Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
Some public agencies, apparently, feel that they have the liberty to be extravagant in the matters of utilising public funds. The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) is one such entity. It has been doling out the taxpayers' money right and...
Mark Bartholomew | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
Just twenty years ago, Chittagong University had some 25,000 students and was the only fully-fledged university in the city or, indeed, for a hundred kilometres in any direction. Now, the number of universities - both public and private - has...
Gultekin Binte Azad | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
In this global network of communication, digitalisation and trade, financial inclusion of the unbanked masses is a widely discussed issue. This is because inclusive growth has recently become one of the world's most important policy goals. Governments, development partners, and...
Navidul Huq | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
More than 50 per cent of the world's internet traffic is people watching videos online. Over the last few years there has been an exponential growth in video streaming worldwide which has disrupted multiple industries, including movie industry, conventional media...
Bazlul Haque Khondker | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
Each year Bangladesh spends about of 2.2 per cent of its GDP on various social security programmes, predominantly targeting the poor. Assessments of selection issue using Household Income and Expenditure Survey Data (i.e. various HIESs - namely HIES 2016 and...
M. A. Taslim | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
Economic policies have consequences. Some policies, such as universal health care, are global in nature which affect all citizens of a country. Other policies are narrower in scope. For example, subsidies on some goods will benefit only a small part...
Syful Islam | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
The Sundarbans has once again proved the immeasurable necessity of its existence for wellbeing of the people living in coastal areas of Bangladesh. Perhaps the same was felt in Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha in November 2019 when...
Abdullah M. Hasan | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
We have heard of holy cities of Makkah and Madinah in our childhood. The holy Kaaba, Masjid al-Haram (Sacred Mosque) surrounding it, Masjid an-Nabawi and the sacred places connected with life and times of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) became all...
Saif Kamal | 2019-12-09 00:00:00
Start-up is a buzzword, for sure! The opportunities it offers seem to be colossal. Bangladesh is a nation of more than 160 million with a growing youth population; it is inevitable that new businesses will flourish to serve this growth....
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2019-12-08 00:00:00
Multinational companies (MNCs), not having offices in Bangladesh, are unlikely to be allowed to pay VAT directly to the public exchequer, officials said.MNCs, not having establishments in Bangladesh, have to pay VAT through their agents, they said.Referring to the VAT...
Munima Sultana | 2019-12-08 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has decided not to allow any transport related projects linking the front side of Kamalapur Railway Station (KRS).The decision came at a recent meeting as BR was unable to build its planned multimodal transport hub (MMTH)...
Abdul Monayem Khan | 2019-12-08 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Dec 07: The district administration has formed a high-powered committee to probe alleged manipulation of prices of onion by a section of importers and hoarding of the spice by the unscrupulous traders.Government officials said the committee has been...
Shamsul Alam | 2019-12-08 00:00:00
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a follow-up on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in 2000 and completed in 2015. However, SDGs differ from MDGs in many aspects. SDGs want to ensure that 'No One is Left Behind!'. The...
Kristalina Georgieva in Washington, DC | 2019-12-08 00:00:00
When I think of the incredible challenges we must confront in the face of a changing climate, my mind focuses on young people. Eventually, they will be the ones either to enjoy the fruits or bear the burdens resulting from...
Neil Ray | 2019-12-07 12:00:00
Schooling tiny tots is not only challenging but for many parents highly traumatic. Here is an education system under which a most critical point arrives at the time of admission to a choice school. Parents themselves start preparing their wards...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2019-12-07 00:00:00
E-banking has a positive and significant impact on the performance of the country's commercial banks in terms of net interest margin (NIM), return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE), a study found. The study titled "Does E-Banking Impact...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2019-12-07 00:00:00
A tripartite discussion on cross-border hydropower trade needs to start now as Nepal's power export potential is growing fast with the scope of selling it to Bangladesh as well, said Asian Development Bank country director for Nepal Mukhtor Khamudkhanov.Mr Khamudkhanov...
Babul Barman | 2019-12-07 00:00:00
Stocks backed into the red in outgoing week that ended on Thursday, after a single-week break, amid concern over the country's overall economy.Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 60.10 points or 1.27...
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-12-07 00:00:00
The way most people move, talk and react nowadays is a clear sign of rising incivility in society. Though sounds harsh and cynic, it is difficult to ignore the reality. Movement of people on streets and roads show that most...
Abdul Bayes | 2019-12-07 00:00:00
In the early 1980s, a famous TV serial titled "The Young and the Restless" used to steal our time from taking meal. It was, in short, about the lust for love and sex of the young generation, their growing restlessness...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-12-06 12:00:00
As high as 57 per cent of Dhaka residents have expressed in no uncertain terms that they do not live here for the love of the city. They would have left for their villages had there been suitable employment and...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2019-12-06 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 05: Despite import of a large quantity of onion from different countries and release of thousands of tonnes of the cooking spice from Chattogram Port at that time, onion price is yet to come down to the purchasing...
S.M. Rayhanul Islam | 2019-12-06 00:00:00
The University of Dhaka, the oldest and largest one in the present Bangladesh, started its journey on the first day of July, 1921. Its role in nation formation and the emergence of independent Bangladesh is a widely discussed issue. The...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-12-06 00:00:00
The government appears to be in a catch-22 situation as far as resource mobilisation is concerned. Its tax revenue programme is off the track. The sale of savings tools that has so far proved to be an easy source of...
László Bruszt | 2019-12-05 12:00:00
On November 15, Central European University (CEU) officially inaugurated its new campus in Vienna, Austria, having been arbitrarily ousted from Hungary. On the same day, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government opened another large sports stadium in Budapest.Predictably, the government-controlled...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2019-12-05 00:00:00
Stock brokers have submitted a work-plan for investment of Tk 100 billion funds, sought earlier from the government, to support the country's ailing capital market.They submitted the work-plan to the ministry of finance (MoF) on Wednesday, as the ministry demanded...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2019-12-05 00:00:00
The first four months of the current fiscal year saw a tax revenue shortfall of around Tk 202.20 billion against the target.However, the volume of tax revenue collection registered a poor 4.33 per cent growth, compared to the same period...
Munima Sultana back from Bhairahawa, Nepal | 2019-12-05 00:00:00
It is very rare nowadays that the tourists visiting Nepal without experiencing delays in cases of landing in and departing from the country's lone busy international airport. But government officials of Nepal say that days are not too far the...
Josh Smith in Seoul | 2019-12-05 00:00:00
Kim Jong Un mounted a white horse again as North Korea announced on Wednesday (December 04) it will soon convene a rare meeting of the ruling party's leaders, steps analysts say may signal preparations for a more confrontational stance with...
Amrita Makin Islam | 2019-12-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh is experiencing an era of growth fuelled by strong customer demand at home and increase in exports. Time and time again the country has proved itself capable of facing uncertainties and adapting to changing market conditions, which is essential...
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