Md. Nayem Alimul Hyder | 2017-04-27 00:00:00
A consumer is a person who is not directly involved in a trade, but receives goods and services from a person who is engaged in the business. To keep the business profitable and legal, some policies have been formulated by...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-04-27 00:00:00
After 50 years of its long journey, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is now facing a new global reality in the fast changing world. No doubt, the ADB has played a critical role in the last five decades to facilitate...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-04-27 00:00:00
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the famous Latin American novelist once remarked: " It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams". One could often relate this quotation to Sir...
Muhammad Mahboob Ali | 2017-04-27 00:00:00
The national budget for the upcoming fiscal (2017-18), expected to be presented by Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the first week of June next, will surely be a mega one. As indicated by the minister himself, it would cross for...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2017-04-27 00:00:00
With the speed of lightning the international order for economic and security co-operation painstakingly built since the Second World War has been exposed to great uncertainty threatening to unravel it. The shock and surprise to observers have been not the...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
The government plans to transport different commodities by rail with a view to curbing extortion across the country, officials concerned said. It is also considering taking the initiative for smooth supply of essential items well ahead of the month of...
Syful Islam | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
The government has moved to modernise and strengthen the south-western Mongla port to handle the increased load of cargoes it has to face once transit goods and Rampal power plant's raw materials are unloaded there, officials said. The step has...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
There is no alternative to individual and institutional income generation for economic development and poverty alleviation of a country. Ensuring employment is the most effective tool for facilitating individual and institutional income generation. There are about 162 million people in...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
The Group of 20 (G-20) major economies has sent a message that rising protectionism across the developed countries poses a threat to flourishing of the global economy. The United States has, however, cast its doubts over its adherence to that...
Mohamed A. El-Erian in Washington, DC | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
The rise of anti-globalization political movements and the threat of trade protectionism have led some people to wonder whether a stronger multilateral core for the world economy would reduce the risk of damaging fragmentation. After all, lest we forget, the...
Muhammad Iqbal Hossain | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
Swiss author and dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990) once said, 'The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.' Surely, society has become more hostile than ever before with sizeable diminution in morality, ethics and humanity....
Harold James in Princeton | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
The centrist Emmanuel Macron's success in the first round of the French presidential election is likely to re-energize Europe. Unlike the other candidates, Macron does not just recognize the need for radical change to the European Union (EU); he supports...
Shamsul Alam | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh's National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) is designed to tackle challenges in addressing socio-economic vulnerability, as well as mitigate the problems of entrenched poverty and marginalisation through an inclusive, focused and coordinated approach to poverty reduction. The provision of social...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2017-04-26 00:00:00
An earthquake high on Richter scale has shaken the French political domain! For the first time in the history of France, no mainstream political party has entered the run-off for the presidency, an extraordinary outcome that has put two party...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2017-04-25 00:00:00
The securities' regulator and the merchant bankers have separately proposed revising areas and calculation of banks' exposure to facilitate higher institutional investment in stock market. The Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA) Monday sent to the state minister of the Ministry...
iqbal1527@hotmail.com | 2017-04-25 00:00:00
SYLHET, Apr 24: BNP vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu said on Monday the ruling Awami League (AL) would have to pay the price for their failure in returning the BNP leaders and activists, including Ilias Ali who disappeared or went missing. "History...
Emdadul Haque | 2017-04-25 00:00:00
BOGRA, Apr 24: Hundreds of melon (Bangi) cultivators of the Baind area are delighted over the present market prices of the juicy fruit. They are expecting a good profit this season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has provided quality...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2017-04-25 00:00:00
The People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 1949 by the Communist Party as a unitary nation of numerous ethnic groups. The present state structure of China is based on the Constitution of the PRC, the law on regional...
K S Murshid concluding his two-part write-up | 2017-04-25 00:00:00
The geopolitical advantage that Bangladesh presumably enjoys in the South Asian region and how it can use this to its advantage is critical. East Asian countries saw regionalism as seamless connectivity, so all of them joined the Association for South...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2017-04-25 00:00:00
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The 17 SDGs planned for achieving by 2030, are built on the successes of the...
Kemal Dervis in Washington, DC | 2017-04-25 00:00:00
The world's economic future appears brighter than it has in some time as the annual spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been taking place. The international financial institutions, not to mention many private-sector...
Munima Sultana | 2017-04-24 00:00:00
Five years after launching a bridge construction project, Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has now proposed an increase in its cost by over 200 per cent. The proposal for the hike in the project cost has been made due to...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-04-24 00:00:00
The microcredit regulator is set to review the interest rates of microfinance institutions (MFIs) to make the service charge time befitting, officials said. "We have already formed a high-powered committee to suggest a reasonable level of the rate. The committee...
Iqbal Siddiquee, Sylhet | 2017-04-24 00:00:00
The weather behaviour has hit the country's tea production hard this year in Sylhet region. Sources concerned said tea production was nearly 30 per cent behind its target until last week compared to the corresponding period of the last year....
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-04-24 00:00:00
The government is going to import electricity from an Indian company at higher price than that of local one, officials said. The 1600 MW coal-based power plant, owned by Adani Power Ltd located at Jharkhand in India, proposed supplying electricity...
Emdadul Haque | 2017-04-24 00:00:00
BOGRA, Apr 23: Commercial cultivation of catfish has been attaining financial solvency to a good number of people in the district for the last five years. According to the Fisheries Department source around 0.2 million tonnes of catfish are being...
Neil Ray | 2017-04-24 00:00:00
The sight of dead fish, other aquatic creatures and even ducks floating in their hundreds on wetland water in Sunamajanj is simply foreboding. Early media reports linking the mass death with ammonia produced from rotten paddy in the submerged area...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-04-24 00:00:00
That two government agencies, according to a report published in this paper, are at odds over grabbing the job of constructing a mega project is a rare development. But it has happened in the case of a multi-billion taka project,...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2017-04-24 00:00:00
Water is life. But when water is used to punish or kill life it is a homicidal attempt. With all of its life-affirming and throat-quenching qualities, water in the wrong hands can bring death upon any poor soul who is...
Doulot Akter Mala and Arafat Ara | 2017-04-23 00:00:00
The government contemplates containing institutional investment in savings instruments as its borrowing from the non-banking sources bloats over the limit. Officials said the Department of National Savings (DNS) recently sent in a proposal to the government to restrict investment from...
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