Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-08-18 00:00:00
Recent media reports of escalating violence and mob brutality are deeply disturbing. The frequency of these incidents raises grave concerns about erosion of moral values and its potential to undermine the very foundation of a civilized society. It is not...
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-08-18 00:00:00
Journalism is the best job in the world, asserted eminent Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez some 27 years ago in an essay he wrote for Index on Censorship magazine. There are some valid reasons to differ with Marquez, and only...
SYFUL ISLAM and YASIR WARDAD | 2024-08-17 00:00:00
Severe carrier-capacity crunch has further pushed up airfreight rates for cargo transport from Dhaka to Bangladesh's main export destinations, disrupting air shipments, stakeholders say. According to them, last month's political upheaval, which led to the formation of a new government,...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-08-17 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 16: A project has been taken to construct four bypasses and a flyover at five important points on Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway at a cost of Tk 80 billion (Tk8,000 crore).A loan agreement has been signed with the Japan...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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