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Banks spend Tk 230 million on paper and printing for 7.0 million deposit account opening forms per year, according to the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM). A staggering 1,050...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) broad index - DSEX - closed lower on Thursday, hitting around three-year low, amid continuous selling pressure. The market observed correction in all sessions, and...
Key building materials such as steel rods and cement have seen their prices decline significantly in the last three months mainly due to sluggish demand, traders said. As it is...
The country's trade gap with the rest of the world narrowed during the first two months of the current fiscal year, aided by a surplus in current account balance. Negative...
After projecting lower growth rate, the World Bank (WB) has said curbing the central bank's autonomy poses risk to the economy. "Reform reversals such as easing of loan classification standards,...
Bond price and interest on bond are negatively related. Understanding this relationship is important to understanding how the central bank conducts monetary policy to influence money supply, interest rate on...
The conclusion of the Uruguay Round and the creation of the World Trade Organisation in 1995 marked the first time commitments on trade in services would be undertaken not only...
As we enter the last 2019 quarter, it is instructive to look back and inquire why the impending economic downturn predicted by many has not as yet happened, but since...
The assertive words of National Professor Anisuzzaman that there are little scopes for printed books to be replaced by e-books have definitely made traditional book-lovers feel upbeat. As he has...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufactures and exporters Association (BGMEA) has sought government's intervention in setting capacity benchmark for export oriented garment factories in the country. In the wake of unplanned capacity...
The universities -one after another -are making news for all the wrong reasons. When teachers and scholars of some of the world's prestigious centres of tertiary education are becoming recipients...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal recently spoke in favour of liquidation or merger of 'weak and inefficient' non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs). The minister gave his opinion at a meeting with...
Ifti Mosharrf Sakal, one of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders arrested over the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad, has made a confessional statement in court. He is the first...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Thursday demanded that the government free all student organisations and educational institutions in the country including Buet from party politics. The gruesome murder of Abrar...
Indonesia's security minister has been stabbed by a man who police say was "inspired" by the Islamic State group. Wiranto, who uses one name, was getting out of a car...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said chargesheet in Abrar Fahad murder case will be pressed soon. “The law enforcement agencies are working on it and a flawless chargesheet will...
Austria's Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday, reports Reuters. Two...
Some 12,764 women are detected with breast cancer in Bangladesh every year and 6,844 of them die of the disease, according to a report of International Agency for Research on...
Police on Thursday recovered the bodies of a couple and their son from a house at Section 13 of Mirpur in the city. The deceased were identified as Bayezid, 40,...
A woman died of dengue at Khulna Medical College Hospital on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Masura, 25, wife of Habibullah of Abhaynagar Upazila in Jashore. Shahin Biswas, a...
FE Online Report Fashion Industry International Trade Fair 2019 was inaugurated in Saint Petersburg city of Russia. The four-day long international fair-- started in the Expoforum Convention and Congress Centre...
Global credit rating agency Moody's has maintained its stable outlook for the Chinese banking system, citing stable liquidity and adequate capitalisation. Accommodative government policies will support the asset quality of...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, vowing to work jointly to strengthen strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation so as to forge a closer...
The BASIS National ICT Awards will honour 105 individuals and organisations in 35 categories in the country’s ICT sector for their innovation. A grand award ceremony will take place in...
A Dhaka court has handed the death penalty to Obayedul Khan, the lone suspect in the murder of 14-year-old schoolgirl Suraiya Akter Risha three years ago, reports bdnews24.com. Metropolitan Sessions...
D Money Bangladesh Limited (Dmoney) and Visa Worldwide Pte Limited (Visa) have recently entered into an agreement at the Dmoney Head Office to enable QR payments through Visa cards and...
Student protesters riled by the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad have threatened to lock up all administrative buildings of the university unless their 10-point charter of demands are met...
Police have arrested Md Mizanur Rahman, the roommate of slain engineering student Abrar Fahad, in connection with the murder inside a residential hall in the Bangladesh University of Engineering and...
A Faridpur court on Thursday sentenced seven people to death for killing a truck driver in 2014. The convicts are – Tofa Molla, 26, son of Abdul Molla; Palash Fakir,...
The World Bank has forecast a growth of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) at 7.2 per cent for 2019-20 fiscal year. The financial institution made the projection in statement...
Vietnam spent nearly 6.8 billion US dollars importing roughly 4.7 million tons of plastic in the first nine months of this year, posting respective year-on-year rises of 2 per cent...
Two forest officials were killed after a truck hit a motorbike on Cumilla-Sylhet Highway at Ghatura in Brahmanbaria sadar upazila on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Dolon Sarkar, 36,...
Workers of a garment factory have ended an hour-long blockade on the capital's Rampura-Malibagh road demanding back pay. Traffic on the Shaheed Muktijoddha Faruk Iqbal and Taslim Road was gridlocked...
Apple supplier Samsung Display said on Thursday it will invest 13.1 trillion won ($11 billion) on facilities and research to upgrade a production line, as it battles severe oversupply due...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has formally inaugurated two water plants in Savar and Lauhajang upazilas of Dhaka to ensure a steady supply of drinking water for the residents of the...
Amit Shaha, a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s BUET unit, was arrested from the city’s Sabujbagh area on Thursday over the killing of Abrar Fahad. Amit is a 16th batch...
A counterterrorism analyst with the US Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested on Wednesday over charges he leaked classified materials about a foreign country’s weapons system to two journalists in 2018...
Being a Bangladeshi, it is never easy to be away from your dear ones. The reason is very simple -- from infancy to adulthood, our parents have always been our...
With the clock ticking off every second, lives of business professionals around the world are becoming much busier and complicated than it once was. Today, young professionals have to effectively...
Voice of Business (VoB), the 13 year old business magazine club of the Faculty of Business Studies of The University of Dhaka has recently launched a two-day pioneering initiative called,...
Kurdish fighters who defeated Islamic State across much of Syria with US help will struggle to fend off the Turkish army and its Syrian rebel allies who thrust across the...
BUP Business and Communication Club is ready with the most anticipated nation-wide inter-university business strategy competition, BUP BCC Presents Corporiddlerz 2019 Powered by NRBC Bank. Corporiddlerz, a unique business strategy...
Dhaka saw a significant improvement in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Thursday morning after it was hit by rain. The capital city was at the 40th position in AQI...
Surprised and upset by the US blacklisting of Chinese companies, China has lowered expectations for significant progress from this week’s trade talks with the United States, Chinese government officials told...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended reduced tax benefit for jute product manufacturing companies and individuals until fiscal year (FY) 2022-23. Both the corporate and individual taxpayers will...
The shares of eight companies of the financial institution sector came below face value for a long time. Some of these companies reported losses in latest quarterly reports and annual...
Top 10 traded stocks grabbed 37 per cent of the market turnover featured by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Wednesday. National Tubes topped the chart of top gainers following investors'...
Managing higher troubled loans and tight liquidity condition on the domestic front alongside external challenges are likely to pose downside risk to the growth momentum, the central bank has said....
Bangladesh will seek Generalised System of Preference (GSP)-plus facility from the European Union (EU) in the upcoming joint commission meeting (JCM), as the country is set to graduate as a...
In a poverty assessment report released by the World Bank on Monday, some unpalatable truths about income disparities have emerged. At a time when the country's economic growth is increasing...
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