Abdul Bayes | 2016-03-22 00:00:00
Browsing newspapers over a cup of coffee in the morning the other day, the writer noted a good piece of news: "Columbia Professor Honoured by Dhaka University". Dr. Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia University...
a 10-part series by Imtiaz A. Hussain examines one sector in one article on each Tuesday and Friday of our independence month, beginning March 01 and ending on April 01 with an overall appraisal. The seventh article of the series follows | 2016-03-22 00:00:00
Though production began seven decades ago, the paper industry faces long-term diminishing results without thinking outside the traditional box. When the Daud Group established the Karnafuli Paper Mills (KPM) in Chandragona (Chittagong), in 1953, bamboo and hardwood supplied the raw...
Kazi Ali Toufique basing his discourse on the publication of An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policy Making in India | 2016-03-22 00:00:00
The name of Kaushik Basu is by now familiar to the academics and the media people in Bangladesh. The Chief Economist of the World Bank, he visited the country in December last year. He is purely an economic theorist, but...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2016-03-21 00:00:00
The Sundarbans (meaning 'beautiful forest' in Bengali) is a vast area in the Ganges delta comprising a network of 108 swampy, low-lying islands. It is the biggest mangrove forest in the world consisting 6200km² of forest and riverine areas. It...
Neil Ray | 2016-03-21 00:00:00
Gas explosion is allegedly responsible for a fire that has left a six-storey building in the capital's Banani area unfit for human living. A number of the building's residents had received injuries in the accident before the fire was brought...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-03-21 00:00:00
The No. 9 house on road No. 23 in posh Banani residential area of Dhaka city is now empty and abandoned since a fire originating from a leaked gas pipe belonging to the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-20 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has issued a guideline asking its income tax offices across the country to start 'scrutiny assessment' of the tax returns submitted for the tax year 2015-16. As per the guideline, the taxmen have to...
Pamelia Khaled | 2016-03-20 00:00:00
The concept of 'self-building' is usually missing in critical literacy discourse of Bangladesh secondary curriculum. According to Coffee, a literacy theorist, critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power,...
John Lloyd | 2016-03-20 00:00:00
In January of this year, a British judge, Robert Owen, said that Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, was 'probably' a murderer. The victim, nearly a decade before, had been Alexander Litvinenko, a former Soviet, then Russian, intelligence officer who had...
Abdul Abiad and Shang-Jin Wei in Manila | 2016-03-20 00:00:00
There is no doubt that China's ongoing growth slowdown has had far-reaching effects on the global economy. But its role in the sharp fall in commodity prices that has occurred since 2014 - an outcome that has been devastating for...
Syful Islam | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
The government is going to take a hundred million dollar project aiming at developing climate-resilient enterprises to ensure sustainable livelihoods for the vulnerable community, officials have said. The project is targeted to poor and ultra poor communities living in four...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
Some Tk 29.58 billion is stuck in a logjam of 25 lawsuits filed by 15 big businesses, making government's corporate income-tax target in recent years difficult to be achieved, sources said. Of the corporate taxpayers, eight are private commercial banks...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC) is expected to start functioning from next month as the appointment of its chairperson and members is now at the final stage, officials said. The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) is about to complete the process...
Mohammad Wazed Ali | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
The market of desktop computer in the country has been shrinking over the years as laptops, notebooks and tablets are occupying its market share, business insiders have said. According to them, the market ratio of desktops and laptops has now...
Babul Barman | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
Stocks slipped into the red last week that ended Wednesday, after remaining upbeat in the previous week, as investors' sentiment lacked confidence in absence of definitive direction. "The market fell marginally as some large-cap stocks faced erosion while company specific...
Mohammad Ali | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
English is taught in Bangladeshi schools as a foreign language with a view to developing skilled human resources to face the global challenges. Before 1996 the main methods of teaching English was grammar-translation which does not give much focus on...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
The saga of child murder is unfolding with increasing ruthlessness. Now the most dreaded impression is that the entire country has turned into a killing field for children. Even infanticide or prolicide is making screaming headlines of late. Internal and...
Erik Berglof in London | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
"What if this is 'as good as it gets'?" Jack Nicholson asks, as he walks through his psychiatrist's waiting room in the eponymous film. At the recent meeting of Group of Twenty (G-20) finance ministers in Shanghai, participants were asking...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh as well as other least developed countries (LDCs) have gained some preferential treatment on service trade at the Nairobi Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in December last year. These include: extension of existing waiver by four...
write Niamot Ali Enayet and Rajibul Haque Piqul | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh is predominantly an agrarian society where agriculture is viewed as a fundamental contributor to the economy. Since independence, the growth of agricultural production has been faster than the growth of population. At present, the population of Bangladesh is nearly...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-03-19 00:00:00
The Economics and Social Science Department (ESS) of the BRAC University, in collaboration with the Barkley Center for Religion of the George Town University, recently organised their fourth round of the Speakers' Forum Series on 'Faith and Development'. These two...
Munima Sultana | 2016-03-18 00:00:00
Use of wreckers is allegedly abused by a section of traffic police taking advantage of inadequate parking facilities in the city with people facing untold miseries in traffic jam-prone roads everyday. Witnesses said wrecker use is found mainly at crossings,...
Siddique Islam | 2016-03-18 00:00:00
Most commercial banks are building cyber-security bulwarks to prevent cyber heist with measures that include total taboo on sharing password. Any password sharing will be treated as "termination offence", bankers said. The passwords of sensible officials, who are in charge...
Syful Islam | 2016-03-18 00:00:00
A three-member official probe body on Bangladesh Bank reserve heist will start work formally tomorrow (Sunday), said committee chief Dr Mohammed Farashuddin. "We will start working Sunday," Mr Farashuddin, also a former governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB), told the FE...
Talha Bin Habib | 2016-03-18 00:00:00
Non-availability of land has been hampering the government initiative to build one thousand new post- offices (POs) with automation facilities, officials said. Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) is now implementing "Process Automation of Postal Department" project, aiming to digitise postal operation...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2016-03-18 00:00:00
Like in the other countries, 'education science' has become an independent discipline in the academic arena of Bangladesh. Keen interest in this discipline is growing day by day among the academics, education policy makers, researchers, development professionals, students and the...
a 10-part series by Imtiaz A. Hussain examines one sector in one article on each Tuesday and Friday of our independence month, beginning March 01 and ending on April 01 with an overall appraisal. The sixth article of the series follows | 2016-03-18 00:00:00
With the Bangladesh's pharmaceutical industry shifting from the back-seat to the steering-wheel, we might have found one of the meaningful pathways towards a higher industrial league. Always a formidable sector, the pharmaceutical industry relied heavily on foreign franchises, both before...
Siddique Islam | 2016-03-17 00:00:00
A destructive software virus was specifically designed for a targeted attack on the central bank of Bangladesh to operate SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA) servers for the heist in its Fed account. Official sources said the cyber-experts doing the sophisticated probe...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-03-17 00:00:00
Chartered accountants have recommended the government allow taxpayers six months to prepare themselves for adapting to the new VAT law. The VAT and Supplementary Duty Act will be enforced from July 1, 2016. They said there is a basic difference...
Rakibul Haq Emil | 2016-03-17 00:00:00
Bangladesh may be developing in all the parameters according to numerous international standard organisations and research firms, but how much development have we witnessed regarding human stance towards animals? This question will have multiple answers, nevertheless, no one will be...
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