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Cut in savings certificate yield puts senior citizens in peril

The government has already cut interest rates of all types of government-owned savings certificates to near about single digit: no more payment of Tk. 1,000 as interest income per month against investment of Tk 1,00,000 to the holders of these...

The dramatics of tannery relocation

It has been high drama for quite sometime, and not...

Determining rural income

Income is considered as one of the most important determinants...

Letting the economy be truly shiny

Doing business is considered a difficult job in Bangladesh and...

Is flyover a soluti to traffic gridlocks?

Since the beginning of the construction work in 2013, the...

Sixty-two equal to 3.5 billion

Simple arithmetic hardly sets sums for students, even in hypothetical...

A welcome monetary policy

Though late, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has felt the need...

Flourishing rural economic units

Findings of a country-wide survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau...

Poverty reduction: The other side of the coin

Income-poverty level has declined over time as established by quantitative...

Are police unaccountable?

'Macher raja ilish ar desher raja police' (Hilsha is the...

Streamlining healthcare services

Instead of improvement, country's overall healthcare services have further deteriorated....

Coming out of black hole of depression

A Mail Online story on Stephen Hawking has given an...

Cutting yield rates of savings certificates

The trend of investment in the country continued to remain...

In and out of poverty

Poverty can both be persistent or short-lived adducible to structural...

Seizing potential of pharma sector

Amid the gloom in many spheres of international trade, caused...

Perils of \"Green Revolution\"

'Harmful pesticides in four vegetables' screamed the headline of the...

Strides towards higher growth

World Bank Senior Vice President and chief economist Dr Kaushik...

Is DITF a misnomer?

Dhaka hosts two month-long fairs annually in successive months. If...

What stock investors expect of 2016

The year 2015, especially the last few months of the...

Shifting trends in rural economic activities

A survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)...

Waking up to a strong quake

Bangladesh on Monday woke up to a 6.7 earthquake, the...

DNCC tames the defiant

'Where there is a will, there is a way' is...

Rationalising prices of petroleum products

The government last week reduced the price of A-1 jet...

Slump in Gulf sends wake-up call

In this age of globalisation, any development taking place anywhere...

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