Imtiaz A. Hussain | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
Humans have perennially used wealth to compare and contrast each other, but only with the post-World War II independence of African and Asian colonies did this practice become formal and global. Not without reason either: by differentiating developed countries (DCs)...
Two reports in total contrast with each other carried in this newspaper on Sunday give a glimpse of the hard reality facing children here and an ideal situation society ought to strive for. The first report concerns the arrest of...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
A worker or labourer is a person who is engaged at least for one hour in activities that increase or save income of the household. Under this definition are included both full-time and part-time labour, whereas in the discussion on...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
Corruption is not a phenomenon which is confined to the poor counties alone; it has engulfed all the countries of the world. No country can claim to be totally clean - it is only a matter of degree. Rich and...
An article titled "India's Struggle with Russian VVER-1000 Reactors at KKNNP" by Dr.A.Rahman and Mr. V.T. Padmanabhan was published in the September 01, 2015 issue of the fortnightly 'Energy & Power'. This writer always stuck to the point that U236-fuelled...
Dhaka is a historic and glorious city which has a history of 400 years or more. Due to unplanned urbanisation and utter negligence of the concerned authorities, Dhaka has become one of the most unlivable cities of the world. Many...
The government has recently announced a new pay scale for public servants featuring 100 per cent increase in their pay structure. The philosophy behind such an unprecedented pay rise is too well-known to elaborate. It is expected that now onwards...
Shah Md. Ahsan Habib | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
At present, the world's banking sector faces a surge in financial crimes due to operational risks and growing challenges of regulatory compliance. Contemporary criminals make use of sophisticated skills and advanced technologies to perform illicit activities in the financial realm....
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
In the recent years, Bangladesh has witnessed a growth of five-star hotels, resorts and guest houses in Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong along with their surrounding areas. According to Ashwani Nayar, the general manager of Le Méridien Dhaka, hospitality businesses have...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Sept 14: Price of vegetables in kitchen markets of Rajshahi is still high. Most of the vegetables are now being sold at a fixed rate like those of footpath garment products. The price of vegetables in various Rajshahi markets...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-15 00:00:00
SYLHET, Sept 14: About 155,000 farmers have been badly affected as their croplands of Transplant Aman paddy had been inundated in the recent floods in Sylhet division, official sources informed. According to the DAE statistics, out of the total 253,850...
Australia is to have a new prime minister after Tony Abbott was ousted as leader of the centre-right Liberal Party by Malcolm Turnbull. In the hastily arranged party leadership ballot, Mr Abbott, who had been plagued by poor opinion polls,...
More EU countries have said they are imposing border checks to deal with an influx of migrants. Austria, Slovakia and the Netherlands said they would tighten controls, hours after Germany imposed checks on its border with Austria. Hungary will bring...
The bail granted to Destiny 2000 President and former army chief Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid in two money laundering cases has been upheld. A four-member Appellate Bench headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha on Monday dismissed the Anti Corruption Commission...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said that trial run for passenger transportation among four SAARC countries under the Motor Vehicle Agreement (MVA) will start on fixed six routes in October. He announced this at a press briefing...
Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police have arrested 7 members of a gang involved in question paper leaking from different areas of Dhaka city. Some question papers, answer sheets, admit cards and Tk50,000 were recovered from their possessions during...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) on Monday picked 42 booters initially to form the national team to play the FIFA World Cup-2018 and AFC Asian Cup joint qualifiers round-2 against Kyrgyzstan. Bangladesh’s away match will be held against the Kyrgyzstan national...
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of ‘The Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2015’, raising the existing fiduciary capacity of Bangladesh’s Civil Courts. The approval was given at its weekly regular meeting held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikhs...
Customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Dhaka seized 1.75-kg gold and arrested an Indian national in this connection on Monday evening. The arrestee was identified as Mukesh Kumar. Sources at the airport said customs officials challenged Mukesh...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has claimed that foreigners who work in Bangladesh remit $4 billion every year to their respective countries. He has blamed ‘inefficiency’ of Bangladeshis for the outflow stating that this huge amount could have been...
Malaysia will fulfill a significant portion of the demand for extra work force from Bangladesh, Secretary General of Malaysian Human Resources Ministry Datuk Seri Haji Saripuddin Bin Haji said in Dhaka on Monday. During a meeting with Foreign Minister AH...
The preparation for holding the tax fair in 86 Upazilas across Bangladesh is at the final stage aiming to increase the number of taxpayers in the country. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) for the first time has decided to...
The visiting UN Under-Secretary-General Atul Khare will attend a public lecture titled ‘Challenges of Providing Support to UN Peace Operations’, in Dhaka on Monday. Researchers, academia, media and business community will attend the programme. Atul Khare, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support...
Muhammad Zamir | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
The media, both print and electronic, has been awash since the beginning of September with detailed coverage, including photographs, that depicted the total helplessness of the 17 million inhabitants of capital Dhaka as they faced water-logging throughout the city. The...
Sharjil Haque | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
Long considered the engine of global growth, emerging markets in Asia are finally running out of steam and experiencing alarming economic and financial market volatility. Leading financial institutions have been cited in the international media warning of an emerging market...
The government has taken - albeit belatedly -a move, reports the FE on Saturday, to enumerate the undocumented Rohingyas in the country. This is at a time when on an average eight to 10 Myanmar nationals are infiltrating Bangladesh daily....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
The country's technical and vocational education arena is marked by confusing and at times discouraging developments. While the government leaders concerned do often harangue about the need for creating a large pool of technically qualified people and the signboards of...
Neil Ray | 2015-09-14 00:00:00
A woman is in labour right on the busy footpath. Her body is twisting in excruciating pain. The place is Badamtali under Agrabad of the port city Chittagong. Passers-by there look on, some take pictures or do video-record on their...
Evidently, large stretches of Bangladesh may remain flooded till the end of this year. The country's northern districts have been flooded twice since July. At present, thousands of people are marooned. Additionally, several localities of the Sylhet Division are already...
It is clear from Dhaka city corporation's records that increasing number of divorce cases are being filed and women are filing more divorce cases than any other time in the past. Marriage is one of the oldest institutions in human...
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