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Reserve accumulation has direct implications for the balance sheet of a central bank. A central bank may finance reserves build up either by increasing the high powered money i.e., monetary...
Industrial economy has always been integral to the high per capita income in advanced countries. Because of this, having little or no access to either abundant natural resources or labour,...
The prevalent English Language Education (ELE) practices have escalated opportunity costs due to flaws in the Education Policy. Though an ELE provision requires a backup of Language Policy (LP), Bangladesh...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi requested the Brazilian government to reduce the existing 35 per cent import duty, so that Bangladeshi readymade garments (RMG) and other items can enter its market....
American billionaire industrialist David Koch, a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries who as one of the world’s richest people became a major financier of conservative causes and political candidates,...
53 people were killed by mob beating across the country in the seven months of the current calendar year, according to a report by an independent rights and legal aid...
Indonesian Islamic scholar has claimed that China's religion policy is more democratic than other Muslim countries. "China's religion policy is more democratic than other Muslim countries, even our country, Indonesia,"...
China will impose additional tariffs on US imports worth about $75.0 billion in response to the newly-announced US tariff hikes on Chinese goods. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State...
Awami League’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said the enemies of the Hindu community are also the enemies of the nation. “Those who are your (the Hindu community) enemies...
As many as 1,446 new dengue patients have been hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Friday, taking the infected toll to 61,038, according to government data. Besides,...
On eve of the G7 meeting, Huawei's chief representative to the European Union Institutions said Friday that Huawei will continue to strengthen its cooperation with governments, mobile operators and local...
Amid the growing incidents of rape and violence against women and children, BNP has formed a forum to stand by the victims of such repression with legal and other support,...
A man and his wife, both snake handlers, died after being bitten by snakes in Satkhira on Friday. The snake charmer couple was identified as Ekhlas Khan, 32, and Alima...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Myanmar should convince Rohingya people, who fled ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the Rakhine State and took shelter in Cox’s Bazar two years ago, to...
Barishal Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organized Business Development Conference at Barishal Club on Friday. Md. Mahbub ul Alam, Managing Director & CEO of the bank, was present in...
South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited arranged a Strategic Business Review Meeting at Head Office of the bank on Friday. Md. Golam Faruque, Managing Director and CEO of...
A Jubo League leader was shot dead allegedly by Rohingyas at Jadimura in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district on Thursday night. The victim was identified as Omar Faruk, 30,...
Terming communal harmony a great tradition of the nation, President Abdul Hamid on Friday urged people of all religions to strengthen it to attain national development and progress through collective...
China's Commerce Ministry said Thursday that the country would have to take countermeasures if the United States imposes new additional tariffs on Chinese goods. This came after the United States...
A spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on Thursday once again urged the United States to immediately cease arms sales to Taiwan and stop its support...
Bangladesh will propose Brazil to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) in the upcoming Mercosur conference to increase the bilateral trade. Besides, a business delegation from Bangladesh also proposed their...
Authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir tightened security ahead of Friday prayers after separatists called for a protest march to a UN office, with streets bristling with paramilitary...
Ukraine's president backed leading European powers on Thursday in opposing the readmission of Russia to the Group of Seven advanced economies, saying Moscow still occupied Crimea and was frustrating peace...
The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized,...
A housewife died of mosquito-borne disease dengue in Satkhira sadar upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as Shahanara Khatun, 37, wife of Khalilur Rahman of Choygharia village in the...
Three top mobile phone operators -- Grameenphone, Banglalink and Robi -- paid Tk 87.44 billion (Tk 8744.19 crore) to search engine Google and social media platform Facebook for online advertisements...
Walton, a leading local electronics manufacturer, signed a deal with global online shopping platform amazon.com on Thursday to sell its products across the world. However, the Walton brand desktop computers,...
The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, weeks after telling donors he did...
This month marks the second anniversary of the fleeing of more than 730,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar’s northwest Rakhine State to Bangladesh after a military-led crackdown in response to an attack...
The country's tanners have agreed to pay the arrears to rawhide merchants in three installments. Tanners owe money to rawhide merchants dating back to 1990, but insiders say the bulk...
The price of Hilsa hasn't come down to the expected level despite a good production of the fish in the country and considerable rise in its supply in the city....
The country's bulk consumers of gas may have negotiable tariff structure for the fuel under a proposed government gas allocation policy. The government may enter into an especial sales agreement...
It is good that the incumbent finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has felt the necessity of creating a separate High Court (HC) bench to deal with cases pertaining to banks...
There was hardly a better time than this year to observe the World Mosquito Day. Dr. Ronald Ross's ground-breaking discovery that female anopheles acts as the vector of malaria to...
RANGPUR, Aug 22: Floating Aman seedbeds are gaining popularity among the peasants of different areas under Kawnia upazila in the district. With the assistance of agriculture officials a good of...
The pyramid shape of modern bureaucracy is an accepted, even an essential norm. Very recently an analytical report in the front page of our newspaper brought to the fore the...
Three members of Bangladesh emerging team playing against Sri Lanka were injured in a road accident on their way to Dhaka from BKSP in Savar on Wednesday evening, reports UNB....
Nine people, including a couple, were killed in lightning strikes in Faridpur, Manikganj, Magura and Bogura districts on Thursday. In Faridpur, four people were killed being hit by lightning strikes...
“Voluntary repatriation” of Rohingyas will require the continuous engagement of all concerned agencies to build the trust of Rohingyas, and it is a process, not a one-off event, said a...
Had there been no British administration, though colonial, Dhaka's Lalbagh Fort and its other landmark relics would have crumbled down one-and-half to two centuries ago. In their place the city...
The girls' education has long been considered one of the single most effective development investments that can be made. Providing girls with quality education not only empowers them throughout their...
In a powerful piece relating robotic capacities, among other "digital revolution" features, to the human being's brain evolution, Jay N. Giedd observed more than half a dozen years ago the...
Bangladesh Bank should realise that it is not enough to maintain policy rate, repo rate and reverse repo rate unchanged along with maintaining the same limits for statutory liquidity ratio...
As many as 300 health workers, including doctors and nurses, have been afflicted with dengue while treating patients hospitalised for the mosquito-borne disease in Dhaka this year. According to a...
The government is going to include a chapter on ‘productivity concept’ in the national education curricula for the year 2021 to attract the young generation to productivity, reports UNB. Industries...
The number of pickups (double/single cabin) registration in the country stood at 7,278 from January to July of 2019, according to official data. Of the total, 5,337 pickups were registered...
A total of 24 Bangladeshis were killed in incidents of violence along the country's border from January to July of the current calendar year, according to a local independent rights...
BUILD will hold a dialogue on Developing E-commerce Businesses by Women Entrepreneurs under Trade & Investment Working Committee (T&IWC) of BUILD on Saturday at MCCI Conference Room at Motijheel, Dhaka....
The death toll has risen to nine after heavy downpours and mudslides battered Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, local authorities said Thursday. As of Wednesday...
Ms. Parveen Haque Sikder, Director and EC Chairperson of National Bank Limited & Chairman of the Governing Body of National Bank Public School & College handed over four school buses...
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