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An autumn not for celebration

Nilratan Halder | 2024-08-17 00:00:00

Sharate aaj kon othithi elo praner dware Ananda gan ga re hridoy ananda gan ga reThis is how Rabindranath celebrates the arrival of the Sharat or Autumn. In the United States, known as the Fall, it is the most favorite...

Circular economy for sustainable business with ecological harmony

Md Abdul Latif | 2024-08-17 00:00:00

The traditional linear business model, with its extractive philosophy, "take, make, dispose" prioritises short-term profits over sustainability. This leads to cheap, disposable products that generate excessive waste, depleting resources and harming the environment. Resource extraction, production, transportation, and disposal all...

Embarking on a journey to create a brave new world

Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2024-08-16 12:00:00

The chief adviser of the interim caretaker government of Bangladesh and pioneer of micro-credit cum social business programmes across the globe – Professor Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Micro-credit programmes offer an alternative strategy for...

Financials of S. Alam family under probe

DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-08-16 00:00:00

Banks and financial institutions (FIs) have been asked by the revenue authority to submit account- and credit-card details of the S. Alam family members on suspicion of concealment of financial information.Saiful Alam, the owner of upstart S. Alam Group of...

Creating employment opportunities to fuel engine of development

Nilratan Halder | 2024-08-16 00:00:00

Finance and Planning Adviser to the interim government, Salehuddin Ahmed has indicated that his ministry will prioritise those projects of the ongoing ones that foster businesses and employment. The objective is to support people's livelihoods through creation of jobs. Of...

Anti-immigration upheaval in the West

Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2024-08-16 00:00:00

The scenes of rowdy men and women starting a riot on the streets, vandalising properties and viciously fighting with police immediately remind viewers of similar events that usually take place in developing countries. But this is happening in United Kingdom...

Assets of S Alam Group may help salvage Islami Bank

Farhan Fardaus and Babul Barman | 2024-08-15 12:00:00

To salvage Islami Bank Bangladesh the interim government will have to recover money by seizing all assets of S Alam Group responsible for the present sorry state of the lender. S Alam Group and its sister concerns have reportedly taken...

DSE stocks buoyant on return of blue chips' dominance

MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-08-15 00:00:00

Some 60 per cent of the listed securities traded on Tuesday on the Dhaka bourse declined. But the market closed the day's session with a sharp rise, supported by fundamentally-strong stocks. These stocks played a key role in driving up...

Metro rail restart in doubt as workers strike over pay

MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-08-15 00:00:00

The metro rail operation, announced to resume Saturday next week by the new interim government at its first advisory council meeting, is now unlikely to restart as striking employees continued their work stoppage until Wednesday, sources said."It is now certain...

Be the change you want to see

Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-08-15 00:00:00

Optimism is permeating the nation like the beautiful fragrance flowers emit on misty mornings. The student-led mass revolution that led to the downfall of the Sheikh Hasina regime has united the nation in hope and optimism that was never seen...

The fall of monarchs: a brief history

Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-08-15 00:00:00

In this era of republics and democracy or aspirations to democracy, it is quite appropriate that people whose interest in history has always been paramount walk back to things that have been and will not be again. Among the realities...

Fighting against corruption first priority: Masrur Reaz

MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-08-14 00:00:00

Ensuring good governance in the country's capital market is the first priority of newly-appointed Chairman of the securities regulator Dr. M Masrur Reaz."The revolution done by the youths paved the way for ensuring good governance in the market," said Mr...

Uncertainty looms over metro rail employees' return to work

MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-08-14 00:00:00

Uncertainty has been looming over resuming metro rail operations a month after the suspension of its services as the state owned metro rail company is unable to convince its aggrieved employees to join work ending the strike they started following...

THE GEN Z REVOLUTION AND BEYOND

IFTEKHARUL ISLAM | 2024-08-14 00:00:00

With its huge reach and influence, Facebook has become an integral part of Bangladeshi life, particularly among young people. As of early 2024, there were 52.90 million Facebook users in the country, accounting for 30.4% of the entire population and...

Hasina's asylum: political vs criminal

Abdullah A Dewan | 2024-08-14 00:00:00

The term asylum in international law refers to the protection granted by a country to a foreign citizen against one's own country of citizenship. The asylum seeker has no legal right to claim it, and the asylum-granting country has no...

Congestion now spreads from ctg port to ICDs

SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-08-13 00:00:00

Congestion has spread from the Chittagong Port's jetties, yards and outer anchorage to inland container depots (ICDs).The port city's 19 ICDs now hold more than 15,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of export boxes, nearly double the usual storage of about...

Political culture needs overhauling

Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-08-13 00:00:00

There is nothing wrong in supporting a particular political ideology. And being the activist of a political party is also nothing out of the ordinary. But the problem of present-day politics in Bangladesh is that supporters or activists of one...

Fixing the rot in the banking sector

Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2024-08-13 00:00:00

The banking sector has been witnessing ugly events following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina's government. Slogan-chanting processions, the abstention of high officials in the face of protests by employees, and incidents like shootouts are now common events in a section...

Classrooms stay empty despite reopening order

MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-08-12 00:00:00

Five days after the authorities announced resuming classes, educational institutions still remain shuttered -- caught in a limbo between official orders and on-the-ground realities. While students have won hearts as impromptu traffic cops and community guardians, educators and parents worry...

Prof Shibli's reign ends. Will it stop abuse of stock market?

Babul Barman and Mohammad Mufazzal | 2024-08-12 00:00:00

Professor Shibli Rubayat-Ul Islam resigned on Saturday night less than three months after his reappointment for the second term amid widespread criticism about his performance.During his tenure of four years and three months, the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission's (BSEC)...

A right step towards taming inflation

Neil Ray | 2024-08-12 00:00:00

The kitchen market has eased up a little to the relief of the consumers. Vegetables that were selling at Tk 80 -100 per kilogram a week ago ---in fact, for months ---are now priced Tk 10-40 less. However, the prices...

Power of the zoomers

Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-08-12 00:00:00

Students of Bangladesh during their 36-day movement launched between July 1 and August 5 last demonstrated a new kind of power. It was a veritable tsunami of political nature, though not driven by any politics, that brought down the government...

OPEC Fund lines up $30m loan for City Bank

REZAUL KARIM | 2024-08-11 00:00:00

The OPEC Fund is poised to provide a $30 million loan to the City Bank Ltd to support the country's private sector for trade financing, especially in agriculture and green energy, officials said. The proposed short-term loan will have interest...

Project officials, mostly Indians, leave BD on security concern

MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-08-11 00:00:00

Many foreign consultants and contractors, mostly Indians working under various development projects in Bangladesh, left the country during the last few days over security concerns amid a student protest that has toppled Sheikh Hasina's government.The over two weeks' violent street...

Manufacturers fret over scale of losses

Babul Barman and Mohammad Mufazzal | 2024-08-11 00:00:00

Listed manufacturing companies are looking forward to a sort of normalcy to recover from losses incurred during the suspension of production amid curfew, Internet outage, and vandalism carried out after the fall of the government. Representatives of several companies talking...

Cost of politicising trade bodies

Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-08-11 00:00:00

Business and politics are totally separate entities and should never mix. Unfortunately in Bangladesh, the two have become so mixed up that the line between the two has become almost blurred. This has resulted in a troubling synergy between politicians...

Three int'l organisations & global free trade

Asjadul Kibria | 2024-08-11 00:00:00

In principle, free trade means the free movement of goods, services, capital and people across borders. In practice, it means national policies and regulatory objectives put greater or lesser constraints on the movement of each. It is how the Dictionary...

Unrest cripples tourism sector since mid-July

Arafat Ara and Gulam Rabbani | 2024-08-10 00:00:00

The recent unrest and a rise in atrocities after the fall of Sheikh Hasina's regime have put the country's tourism sector in a dire strait for over a month. Panic gripped people across the country as a student protest over...

US proposes deputing revenue advisers to NBR

DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-08-10 00:00:00

A US proposal for deputing its "skilled revenue advisers" to help expand Bangladesh's revenue base and enhance receipt is under scrutiny, sources said. In the proposal, the US Department of Treasury has expressed its willingness to provide technical assistance to...

Interim government formed on SC nod

GULAM RABBANI | 2024-08-10 00:00:00

Bangladesh's apex court gave the go-ahead for the interim government and its oath before its formation in the exigent situation stemming from the exit of the previous government, SC sources said. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court gave the...