Asjadul Kibria | 2018-12-22 00:00:00
Notwithstanding some marked progress in women empowerment, Bangladesh still has a long way to go to ensure broader safety of women and children. Public transport is one of the areas where women and children are quite vulnerable in this country....
Abdul Bayes | 2018-12-22 00:00:00
Like the two Eids in a year, the five-yearly national election in Bangladesh is a festive occasion unless, of course, it is not marred by violence or otherwise. We can only wish a free, fair and participatory election that would...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed | 2018-12-22 00:00:00
The 2018 Global Gender Gap Report was released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), a Geneva based organisation, on December 18, 2018. While designed to increase better responsiveness about challenges of gender gaps, the WEF has reflected on 149 countries.The...
Polin Kumar Saha | 2018-12-22 00:00:00
The COP24 UN Climate Change Conference 2018 closed in Katowice, Poland on December 15. Over the past two weeks at the conference, demand for climate action has been increasing. However, despite the last minute efforts to put together the rulebook...
Thalif Deen in UN Headquarters, New York | 2018-12-22 00:00:00
The UN's major donors - led by the United States - have long been accused of influence-peddling and misusing their financial clout not only to grab some of the high ranking jobs in the world body but also threaten funding...
Naim-Ul-Karim | 2018-12-22 00:00:00
Frustration and hopelessness were all that Lankao county's Yan Qing Guan had in his miserable life. That was until the Xi Jinping government helped him run his own business that finally saw his fortunes turn and made him a happy...
Nilratan Halder | 2018-12-22 00:00:00
Mashrafe BinMortaza, whose Midas touch as a captain of the Bangladesh cricket team has changed the outfit's attitude and shape, has left his sobering influence on yet another area-politics to be precise. He has just ventured into this uncharted territory...
Asjadul Kibria | 2018-12-21 12:00:00
Despite the ongoing tension in global trade, country's merchandise trade registered a robust growth, so far, in the current year. Available statistics show that country's merchandise trade with the rest of the world in first 10 months of the current...
Munima Sultana | 2018-12-21 00:00:00
Ministry of Railways (MoR) has asked Bangladesh Railway (BR) to scrap a memorandum of understanding (MoU), signed to establish high-speed train connectivity on Dhaka-Chattogram corridor, following directive from Prime Minister's Office (PMO).BR, the state-owned railway agency, received a letter in...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2018-12-21 00:00:00
We live in a changing world where people have ever-higher expectations with regard to the quality of their democracy. A country cannot be truly democratic until its citizens have the opportunity to choose their representatives through elections that are free,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2018-12-21 00:00:00
Roads with potholes or other defects do not only make vehicles swing from one side to another and journeys uncomfortable but also force their owners to count an additional economic cost. A Bangla financial daily some days back ran a...
Nilratan Halder | 2018-12-21 00:00:00
At a time when climate change has posed the greatest threat of all to agriculture and scientists are at a loss how to face it, an innovative water storage system developed indigenously may be a cogent answer to both floods...
Syful Islam | 2018-12-20 00:00:00
In the wake of widespread criticism over mounting non-performing loans (NPL) in the banking system, the finance ministry is going to hold a meeting next week to review the situation, officials said.The meeting, to be chaired by financial institutions division...
Siddique Islam | 2018-12-20 00:00:00
The central bank has asked all the scheduled banks for taking effective measures to reduce the volume of classified loans significantly by the end of this year.The bankers have, however, sought judicial support to this end.The directive was issued at...
Sheril Sarwar | 2018-12-20 00:00:00
Organised by North South University (NSU) Finance Club for the fourth time, Blueprints 4.0 --a financial modeling competition-- this year had 152 teams competing from 27 esteemed universities of the country. The moral of Blueprints has always been to enhance...
Chris Wellisz in Washington, DC | 2018-12-20 00:00:00
Oleksii Sobolev was a fund manager by day and a pro-democracy protester by night. After work, he would leave his office at Dragon Asset Management in Kiev to join the crowds camped out in Independence Square demanding the resignation of...
Tarequl Islam Munna | 2018-12-20 00:00:00
Three years on since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, more than 23,000 delegates from across world came together at the 2018 United Nations (UN) Climate Change 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) in Katowice of Poland. The conference...
Mohamed A. El-Erian in Abu Dhabi | 2018-12-20 00:00:00
The European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) predict that, on average, the European Union's (EU) economy will grow by 1.9 per cent next year, a rate that is broadly consistent...
Syful Islam | 2018-12-19 00:00:00
The government has now taken a move to dredge the main channel of Payra port on a test basis, officials said.It will carry out dredging to check the siltation rate and decide as to whether it will build a deep-sea...
Babul Barman | 2018-12-19 00:00:00
The government revenue earnings from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell 19 per cent month-on-month in November this year on the back of falling trade volumes.Market insiders said sluggish market trend coupled with low share sales by sponsor-directors and placement...
Rezaul Karim | 2018-12-19 00:00:00
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has long been hamstrung by capital shortfall, making it difficult for the agency to carry out timely market intervention, officials said. Supply of key essentials by the government's trading arm when prices go up...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2018-12-19 00:00:00
The 'Doing Business' report is an annual publication of the World Bank Group since 2003. It publishes the ease of doing business index of a country, after ranking it in the Doing Business ranking of 190 countries around the world....
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2018-12-19 00:00:00
Hot on the heels of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have recently become a global watchword. The MDGs had become a hype in the media though most goals were not fulfilled. The SDGs of late...
Munima Sultana | 2018-12-18 12:00:00
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is now able to put 98 per cent of its own land on record after its three-year efforts, officials said.RHD owns a total of 69794.84 acres of lands in its 10 zonal office areas in...
Siddique Islam | 2018-12-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a fresh rescheduled policy on short-term agriculture loans on Monday aiming to boost production through facilitating farmers across the country, officials said.Under the policy, the banks are allowed to reschedule such agriculture loans under 'banker-client' relationship...
F R Chowdhury from London | 2018-12-18 00:00:00
On November 28, 2018, BBC news reported that a bus operator in Birmingham, England has been fined around £2.2 million for failing to carry out corporate responsibility as evidenced from corporate negligence and poor performance. The reporter did not mention...
Neil Ray | 2018-12-18 00:00:00
Years ago a Bangladeshi-origin London resident surprised his deshi guest at the dining table when the dishes served were found to be all vegetarian. Accustomed to sumptuous meat preparations and fish curries, his countryman could not believe his own eyes...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2018-12-16 00:00:00
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibor Rahman concluded his historic March 07 speech by pronouncing the word 'freedom' twice because he knew that achieving economic emancipation is equally important to freeing the country from the then Pakistani colonial administration. At independence, over 90...
Samia Mallik | 2018-12-15 12:00:00
Climate change has a greater impact on those sections of the population, in all countries, that are most dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods and/or who have the least capacity to respond to natural hazards, such as droughts, landslides,...
Nilratan Halder | 2018-12-15 12:00:00
The more it is the merrier -this seems to be the motto of life. But this is only when the good things are concerned. In politics the motto is overstretched to the point where nobody knows where to stop and...
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