Badrul Ahsan | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
Traders of winter clothes in the city's markets fear losses worth billions of taka in their seasonal business as their sales fell drastically due to the ongoing confrontational political situation. Shopkeepers said with the advent of winter they usually enjoy...
Ismail Hossain | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
Some 30 per cent of rawhides and skins of sacrificial animals, collected during the Eid-ul-Azha from across the country, has not yet reached the tanners in the capital due to frequent spells of strike and blockade since the festival in...
Syful Islam | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has turned down a Ministry of Commerce request to provide Tk 3.0 billion to the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) as working capital, citing the government's financial constraints, sources said. The finance division in a...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
The ongoing fierce political tussle centring on the January 5 parliamentary election is seriously affecting the economy. Dhaka's road link with the entire country has been hit hard. Interregional communications have also come to a halt. Trade, commerce and industrial...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
Whatever needs to be done should be done quickly to see off the bad time, writes Syed Ashraf Ali Amid the good news that we have had in recent years about satisfactory performance of the economy, the demon of nonperforming...
Nehal Adil | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
Qatar, a Sheikhdom in the heart of the Middle East, is the world's biggest gas producer. A silent coup by a young prince in the tiny kingdom of four thousand square miles this summer has changed the entire landscape of...
Parvez Babul | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
THE world-acclaimed, anti-apartheid great leader Nelson Mandela, who recently left the world, very rightly said, "Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity; it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made...
Pamelia Khaled | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
What is the impact of multiculturalism in Canada after 36 years of multicultural policy? Are there similar problems to those in the European countries where multiculturalism has been adopted, such as Holland, Britain, and Sweden? France, Denmark and Austria, which...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
At a time when people were waiting for sunshine but gloom and despondency surrounded them all around, there came the inspiring news that the Butcher of Mirpur-famed Kader Mollah was going to be executed. Carrying out the death sentence only...
ZM Aminul Islam | 2013-12-20 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Dec 19: Birangana (war heroine) Marzina, a rape survivor during the 1971 Bangladesh war for Independence, has been dragging her stigmatised life for over four decades without any governmental recognition or financial help. Birangana, meaning 'war heroine', was a...
Mohammad Ali | 2013-12-20 00:00:00
Over 22 years after the enactment of the Bank Company Act-1991, written in Bangla, the authorities have recently initiated to publish an English text of the act, facilitating all the stakeholders, especially the foreigners, to understand the law more clearly....
Shahana Bilkis | 2013-12-20 00:00:00
The migratory birds have started arriving to the water bodies, beels, haors and major rivers in our country, especially in northern districts, from the Himalayan and Siberian regions at the beginning of this winter season. They eat insects and rodents...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-12-20 00:00:00
The share of the rural economy is about one-fourth of the country's total. For a predominantly agricultural country this looks to be a misfit. But the rapid growth of service sector and manpower exports in the past two decades has...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-12-20 00:00:00
The German parliament has finally elected Angela Merkel as the Chancellor for the third term ending nearly three month's uncertainty since elections that forced her to seek grand coalition with her political rivals. Merkel, 59, who is now set to...
Mizanur Rahman Shelley | 2013-12-20 00:00:00
Political philosopher J.J. Rousseau was no lover of indirect or representative democracy. By democracy he understood the direct democracy existent in ancient city states of Greece. Large and populous countries cannot have that form of government in the modern days....
Shah Alam Nur | 2013-12-20 00:00:00
The ongoing 72-hour countrywide blockade caused immense sufferings to outbound air passengers at Dhaka's international airport. Several hundred people, who had arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) before the start of the latest spell of blockade, were passing...
M. Serajul Islam | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Mohammad Ali Jinnah is for a very good reason, a controversial political leader in Bangladesh. On his ill-fated visit in 1948 to Dhaka, Mohammad Ali Jinnah had said in Dhaka University's Curzon Hall that "Urdu and Urdu alone will be...
Gultekin Binte Azad | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
"At a time when society's biggest issue is youth unemployment, businesses and governments must work together to help young people develop an entrepreneurial mindset. That means fostering a culture which supports young people to take risks, set up businesses, create...
Cal Jahan | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Free online quality education is making headway in the United States, a country reeling from a financial crisis, with ever increasing cost of higher education and consequently, student debt. But it is in the developing countries such as Bangladesh that...
Nawazul Kabir | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Let's draw a picture in our mind. Imagine a little girl, Hasna, running carefree in the midst of the green beauty of a village, playing 'bouchi' and 'kanamachhi' with her friends, going to school with everlasting zeal and helping her...
Saqiful Alam | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Just at the outset of the Fall 2013 semester at North South University, I was informed of being given the responsibility to teach Production Management to the undergraduates. Overjoyed by the fact that I have been given the opportunity to...
Nabeela Mobashwer | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Interior designing and decorative architecture is no longer an unattainable wonder for Bangladesh. It is happening, almost at the pace of the drastically changing world. With every emerging climb, a new business prospect entails at the end of the line....
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Eminent and influential thinker on social justice and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy John Rawls (1921-2002) argued for social justice as 'a balance between social equality and individual freedom'. Nonetheless, social equality and individual freedom are frequently...
Rushidan Islam Rahman | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh economy has experienced an acceleration of GDP growth during the last two decades. While the positive changes in the performance of the economy have generated an optimism, it must be recognised that a complacence about the recent achievements of...
M. Fazlur Rahman | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
System of credit and repayment of loan with interest was known in ancient times. Experts trace earliest concepts of support and protection, interest and premium from sources like Kautilya's Arthoshastro, Yajngavalkya's Dharmoshastro and Manu's Smriti - from the perspectives of...
Md. Abdullah Al Helal | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Eve-teasing recently has become the burning issue for the country because of its adverse effects on women, especially to the teenage girls. Although the term 'eve teasing' originated from India, in recent times, this vice has spread over all the...
Mizanur Rahman Shelley | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Quo Vadis, where are you going? is a question frequently asked of one who seems to have lost the way. The expression has a spiritual meaning. It was asked of a holy man. It was also splendidly elaborated in celluloid...
Syful Islam | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
No outbound cargoes reached the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (ICT) since the debut vessel arrived there with 76 containers on December 10 from Chittagong port, sources said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the country's first ever river ICT on...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
A sustained shortfall in internal revenue collections, mainly due to the ongoing political impasse, put the public exchequer under pressure, officials said. Such a poor growth in tax revenue might necessitate the government either to down-size its development expenditure or...
Munima Sultana | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has extended tender submission deadline for two major works of the Padma Bridge project for another time on the ground of 'unavoidable circumstances'. Officials said the tender submission date for the 6.15-kilometre-long bridge construction work...
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