Thalif Deen at UN Headquarters in New York | 2019-10-20 00:00:00
When the six much-ballyhooed high-level UN meetings concluded late September, there were mixed feelings about the final outcomes. And civil society organisations (CSOs), who were mostly disappointed with the results, are now gearing themselves for two upcoming key climate summit...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2019-10-20 00:00:00
Income inequality is extreme concentration of wealth or income in the hands of a small section of the population. It is often described as the gap between the richest and the rest of the community. The Urban Institute of the...
Klaus Schwab in Geneva | 2019-10-20 00:00:00
As finance ministers gather in Washington, DC, for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's annual meetings, they will face no shortage of urgent matters to discuss. Fears of a global recession, the US-China trade war, the fallout of the...
Babul Barman | 2019-10-19 12:00:00
Stocks extended the losing streak for the third straight week that ended on Thursday as worried investors continued their selling binge on large-cap shares.Week on week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 39.22...
PM condoles | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
Ekushey Padak winning artist Kalidas Karmakar, a painter and printmaker of international repute, passed away on Friday afternoon, reports UNB. He was 73."He fell down in the bathroom after suffering a cardiac arrest around 1:30 pm at his Eskaton residence....
Talha Bin Habib | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
The government has taken some stringent measures to stop unremitting encroachment upon the banks of the rivers in the immediate surrounds of the capital, official sources said. Under the move, the Ministry of Shipping (MoS) has taken a project to...
REZAUL KARIM | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
Ending all speculations about the fate of Bangladesh's exports in post-Brexit regime, the United Kingdom has assured Bangladesh of continuing its duty-free and quota-free access for Bangladeshi products to its market even after its exit from the European Union, officials...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh may not start exporting electricity anytime soon unless production costs go cheaper than that of India, officials have said.An adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina felt that export of power to India might not be considered until economic implications...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put forwarded a six-point recipe for Bangladesh to address its banking sector weaknesses.The recommendations include strong corporate governance, enforcing 'fit and proper criteria' for banks' directors, enhancing banking regulations, reforming state banks, tightening criteria...
Polin Kumar Saha and Jannatul Ferdaous Sathi | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
Soil is the basic element for ultimate nutrient sources of all the living organisms in the ecological system. Soil keeps our environment well balanced or harmony of living and non-living organism and their interaction in a particular space. It is...
Shafiq Alam | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
Sustained economic growth, ongoing political stability and Sheikh Hasina's development focus are prompting the nation to dream of becoming a developed country by 2041. However, development process is an arduous journey. Any mistake can spoil whatever the nation achieved to...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
Disappearance of known rural Bangla has been taking place before our eyes but not many are aware of the transformation. The languid lifestyle in a picturesque rural setting where modest homes and huts nestle together amid profuse growth of greeneries...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
The wave of global free market crated in the 1990s is near death now. Hopes for free trade were raised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) through the agreements struck as part of multilateral trade negotiations. Several rounds of WTO...
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
There may be a number of reasons behind a crime. Criminals may also be prompted by a number of factors. That's why investigators and analysts try to find out the principle motives of a crime. It is important to contain...
Abdul Bayes | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
Last week, the news about consumption of eggs in Bangladesh stole the headlines of some newspapers. The good news is that, per capita consumption of this nutritious food in Bangladesh, now at 103 per year, meets the international mark of...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2019-10-19 00:00:00
People with ailments are usually obliged to buy whatever medicines are prescribed for them by the physicians. But many people do not know that in some medicines the profit margin is as high as 7079 per cent, or raw materials...
Nilratan Halder | 2019-10-18 12:00:00
A report recently released by the Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) on the standard of teaching at the secondary level paints a grim picture. Titled 'The Education Watch Report 2018-19', it finds that the percentage of teachers without subject-specific training...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2019-10-18 00:00:00
The ministry of posts and telecommunications on Thursday gave its approval for the telecom regulator to appoint administrators at Grameenphone and Robi to oversee the operations of the country's two biggest mobile operators. "The decision on appointing administrators in the...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2019-10-18 00:00:00
Social media is all around us and has become a part of our daily lives. But, why do we post on social media? What is the consequence of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we becoming more individual or...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2019-10-18 00:00:00
The amount---more than Taka half a trillion--- is huge. The money was, reportedly, paid to the owners of the private sector power plants during the last 12 years as ' capacity payments'. The payments were in addition to a large...
Asjadul Kibria | 2019-10-18 00:00:00
During the first quarter of the current fiscal year (FY20), there is an indication that economic activities are slowing down. Export earnings from goods dropped by 3.0 per cent in July-September period compared to the same period of the last...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2019-10-17 12:00:00
Although Bangladesh has made some headway lately in improving its investment climate, it seems to be stuck in a quagmire in the area of business competitiveness. According to the latest Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 2019 released by the World Economic...
Rezaul Karim | 2019-10-17 00:00:00
The government is set to establish a tea processing plant in the northern district of Panchagar, aiming to create a level playing field for all the tea planters, sources said.They said the initiative has been taken to ensure fair price...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2019-10-17 00:00:00
The ministry of fisheries and livestock (MoFL) has requested the government to impose restrictions on the import of frozen processed meat in order to protect the local livestock industry, officials said.In a letter sent to the Ministry of Commerce (MoC)...
Ebtesam Al-Haque | 2019-10-17 00:00:00
"Cennovation", an annual technical festival at Islamic University of Technology (IUT) returned with its fifth edition after experiencing tremendous success consecutively, with the tagline "Building within the limits of nature" this year. The daylong event was sponsored by Seven Rings...
Sanaul Haq Khan | 2019-10-17 00:00:00
He was born Md Azizus Samad. M.A. Samad was the short form. Mula was his nickname, used among his family and close friend circle. His adoring juniors called him Mula Bhai with enormous love and affection. Others who had the...
James Manyika and Jacques Bughin in London | 2019-10-17 00:00:00
Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us, generating excitement about how it could increase prosperity and transform our lives in multiple ways. Yet the technology is also likely to be disruptive. Policymakers and businesses must therefore try to capture the...
Patricia Scotland | 2019-10-17 00:00:00
Trade wars, protectionism, and nationalist rhetoric are combining to create the possibility of a nightmare debt crisis that could be worse than any previously experienced. Global borrowing is now at the highest levels since the 1950s - and history suggests...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2019-10-16 00:00:00
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has opposed forming the proposed national infrastructure fund and suggested enhancing the lending capacity of two state-run financers instead to fund public-private partnership projects, officials said. The MoF has decided to provide Tk 20 billion...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2019-10-16 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has accepted only one proposal from a Japanese company for a project to develop a multimodal transport hub at Kamalapur railway station under the public-private partnership (PPP) modality.Two more proposals from a separate Japanese company for...
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