Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2013-12-23 00:00:00
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina made the other day a new proposal -- albeit somewhat ambiguously -- to help resolve the current state of the nation's perilous political situation when she expressed readiness to hold fresh polls for the 11th...
Shariful Alam Bhuiyan | 2013-12-23 00:00:00
For any business, the decisions made by the management are responsible for its success or failure - these are the choices that either make or break a company. The managers decide on how to run the business, but taking these...
Neil Ray | 2013-12-23 00:00:00
So, politics and money-making are inseparable these days. Gone are the days when politics was a selfless vocation entirely dedicated to the cause of the land and its people. There was a time when scions of zamindar families, in total...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2013-12-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh, undoubtedly, is a hotbed of corruption. It receives recognition annually from the global anti-graft body called the Transparency International (TI) in this connection. For past many years, the TI has been, unfailingly, placing Bangladesh among the most graft-ridden countries...
Shah Alam Nur | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
The production and supply chain in most of the country's manufacturing industries have broken down due to frequent countrywide shutdowns and blockades, industry players said. They said many industries had to cut production by 75 per cent to avoid congestion...
Masum Billah | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
The concept of universal education dates back to 2000 when UNESCO hosted Dakar summit which was participated in by 180 countries. They committed to the simple but profound goal of achieving universal basic education by 2015. It actually involves entering...
Rabiul Islam | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
In Bangladesh usually school and college students are bound to wear uniform because of code of conduct of the school or college. Uniform has lot of importance though it is not always realised by the students. Uniform can play a...
Khairul Islam | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
Publication of results of Junior School Certificate (JSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for December 30 has become uncertain amid frequent blockades and shutdowns sequel to the volatile political situation in the country. Sources in the education boards said the...
Khalilur Rahman | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
The Rangamati Hill District Council (RHDC) in a meeting held on December 11 last called for protecting hills from gross human interference. Speakers at the meeting, held for the first time in the country in observance of the International Mountain...
Munima Sultana | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
The budget for the country's priority Padma bridge project has been cut by a half in the current fiscal year as the government is unable to complete the tender process on the project's main construction work because of political instability...
Shamsul Huda | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
The availability of a good number of essential drugs in the market has become a problem of late as their manufacturers are increasingly becoming disinterested in manufacturing the same because of the government's price control measures, sources said. Currently, the...
Jamal Uddin | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
Activities of the mobile telecom operators` network roll out programme for third-generation (3G) mobile phone service have faced a virtual halt due to the prevailing political stalemate, industry insiders said. Most of the mobile operators have also feared that it...
M. Serajul Islam | 2013-12-22 00:00:00
These are surely the worst of times although these are supposed to be the best of times with the hanging of Qader Mollah (QM). Instead of mass upsurge of celebrations, the hanging has tended to push the country into a...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
The revenue board's efforts to find out household owners and businesses without TIN faced a blow due to the ongoing political turmoil and blockades. In January-October period, the tax offices were able to net some 1,22,000 new taxpayers across the...
Babul Barman | 2013-12-21 00:00:00
The stock market returned to the red last week after gaining marginally in the previous two weeks as investors followed 'wait-and-see' approach, keeping in line with gloomy political and economic outlook. The presence of investors was also thin on the...
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....
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