Abdul Bayes | 2017-10-17 00:00:00
Better late than never, recent attempts at improving nutritional status of the people of Bangladesh by all stakeholders deserve admiration. From the supply-side point of view, especially of rice-led calories, the country has possibly done pretty well by tripling food...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2017-10-17 00:00:00
US President Donald Trump has ended all speculations and confusions that his cryptic comments have created at times about the 2015 landmark Iran nuclear agreement. In a sharp policy shift, he chose not to certify that Iran is complying with...
Siddique Islam | 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The reconstituted board of directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has taken a strategy to achieve higher profit by the end of the ongoing calendar year, the bank chairman has said.Under the new strategy, the IBBL wants to ramp...
Munima Sultana | 2017-10-16 00:00:00
A massive fundraising campaign got underway for mobilising over US $190 billion to elegantly improve Dhaka's transport network with metro rails, expressways and bus-franchise services. Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) has taken up the step to raise the fund from...
Iqbal Siddiquee | 2017-10-16 00:00:00
SYLHET, Oct 15: Some organised groups had been engaged in stone extraction activities by using 'boma machines' from the Piain riverbed. The local administration had launched special drives several times but could not restrain even them.Meanwhile, to avoid the task...
Zhang Niansheng, Wu lejun, Gao Shi and Zheng Qi | 2017-10-16 00:00:00
The sun is shining a lot better and under broad basis, that means the economy is recovery, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde said during IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington D.C. "The finance ministers and the leaders...
Neil Ray | 2017-10-16 00:00:00
Newspaper hawkers are a different breed. They have to organise a job that is time-bound. The network has to function like a well oiled machine in order to reach newspapers -quite an array of those - to their subscribers usually...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-10-16 00:00:00
That the country has earned some infamy in recent years for capital flight is no secret. In 2015 around $9.0 billion, an amount equivalent to 75 per cent of its annual remittance earning, had illegally flown out of the country....
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2017-10-16 00:00:00
Having given an introduction to Policy in an earlier article, it may appear rather incongruous to go back to basics about the concept and praxis of the term. It is not as an afterthought that this sequence in presentation has...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2017-10-15 00:00:00
Revenue authorities may launch cent-percent physical inspection of the products in case of incomplete information in any suspect letter of credit (LC) or invoice. Officials said such full-scale Customs probe is conceived as part of government measures for checking alleged...
Munima Sultana | 2017-10-15 00:00:00
Signing free-trade agreements (FTAs) with some Latin American and African countries is more viable than with other countries which have already made proposals for inking such deals with Bangladesh, according to studies.Bangladesh Tariff Commission under the Ministry of Commerce (MoC)...
Ismail Hossain | 2017-10-15 00:00:00
Fare meters of CNG-run autorickshaws have become useless as the drivers hardly switch those on and charge exorbitant fares at their will in the city and elsewhere across the country.The drivers of the autorickshaws refuse passengers to run the meters...
Anabel González in Washington, DC | 2017-10-15 00:00:00
One positive outcome of the trade tensions of recent years is a renewed interest in understanding how trade actually works, in terms of aggregate gains, distributional effects, adjustment costs, and other factors. Governments are increasingly looking for ways to mitigate...
Babul Barman | 2017-10-14 00:00:00
Stocks suffered a major correction last week that ended Thursday as investors sold bank shares in a reaction to the Bangladesh Bank's latest punitive action against seven banks.The central bank probe found that some banks invested in stocks exceeding their...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-10-14 00:00:00
The government has prepared the draft of a national policy for the motorcycle industry with a target to produce 1.0 million motorcycles and create 1.5 million jobs in the country by 2027, officials said."A draft policy styled national motorcycle industry...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-10-14 00:00:00
The government will purchase six gantry cranes at a cost of over Tk 3.44 billion for the smooth handling of containers at Chittagong Port, officials said. Shanghai-Zenhua Industries Company Ltd of China will supply the cranes to the Chittagong Port...
Pamelia Khaled | 2017-10-14 00:00:00
Ibn al-Shatir, whom historian David King calls 'the most distinguished Muslim astronomer of the 14th century', is someone whose astronomical model is believed by historians to have been taken over by none other than Copernicus.Countries with a strong religious culture...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-10-14 00:00:00
Marriages happen in heaven, they say. Or how else a carpenter with no education beyond literacy from Bangladesh can have a Nepalese girl as his spouse? For a Nepalese girl born and brought up in a home at Kathmandu suburb,...
Saleh Akram | 2017-10-14 00:00:00
As internet continues to cover more areas of the country, the significance of digital education can hardly be overemphasised. Accordingly, digital literacy is being increasingly evaluated as a major tool for economic growth ever since the world was struck by...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-10-14 00:00:00
While Bangladesh has done remarkably well in terms of some socio-economic indicators, she continues to grapple with rising gini ratio of income inequality. The celebrations of success conceal the cruel reality that poverty-stricken Kuril slum lies in the heart of...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2017-10-14 00:00:00
Since the early 2000s, the term "financial inclusion" has gained importance as a result of findings about financial exclusion and its direct correlation with poverty. Microcredit as a concept and system has been an asymmetric evolution ahead of financial inclusion....
Munima Sultana | 2017-10-13 00:00:00
Almost half of 255 buses, imported by Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) from Daewoo company of South Korea, have been lying inoperative for long.The situation has forced the state-owned bus operator to seek Korea's support for their repair and maintenance.Officials...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2017-10-13 00:00:00
Private Universities in Bangladesh: The Dynamics of Higher Education By Hafiz G. A. Siddiqi Published by Academic Press and Publishers Library, Dhaka, 2016 Pages 272, ISBN: 978-984-92427-6-5 Within the education system of a country, higher education plays the crucial role...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2017-10-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh has a long history of planning for socio-economic development, which dates back to the pre-independence era. As a sequel to its liberation war, the country inherited a devastated economy at birth. The nation was initially politically inclined towards socialism,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-10-13 00:00:00
The government seems to be quite generous when it comes to offering car loans to its high and mid-level public servants notwithstanding the fact it encounters tremendous difficulties in bankrolling its annual budgets. However, the government can afford this type...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-10-13 00:00:00
A sit-in demonstration staged by students of the city's seven colleges affiliated with the University of Dhaka caused an intractable vehicular gridlock in the capital on Sunday last. With the blockade enforced at the Nilkhet intersection, the entire western part...
Shayla Mahzabeen Audity | 2017-10-12 12:00:00
'Supersign cables presents Prodex', a business competition, is going to be held on November 11, 2017. Forum of Entrepreneurship and Business, Jahangirnagar University is going to arrange this in its greenary campus.Prodex is an intense competition where the competitors have...
Syful Islam | 2017-10-12 00:00:00
The Ministry of Public Administration (MoPA) has now sought an additional allocation of Tk 4.61 billion for providing interest-free car loan to deputy secretary-level government officials.It is in addition to the annual budgetary allocation of Tk 400 million which the...
Tanjim Islam | 2017-10-12 00:00:00
One of the biggest challenges of the twenty first century is climate change. In order to successfully tackle this challenge, all nations need to take sustainable actions in an integrated manner. Governments from all over came together in COP 21...
Dilip Barua | 2017-10-12 00:00:00
The history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is the history of movements of the workers and peasants of the Chinese society. In the 80 years between the Opium War of 1839 and the birth of the CPC in...
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