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Ahsan H. Mansur 2017-05-14 21:12:37
The new VAT law "The VAT and Supplementary Duty Act 2012" is set to come into effect with the new budget. Its full and effective implementation across the country, nonetheless, will probably take two-...
Syed Ashraf Ali 2017-05-13 19:03:00
In its latest Annual Report, Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington-based research outfit, provided an estimate of $6.0 to $9.0 billion that, it claims, was siphoned away from Bangladesh in 20...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2017-05-12 19:26:02
We proceeded toward Jerusalem from Mecca on April 22. We were a group of 42 persons. We boarded a bus at midnight and reached Jeddah in two hours. Dar-as Salam, a well-known travel agency in North Ame...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-05-10 19:19:22
The Cox's Bazar Beach appears to be set for a radical transformation in its overall look and character. This has been long overdue. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's inaugural on May 6 of the 80-...
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As opposed to a retail sales tax where the tax is collected at the final stage i.e. at the retail stage, value added tax (VAT) is collected from different stages in the production-distribution chain....
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There is a notion that the VAT is hidden in overall prices. This gives rise to a concern about spending growth. As a result, the argument goes, taxpayers won't notice the VAT the way they do incom...
Asjadul KIbria from Yokohama, Japan 2017-05-06 21:05:48
Progress of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is widely linked with Asia's development journey in the last five decades. The regional bank formally started its operation in 1966 in a bid to facilit...
Sayed Kamaluddin 2017-05-06 21:03:16
Chinese President Xi Jinping's brainchild known as the 'Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for International Cooperation' will begin its first two-day forum in Beijing on May 14. However, a se...
BK Mukhopadhyay 2017-05-05 19:33:54
The present situation calls for giving a big push to farm investment especially keeping in view the plight of developing countries. Though 60 per cent of South Asian countries are still dependent on t...
M S Siddiqui 2017-05-05 19:12:59
The Bangladesh economy draws its main strength from agriculture sector. The sector contributes about 19.10 per cent to the GDP and employs approximately for about 48 per cent of the country's labo...
Md Saiful Islam 2017-05-03 21:37:44
One of the most important implications of technological advancement in banking is that it has made distant customers come closer. Majority of banks are planning to introduce information communication...
M. Serajul Islam 2017-05-03 21:27:35
President Donald J Trump's first 100 days were completed on April 27. During the campaign and while waiting the two months plus a few more days since winning the election for his inauguration, he...
Maswood Alam Khan 2017-04-29 19:55:24
Jobs of an American president in the First 100 Days are the first few steps he undertakes to fulfill what he had promised before being elected. These first steps are the most important ones that initi...
Nironjan Roy 2017-04-28 21:09:53
Recently, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has issued an instruction to all commercial banks advising them to follow Bank Company Act 1991 and amendment thereof up to 2013 while making payment of depositor's...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-04-27 21:27:08
In the thick of news about forced child marriages across the country, the emergence of resistance groups comprising teenage girls comes as a ray of hope. These days, child marriages are blighted by sc...
Shamsul Alam 2017-04-25 21:24:56
Bangladesh's National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) is designed to tackle challenges in addressing socio-economic vulnerability, as well as mitigate the problems of entrenched poverty and margin...
Jeffrey D. Sachs 2017-04-23 20:06:58
Nearly 100 days after US President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that first-year economics students learn to avoid. They...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-04-22 20:59:28
There has been strong push over the last thirty years or so for the state to create business-friendly economic environment to stimulate sustained economic growth. In most developed countries, especial...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-04-20 21:06:11
The almost choked celebration of the Bangla New Year this year amply spoke of the meticulous preparations for attaining a mean goal --- spoiling the festival by spreading the seeds of panic and anarch...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-04-20 21:02:25
Abdullah Abu Sayeed is well-known as a writer, editor, social activist and a popular teacher. He earned fame also as a television presenter. In the last few decades he has emerged as a successful orga...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2017-04-18 21:07:39
The Home Minister recently asked the Bangladesh Bank Governor to monitor movement of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) fund so that it does not reach terrorists or is not laundered abroad to finan...
M S Siddiqui 2017-04-16 21:21:19
The latest labour force survey of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) reports that 58.1 million people are employed in different occupational sectors of the country. In 2013, 87.1 per cent of wo...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-04-15 20:56:37
Income inequality has now become the principal topic of public debate not only in the developed world but also in developing countries like Bangladesh. So much has been written and discussed about ...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-04-13 21:29:31
People touched in the head are targets of ridicule in almost all societies. In backward communities, the deranged people are looked down upon or marginalised --- and even persecuted in many cases. Ban...
B. K. Mukhopadhyay 2017-04-12 20:45:44
Rating race is on - difficult to judge the better from the rest! Numerous agencies started forecasting on the wide differences in gross domestic product (GDP) leaving the investors totally confused. P...
Dan Steinbock 2017-04-11 21:33:23
President Donald Trump says he developed a "friendship" with President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago. However, U.S. missile attacks against Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria overshadowed the meeting. A...
M Rokonuzzaman 2017-04-08 21:05:19
At the current state of economy, growth in productivity and income level is the primary focus for Bangladesh. To address this issue, like many other developing countries, Bangladesh has the aspiration...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-04-08 20:58:37
The United Kingdom (UK) triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Agreement on March 29, 2017 signalling its decision to leave the European Union (EU). Article 50 stipulates a two-year deadline to unwind th...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2017-04-07 21:22:28
Stretching over a massive landmass of over 9.5 million square kilometres, China currently has a population of around 1.39 billion which is 50 million more than the next most populous country India (1....
Saifur Rashid 2017-04-07 21:21:23
Heritage, folk medicine and traditional medical practices are closely related to each other. Preservation of heritage is about making sense of our past and developing a sense of identity. Traditional...
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