Md Rasel Eusoofi | 2016-02-06 00:00:00
Chittagong Independent University (CIU) is one of the degree awarding higher seats of learning in Bangladesh, located in the Port City Chittagong, which started its journey in 1999 as the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), Chittagong Campus. Since its inception, the...
Masum Billah | 2016-02-06 00:00:00
A number of positive and encouraging things have occurred in the field of education in our country. It started receiving importance from the governments for the last several years. And the introduction of distributing textbooks free of cost since 2010...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-02-06 00:00:00
The month-long book fair, Amar Ekushey Boi Mela, is now going on with full momentum. The fair is being held on the premises of Bangla Academy and a part of Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka, just opposite to the academy. However...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-02-06 00:00:00
Toilet, now euphemistically called washroom by smarter urban people, has unfortunately not matched the linguistic ascendancy in its improvement in practical terms. Public toilets in this part of the world have ever been in a shambles. The very concept of...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2016-02-06 00:00:00
Every year gas supplies to households countrywide usually hit a snag during the winter. But this year, the crisis turned acute and affected even filling stations for CNG-run vehicles. The State Minister for Power and Energy on January 27, 2016...
Abu Sayed Md. Shaykhul Islam | 2016-02-06 00:00:00
The United Nations (UN) officially came into existence 70 years ago with 51 countries on October 24, 1945 after the Second World War when there had been a global demand for peace. The primary responsibility of the UN is to...
Abdul Bayes | 2016-02-06 00:00:00
A household would have different types of land in portfolio. These are used for homestead, orchards, ponds, etc. that are used for seasonal and permanent crops. The portfolio may change over time in consort with needs and imperatives. For example,...
Siddique Islam | 2016-02-05 00:00:00
The central bank has set the target of small and medium enterprise (SME) credit disbursement at Tk 1.13 trillion for this calendar year, up by 8.53 per cent than that of the previous year, officials said Thursday. Of the total,...
Harold James in Princeton | 2016-02-05 00:00:00
The price of oil is often regarded as a sort of thermometer to measure the health of the world economy. What is less often noted is that it can also serve as a barometer - warning of approaching geopolitical storms....
Martin Feldstein in Cambridge | 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Why has the US Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing (QE) been so much more successful than the version of QE implemented by the European Central Bank (ECB)? That intellectual question leads directly to a practical one: Will the ECB...
Nilratan Halder | 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Indications are clear that hostility to children in this country is on the rise. Tortures of the most outrageous type, abduction for ransom, rape and gang rape before murder in case of as tender girls as six to 14 years...
says Grzegorz W. Kolodko concluding his three-part public lecture titled 'Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future' | 2016-02-05 00:00:00
That's nothing to wring our hands about, because market economy, also by its intrinsic nature, has corrective mechanisms, too, though they are pretty imperfect. When the deviation from the balance is too high; forces are activated that correct the disproportions....
Munima Sultana | 2016-02-04 00:00:00
A revived initiative to sign motor vehicle agreement (MVA) among South Asian countries has been postponed due to lack of concurrence from India and Pakistan, officials said. The South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) secretariat through an email informed...
Mohammad Wazed Ali and Sanwar Hossain | 2016-02-04 00:00:00
The recent move by the two city corporations to ensure hawker-free city streets has had a little impact as the floating traders have started returning to their footpath-based trading. Both Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation...
Siddique Islam | 2016-02-04 00:00:00
Private-sector credit now grows higher as corporate entities looked back to local-currency loans, alongside offshore borrowing, amid a downturn in lending rates, bankers said. Based on a higher flow of credits in December, the bankers hold the hope that the...
writes Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2016-02-04 00:00:00
From May to November - there is something magical about waking up on Sunday mornings and walk three blocks from my house and get a week's worth of organic fruits and vegetables from the Farmer's Market. After that, winter sets...
says Grzegorz W. Kolodko in the second of his three-part public lecture titled 'Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future' | 2016-02-04 00:00:00
It is estimated that if income proportions in the US were like those of the Scandinavian countries (which I consider to be a totally impossible future, taking into account American values), the sense of mutual trust among people (additionally strained...
Babul Barman | 2016-02-04 00:00:00
The government revenue earnings from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell 16 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year compared to the same period of the previous fiscal as trading volume was on the decline....
Syful Islam | 2016-02-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has been given an opportunity to make deferred payment of all types of charges at Chittagong seaport for an indefinite period as part of government's move to help the state flag carrier sustain until its salvage,...
Muhaiminul Islam Antik | 2016-02-04 00:00:00
'Make Your Vision Come True'- bearing this motto in mind, Inter-University Tech Fiesta 2016 was organised by the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET). It was a two-day long programme, held...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2016-02-03 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has started collecting information of illegal foreign nationals staying in Bangladesh in a bid to check tax evasion. The tax authority has launched a move to find out whether the foreigners are paying income...
Siddique Islam | 2016-02-03 00:00:00
The inward flow of remittances has been on a downturn with the January receipts dropping more than 12 per cent, belying higher manpower export by official count. Official sources said remittance inflow even recorded an overall negative growth in the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2016-02-03 00:00:00
The government in this part of the world, traditionally, is a bad manager. It has proved itself to be a bad accountant too, at least, in the matters of determining the power tariff. The government is forcing a section of...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2016-02-03 00:00:00
Cluster development is considered as an effective tool for fostering economic growth and innovation. Industrial clusters serve as one of the most effective mechanisms for spurring income and employment growth especially by micro- small- and medium-sized enterprises. Industrially developed or...
Asjadul Kibria | 2016-02-03 00:00:00
There is currently a spree of construction of physical infrastructure in the country. The necessity of such infrastructure facilities is undeniable. But the construction processes of some of the projects are drawing criticism. The phenomenon is, however, not unique for...
says Grzegorz W. Kolodko in the first of his three-part public lecture titled 'Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future' | 2016-02-03 00:00:00
The 12 Great Issues of the Future (GIF) address the challenging questions of long-term future of mankind and the global economy. Traditional, mainstream economics seems to be a matter of the past and useless for explaining the true nature of...
talhabinhabib@yahoo.com | 2016-02-02 00:00:00
A newborn baby has survived miraculously after his mother threw him to the ground from the third floor of a six-storey building at Ramna in the city on Monday, police said. According to Ramna Police Station, Beauty (15), daughter of...
Siddique Islam | 2016-02-02 00:00:00
Country's gross domestic product (GPD) will continue to grow at a steady rate, averaging annually 7.0 per cent in the near to medium term, the central bank says in an upfront economic analysis. A spurt in domestic consumption and investment...
Syful Islam | 2016-02-02 00:00:00
Trade officials from Dhaka will attend a consultation meeting in New Delhi tomorrow (Wednesday) as the government of India has moved to slap anti-subsidy or countervailing duty (CVD) on import of jute goods from Bangladesh, officials have said. The Indian...
Rezaul Karim | 2016-02-02 00:00:00
The authorities find it difficult to make pre-delivery payment against purchase of four 787-800 aircraft mainly due to non-availability of pledged funds from a Canadian financial agency, officials said. The problem has arisen after the government recently cancelled the loan...
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