Jomo Kwame Sundaram of IPS from Kuala Lumpur | 2017-02-27 00:00:00
Unlike Wikileaks and other exposes, the Panama revelations were carefully managed, if not edited, quite selective, and hence targeted, at least initially. Most observers attribute this to the political agendas of its main sponsors. Nevertheless, the revelations have highlighted some...
Manipadma Jena of IPS in New Delhi | 2017-02-27 00:00:00
Jaipal Hembrum runs three one-man home enterprises - a bicycle repair shop, a tiny food stall and a tailoring unit in Kautuka, a remote village in eastern India. Sewing recycled clothes into mattresses late into the evening, the 38-year-old father...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram of IPS in Kuala Lumpur | 2017-02-27 00:00:00
Over the last four decades, the Washington Consensus, promoting economic liberalisation, globalisation and privatisation, reversed four decades of an earlier period of active state intervention to accelerate and stabilise more inclusive economic growth, associated with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John...
Neil Ray | 2017-02-27 00:00:00
Is this nation going to be known as a child murderer? The rate at which child homicide, including filicide, is committed all across the country should be enough to earn it this infamous epithet. According to a leading Bangla contemporary,...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-02-27 00:00:00
The Manikganj Additional District and Sessions Court on February 22 sentenced Jamir Hossain, driver of a bus, to life imprisonment as he was found guilty of reckless driving and negligence that led to the deaths of five persons, including noted...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2017-02-27 00:00:00
In 2016, Bangladesh's manpower exports witnessed a robust growth of 36.31 per cent while the remittance inflow declined by 10.87 per cent in the same year. The country's Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry (EWOEM) found varied reasons behind the...
Md Nayem Alimul Hyder | 2017-02-27 00:00:00
Basically, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is a method of using technology to facilitate the resolution of disputes between parties. This involves negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or a combination of all three. It is often considered an online equivalent of Alternative Dispute...
Rezaul Karim | 2017-02-26 00:00:00
Relevant authorities' reluctance about clearing the way has held back foreign companies in Bangladesh to get listed with the bourses, sources said. Officials concerned said the government move to motivate the foreign firms for the listing hardly made any progress...
Special Correspondent Back from Chittagong | 2017-02-26 00:00:00
Chittagong businessmen have demanded uninterrupted gas and power supply and proper utilisation of business potentialities for boosting investments. They found relocation of industries to the capital city and centralised policy-making system to be major obstacles to sluggish trend in business...
The Beijing-headquartered Global Energy Interconnec-tion Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO), the first China-initiated international energy organ, released recently three reports on its research findings, depictinga vision of a green, low-carbon, interconnected and shared energy community around the globe. In the...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2017-02-26 00:00:00
The ancient Chinese Philosopher Kong Fuzi or Confucius (551-479 BC) is unparalleled in the history of human civilization as a focus of cultural significance, a founder of cultural institution and a model of ethical behaviour. Even today, Confucianism is widely...
Mohamed A. El-Erian in Cape Town | 2017-02-26 00:00:00
After an insight-filled and enjoyable visit to South Africa - my first to this beautiful country in 15 years - I am leaving with mixed feelings. The country's ongoing process of economic and political development has left those living here,...
Abdul Bayes | 2017-02-26 00:00:00
The incidence of income poverty is being discussed from different angles. The conclusion is that (a) poverty level declined in Bangladesh between 1988 and 2014, and (b) particularly income poverty also declined during this period. This has been established by...
Syful Islam | 2017-02-25 00:00:00
Indications are strong that the United Kingdom (UK) may tag labour issues with trade preferences to Bangladesh after completion of Brexit process. Officials said the hint came at a recent meeting between officials of the British Department for International Trade...
Babul Barman | 2017-02-25 00:00:00
Stocks extended their winning spell for the third week in a row that ended Thursday, as the optimistic investors continued their buying spree, especially on power, NBFI and engineering issues. Market insiders said although indices advanced marginally, the investors were...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-02-25 00:00:00
Trade and investments between Bangladesh and Hong Kong (HK) will increase as the businessmen of the two countries are set to launch a joint trade chamber next month, commerce ministry officials said. The businessmen of Bangladesh and Hong Kong are...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-02-25 00:00:00
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated" -Earnest Hemingway in the Old Man and the Sea. A picture speaks volumes -- this proposition has been proved very right on many occasions by many photographers. There are some who go...
Pamelia Khaled | 2017-02-25 00:00:00
Language matters! But why does the mother language matter in learning? For, it offers imagination, ideas and a deep insight and assists a child to be creative. Gandhi believed: "A proper and allround development of the mind...can take place only...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-02-25 00:00:00
Each language is a distinctive mark of a people anywhere in the world. Animals are also known to have their own set of limited languages. Even trees have their means of communication which they use in order to defend them,...
Nabil Azam Dewan | 2017-02-25 00:00:00
Unfortunately, Dhaka is being considered one of the world's most inhospitable cities - it ranks second among the world's megacities with the worst levels of air pollution. It is not by accident that 122,400 Bangladeshis annually die from air pollution...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-02-25 00:00:00
The wave of trade liberalisation during the last three decades reduced global tariffs significantly. The multilateral, regional, bilateral and even unilateral tariff reductions have now rendered tariff policies less effective. To counterbalance the downward trend of tariff, countries are increasingly...
Siddique Islam | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
The non-performing loans (NPLs) jumped by more than 21 per cent or Tk 108.01 billion in the last calendar year despite close monitoring by the central bank. The amount rose to Tk 621.72 billion as on December 31 last year...
Asjadul Kibria | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
In a bid to simplify and harmonise the export, import and transit procedures across borders, a global pact on trade facilitation has formally come into force with four new countries ratifying it on Wednesday. The Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the...
Talha Bin Habib | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
Exporters are facing uncertainty over shipment of jute charcoal as shipping lines are refusing to carry the product following a fire incident at Chittagong Port, according to the stakeholders. About 500 to 600 tonnes of charcoal have remained stranded at...
Iqbal Siddiquee | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
SYLHET, Feb 23: Rajib Kumar Das, an MBA, has started farming of some high value crops, alongside paddy cultivation in a village under Lakhai upazila of Habiganj. Bachelor in Computer Application from Visva-Bharati University in India, Rajib did MBA from...
Subhash Kumar Sengupta and Abdullah-Al-Mamun reviewing the book | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
Most recently Muktobuddhi Prokasana, a leading publishing house in the country, launched a book of outstanding merit authored by noted academician Professor Abul Barkat. The book entitled Political Economy of Unpeopling of Indigenous Peoples: The Case Study of Bangladesh (2016)...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
AKN Ahmed, who became a legend in the banking arena in his lifetime, passed away on February 24 last year in Washington DC at the age of 85. His name may not strike a chord in the ears of the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
A few government agencies are found involved in various sorts of whimsical acts as far as the execution of development projects is concerned. Instances of recurrent rise in cost and extension of project execution time are many. Lately, the number...
Nilratan Halder | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
An unrelenting procession of deaths from road accidents marks the first month and the two-thirds of the second month of the 2017. Various sources put the number of deaths at more than 700 and wounded at well above the 2,000...
Arvind Subramanian in New Delhi | 2017-02-24 00:00:00
For too long, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has languished, to lift a reference from T.S. Eliot, by the "waters of Leman" (Lake Geneva). Once the world's preeminent multilateral trade forum, the WTO has been steadily marginalised in recent years,...
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