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Of public display of loan defaulters' lists

The news that the state-owned banks (SoBs) have not carried out a finance ministry directive on publication of the names of their respective top ten loan defaulters does raise questions about their loyalty to the owner -- the government. The SoBs do rarely demonstrate defiance, but they have done it...

Overseeing NGO operations

So it's all about greed for quick money. Reports have it that a non-governmental organisation (NGO) operating illegally in Chattogram under the banner of Social Services and Elimination of Poverty (SSEP) recently shut down its office and ran away with the depositors' money. The depositors, mostly low-income people, have been...

ADP implementation: Speed with quality

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal last Sunday exulted over "all-time high" ADP spending during July-November period of the ongoing fiscal year-- in the history of ADP implementation. According to the Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Planning Commission, Tk 364.38 billion (36,438 crore) was spent in five months from...

Global Climate Risk Index 2019

A new Global Climate Risk Index 2019 report was recently released at the annual climate summit in Poland's Katowice city. In the report, Bangladesh has been ranked 7th among the countries most affected by extreme weather events in 20 years since 1998. The report was prepared after analysing damages caused...

Ensuring comfortable commute on public transports

In Bangladesh, 'unsafe public transport' has turned into a buzzword, especially due to the reckless attitude of public transport drivers and staff and the number of road accidents that public transports are involved in. A recent study by Accident Research Institute of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has...