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...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
On December 14, 2013, Mamun Rashid wrote an article in the Financial Express that dealt with loan defaults, risks in lending, and offered some suggestions how to deal with such issues in a more judicious way. He mentioned some factors...
Abdul Bayes | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
Historically, agriculture in this sub-continent had been practised on a subsistence basis. The villages were self-sufficient; people exchanged goods and services within the village mainly on barter basis. However, with the development of infrastructure and storage facilities, commercialisation of crops...
Masum Billah | 2013-12-19 00:00:00
White is the symbol for peace. To stop a war white fag is shown. We know the 'red-shirt' and 'yellow shirt' movement and demonstrations in Thailand. But the movement or rally or demonstration with 'white flag' is quite new in...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2013-12-18 00:00:00
That political stability is sine qua non for economic progress and for carrying out trade and business activities unhindered is again being felt in this part of the world, but at a huge cost. The political instability is nothing new...
Siddique Islam | 2013-12-18 00:00:00
The downward trend of private sector credit growth continued until October last due mainly to the ongoing confrontational politics centring ahead of the January 5 parliamentary election, officials said. The private sector credit growth came down to 11.04 per cent...
Shah Alam Nur | 2013-12-18 00:00:00
The incidents of imported goods missing from the cargo warehouse at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) have gone up alarmingly, causing serious concern among the importers, officials said. Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) found that more than 4,069 imported...
Rezaul Karim | 2013-12-18 00:00:00
The government is undertaking a plan to double the country's paddy production through a "Long Term Strategic Plan" with the help of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), official sources said. The move came following the visit of members of the...
Shamsul Huda | 2013-12-18 00:00:00
The logistics businesses are faced with the worst of time because of the prolonged turmoil in the apparel sector and the political instability, sources have said. About 80 per cent firms were forced on the brink as they were not...
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