From Syful Islam | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
TOKYO, Mar 22: The deep-rooted nexus between water and energy was highlighted Friday during the celebrations of annual World Water Day in Tokyo. "Water and energy are among the world's most pre-eminent challenges. This year's focus of World Water Day...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh needed to move forward to enhance connectivity with neighbouring countries to face the upcoming challenges of market access and investments from developed countries, said Mr Kei Kawano, JETRO country representative in Dhaka. It would have to keep pace with...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
The company which bagged the solar street lamps installation job at Tongi under Gazipur City Corporation would not be able to complete the assignment on time, opine experts. The solar street lamp project, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),...
Masum Billah | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
Things have truly surfaced that students are still unable to use English in their practical life even though they attain good grades in the public examinations in our country. So, assessment system should be changed to learn whether students are...
Mohammad Ali | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) service, expected to be launched within the next few months in Bangladesh, will significantly reduce the electronic payment cost and open another door of accelerating inclusive banking in Bangladesh, a top official of Visa Inc...
Maswood Alam Khan from Plano, Texas, USA | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
Many years back I read somewhere, perhaps in Reader's Digest, that there are only three categories of people who are truly happy. To one category belongs a baby. The second one is of a poet. And the third one: a...
Md. Shahedul Amin | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh aspires to attain the middle-income status by 2021. In the last decade, the per capita income of the country has gone beyond US$ 800, and it is expected that it will reach the 1,000 mark very soon. To achieve...
Abu Sayed Md. Shaykhul Islam concluding his two-part article titled \'Developing public infrastructures and services through public-private partnership\' | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
PPP projects are of two types. The projects which are identified and listed by the government under 'Private Infrastructure Project List' for development under PPP are called 'Solicited Projects'. These projects are approved by the CCEA (Cabinet Committee on Economic...
Saleh Akram | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
The outcome of referendum on Crimea was a foregone conclusion. Predictably voters voted overwhelmingly in favour of joining Russia. Polls held amid threats of sanctions by the western world and with direct Russian backing, were discarded as illegal by the...
Mizanur Rahman Shelley | 2014-03-23 00:00:00
In modern democracies all elections matter. National, regional and local governments function through elected representatives. That is why elections to the local governments are as important as those to the regional government (in a federation) and local self-governing bodies. Local...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
The government is set to miss its revised ongoing Aman rice procurement target during the current season although its collection has lately shown an upward trend compared to that of the last season's achievement. The government on November 27, 2013...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has a fear of incurring a net loss of over Tk 84.47 billion over two consecutive fiscal years (FYs) including the current one. The BPC purchases fuel products from the international market and sells the...
Munima Sultana | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
The government has taken a move to set up solar power-based recharge stations for battery-run easy-bikes in the country's seven divisional headquarters. Hundreds of thousands of easy-bikes are accused of pilfering more than 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity from the...
Niamot Ali Enayet | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Success of a city predominantly depends on the efficient delivery of urban services of which efficient transportation system is of crucial importance. An adequate and efficient transport system is a pre-requisite for sustainable economic development. Dhaka is fast becoming one...
Abu Sayed Md. Shaykhul Islam | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is an alternative source of financing for public infrastructure development where the main objective is to reduce government's borrowings and overdependence on foreign loans. The meaning of PPP is clear within the name itself i.e., it is...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Thousands of handloom units in the country are facing closure for want of cotton, dyes and chemicals at fair price, shortage of capital and absence of modern cloth processing centres, industry insiders said. They said around 1,92,000 handloom units out...
Ismail Hossain | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Bottled mineral water 'Shanti', produced and marketed by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, (DWASA) is failing to attract consumers in the absence of a proper marketing policy. The authority has, however, said it is not planning to make...
Jamal Uddin | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Multinational companies in Bangladesh are in a scramble to capture market share of emerging e-commerce business of different classified products. The companies are investing millions of dollars, mainly in the advertisement sector, to explore the untapped market of the country...
Babul Barman | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
The stock market plummeted for the fourth straight week that ended Thursday with participation remained sluggish as profit booking and panic sale dominated throughout the week. The week featured four trading sessions instead of five due to public holiday on...
Nehal Adil | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Panama Canal was a geographical gift to USA after the Monroe Doctrine cemented its domination of the western hemisphere. Yet it had to promote secession of Panama from Colombia to get the right to the isthmus to dig the canal....
Md Mukitul Islam | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Women in our society are constrained into a cycle of constant violence that seems never ending. Prior to birth they are faced with sex selected abortion (aborted if girl), during infancy they experience female infanticide and less access to resources...
Md Abdul Latif Mahmud | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Like the economy of other countries, banking sector plays a vital role to the national economy in Bangladesh. It contributes to many arms of the economy like agriculture, industry, power, transport, trade service and so on. The scenario of banking...
Md Shamsul Arefin | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
The emergence of new modes of transports over the last few years has sparked controversy on safety ground and energy issues as well as environmental pollution concerns. Mainly, these new modes are batter-run, Easy Bike/Battery-run-rickshaws and jerry-built modes like Nosimon-Korimon...
Adnan M L Karim | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
When my maternal grandfather travelled to Dhaka from his village home in 1951, he was a young man accompanied only by his dreams and aspirations. On 6th March, 2014 he made the journey back for the last time never to...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Those who love to be nostalgic and paint the past as "Ram Rajya" (kingdom of the Ramayana-famed Ram) must not be reluctant to admit that there was a time when burglary was quite common in rural areas. The burglars usually...
from Syful Islam | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 20: Taking advantage of the suspension of Bangladeshi manpower recruitment by most of the Middle Eastern countries, the middlemen are cheating poor jobseekers and increasing their sufferings by keeping them stranded in the airports. Lured by the...
ZM Aminul Islam | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Mar 20: A five-day festival of remembrance (Smaran Utsab) on Bengali Sufi saint Lalon Fakir arranged by District administration, Kushtia, concluded on the premises of Lalon Academy at Chheuria village in Kumarkhali upazila on Wednesday night. Ashok Kumar Biswas,...
Masum Billah reviewing the book | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh Share Market: Looking Ahead After Two Big Crashes is quite a big book of 484 pages with seventeen chapters accommodating the share market scams, the historical background, their causes, present status, impact on micro and macro-economies, and impact on ...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
The traditional agrarian economy of Bangladesh is set to be transformed into an industrial one. According to statistics, contribution of industry to Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) is increasing day by day. It was 21.7 per cent in 1991, 25.9...
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Over the last three decades Bangladesh has been undergoing rapid urbanisation. This has created mounting accommodation problem in the major cities. Capital city Dhaka is home to some 15 million people. One study shows nearly 85 per cent of them...
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