Trial of Myanmar military under universal jurisdiction

Under the principle of universal jurisdiction, the Argentinian judiciary has decided to hold a trial of the Myanmar military including army general Min Aung Hlaing and other senior officers, accusing the armed forces of genocide against the Rohingya. As the...

Fire death of workers -- the menace still riding high

Here is a brief description of the latest incident of fire death of workers in Bangladesh-- compiled from several newspaper sources. Five workers died after a fire broke out at a shoe factory in old Dhaka's Shuarighat area on November...

Career guidance in the post-pandemic era

Presentation PRO organised an Interactive Master Class on ‘Post Pandemic Career Guideline and How to be Future Fit’. This session was held on November 26, featuring Mr Saad Hussain- a people management strategist and HR Manager at Abul Khair Steel.As...

Being thankful to the uncelebrated heroes

Thanksgiving is an occasion worth celebrating among the youths especially for the appealing connotations it brings forth. Being an integral part of the western culture, thanksgiving gives people the opportunity to take a step back and be grateful. It presents...

BD to seek extension of DFQF facility in Thai market

Bangladesh will seek further extension of duty-free and quote-free (DFQF) facility for Bangladeshi products in Thai market to enhance bilateral trade volume, officials said.As part of the exercise, Dhaka is getting prepared to negotiate with the Southeast Asian country in...

Chattogram at high risk of earthquake

CHATTOGRAM, Nov 30: Chattogram and its adjoining areas are at high risk of earthquake, experts said. If an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale hits Chattogram, more than 0.15 million buildings could be destroyed, they said, adding that it...

Developing homestead aquaculture to ensure nutritional security

Homestead pond aquaculture is one of the prominent aquaculture technologies in Bangladesh. It can play a significant role in ensuring nutritional security at the household level. As most of the rural households rely on home production for fish, homestead ponds...

Ctg-Cox's Bazar rail link project may miss deadline

Although the project to establish the rail link from Chattogram's Dohazari to Cox's Bazar has overcome its initial hurdle like land acquisition, it is likely to miss the deadline next year since a lot of work is yet to be...

Being kind to wild animals

Saturday's online edition of the Bengali daily ProthomAlo carried the report of how a Nilgai, said to be the largest Asian antelope, died at Bhabanipur, a village under HaripurUpazila in the northern district of Thakurgaon. The antelope crossed the barbed...

NPL swell erodes banks' capital base

Banks' capital base has been weakened further by higher growth of non-performing loans (NPLs), officials said Sunday, based on their September situation.The capital-to-risk weighted asset ratio (CRAR) of all the scheduled banks in Bangladesh came down to 11.22 per cent...

Growing human-elephant conflict

Never before did the country come across the shocking news of killing of so many elephants by electrocution as it has been a witness to, of late. The High Court took cognisance of the rapacious murder of the giant creature...

Road sector anomalies and nonchalance

A dustbin lorry, belonging to the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), ran over and killed Naim Hasan, a student of Notre Dame College, on Wednesday last. The vehicle had hit Naim when he was crossing the road in the Gulistan...

eReturn getting massive response

Rowshon Ara Akter, a housewife who lives in the city's New Eskaton area, got puzzled last year getting a notice from the income tax office after the expiry of the deadline for return submission for individual taxpayers. She does not...

Finance Div approves spl police team for DMTCL

As the first ever metro rail will open to traffic in the city in a year or two, a 357-member special police team will be formed to ensure safety and security of the state-of-the-art transportation system.The Finance Division approved the...

Silver lining to deferred WTO meet

From Tuesday next, trade ministers of more than 160 countries were scheduled to gather in Geneva to negotiate some critical issues of global trade rules. The four-day event, the 12th ministerial conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), has...

Stocks retreat on panic sell-offs

Stocks suffered a massive drop in the outgoing week as investors dumped their holdings of major sector shares amid fears of further price erosion.The market bled throughout the week as panic gripped investors following the news that non-performing loans in...

Changes in EMS slabs, charges in the offing

The postal directorate has taken a move to change the charges and slabs of its express mail service (EMS) to streamline the service for making it customer-friendly, officials said. The authorities aim to woo more customers to the state-run international...

Commodities, services boarding database for sound marketing

A comprehensive database of country's different services and commodities is being prepared to access their market status and clear supply chain of anti-competitive interventions, officials say. The proposed database is likely to include information about all local services and locally...

When men suffer silently in their own homes

A report released in June this year claimed that as many as 37 divorce petitions were being filed a day in the capital city during a few months preceding its publication and 70 per cent of those were done by...

CPC & modern socialist movement in new era

We very keenly observe that the Sixth plenary session holds great significance as the CPC embarks on a new journey toward building a modern socialist country in all respects. It is sticking to peaceful development based on a win-win cooperation...

Wonder of mRNA technology

Research in medical science, especially, when it is an emergency, motivates people from far afield to cooperate and collaborate for developing a treatment to save people. The COVID-19 pandemic created such an emergency so that in less than a year's...

The unsettling upward revision

As the Covid-19 situation started easing for the last couple of months, expectations over an economic rebound were running high. But a toxic cocktail created by creeping inflation at home and supply chain disruptions and an increase in most raw...

Priority to conservation of rivers

After the historic verdict delivered by the High Court (HC), recognising the river Turag as a living entity on February 3, 2019, exactly two years seven months and 17 days have passed. Once again the HC in another directive on...

Banks' provision shortfalls hit Tk 62b in nine months

Provision shortfall against loans, particularly classified ones, in Bangladesh's banking system marked a steep fiftyfold rise during the first nine months of the current calendar year.The aggregate amount of provisioning shortfall jumped to Tk 62.04 billion, over 50 times higher,...

Committee likely to miss deadline again

The launch of cluster bus service in the city under a joint-venture company may be delayed further due to 'a lack of cooperation' from bus operators. The special committee, formed to work on bus route rationalisation (BRR) on the city's...

Lack of manpower hits ICB Capital Management operations in Ctg

CHATTOGRAM, Nov 24: ICB Capital Management Limited, a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) is suffering from lack of manpower affecting its functions in the port city. Sources said, of the total 240 posts of ICB Capital Management Limited,...

Creating inventors for tomorrow

An entrepreneur's job description entails inventing new products and services or improving those that already exist to improve the quality of life. As the need for inventions to encourage entrepreneurial behaviour is increasing by the day, Daffodil International University's Fabrication...

A post-pandemic tale

The pandemic hit everyone unexpectedly two years ago. Similar to what the protagonist from the movie Forrest Gump stated, "My mom always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." The pandemic forced...

Devising way of universal health coverage

Bangladesh has made a commendable progress in the health indicators such as an increase in life expectancy, extension of sanitation coverage, vaccination for children and so on. Paradoxically, it is the health sector of Bangladesh which remains highly inequitable whenever...

Can China be contained?

It is almost embarrassing to admit that China was a poorer (by income per capita criterion) country than Bangladesh as late as the early-1980s. But since then a miraculous near double digit growth rate over long three decades have catapulted...