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Phoenix Finance & Investments Limited has approved 20 per cent cash dividend for its shareholders for the year ended on December 31, 2017 at the 23rd annual general meeting (AGM)...
Finance Minister A M A Muhith on Wednesday warned the companies concerned of taking tough actions against them for not executing new VAT (value added tax) rate on Internet. In...
Asian stocks were shaky while major currencies barely budged in early trade on Thursday, as financial markets remained in a state of anxious uncertainty on the eve of a US...
Aman Cotton Fibrous will allocate 8.33 million ordinary shares among the successful applicants as the company held IPO lottery draw on Wednesday. The initial public offering (IPO) lottery draw was...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has suggested examining the seismic resistance of the proposed deep-sea port in Matarbari as Bangladesh is vulnerable to earthquakes. The JICA submitted a report...
The government has recruited 60 engineers to expedite the post-inspection remediation work in the readymade garment factories (RMGs), officials said. The newly appointed engineers would work for the Remediation Coordination...
The finance ministry has given its opinion in favour of allowing the migrants' welfare fund to hold a 95 per cent stake in the Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB), sources said....
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will consider formulating sustainable fiscal policies from next year for facilitating investors to prepare their investment plan, said the NBR chairman on Wednesday. Many...
China will “absolutely not” fire the first shot in a trade war with the United States and will not be the first to levy tariffs, its finance ministry said on...
The country's exports income recorded a moderate growth of 5.81 per cent to US$ 36.66 billion in the just-concluded fiscal year (FY) of 2017-18, the government said on Wednesday. Exporters...
BOGURA, July 04: Sesame farmers of the district are expecting a bumper yield this season. Officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) have encouraged the marginal farmer to grow...
Dhaka Bank Limited is looking for massive digitisation of its banking procedures in the coming months, the top executive of the leading private commercial bank (PCB) said this week. The...
Students from Bangladesh have consistently performed well in different international competitions. Recently, Team Attendant from Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) secured the first position in Asia and sixth position globally, in...
According to many HR officials, interpersonal skills are often the standard that separates acceptable managers from their horrendous counterparts. If one possesses useful skills in this field, it can make...
Entrepreneurship, which was once an alien word to the business students of Bangladesh, has now become a buzzword for them. But there is still a considerable knowledge chasm which prevents...
The Je Ne Sais Quoi team from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Dhaka University won the global round of Battle of minds held at London recently for its unique...
Bangladesh cricketers were bowled out for 43 before lunch of the Antigua Test on Wednesday against West Indies after Kemar Roach tore the top order apart with five wickets. The...
The delay in digitising the country's manually-managed deed registration system is raising questions about the objective of the government to make the system corruption-free. The present system is age-old, very...
Unlike in the industrial democracies, shareholders' activism in Bangladesh has, of late, taken an ugly turn. Some of the shareholders with only a few stocks are found to team up...
Industrialistion is the process of structural transformation through which resources (especially labour) move from agriculture to industry and more specifically to manufacturing. Industrialisation has several benefits, especially in the long...
Mobile handset has been one of the single largest imported high-tech products in many developing countries. For example, Bangladesh spent more than a billion dollar to import almost 34 million...
The Prime Minister's directive to reopen all the closed railway stations is yet to be fully complied with. She issued a directive on March 13, 2016 to reopen all such...
Time has been changing and this is the age of innovention [innovation + invention] where static approach is being replaced fast by the dynamic [fast and consistent] one. In today's...
It is common for parents from the upper-middle and upper income strata of Dhaka's society to buy their children video gaming consoles and other gaming devices. Their reasons are simple:...
Profoundly shocked! A World Cup knockout game between two football-loving nations marred by so many scuffles, fouls, and yellow cards! This was not a football of pedigree. This was not...
Country’s overall exports grew 5.81 per cent in the outgoing fiscal year (FY18) to $36.67 billion from $34.65 billion of the fiscal year 2016-17 (FY17) riding on the higher shipment...
Heavy rainfall and onrush of water from the upstream submerged low-lying areas in Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Sylhet, Sunamganj and Nilphamari districts. Various parts of Barkol and Bilaichhari upazilas in Rangamati went...
Dhaka Steel Works Limited, a national steel mill, is going to be reopened on Thursday after 24 years of shut down. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu is scheduled to reopen...
A bill titled, 'Abhawa Ain, 2018', first such legal framework in the country to deal with the issues relating to the meteorological activities, was passed in Parliamenton Wednesday. The Bill...
The government will start the supply of 500 mmcfd liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the national grid by this month. Prime Minister's Energy Affairs Adviser Dr Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury came up...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested an engineer of Bangladesh Railway's Kulaura section while taking bribe from an employee at the Kulaura Railway Station in the district. The detainee was...
Heavy rainfall disrupted flight operations at Cox's Bazar airport on Wednesday, an aviation official has said. “Flights from the airport have been hit badly. Two flights returned to Chattogram around...
At least six Bangladeshis were killed in a road accident in Jeddah of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Nazrul Islam, deputy chief of mission at the Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh, said...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday laid emphasis on acquiring the expertise of IT and strategic development, including time-befitting training, to ensure the foolproof security in any circumstances. The President said...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assured of taking steps to bring the private educational institutions under monthly payment order (MPO) scheme following the MPO policy-2018. Sheikh Hasina said this while...
Malaysia has suspended construction of East Coast Railway Link as the country seeks to renegotiate the terms of the deal with China. The project owner of the $20 billion has...
The co-founder and chairman of the giant Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has died in a fall in southern France, his company has confirmed. Wang Jian, 57, "accidentally fell" in Provence,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government is striving to take country to a position in a shortest possible time. “Bangladesh has lost many years without any visible national...
Leaders of journalist unions have come together in denouncing steps by the Newspaper Owners Association of Bangladesh or NOAB to derail a new wage plan for news media workers, reports...
The much awaited mobile number portability (MNP) service is almost ready to serve the country’s mobile phone customers from August onwards. The assigned firm, Infozillion BD Teletech Consortium Limited (IBTCL),...
A court in Cumilla on Wednesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a widow in Daudkandi upazila in 2001. Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3...
The Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will hold a joint meeting with presidents and general secretaries of AL associate bodies, AL Dhaka city North and South units, Dhaka district...
A two-day ‘Indian Education Fair’ will begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BCC) in Dhaka city on July 6 (Friday). SS Exhibition and Media Privet Limited (SEMPL), India, is organising...
A leader of the BJP’s youth wing allegedly shot himself at his girlfriend’s house in Bhopal on Tuesday night, after he was asked by the woman’s father to “prove his...
Stocks bounced back to the green on Wednesday, snapping a three days losing streak, as optimistic investors showed their buying appetite on sector-wise stocks. The market started on positive note...
A court in Ecuador has ordered the arrest of former president Rafael Correa over his alleged involvement in the 2012 kidnapping of an opponent. Correa, who now lives in his...
China’s threatened tariffs on $34 billion of US goods will take effect from the beginning of the day on July 6, Reuters reported citing sources, amid worsening trade tensions between...
In a shocking turn of events, Bollywood actress Sonali Bendre has revealed that she has been diagnosed with high-grade cancer that has metastasised. The actress on Wednesday took to Instagram...
British shop prices edged down in June but the slide was less sharply than in May, shoppers could take some comfort from that food price inflation did not accelerate, a...
A man who was using a motorbike ridesharing service died when a state-run BRTC bus crushed him at Airport intersection in the city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as...
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