges no 'price adjustment' during Eid.Sources said the ministry recently made the proposals to the National...
BABUL BARMAN | 2024-05-22 00:00:00
Foreign stakes in listed securities have continued to fall as overseas investors dumped their holdings, having lost faith in the market and become worried over the sharp devaluation of the local currency against the dollar. The market index hovered around...
NOWSHABA ACHAL | 2024-05-22 00:00:00
ChipiChapa is a street food hub hidden in the lively area of Merul Badda, adjacent to the prestigious BRAC University new campus (a few steps away from the pocket gate). Numerous food carts offer an abundance of street food here....
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-05-21 00:00:00
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh and the Dhaka bourse have renewed efforts for the listing of state-run enterprises (SoEs), an issue that is dragged out of the forgotten stuff every now and then but to no avail. In the latest...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-05-21 00:00:00
American south is witnessing an alarming rise in sea level affecting coastal communities across eight US states, says a Washington Post analysis reported last month (April 29). The tide gauges of the water level monitoring stations at more than eight...
BABUL BARMAN and FARHAN FARDAUS | 2024-05-20 00:00:00
Leading non-bank financial institutions' cost of funds rose amid monetary tightening, resulting in a lower profit in the first quarter through March this year, compared to the same quarter last year. Hence, the hikes in lending rates after the withdrawal...
Neil Ray | 2024-05-20 00:00:00
For two consecutive days – Friday and Saturday, two contemporaries have carried reports on unearthing of clandestinely stored chicken eggs in cold storages in Madaripur and Cumilla. In Madaripur, the haul was to the tune of 0.60 million and in...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-05-20 00:00:00
Amid media reports that the ethnic Arakan Army (AA) has seized control of the Buthidaung Township of the Rakhine State near Bangladesh border with the Myanmar junta's army in full retreat, the Asian Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) has called...
Khalid Saifullah Khan | 2024-05-19 00:00:00
"The journey was very good. It was a great experience for us. But we had faced so many difficulties, like financial problems, visa issues, etc. There was a time when we thought we might not be able to join the...
Sheikh Hasin Abrar Alvi | 2024-05-19 00:00:00
Notre Dame Eco and Space Club hosted the 7th National Earth and Space Summit (NESS) on the premises of Notre Dame College from May 16 to May 18, 2024. This festival aimed to ignite young minds in astronomy and ecology...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2024-05-19 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 18: The newly construction of the dilapidated Kalurghat Bridge in the port city is still a far cry as the development project proposal (DPP) is facing a long delay in getting the final approval from the government authorities...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-05-19 00:00:00
At a time when the deteriorating conditions of rail tracks have already made rail routes accident-prone causing recurring human tragedy, it is alarming to learn that wooden planks and bamboo sticks are being used in repairing and maintaining the dilapidated...
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-05-19 00:00:00
Advanced developing countries like China and India have been trying to push their currencies in the bilateral trade settlement with their different trading partners like Bangladesh for a long time. The core logic is that it will help reduce the...
GULAM RABBANI | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
Dodging duties through false declaration on imports has increased alarmingly in last few years, a watchdog noses out, while public purse feels financial strains. In the financial year 2022-2023, the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) realised Tk 2.01 billion...
REZAUL KARIM | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
A group of Chinese nationals, in collaboration with Bangladeshi partners, has applied for a digital bank licence in Bangladesh, according to documents of the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka. The consortium submitted the application to the Bangladesh Bank under the name...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 17: The Chattogram district administration will hand over 500.9863 acres of khas land to the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) to build the Bay Terminal at a token price within the next week. The CPA has already deposited three...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
Like the 'Unreal City' in TS Elitot's The Wasteland, Dhaka soaks the searing heat of a fiercely burning sun and stands abstract and impervious as if it is a piece cut out of the netherworld. In Eliot's masterpiece, London was...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
The country's mobile-network operators have voiced their disapproval of a potential 5-percent increase in supplementary duty (SD) on basic mobile-phone services like talk time and internet data usage. This comes after news reports suggested the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
Local manufactures like refrigerator, AC, mobile set and LPG cylinder also may get costlier for tax hike as financial reform necessitates lowering tariff protections to domestic industries. Sources say the local manufacturers of electrical and electronic products may see a...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
Unilever Consumer Care on Thursday witnessed transactions of the highest volume of shares in a day in 14 months on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). On the day, the second highest valued stock's turnover was Tk 90.40 million following trades...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
Against the background of examinations in truncated syllabi and subjects ---and that also carrying in most cases half the marks instead of full marks--- this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination reverted to its full form on all those counts....
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
According to a recent report of the United Nations titled 'Food Waste Index Report 2024', a billion meals are wasted worldwide every day, and 1.05 billion tons or over a trillion dollars' worth of food are thrown out every year...
REZAUL KARIM | 2024-05-16 00:00:00
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has sought around Tk 100 billion of funds directly from the government to help the state-run agency lessen its dependence on costly bank loans, a source has said.To this practice, the entity has recently...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-05-16 00:00:00
The securities regulator and market operators have put their heads together to change rules for margin loans to stem a further rise of negative equity as they consider it crucial for market stability. A committee comprising representatives from the Bangladesh...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-05-16 00:00:00
Despite your feelings about the city, Dhaka remains a place of warmth. Yes, it is a sprawling urban slum these days, with twenty million people crammed into it. The spaces we once knew in our childhood are all gone. The...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-05-16 00:00:00
The decade-old demand of jobseekers to raise the maximum age to applying for government jobs from 30 to 35 years has again resurfaced following Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury's recent letter to the Ministry of Public Administration. In his letter,...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-05-15 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 14: The hijacked ship, MV Abdullah, finally came back with all 23 sailors aboard to Chittagong Port on Tuesday afternoon, easing mounting tensions.The sailors' family members thronged the port jetty to receive them with flowers. They cried with...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-05-15 00:00:00
Mobile-phone talk may get costlier as the revenue authority is said to have received prime minister's nod to impose higher tax on phoning in a package of fiscal measures.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is bent on increasing the Supplementary...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2024-05-15 00:00:00
There was nothing unusual about the visit of the Indian foreign secretary to Bangladesh last week. Given the fact of being the closest and most pervasive neighbour of Bangladesh and having a very cordial mutual relation, to boot, such visits...
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-05-15 00:00:00
Avi Shlaim is a Fellow of St Antonys College and a Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He was born in Baghdad in 1945 and grew up in Israel. He is one of the prominent ‘revisionist’ historians...
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