Syed Munir Khasru | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Rarely has been a case that a mere acronym has led into reality. BRIC -- coined by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs in 2001 in the context of forecasting global economic trends -- has actually brought together leaders from disparate...
Md. Toufique Hossain | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
'Beyond Greed and Fear' is a popular book written by Mr Hersh Shefrin. The book is focused on understanding behavioural pattern of finance and the psychology of investing. Mr Shefrin in his book said: "Even the best Wall Street investors...
Hasanuzzaman Choudhury | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Time, space and physics run. Special Relativity and General Relativity come together making the totality of cosmic unification. Particle Physics and Astro Physics join each other. Quantum and GUT meet one another. Unification of physics becomes true according to the...
Kazi Prottoy Ahmed | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh is primarily an agrarian country, where almost half the total population is involved with agricultural activities and more than one-third is financially active in agriculture. So, agriculture has the potential to catalyze food security, livelihood improvements and employment generation...
GultekinBinte Azad | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Global Shapers Community is a network of city-based hubs developed and led by young leaders between 20 and 30 years of age who want to develop their leadership potential towards serving society. It is one of several multi-stakeholder communities at...
Meraj E Mostofa, Chairman of Familytex (BD) Limited, CEPZ, Chittagong, while narrating the success stories of the RMG sector of Bangladesh in an interview with the FE | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The readymade garments (RMG) industry of Bangladesh is still retaining the status of the number one foreign exchange earning sector. The RMG sub-sector of Bangladesh tells an impressive story about the leadership of private enterprises in the successful transformation of...
Ziaur Rahman | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
More than fifty per cent of dentists in Bangladesh use amalgam in dental fillings notwithstanding its negative impacts on human health and the environment. Most of them do not even let patients know amalgam contains mercury. "They do it for...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Those who are thinking that the Bangladesh economy will automatically graduate to a higher growth level they are wrong. For the last one-decade or so Bangladesh economy was growing at around 6% annually, though in the recent years the public...
Bangladesh Development Update published by the World Bank in October last | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The governance environment may have been barely adequate thus far to cope with an economy breaking out of extreme poverty and low growth. Bangladesh needs to create a system of governance that can successfully manage the interactions between the state...
Sadiq Ahmed | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The substantial reduction in poverty in Bangladesh since independence is a cause for celebration. A major reason for this decline in poverty is the rising per capita income, growing from less than 2% per year in the 1970s to around...
Iftekhar Mahfuz | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Since the coining of the term 'Crowdsourcing' by Jeff Howe in 2006, it has been a popular concept. The term describes a web-based model that harnesses the creative power of amateurs or a distributed network of individuals (the crowd), through...
Mustafizur Rahman & Hosna Jahan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
LDCs constitute a significant group within the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Thirty four of the forty nine Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are members of the WTO, which has a total membership of 160. Eight LDCs are also in the process...
Zahidul Chowdhury Rahee, Saifur Rahman Saif and Hisham Uddin Khan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
A new year is on the corner and you are determined to take your brand to the next level by tapping a new segment. But, the problem is that others have thought about the same thing and there are not...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
It was a national disgrace of outsize proportion. The leakage of question papers of secondary and higher secondary examinations was not enough. Now the question papers of the primary school final examination has leaked. But the minister concerned has duly...
Muntasir Tahmeed | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
"Ocean issues affect billions of people, in ways that bring together business, politics, academia and science-The Economist's editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait. In line with Mr. John's apt remarks, let's recall that by the year 2025 about 75 per cent of the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Tax deducted at source (TDS) is a means of collection of income tax. It is gaining popularity across the world amid rising concern over tax evasion. In the budget for the current fiscal year (FY) the National Board of Revenue...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Getting out of the nagging problem of traffic congestion in Dhaka still remains a distant dream for the city-dwellers. Their sufferings have intensified rather. They do not know when they will get actual relief from this menace. To address the...
Nazmul Khan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Industrial revolution on a national basis has been the driving force of economic growth in the modern era. This is true for a country like ours as well. The territory of Bangladesh saw the expansion of industry during the period...
Salim Shadman Pathan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh has an emotional attachment with the radio as a medium. Radio played important roles during a lot of our achievements and triumphs as a nation, starting from the war of liberation to the spreading of the news of winning...
Ferdaus Ara Begum | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Growth of business and investment is a reflection of good policies a state pursues. Bangladesh embraced free-market economic policy in the early eighties and the country has been passing through several painful policy reforms ever since. The country has been...
Mahbubuddin Ahmad | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The well-known dictum that Knowledge is Power needs no elucidation. If you ask how the world has advanced and is advancing in science, technology and in all other fields of human activities the inevitable answer is that it is the...
Kritika Kumary | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
How often do you spot a woman in a driving seat, amidst a myriad of vehicles plying in Dhaka City? Only rarely does one get to see a woman driving. Does it not surprise you that only 12,455 driving licences...
Drabir Alam | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Digital marketing is a buzzword now. Everyone wants to do it, but at the same time everyone is concerned about what it could do for them. As a result most companies test a little bit of advertising on Facebook by...
Zareen Tasnim Lazima | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Although the purpose of business and economics degree is to encourage entrepreneurship in the long run, most students these days, however, join an organization after graduation. We do not have proper support system to promote entrepreneurship. Somewhere along the line...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh has emerged as a modern and high tech shipbuilding nation making a place in the shipbuilding globe. The industry has made very a positive image of the country in western world by building ships for European and African buyers....
Rail communication of Dhaka with Ishwardi remained suspended since Sunday morning as four compartments of a train derailed near Sayedabad Railway Station on the west side of Bangabandhu (Jamuna) Bridge in Sirajganj district. Ashraf Uddin, senior sub-assistant engineer of railway,...
Ferry services on Daulatdia-Paturia waterways resumed on Sunday morning after a four-hour disruption due to dense fog. Mahiuddin Rasel, manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Aricha Ferry Ghat (terminal), said the ferry services as well as the...
Trashing reports that there was a meeting between their party chief and government officials, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir again said that it was Awami League which come to state power by hatching conspiracy. ‘It is Awami...
Two people were injured in a gun attack in Panchari Upazila in Khagrachhari district on Saturday night. The injured are Ramjan Ali, 50, and his wife Anwara Begum, 39, hailing form Haladhar Para of the Upazila. Locals said some unidentified...
Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bussairy met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office on Saturday night. The nearly 2-hour-long meeting that began around 8:00pm was followed by a dinner. BNP acting Secretary General...
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