M. Serajul Islam | 2016-05-03 00:00:00
The news of an exclusive meeting in parliament between the Prime Minister and Begum Raushan Ershad was covered in the media as one held at the request of the latter. It has raised some eyebrows in political circles, particularly within...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-05-03 00:00:00
Literature is replete with causal connection between food availability and food security or food availability and nutritional improvement. It has long been presumed that availability leads to access to food and hence nutritional improvement and avoidance of famine. But the...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-05-01 00:00:00
A national minimum wage structure still eludes Bangladesh's 60-million-strong workforce when the country observes the International Workers' Day or May Day today with the ritualistic vow to protect labour rights. The government announced monthly minimum national wage for small and...
Neil Ray | 2016-05-01 00:00:00
Not long ago the environment and forest minister, in reply to a question about the depleted number of the Royal Bengal Tigers in the Sunderbans, humorously stated that the tigers were paying a visit to the Indian part of the...
Bjorn Lomborg | 2016-05-01 00:00:00
It seems like a great idea: to improve education in Bangladesh, we should equip classrooms with computers, moving the next generation to the cutting edge of knowledge. But while such an idea is alluring and has gotten wide traction around...
Munima Sultana | 2016-04-30 00:00:00
Two of the cross-border bus services between Bangladesh and India have been operative even almost a year after their much-orchestrated launch, for hurdles that include visa hassles and alleged inhospitality. Both sides have taken not of the problems, and the...
Babul Barman | 2016-04-30 00:00:00
The stock market suffered a heavy sell-off mainly on heavyweights in the past week, extending the losing spell for the third week in a row, as worried investors were on selling frenzy. Analysts said the market witnessed a major setback...
Mohammed Norul Alam Raju | 2016-04-30 00:00:00
Three years after the Rana Plaza disaster that killed 1,135 factory workers with more than 2,500 others injured, small steps have been made towards improving governance in garment factories, ensuring rights and safety of workers and following the rules and...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-04-30 00:00:00
Gone are the days when a palm leaf whistle, a bamboo flute, a clay doll or a kite would have been sufficient to absorb a child's total attention. Today toys of many shapes and sizes capable of running, flying or...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-04-30 00:00:00
Even a decade back, migration was not considered to be as important a subject in academic or policy-related discussions as it appears today. But, over the recent past, we observe a growing interest in the subject - even providing a...
Anatole Kaletsky | 2016-04-30 00:00:00
As the European Union (EU) begins to disintegrate, who can provide the leadership to save it? German Chancellor Angela Merkel is widely credited with finally answering Henry Kissinger's famous question about the Western alliance: "What is the phone number for...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-04-29 00:00:00
"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." Confucius, Chinese philosopher (551-479 BC) There is no transformative force more powerful than education which can play a central role in promoting human rights and dignity, eradicating poverty and deepening sustainability,...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-04-29 00:00:00
In the just published Human Development Report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the Asia-Pacific region, the prospect of demographic dividends for South Asian and South-east Asian countries has received special citation. Here is a region that has...
Siddique Islam and Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-04-28 00:00:00
Banks detected with overexposures on the capital market won't have to sell off excess shares for compliance with legal limits within the stipulated timeframe as per fresh government policy support. Under the revised policy supports extended by the central bank,...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-04-28 00:00:00
The apex chamber has prepared its budget proposals for the government to raise income-tax threshold to Tk 300,000 and consider wider tax cuts to avert evasion and capital flight. It seeks reduction in high rates of corporate tax and minimum...
Abda Ali Rinthuna | 2016-04-28 00:00:00
The word hackathon is combined from the words ‘hack’ and ‘marathon’, where hack is used in the sense of exploratory and investigate programming (not as a reference to committing a cybercrime, if you are wondering). It has been described as...
Rafayatul Kabir | 2016-04-28 00:00:00
With the advent of digital media and all sorts of online based platforms, traditional mass media channels are failing to bring potential customers and users for businesses. Specially, if the businesses are not selling product and services to the mass...
Rumana Islam | 2016-04-28 00:00:00
In an age of ever globalizing markets with value chains linking regions to form production lines across countries, Bangladesh stands to reap the benefits from South Asian intra-regional market connectivity provided internal policies are aligned to facilitate such linkages. Bangladesh...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-04-28 00:00:00
The debate over identifying any trade-related measure as trade restrictive or valid trade policy tool is not a new phenomenon. In mid-April, members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) engaged in such a debate. Some member countries raised the question...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA | 2016-04-28 00:00:00
Senator Bernie Sanders has been in the campaign trail for the past twelve months seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for its presidential candidate. He has been in the Congress for over twenty years but his views and actions very often...
Munima Sultana | 2016-04-27 00:00:00
Padma bridge railway connectivity project and Dohazari-Cox's Bazar-Gundum railway project are set to be included in the fast-track projects as top monitoring committee of the projects meets today (Wednesday). Official sources said the fast-track project monitoring committee will take the...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2016-04-27 00:00:00
About 32 per cent listed companies are facing some complexities in complying with the uniform 'income year' as per the circular issued by the revenue board. According to the circular-2015 (Income Tax) issued by the National Board of Revenue (NBR),...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-04-27 00:00:00
The government is set to sell five key essential commodities through 174 trucks at subsidized rates before and during the holy month of Ramadan to help keep their prices stable, officials said. The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) in its...
Jamal Ahmed Choudhury | 2016-04-27 00:00:00
As part of its initiative to enforce better governance, the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has introduced the Code of Corporate Governance for companies listed with local bourses. When the Code was first introduced in 2006 after the debacle...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2016-04-27 00:00:00
Cultural events are not bereft of economics however incidental it may be. The more widespread a cultural event becomes with the passage of time and greater is the participation by people in its celebration the deeper becomes the penetration of...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-04-27 00:00:00
Today is the 80th birthday of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG, the founder and chairperson of BRAC. He was born into the distinguished Hasan family of Baniachong under Habiganj district on April 27, 1936. Two years before Rabindranath Tagore's knighthood,...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-04-27 00:00:00
It has been underscored in countless empirical studies and enquiry reports on the state of affairs in financial services that adequate and appropriate approach needs to be taken to rebuild the current low level of confidence in banks. The role...
Siddique Islam | 2016-04-26 00:00:00
Amid latest developments in the banking sector, restructured unpaid large loans are coming under a close monitoring by the central bank under a bid to get accounts straight. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has sought latest updates on such credits from...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-04-26 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) reminded the government to return its US$85 million, that it provided for a number of development projects, due to alleged fund misappropriation and breach of procurement rules, officials said. The Washington-based lender recently sent a letter...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2016-04-26 00:00:00
Lending by banks and non-banks has helped small and medium enterprises (SMEs) achieve considerable growth in the last five years, industry-insiders said. But to realise the sector's full potential it requires "flexibility" in terms of interest rate, lending conditions and...
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