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Bangladesh has done well in terms of some socio-economic indicators, especially compared to its neighbouring countries. But the country continues to grapple with rising income inequality. The growth of slums...
Water pollution poses a serious challenge to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in equitable access to safe water by 2030 as the developing countries discharge about 90 per cent of...
Economics science says, there is a linkage between interest rate and savings. The linkage is: the higher the interest rate is, the more will be savings. That is, more money...
To reach high-income status by 2041, Bangladesh needs to find ways to increase per capita income above $12,000 from the current level of around $1,500. In order to increase per...
One of the main objectives of the Companies Act-1994 is to ensure good governance in the companies. It is principally based on English Companies Act-1908 with some amendments made in...
Four persons were sentenced to death in Sylhet for killing a 13-year-old young boy Rajon in 2015. They tortured him to death accusing him of trying to steal a rickshaw....
Dhaka city commuters are likely to get about 4,000 new buses in near future. Both the Road Transport and Bridge Minister Obaidul Quader and Mayor of the Dhaka North City...
Through the official tour of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to Bangladesh during July 13-15, 2017, the two countries are back on the track to revitalise and strengthen their bilateral...
According to a new study, the excessive and improper applications of insecticides and other agricultural chemicals in local fruit orchards may have caused an outbreak of a deadly swelling of...
The recent visit of Prince William and Princess Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to Europe was evidently a charm offensive to underline the deep links that exist between...
The recent visit of Prince William and Princess Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to Europe was evidently a charm offensive to underline the deep links that exist between...
When a child's plaintive cry for help goes unnoticed, the results are never painless. Take for example, a grade-7 student in the Baramulla district this week. She consumed poison after...
Global trade has been slowing down since 2008 following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and will likely to continue so in 2017 also. Almost 30 years preceding the GFC global...
The Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), an international research partnership, has produced a number of important policy papers/briefs relating to agriculture and nutrition nexus based on researches...
Hand in hand with UN Environment and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the People's Bank of China (PBoC) disembarked in the Argentine capital to prompt this country to adopt and...
According to an evaluation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), infrastructure projects have significant potentials to increase the economic empowerment of women in Bangladesh. It can also contribute to government's...
Eid-ul-Azha, the festival of sacrifice, is scheduled to be celebrated early September. The central effluent treatment plant (CETP) at the Savar estate is unlikely to be fully ready to preserve...
Once again, the Chinese economy has defied the hand wringing of the nattering nabobs of negativism. After decelerating for six consecutive years, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth appears to...
The Zurich-based Swiss National Bank (SNB) recently published the data on money held in Swiss banks by foreign clients. According to that report, the total money held in Swiss banks...
Gerber Technology has been helping companies around the world for nearly half a century to develop, manufacture and take their products to the market smarter, faster and more efficiently. Today,...
Bond investors are from Mars, and central bankers are from Venus -- or so suggests the bond market's negative reaction to signals that the exceptional monetary-policy accommodation of the last...
Traffic congestion in Dhaka eats up 3.2 million working hours per day and costs the economy several billion dollars every year, according to a World Bank (WB) analysis unveiled last...
The good companies cannot be brought to stock market listing unless they themselves are willing to be enlisted. Hardly two dozens of about 300 recognised good companies are listed with...
Bangladesh is a riverine country with about 700 rivers and their tributaries washing its shores. The economy of the country has predominantly been agricultural because of the rivers. Apart from...
The very mention of 'chikungunya fever' creates a panic among the city-dwellers. It is spreading very fast in the capital, and has of late attacked other parts of the country....
The BIDS' study report on 'Labour Market and Skill Gap in Bangladesh' presented by its director-general KAS Murshid last Sunday has been thought-provoking. The finance minister's appreciative words about it...
During the second week of this month, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) organised a three-day event to review the latest status of Aid for Trade (AfT). Titled 'Aid for Trade...
The Asian financial crisis started 20 years ago and the global financial crisis and recession nine years back. When a new global financial crisis strikes, the developing countries will be...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) brought about some changes in the Foreign Exchange Regulation a few months ago, allowing commercial banks to issue bank guarantee in foreign currency without its prior...
DONATION of blood is not just a quality but a virtue and by doing so you are actually leasing life to someone. Although we are aware of it, we have...
Since the inception of human civilisation, there has been relentless effort to find ways and means to delegate roles from humans to machines. Such role delegation has been the underlying...
The United States of America has been an exponent of freedom of press, both print and electronic media, for over two centuries. The First Amendment to the US Constitution ensures...
Upholding of human rights has gained focal attention all over the world. It is generally agreed that absence of this important factor within the paradigm of governance affects individual security,...
Bangladesh's merchandise exports in the last fiscal year (2016-17) grew by just 1.7 per cent to $34.8 billion. This was one of the slowest rates of expansion, resulting in a...
Next month will mark the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis, which began on August 09, 2007, when Banque National de Paris announced that the value of several of...
Black money has been dominating the economies of South Asia for a long time and its dominance in Bangladesh has increased in recent years. A study on the subject by...
Hamburg, the giant port city of Germany, hosted the twelfth G20 Summit on July 07-08, 2017. The theme of this year's G20 Summit was "Shaping the interconnected world". To convey...
'They're dumping steel and destroying our steel industry, they've been doing it for decades, and I'm stopping it. It'll stop,' US President Donald Trump declared during a recent flight from...
Science fiction has long explored the terrifying possibility that we are devoid of free will, and that some unpleasant creature could control our minds or turn us into plodding zombies....
According to Negotiable Instrument Act 1881, as adopted by Bangladesh, a cheque is a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker or not expressed to be payable other than...
President Donald Trump's attempt to replace Obamacare with a healthcare plan dubbed after him has failed. Some Republicans in Senate, after grappling with the Trumpcare bill for weeks, have finally...
We are living in the increasingly globalised and fast changing world of the 21st century which offers both opportunities as well as challenges. Societies everywhere are undergoing widespread transformations, and...
It should not be something to gloat over. Not being in Transparency International's Top-5 bribery-plagued Asian countries is no reason to celebrate. If we seriously evaluate why Australia, European countries,...
It has been several years since policymakers seriously discussed the merits of fiscal austerity. Debates about the potential advantages of using stimulus to boost short-term economic growth, or about the...
Development includes economic growth and human development. The Seventh Plan (2015-20) emphasises on pro-poor and inclusive growth through reduction in inequality by ensuring equitable access to quality healthcare and education,...
Airfields are not very common in Bangladesh and most of the people are not familiar with air services. There are a few airports operating in the country. The national carrier...
A laudable initiative has been taken up by the global lender World Bank to help Bangladesh formulate a roadmap to transform the 'chaotic' Dhaka city into an attractive dynamic city...
Why the policymakers of the country have not opened up the gold market to investors until now is inexplicable. Holding gold freely or importing this metal is prohibited. There are...
Russia has announced that it would take retaliatory steps against the United States if its properties in Maryland and New York are not returned soon. The representatives of Russia and...
The board of directors of National Life Insurance Company has recommended 20 per cent cash dividend and 15 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2016,...
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