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High prices put a damper on rawhide sales

Ismail Hossain | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

Country's tanners have yet to start buying rawhides on a large scale even three weeks after the Eid-ul-Azha festival rather they are adopting a 'wait and see policy' because of its increased prices in the market.   Even though traders purchased...

DSEX dips below 4,700-mark on selling frenzy

Babul Barman | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

Stocks witnessed sharp fall last week that ended Thursday with turnover remaining sluggish as the investors went on panic-driven selling spree. Week-on-week, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), dipped below the 4,700-mark to settle the week...

Int\\\'l Day of Girl Child: Challenge of unbalanced sex ratio

Kazi Mukitul | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

October 11 was declared as International Day of the Girl Child by UN in 2011. This is a day to recognise girls' rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world. Women around the world face multitudes of problem...

Belarusian Voice of Survivors Alexievich awarded Nobel Literature Prize

Masum Billah | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

Unlike other literary awards, the Nobel has no shortlist, no long list, no hyped announcements of judges and juries. It is, in other words, open to endless speculation. The names of Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, Japanese novelist and...

Save Buriganga, save lives

Tarequl Islam Munna | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

The plight of the river Buriganga symbolises the general state of many rivers in Bangladesh, a large flat land crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers which faces an uphill battle to keep them navigable and their waters safe for human and...

End \\\'war\\\' now to end \\\'poverty\\\'

Abu Afsarul Haider | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

At the three-day summit held on September 25 to 27, 2015 in New York, the largest ever gathering of world leaders, the 193 member states of the United Nations pledged to work together to help the world's poorest people. They...

Performing the Holy Hajj

Iftu Ahmed from Aurora, IL, USA | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

First of all, my wife and I thank Allah, the Almighty Who enabled us to perform the 2015 Holy Hajj safely and peacefully. We extend our sorrow to those who died during Hajj times, surely we belong to Allah and...

In praise of egg

Nilratan Halder | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

Egg, any egg, is concentrated nutrition. But whenever the word is mentioned, usually the picture of an oval shaped chicken egg flashes before the eyes of all -irrespective of egg lovers or haters. On the occasion of the observance of...

Wheat production in climate change

Kazi Lutfun Nahar and Habib Torikul | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

It was the changeover period between autumn and winter. The sky was blue, the air neither cold nor hot and the sun's rays were invitingly sweet. We took a walk to meet with Karim Sheikh, a beneficiary of Islamic Relief,...

Basel III: Capital efficiency and challenges for banks

Md Mamun Or Rashid and Md Saiful Islam | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

Basel III, the latest capital and liquidity standards for banks prescribed by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), emerged in 2010 as the guideline of Basel II, the previous version of capital standard, failed to maintain financial stability during the...

Tracking black money, curbing money laundering

Asjadul Kibria | 2015-10-17 00:00:00

The issues of black money and capital flight or illicit financial outflow are getting more and more space in the media in recent times. It is an open secret that the amount of black money in the country is huge...

Four economic factors found as fertile grounds for transactions

Siddique Islam | 2015-10-16 00:00:00

Government agencies have identified four inherent economic factors vulnerable for such cash transactions while assessing the overall money-laundering and terror-financing situation in Bangladesh as part of a global combat. The factors are cash-based economy, inflow and outflow of remittance through...

Why is physics beautiful?

Frank Wilczek | 2015-10-16 00:00:00

The nineteenth-century physicist Heinrich Hertz once described his feeling that James Clerk Maxwell's equations, which depict the fundamentals of electricity and magnetism, "have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser…even than their discoverers, that...

Creating congenial business environment

Saleh Akram | 2015-10-16 00:00:00

Business fosters development in as much as total business volume contributes to national income. Economic stability of a country is dependent on steady national income and the volume of business transacted. As global competitiveness report for 2015-16 has revealed, Bangladesh...

A losing battle against hunger!

Nilratan Halder | 2015-10-16 00:00:00

Bangladesh has slipped 16 notches below in the global hunger index (GHI) from last year's 57th position to 73rd with a score of 27.3. Last year its score was 19.1. The score measured on a scale of 0-100, denotes the...

\\\"One Belt, One Road,\\\" or one heck of a fix?

writes Imtiaz A. Hussain in the Four-B installment of a ten-part write-up on \'Infrastructure-building and diplomacy\' | 2015-10-16 00:00:00

Unlike India and Japan, China did not help us during our independence; yet, over  40 years, this one bilateral relationship of Bangladesh has undergone a remarkable somersault, with both countries and many of their social groups bridging the gulf far...

Developmental central banking and financial stability go hand in hand

writes Shah Md Ahsan Habib concluding his two-part article on the Bangladesh Bank | 2015-10-16 00:00:00

The central bank has been giving special priority to financial literacy programmes in addition to financial inclusion initiatives in order to bring the mass population of the country under the coverage of financial services and achieve poverty reduction and financial...

DSEX dips below 4,700-mark

FE Online Report | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

Stocks suffered yet another big fall on Thursday, extending the losing streak for the third running sessions as investors went on selling spree. The market opened with falling trend and the downturn continued the end of the session. DSEX, the...

Stocks down at opening with volatility

FE Online Report | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened downward trend in early hour of trading on Thursday with volatility, the last session of the week. The prime index of the DSE –DSEX-- went down by 7.33...

Regional online retailer plans major investments

Ismail Hossain | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

Regional online retailer Daraz said a good chunk of its Tk 4.43 billion (50 million euros) planned investments will flow into Bangladesh. But the company will not say how much Bangladesh will get, with Pakistan and Myanmar sharing. "We'll place...

The changing landscape of technology

Rafaeal Hossain | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

Can we start planning for Mars already? Well, probably that day is not that far away when living on Mars is no longer impossible. Perhaps Arthur C. Clark is not wrong when he says: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent...

Better classrooms for underprivileged children

Maeesha Tahsin Mitul | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

In order to create a positive learning environment for the underprivileged students, Junior Chamber International (JCI) Dhaka West, in collaboration with JCI Dhaka Uptown, has recently coated the classrooms of Modhudanga Government Primary School at Dhamrai upazilla of Dhaka district...

Global Innovation Index (GII) 2015: Lessons for Bangladesh

Liton Chandro Sarkar | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

In his article titled 'Innovation Key To Making India a Global Competitor', Dr Amit Kapoor, President and CEO of India Council on Competitiveness, said while various static and dynamic factors determine the growth of a nation, innovation remains a key...

Readymade garments need diversified marketing abroad

M Jalal Hussain | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

All, literate and illiterate, men and women, poor and rich living either in urban or rural areas are now familiar with readymade garments (RMG). After a long struggle, RMG industries have now got a strong foothold in Bangladesh to meet...

Earlier spring among results of climate change

Sarwar Md. Siafullah Khaled | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

As greenhouse gas levels rise and global temperatures warm spring is arriving ever earlier. And the growing season in northern hemisphere is now two weeks longer than it was in 1900. But new research shows, paradoxically, that forest giants that...

Attracting best talents into government service

Waliul Huq Khandker | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

Politicians determine policy for running the country while government servants give concrete shape and implement the policies. Putting theory into practice or materialising a desire is not an easy task. It requires intelligent, hard, dedicated work and must be carried...

BB brings in a paradigm shift in banking

writes Shah Md Ahsan Habib writes in the first of a two-part article on the Bangladesh Bank | 2015-10-15 00:00:00

Alongside supporting and guiding the regular banking activities of the country, the Bangladesh Bank has in recent  years brought in a paradigm shift in banking with multiple approaches of inclusive financing, women empowerment, corporate social responsibility and poverty alleviation. This...

Stocks stumble

FE Online Report | 2015-10-14 00:00:00

Share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed downward trend in early hour of trading on Wednesday, the fourth session of the week. DSEX – the prime index of the DSE – went...

When counting breeds trouble

Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-10-14 00:00:00

'Gune gune ghush khan tini' (he counts before pocketing the bribe money) was the headline of the front-page lead item of the October 09 issue of a leading Bengali contemporary. That was quite a catchy headline, no doubt. Readers must...

Govt moves to identify non-implementable ADP projects

Rezaul Karim | 2015-10-14 00:00:00

The government has moved to identify its different projects under Annual Development Programme (ADP) which are not implementable at all, officials said.   They said the government has planned to identify the projects which will not be possible for it to...