WITH the holy Eid-ul-fitr, one of the most important religious festivals of Muslims, nearing, the Dhaka city is buzzing with business activities as usual. Eid-shoppers are crowding the streets and marketplaces much to the delight of the traders. But this...
Shahiduzzaman KhanSome positive developments are taking place at the country's premier seaport. Once known as perennially dangerous, many ocean-going vessels are now favouring the port for calling at. Vibrancy in multiple activities has added new dimension to the port.The Chittagong...
Ripan Kumar Biswas from New YorkI met him at Seoul, South Korea. He is Ehsan, a 27-year old Bangladeshi young man. His face was burnt as because he used to work with acid in a mobile phone's key pad-making factory...
Shaker Hussain WORLD Tourism Day 2007 was observed Thursday (September 27) with the theme -- "Tourism opens doors for Women" -- to celebrate women's achievement in the tourism sector and encourage continuous action in support of the United Nations' Millennium...
Anirudha AlamTHE conventional gender roles that underpin sexual inequality and violence are entrenched by dyed-in-the-wool social norms. So women are always in the vicious circle of vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. It is an essential fact that gender-based violence is a key...
Richard Taffler and David Tuckett WHAT caused the credit bubble? The current debate lacks analysis of the role emotions play in financial activity. The new discipline of emotional finance aims to show how emotion drives investors' behaviour. It draws on...
Ensuring equitable benefits from an inclusive process of globalisation is a pressing priority in order to enable the less developed economies reap the best dividends out of trade liberalisation. In this context, the need for restructuring the aid policy of...
Rafiqul IslamTRANSFUSION of unscreened blood obtained from so-called blood banks poses a grave threat to public health. Lately, it has been reported in the media that professional blood sellers are freely able to sell their blood in the old part...
Mahmudul HasanA report in this paper sometime ago stated that the World Bank is likely to provide US$ 90 million to Bangladesh as funds for a project designed to bring remote areas of the country under electrification. Indeed, such renewable...
Md Bayazid SarkerJUST after World War-II, the World Bank or International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) was born in the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944. Since then, World Bank has been working as a development partner of developing countries...
REPORTEDLY, air pollution in Dhaka city still afflicts on average 150,000 people every year. The figures point to the acute necessity of further introducing and enforcing existing rules and regulations against air pollution for reducing the number who get exposed...
CLEAR policy decisions are needed about the jute sector. There is a debate going on over the operational viability of the country's jute industry. The fact that the jute mills in the public sector have been responsible for a colossal...
Alan BeattieIt has become a familiar sight. Two beaming trade ministers side-by-side at a table sign a weighty dossier of papers in the glare of television lights. Banalities are exchanged about the bonds of commerce and friendship that link whichever...
Jeremy GrantWhen Britain's Queen Elizabeth visited the US state of Virginia this year, she marked the quadricentennial of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. The visit rekindled an old connection between the City of London and the US,...
Michael SkapinkerThe walk from the FT to the Savoy Grill was longer than I remembered. It was a warm London day and I was running late. Arriving, I discovered to my relief that my lunch companion was running even later....
Luke Johnson I always say to foreigners that if they want to understand the British they need to realise the importance we place on a good sense of humour. But enjoying a laugh is not just about having fun: it...
John Burroughs On Friday at the United Nations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to discuss strategy regarding Iran's nuclear program with her counterparts from Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China. What is needed is not another UN Security Council...
On May 27, 1988, then-prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, his party faced with a legal challenge from rivals that threatened his leadership, summoned Malaysia's top judge, Salleh Abas, and gave him an ultimatum: resign or face a judicial tribunal. That secret...
Andy MukherjeeRahul Gandhi's admission this week into the inner circles of India's ruling Congress Party puts the 37-year-old within striking distance of becoming prime minister, as his father, grandmother and great-grandfather were before him. The significance of Gandhi's appointment as...
Daniel TwiningAmerican economic weakness, Europe's uncertain political and demographic future, turmoil in the Middle East and challengers to western leadership from Moscow to Tehran may signal a new moment in world politics. It is characterised by the decline of free...
Syed Fattahul AlimThe second day of face-offs between the Myanmar government's security forces and the civilian protestors including Buddhist monks, who are highly revered in that country, has been marked by the death of some nine people on Thursday. The...
Sagar Shabnam Salima, daughter of textile labourer Aminuddin of Kashimpur, has long been suffering from respiratory problems. She was treated by a local doctor, but it did not help her. The doctor, who treated Salima, told her father that dust...
Jackie CowhigRecord high coal prices and tight supply are piling the pressure on electricity generators already hit by soaring oil markets and high gas prices, industry players say.Coal fuels about 40 pct of global power generation. Physical coal prices for...
Enayet RasulThe Adviser for Law and Information, Barrister Mainul Hosein, unveiled a plan last week that deserves the support of all well intentioned people in the country. He informed the press that a draft ordinance was being prepared to set...
Raihan M ChowdhuryIn a chilling reminder, Ismat Ali, a 60-year old poor man recalls his nightmarish experience last year when river erosion and flood plagued his livelihood. "I was, however, safe to a large extent from the disaster this time...
Elizabeth CooneyCertain diabetes drugs should be used with caution in people who have heart disease or a history of heart failure, researchers from the Lahey Clinic report after analyzing previous studies, a finding they hope will clarify the debate on...
Shanta SultanaAt 7 Ankhi has learned the worst of police. The sight of policemen makes her nervous. "I still get scared when I see policemen. It seems to me that they will arrest me," says the little girl from Pallabi...
Pirated CD's and DVD's are destroying the home entertainment industry in Bangladesh with dozens of production companies against the wall in what is already a highly competitive business, reports bdnews24.com. Industry insiders say that within three to five hours of...
Seven persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Sirajganj, four people were killed and 10 others injured in two separate road accidents at Salanga...
SATKHIRA, Sept 28 (UNB): Shrimps worth several crore takas were washed away when an embankment of Power Development Board (PDB) along the river Kapotakkhya collapsed at Nakna point in Ashashuni Upazila early Friday.Sources said around 100 feet area of the...
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