write Ahsan H. Mansur, Zaidi Sattar and Muhammad Shafiullah | 2015-10-18 00:00:00
With the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) multilateralism on tenterhooks, member countries, developed or developing, are aggressively pursuing alternatives. Consequently, regional trade and investment groupings—called plurilateral trading blocs—are gaining momentum around the globe. Since 1990, the number of regional trade agreements...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2015-10-18 00:00:00
One characteristic of mine is not to take sides in pre-existing political debates when it comes to any politician. Based on my own perception, I make up my mind. In the late nineties to early years of two-thousand, my spouse...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-10-18 00:00:00
The Democratic Party had its chance to appear nationally and showcase its candidates for the Democratic as well as the US voters to make up their minds about the party and the candidate for the presidential election now 13 months...
Siddique Islam | 2015-10-17 00:00:00
Bangladesh's people have been deprived of enjoying desired benefit out of a significant fall in prices of essentials worldwide in the last one year, as the local businesses stood insulated from the global slump. The prices of consumer items like...
Munima Sultana | 2015-10-17 00:00:00
The Dhaka-Chittagong expressway project seems stalled at its procurement stage under public-private partnership (PPP) for growing confusion over the financing mode despite hiring a giant multinational as transaction adviser. Sources said some recent moves by the government caught the project...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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