The noise around women's cricket in Bangladesh has never been high-pitched until last Sunday when the Tigresses, as they are now fondly called, clinched the first-ever international cricket trophy for the country. The Bangladesh women cricketers made history at the Kinrara Academy Oval in Kuala Lumpur beating the tough Indian...
Read moreOn Thursday last, finance minister AMA Muhith, MP placed the proposed national budget 2018/19 in Parliament. The budget outlay has been proposed to be Tk. 4.64 trillion which is 25 per cent higher than the revised one of the outgoing (current) fiscal. It is the 47th national budget and 10th...
Read moreOn World Day Against Child Labour 2018, the spotlight is on ending hazardous child labour. It is a priority in the wider ILO campaigns against child labour and for safe and healthy work for youth of legal working age-"Generation Safe & Healthy."Around 73 million children are engaged in hazardous work...
Read moreThere is nothing in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2018-2019 that will encourage millions of small investors to purchase shares of listed public limited companies and mutual funds. Around 35 per cent corporate tax has been imposed on companies not listed with stock exchange and 25 per cent corporate...
Read moreThe recent newspaper photograph of a stretch on a Dhaka flyover lying waterlogged is disturbing. Even the pathological pessimists could not have thought of this turn of the city's water-logging. But reality is too grim in Dhaka nowadays. Now vehicles speeding along the flyovers could possibly be seen negotiating pot-holes...
Read moreFIFA World Cup 2018 is just a couple of days away. Already we can see football frenzy all around us. For the next one month, newspapers, TV, and social media will be full of football stories and fantasies. But if we look at our football we feel utterly frustrated as...
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