Mohammad Ali | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
A robust and sustainable economy depends on many factors that include business-friendly policy, efficiency of the businessmen, good governance, better management of financial institutions and so on. However, very few of us including the corporate people take the 'efficiency of...
Rafiqul Islam | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
There is no denying the fact that food is the vital source of energy to sustain life on earth. Therefore, it is essential for every human being to take pure foods. But most of the food items we take everyday...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Over the last few months, the single day ups and downs of the benchmark index of the country's premier bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) were not remarkable. The movement of the index was like the proverbial monkey climbing a vertically...
Emdadul Haque | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Caretaker governments conducted the parliamentary elections in 1996, 2001 and 2008. The 13th amendment to the constitution was passed in the parliament making provision for the caretaker arrangement. These three elections were comparatively free and fair compared to all other...
Munima Sultana | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
The capital Dhaka got a good mileage out of roads, flyovers and an overpass during the last one year. Due to the efforts taken in the last few years, the city dwellers now experience more than 25 kilometres of roads...
Khairul Islam | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Different indices reveal notable progress in the education sector. Record pass rates, checking of school dropouts and minimal corruption made the sector somewhat vibrant. But the successes have been blurred for some disagreeable activities like frequent question paper leakages --...
Badrul Ahsan | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Once upon a time people used pigeons in communicating with their near and dear ones. Later on, the arrival of postal service and then land phone changed the scenario. People became familiar with the services. That time people mainly in...
Jamal Uddin | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
A decade ago, people who had financial solvency would dream of getting a land phone connection. Land phone was then considered a sign of aristocracy. Many people then depended on one phone - not only land phone owners would be...
Talha Bin Habib | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
It is really a matter of grave concern that the rampant use of formalin in foodstuffs poses a serious threat to public health. The ongoing campaign to make the kitchen markets formalin-free is yet to bring optimum results as unscrupulous...
Minhazul Anwar Mridul | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
"All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us…" - Michael Jackson: 'History - Past, Present And Future - Book 1' (1995) When the US...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
In the preamble of the National Education Policy 2010, its overall objective has been summed up succinctly. The objective is to create a knowledge-based society that draws its strength from moral values and advanced science and technological knowledge. The nation's...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Conventional taxation system is considered as one of the major barriers to expediting growth of the country's tax-GDP ratio. The country's tax-GDP ratio is less than 10.0 per cent, which is one of the poorest in South-East Asia. There are...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
A large section of the media, both electronic and print, has apparently become obsessed with the wealth statements submitted by a few high profile candidates of the ruling 14-party alliance to the Election Commission in connection with the 10th parliamentary...
Jamal Uddin | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Rules for operating the Social Obligation Fund (SOF), to be used for telecom infrastructure development, will get final approval of the telecom ministry soon. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication (MoPT) sources said they have almost finished scrutiny of the...
INDIA : Bhutanese Buddhist monks play traditional instruments during the Jonag Monlam prayer offering at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya in the northern Bihar state Sunday. — AFP | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Yemen court condemns Qaeda suspect to death SANAA, Dec 29: A Sanaa court Sunday sentenced to death a Yemeni Al-Qaeda suspect for his role in a deadly attack on a security headquarters in Aden in 2011, an official said. Al-Qaeda...
Siddique Islam | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
The central bank has relaxed the loan rescheduling policy for the non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) for the next six months to facilitate financing for the businesses, affected by the ongoing political unrest. The NBFIs have been allowed to reschedule loans...
Rezaul Karim | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of agriculture (MoA) has made 16-point proposals to boost up the country's agriculture sector. The move came following the visits of officials of the MoA parliamentary standing committee who observed the agricultural activities...
Babul Barman | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Six listed companies raised Tk 1.80 billion from the stock market through issuing rights shares in 2013. The figure is 79 per cent lower compared to previous year. According to statistics from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), six companies issued...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
In a previous article published on December 19, 2013 in the Financial Express, we tried to argue why higher risk and higher premium rule doesn't work well for banks and why this rule causes in most of the cases problems...
Neil Ray | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Arvind Kejriwal has exploded like a time bomb on Indian political scene. His year-old political outfit, Am Aadmi Party (AAP) is perhaps the first such organisation to have formed a government, Kejriwal being the youngest chief minister of Delhi. With...
Mollah Md Nurul Islam | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Although Bangladesh insurance market is rather small, considering that current penetration rate is low at only 1.0 per cent, there remains an immense potential for future expansion. The future expansion of Bangladesh insurance market and increase of insurance penetration in...
Md Mushfiqul Huq | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
The former president of the United States Thomas Jefferson had this to say about Recreation: "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more...
Washim Palash | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
`Salimon Begum, 76-year-old widow and mother of nine from Gaibandha district is struggling to survive. For more than six decades she has been struggling in the same pattern though the magnitude of her distress varied over the period. She does...
Abdul Bayes | 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Eminent economist Debraj Ray once remarked: "economic development is probably more like a treacherous road, than a divided highway where only the privileged minority is destined to ever drive the fast lane. Although there appears to be no evidence that...
Mohammad Alamgir | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Water-logging is a curse for the people of south-west part of Bangladesh. Tala, Satkhira Sadar and some parts of Jessore are severely affected since cyclones Sidr and Aila. Other than these natural events, a few man-made factors are most pronounced...
Shamsul Alam concluding his two-part article on public investment management | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
The projects in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) are expected to serve as the main tool to implement strategies and achieve targets of the Perspective Plan and the SFYP (Sixth Five Year Plan). However, many of the ongoing projects in...
Mohammed Rakib-Ul-Hassan | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
The issue of application and implication of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the developing world came up for discussion while I was gossiping with a fellow student of master's course in the university. According to that friend of mine, the...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Forecasts were glibly made by media-savvy pundits with dark forebodings about the days in the run up to the general election but those were taken with a grain of salt by many. After all, Bangladesh had seen hartal, even oboodh...
M. Serajul Islam | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
One by one, the European Union, the Commonwealth, the United States and at the time of filing this article even Russia (!) have distanced themselves from the January 05 election. Their decisions have rendered the election to parliament irrelevant and...
Munima Sultana | 2013-12-29 00:00:00
Uncertainty has developed over timely completion of Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane project as work on the country's vital highway expansion project remained almost suspended during the last few months because of the ongoing political stalemate. Officials said the three assigned contractors of...
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