DUBAI, Dec 09 (AP): Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels for...
MOSCOW, Dec 09 (Reuters): Russia's paramount leader, Vladimir Putin, was not even looking at the television camera when he announced that he would run for presidency in 2024 election and aim to stay in the Kremlin for at least another...
GAZA, Dec 09 (BBC/Reuters): The southern Gaza city is surrounded by Israeli tanks on two sides. The Israeli military says it is fighting with Hamas fighters from house to house.A hospital boss in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, says his team...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
There is a swirl of uncertainty surrounding the global economic outlook for 2024. The reasons for such an uncertainty include the failure of global economy to recover from the effect of the pandemic, the continuing Russia-Ukraine conflict, Israeli invasion of...
Human Rights Day is observed globally every year on December 10. On this day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was a milestone document which proclaims that everyone is inherently entitled...
According to a study by Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, at least 74 per cent of the country's students who are seeking university admission are suffering from depression. What is more worrying is that among them, 22 per cent...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
The government is supposed to ensure availability of all the text books for students before their first school-day of the year. It is a key expectation of the people, especially of students and guardians, from their government.In our country, schools...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
For the last couple of years, external debt has become one of the major concerns of the country's overall economic management, mainly due to the sharp fall in the foreign exchange reserve coupled with the fast depreciation of the local...
Women the world over are increasingly joining the international labour market. As per data of International Labour Organisation (ILO) 2017, women constituted 42 per cent of the 164 million migrant workers globally. "ILOSTAT (ILO Labour Statistics) data show that the...
Rehnuma Tasnim Sheefa | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
On Sunday mornings, we all feel pissed off to get back to offices after the weekend leisure. I bet there are hardly any employees who like to work. But just think how people would survive without working. Work or want--this...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
The deep-sea port being constructed at Matarbari in Cox's Bazar under a project of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has started to become visible now. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Matarbari deep-sea port channel at Maheshkhali in Cox's Bazar...
FE: Please describe the situation of the business sector in the country now.Shahriar Jahan Rahat: The recent development that happened in Bangladesh's infrastructure like roads and highways, railways and port facilities is creating opportunities to develop the business sector all...
FE: Please describe the situation of the business sector in the country now? Nurul Qayyum Khan: First and foremost, the business sector of our country should not be compartmentalized, since it is intricately affected by the global economic ups and...
Fakhrul Alam | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
FE: Please describe the situation of the business sector in the country now? Alihussain Akberali: Due to the political unrest, the situation in Bangladesh is highly precarious these days. We have reduced our production levels due to low demand and...
Mohammed Salman Rahman | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
When I was younger, I used to watch a film on the television called 'Water World'. The 'used to watch' part mainly stems from networks re-running popular films multiple times, and my parents would not let me finish a movie...
A K Enamul Haque | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh has made incredible strides in improving its economic standing, particularly in the measurement of per capita income. Per capita income essentially represents the average income earned per person in a country. Back in 1973, each person in Bangladesh, on...
Bijon Islam | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
There is no denying that Bangladesh has achieved remarkable success in the last decade or so with higher-than South Asia average of GDP per capita. The economy touches almost half a trillion dollars alongside emergence of a growing middle and...
Anita Ghazi Rahman | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
Amid a change of wind over the past decade, board diversity has become a major consideration in entrepreneurship - globally. Dialogue about stakeholder- versus-shareholder capitalism has gained momentum and there has been a steady growth of ESG-focused investing since 2013....
Geographical location at the approach of the Bay of Bengal, land structure involving low-lying terrains, great rivers, and the socioeconomic dynamics of coastal, riverine, and remote communities, have all combined to make Bangladesh the seventh most climate-vulnerable country in the...
Md Rubaiyath Sarwar | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh needs to expand and diversify its export base. The need is immediate given the declining dollar reserve, the poor balance of payment and the global economic crisis. Our search for a diversified export market base has so far been...
S M Jahangir | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh faces some challenges on the economic front -- persisting dollar crisis, depleting foreign-exchange reserves and steep inflation being daunting ones. Liquidity pressure on the banking system, much of it believed stemming from bad-loan buildups, is also among major areas...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh is tangibly deficient in providing better healthcare to its burgeoning population. So far, universal healthcare remains a far cry in the country, with resultant rise in foreign medical bills. Government expenditure for healthcare is much lower than in other...
Haseeb Md Irfanullah | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
Climate has indeed changed -- from Bolivia and Botswana to Bangladesh and beyond. The big industrial countries were supposed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions fast to keep the average global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees centigrade compared with what...
Omar Raad Chowdhury | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
Two pertinent questions crop up regarding Bangladesh's potential BRICS (now BRICS+) membership that need to be weighed in the context of current global geopolitical shifts. First comes what could be the short-to long-term economic and trade benefits of Bangladesh joining...
Sheikh Serajul Hakim | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
While attending lectures on Solid Waste Management (SWM) as part of my Master’s in Urban (Environmental) Management and Development at Rotterdam back in 2007, I was first introduced to the concept of solid waste and the need for its management,...
Wasi Ahmed | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
When his 1993 essay The Clash of Civilizations, later made into a book with the title The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, took readers across the globe with a sense of unease and excitement (provocation as...
Melita Mehjabeen | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
In an era of rapid technological advancements and global connectivity, the need for a workforce equipped with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) skills has become paramount. The conventional Master of Business Administration (MBA) curriculum, once the hallmark of business...
Anindeta Chowdhury | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
Almost every wishful profession holds a passionate story behind this choice. And a skillful profession should not exactly rely on any gender-based stereotype, yet the contextual concept varies from the theoretical approach. Not every profession is seen as suitable one...
Khan Muhammad Saqiful Alam | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
2022-2023 have been a couple of very eventful years, with Russia's attempted invasion of Ukraine, Twitter's takeover by Elon Musk, several large crypto businesses' meteoric crashes, rounds of downsizing in tech giants, and the very recent humanitarian crisis in Gaza....
Tanannum Azad Arufa and Sabit Ibtisam Anan | 2023-12-10 00:00:00
An alarm bell rings that, under "business as usual" levels, plastic pollution is set to double by 2040, whilst consumption likely to double by 2050. In recent years, the rapid proliferation of plastics production, primarily single-use plastics, has resulted in...
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