A.N.M. Amin Ullah and Syer Tazim Haque | 2013-11-02 00:00:00
Making Dhaka livable has been the top priority of successive governments of Bangladesh over the decades. Since the independence, Dhaka has undergone several infrastructural developments, but 'Livable Dhaka' is still an enigma. This has been reflected in a recently-conducted survey...
Md Shamsul Arefin | 2013-11-02 00:00:00
Bicycles are now becoming trendy, particularly with young people. Now-a-days, it has been observed that college and university-going students are using this mode for transportation. Most recently a student has been killed under the wheel of a vehicle from behind...
Md Rabiul Hoque | 2013-11-02 00:00:00
People use different tools for their amusement and watching movie is one of them. It is a popular way of recreation almost in every country. Bangladesh film industry is serving this purpose. Bangladesh film industry referred to as Dhallywood has...
Parvez Babul | 2013-11-02 00:00:00
Gender is a cross cutting issue, and violence against women is a worldwide problem. Women encounter problems due to 'human reasons'. Women empowerment is both a cultural and social issue. Researches undertaken by various agencies reveal, women's lives and world...
Masum Billah | 2013-11-02 00:00:00
Three American professors have been awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics. They "laid the foundation for the current understanding of asset prices," as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences commented. "It relies in part on fluctuations in risk and risk...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-11-02 00:00:00
He survives by sheer luck but not before the step-fatherly brutality has left him maimed. Both of the eight-year-old boy's hands have been severed by a sharp bill-hook from the elbow by none other than his step-father. His offence was...
Munima Sultana | 2013-11-01 00:00:00
The works for upgradation of only 4.0 per cent of the road network, falling within the territory of Bangladesh under the Asian Highway (AH) project, up to the class-1 standard project have so far been completed. This demonstrated a very...
Rezaul Karim | 2013-11-01 00:00:00
Most of the agriculture ministry projects under the annual development programme (ADP) are progressing at a snail's pace, official sources said. ADP achievement rate of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is very poor due to slow implementation by its departments,...
Gopal Sengupta from Montreal | 2013-11-01 00:00:00
Over the last few weeks, Bangladesh has been subjected to an unedifying spectacle of the two major parties making below-the-belt remarks about each other's leaders. Unless good sense prevails, this mudslinging match can get out of hand. Words are free...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-11-01 00:00:00
One wonders why politics here cannot be a civilised and sober affair! It is not a case of ideological difference as witnessed between proletarians and bourgeoisies of the past era. In fact, the contenders of power are willing to give...
Mizanur Rahman Shelley | 2013-11-01 00:00:00
Winter is at our doorsteps and it threatens to be one of discontent. Once again democracy in Bangladesh is confronted with a grave challenge. Twenty three years after the restoration of parliamentary democracy, the country is in the grip of...
ZM Aminul Islam | 2013-11-01 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Oct 31: The historical house of world famous mathematician K.P. Basu at Harishankarpur village under Jhenidah Sadar Upazila is on the verge of breaking down for lack of care and maintenance. Kalipada Basu, popularly known as K.P. Basu, was...
Shamsul Huda | 2013-10-30 00:00:00
Higher heat rates at many power plants are causing losses to the nation, as these plants consume subsidised fuel in excess to generate power. Currently 84 power plants are generating electricity across the country. Of them, the heat rates are...
Gopal Sengupta | 2013-10-30 00:00:00
Those who claim to have secured the constitutional mandate to speak for the masses do not have a voice, and those who have the voice do not have the mandate in Bangladesh. The governing process gets reduced to attending only...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2013-10-30 00:00:00
International credit rating agencies have warned that escalating political turmoil will eventually hurt the economy. The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said that dull private investment, low revenue generation and slow implementation of development projects would affect the gross domestic...
Mohammad Ali | 2013-10-25 00:00:00
Good business prospects await Bangladesh in the north-eastern region (seven sisters) of India, especially in areas of jute and Bangladeshi coal, said the top person of the region's chamber of commerce. "We have huge scope of expansion in use of...
Masum Billah | 2013-10-25 00:00:00
Golpey Golpey Orthoniti (Economics Through Tales) is the joint publication of two renowned economists -- Abdul Bayes, Professor of Economics at Jahangirnagar University and former Vice-Chancellor of the same University, and Dr Mahbub Hossain, Executive Director of BRAC and former...
Md Shamsul Arefin | 2013-10-25 00:00:00
The road safety standard of Bangladesh is not up to the mark. It needs to be improved keeping pace with time, as far as possible within the shortest possible time. Accordingly, the appropriate and overall strategy for offsetting the most...
Nilratan Halder | 2013-10-25 00:00:00
Even the inferno that engulfed Nimtoli of old Dhaka on account of the chemical godowns' turning into a live bomb each, when fire issued from short-circuit or otherwise in one of those, has failed to provide the impetus for moving...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-10-25 00:00:00
The political situation in the Maldives is getting increasingly complicated over the new election schedule for choosing a president as the political parties have adopted different positions over the November 09 voting date. If the election on that day fails...
Khairul Islam | 2013-10-25 00:00:00
Majority of secondary school students have expressed grave concern over the recently introduced 'creative question system' (CQS) in mathematics and higher mathematics for class IX. A recent survey conducted by Ovibhabak Sommilito Parishad came up with the students' concern and...
Siddique Islam | 2013-10-25 00:00:00
The central bank has moved to ensure commercial banks' maintenance of the cash reserve requirement (CRR) and the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) separately aiming to facilitate effective implementation of its monetary policy, officials have said. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) will...
Syful Islam | 2013-10-25 00:00:00
The price difference is delaying procurement of six ships by the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) from China, sources have said. Against this background the BSC has to extend the tenure of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) it signed with the...
Waliul Huq Khandker | 2013-10-24 00:00:00
The other day this scribe was glancing through annual reports of some important government organisations which he could not read earlier due to other preoccupations. At one stage he came across an article dealing with cost and gains of audit...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2013-10-24 00:00:00
For some years now, the world is in the grip of financial crises of grave proportions. The worst one, known as financial meltdown that hit the world economy in 2008, was triggered by the bursting of the United States housing...
Syful Islam | 2013-10-24 00:00:00
The ministry of finance (MoF) has instructed the state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) to submit their business plans to address their problem of capital inadequacy by October, sources said. Until March 2013, the four state-owned banks had a shortfall, to the...
Siddique Islam | 2013-10-23 00:00:00
The country's foreign exchange (forex) reserve crossed the US$17 billion-mark for the first time Tuesday, thanks to a robust growth of export earnings as well as higher inflow of remittance, officials said. The reserve rose to $17.10 billion on the...
Munima Sultana | 2013-10-23 00:00:00
Cost of the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway Four-Lane Project has escalated by 85 per cent over its initially estimated one, following increased costs in construction components of its all four package areas. The suspension of works under package 1 (from Joydevpur to...
Ismail Hossain | 2013-10-22 00:00:00
Delayed sales, coupled with carelessness, lack of proper preservation, use of low quality salts and chemicals and work of unskilled butchers, have distorted sizeable rawhide and skins of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul Azha. Tanners said at least some 30 per...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-10-22 00:00:00
Having reached the landmark accord on elimination of Syria's chemical weapons, the United States and Russia are now inching towards convening an international conference in Geneva late November in a bid to find a settlement of the Syrian civil war....
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