Abu Ahmed | 2014-12-14 00:00:00
The regulators and other stakeholders talk about more loudly the shareholders' rights in Bangladesh than investors or shareholders themselves. But their rights are hardly delivered. In the absence of enforcement or automatic delivery, the shareholders' rights turn out to be...
Neil Ray | 2014-12-14 00:00:00
In the annals of human civilisation, even small countries or isles rose to great height and/or commanded respect from all simply because the lands produced people of extraordinary intellect and creativity. At a time when intellectual luminosity is conspicuous by...
Oil spillage in the Sunderbans has caused a huge environmental concern and immediate steps must be taken to minimize the environmental damage. The ill-fated oil tanker sank in a river in the Sunderbans and spread oil over 20 kilometers of...
Many of our fellow citizens are reluctant to pay taxes as the process of paying income tax is quite complicated and troublesome. The process should be simplified so as to encourage all citizens to pay their taxes voluntarily. When a...
Thanks to internet, computer and Smartphone, learning English has become quite easy now and I am glad many students and young people have grabbed this opportunity to learn English. Many of us use social networks, like Facebook, twiiter etc. and...
Liton Chandro Sarkar | 2014-12-14 00:00:00
There is no reason why Bangladesh cannot achieve a higher growth rate than its current one. Bangladesh is still in the low-income group and is aspiring to enter the low-end of the middle-income group by 2021. Bangladesh's economic competitiveness is...
Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member and former Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta, MP, asked Saturday BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to refrain from movement and instead concentrate on reorganising her party, reports BSS. "You needn't have to wage a movement against...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Dec 13: A two-day Malaysian Show started today in the port city's Hotel Peninsula. Malaysian Healthcare Services Ltd and Malaysian Healthcare Travel Council have jointly organised the show. City Mayor M Manjur Alam formally opened the show...
Speakers at a discussion in the city said Saturday Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had infused the spirit of nationalism among the people of the country to make them prepared for the war of liberation in 1971,...
State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu said Saturday the government is committed to creating employment by making skilled and transforming population into human resources, reports BSS. "Lacking of experience in the private sector is the main problem...
Passing through the immigration, customs and the layers of security by homebound air passengers, mainly the wage earners, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has become a humiliating experience these days due to luggage loss and misbehaviour by a section of...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu urged Saturday the media to play a courageous role against falsehood, half-truth and distortion, reports BSS. "Media practises sometimes yellow journalism as well as disseminates balanced news. Even they (media) favour Razakars and autocrats by...
A woman has filed a rape case against pacer Rubel Hossain of the national team with Mirpur Police Station in the city on Saturday, reports UNB . Quoting from the first information report (FIR), police sources said the woman, an...
The state minister for power, energy and mineral resources has cited the increase in people's earnings and use of technology to justify the government's plan to hike the prices of electricity. The power prices were last increased in March after...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will extend the tenure of loan repayment and reduce the interest rate on the credit to be given for the promotion of green energy, particularly the renewable energy sector. Governor Dr Atiur Rahman announced the central bank’s...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has threatened intense agitation if rates of gas and electricity are raised. She told a rally in Narayanganj Saturday that the agitations will start the very next day after the decision is announced. Addressing the 20-Party...
At least 10 people, including a jewelry shop owner, were injured as they tried to stop muggers from breaking into jewelry shops at GPO more in the city on Saturday afternoon. Local people said a group of muggers went to...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, MP, appealed to the nation to "Come out of confrontational politics for peace." He was speaking as the chief guest at a function to inaugurate New Holland brand of tractors at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
How many public toilets a megalopolis like Dhaka City has? In fact, quite a few of those were constructed during the reign of autocrat Ershad. But subsequently some of those were demolished only to be built at a place less...
Ershad Khandker | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Amar Moner Kotha (My Mind Speaks) is the latest book written by Mr Waliul Huq Khandker, retired Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (Senior), Government of Bangladesh. Actually it is a compilation of four books written by him - two new...
Sadia Arman in the first of a four-part article | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Salvador Dali, by far the greatest of the surrealists, was fortunate to belong to a time when the surrealist movement in art was already in swing in Europe. Dali's fantastic and unusually powerful imaginative powers adapted themselves very well to...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
In June, 2010, I saw the news coverage of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina adopting three girls who were orphaned after their parents had died in the Nimtali inferno. It became apparent that the Prime Minister is a mother first, above...
Muhammad Obaidullah | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Islam is founded on five pillars eg shahadah (Islamic testimony), salah (obligatory prayer), sawm (fasting in the month of Ramadan), zakah (paying alms) and Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) (Sahih al-Bukhari). Among them, zakah is awfully noteworthy for establishing an economically...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
It is quite strange that in these times of self-serving megalomaniacs, there are lots of others who could be seen standing by the humanity in its woes. Nobody needs to beseech them. They appear on the scene of their own...
Shobha Shukla from New Delhi | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
In 2013, TB killed 1.5 million people out of the estimated 9.0 million people who developed it. Many social, economic and structural barriers drive the TB epidemic in high TB-afflicted countries including India, which accounts for 24 per cent of...
FHM Humayun Kabir in the concluding part of his two-part article | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
The first and foremost problem in implementing mega projects is finance. Everyone during last three years of the present government was talking about the Padma bridge project but very few were talking about the huge funding. However, clouds started to...
Abdul Kadir Dip | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Since the independence the insurance sector in Bangladesh has been facing an acute shortage of skilled professionals as the majority of young people are apathetic to take up it as a profession. The image of the financial services sector has,...
The recently released FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) report on world fisheries is indeed heartening for fish-loving Bangladeshis. The report titled 'The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture' which features on its cover a photograph of sweet-water fishing by Bangladeshi...
Imtiaz Hussain | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
If democracies do not fight each other, as the core Kantian argument goes, then clearly, expanding trade becomes a natural and lucrative engagement. Bangladesh's democratic embrace from 1991 proved pivotal in spiking commerce in a way that pushed growth rate...
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