Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2016-01-30 00:00:00
On January 22, when I read a Reuter's report about Myanmar freeing fifty-two political prisoners, Neatji Subhas Chandra Bose came to mind. This past summer, I was finally able to finish the 336-page biography of my enigmatic hero Subhas Bose....
Veena Vidyadharan, Susan Mathew and Kyle Robert Cote | 2016-01-30 00:00:00
While there has been a remarkable progress in food grain production in Bangladesh during the past decade, more than 30 per cent of its population still struggles under-access to good quality food. Much of the reasons behind the lack of...
Khaled Mahmud Raihan | 2016-01-30 00:00:00
Most-talked-about issue in the global financial arena is the emergence of Islamic banking. Global Islamic banking assets attained a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 17% over the last five years which is much higher than their conventional counterparts....
Masum Billah | 2016-01-30 00:00:00
The recently retired education secretary Nazrul Islam Khan happened to meet the prime minister who wanted to know the number of schools, colleges and madrasas run in the private sector and how much additional money could be required to nationalise...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-01-30 00:00:00
Narayanganj has long become a death valley in its own right. Bangladesh has no Kashmir to deal with but the number of killings and their horrific nature set this port town apart from rest of the urban concentrations in the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-01-29 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) eyes some 1,50,000 new individual taxpayers from public servants in the next tax year (2016-17) with the recent pay hike of the government officials that came into effect from July 1, 2015. All of...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-01-29 00:00:00
In April, 2000, representatives from 164 countries' governments, together with representatives from regional groups, international organisations, donor agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the civil society assembled in Dakar, Senegal, to set an agenda for achieving Education for All (EFA) by...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-01-29 00:00:00
Notwithstanding the government's emphasis on reviving the country's railway, the actual work has proved so far too little too late. On certain occasions, the programmes have simply misfired. A case in point is the introduction of Demu trains. Miscalculations like...
Saleh Akram | 2016-01-29 00:00:00
Ideally, growth attributable to improved technology should accompany increased job opportunities. But the global economy, which is struggling to keep pace with growth and is required to create adequate jobs, spells otherwise, according to a report presented at the World...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-01-28 00:00:00
The revenue board has found 51 per cent of the garment companies refraining from submission of tax returns in what is seen as poor tax compliance in the country's main export industry. As per the finding, 49.28 per cent of...
Ismail Hossain | 2016-01-28 00:00:00
Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2016 is going to bag record amount of revenue earnings, worth about Tk 20 million, in the form of value added tax (VAT) following rush of a significant number of visitors and buyers. According to...
Adree Islam Khan | 2016-01-28 00:00:00
Notre Dame Debating Club (NDDC) is regarded as the father of debate in Bangladesh, and thus, the 27th installment of the NDDC Nationals was a huge blip on the calendar for all debaters in the circuit. NDDC held their premier...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2016-01-28 00:00:00
Hundreds of Bangladeshis immigrate to USA and Canada every year for higher education and money-spinning jobs. But in the process they leave behind them many treasures back home: their parents, their easy lifestyle, and their close-knit family environment. Unfortunately, many...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-01-27 00:00:00
Some big guns are seemingly extremely unhappy about the current stock market situation. There are no earthly reasons to be happy about a market that has been stagnant for more than five years in a row. But when it comes...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-01-27 00:00:00
The government is going to undertake a fresh Tk 69.36-billion project to widen the electricity network in rural areas, on the back of a similar one that has largely failed to perform up to the mark, officials said. To be...
Siddique Islam | 2016-01-27 00:00:00
Banks at default or having excessive non-performing loans are being barred from accessing the US$200-milion Green Transformation Fund (GTF) meant for financing environment-friendly textile and leather industries in Bangladesh. Officials said the central bank is set to issue guidelines shortly...
Munima Sultana | 2016-01-27 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank is likely to finance the construction of Chittagong-Cox's Bazar railway for establishing direct rail link with the tourist haven on the world's longest beach and beyond. A fact-finding mission of the ADB is due to arrive...
Masum Billah | 2016-01-27 00:00:00
Research for Advancement of Complete Education (RACE) conducted a research on the effectiveness of creative system in primary level - problems and the level of understanding of the issue among the students and teachers. The surveyors interviewed 100 teachers and...
Mahtabul Alam Siddique | 2016-01-27 00:00:00
The history of human civilisation is inevitably a history of 'thinking'. The day when man became aware of his thinking aptitude, he discovered an un-trodden domain before him. He got stunned, dumbfounded and excited at his discovery of a novel...
Siddique Islam | 2016-01-26 00:00:00
Farm credit disbursement grew by nearly 24 per cent in the first-half (H1) of this fiscal year (FY), 2015-16, following the central bank's continuous persuasion, officials said. Disbursement of agriculture loan rose to Tk 87.56 billion during the July-December period...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-01-26 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is unlikely to accept the local apparel exporters' plea for re-introduction of special tax rate at 10 per cent. Sources concerned said the taxmen would not be able to offer the special tax rate...
writes Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2016-01-26 00:00:00
The first time in my life I saw snow falling was on a Friday, a cold December morning of 2010, when I used to live in College Park, Maryland. It was an unforgettable serene experience. It was beautiful, much like...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-01-26 00:00:00
Income is considered as one of the most important determinants of livelihood in a society. But it must also be admitted that ignoring distributional issues, increasing per capita income alone does not ensure welfare for all. It is mainly because...
writes Imtiaz A. Hussain concluding his three-part series on the Fourth Industrial Revolution | 2016-01-26 00:00:00
Each previous industrial revolution has transformed society, rattled policies, and, while raising the plateau of both expectations and consummation, also sowed the seeds of the next revolution. What does the 4th industrial revolution (IR) entail, particularly for a country far...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2016-01-26 00:00:00
From time immemorial the people of the world have been divided into rich and poor. There is nothing new about this classification according to economic status defined by income and wealth. At first the difference was rooted in the ownership...
Munima Sultana | 2016-01-25 00:00:00
The government is going to hire another foreign consultancy to look after the management aspect of the Padma Bridge project. Officials said the UK-based firm has qualified as the management-support consultancy (MSC) among three shortlisted bidders. Of the three firms,...
Siddique Islam | 2016-01-25 00:00:00
The central bank has sought information on treasury bonds from the commercial banks as the government has planned to buy back its securities from the market this month. Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked the commercial banks to submit the details...
writes Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2016-01-25 00:00:00
The history of oil industry is bedecked with booms and busts. Now the history is witnessing its deepest downturn. Companies associated with oil exploration and digging all along have made record profits. Now the same companies are decommissioning most of...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-01-25 00:00:00
The government is poised to hike railway fare by around 8.0 per cent. This is apparently another move to link the railway with market mechanism. Proposal to hike the rail fair every year is also a part of this move...
Neil Ray | 2016-01-25 00:00:00
The old game is on. Fire broke out in a city slum that was set to be raged to the ground by bulldozers the previous day. On that day the slum was saved from the eviction drive by a stay...
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