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In the backdrop of dwindling investment in the country, both from overseas and local, the government said it will do everything for the development of the country. In order to...
World Metrology Day has become an annual celebration since the Meter Convention was signed by representatives of seventeen countries on May 20, 1875. The convention set the framework for international...
RECENTLY a country-wide anti-corruption drive was organised, courtesy of the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) where thousands of young school children gathered in processions carrying placards and festoons etc. inscribed with anti...
THERE are two major sources of air pollution in Bangladesh, vehicular emissions and industrial emissions. According to the Department of Environment (DoE), the air quality in Dhaka has remained consistently...
BREAKFAST is the first formal meal of the day for us which prepares us for the rest of the day. Apart from providing us with energy, breakfast foods are good...
Last weekend, Jack Ma described to the People's Daily what he believes makes the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) a uniquely effective and inclusive project. Ma, executive chairman and founder...
As the monsoon keeps knocking on the door, Dhaka has already been agonising under the spells of torrential rain. The low-lying neighbourhoods bear the brunt while commuters face irritable traffic...
A hostile nature this year has forced Bangladesh to go for import of rice although the country has long been acclaimed by the international community for its food security. Onrush...
Today, banks cannot solely rely on the risk management or auditing functions to identify the risks in different units. Strong leaders must be placed in key roles that involve risk...
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. This is the phrase that was attributed by American writer, humorist and entrepreneur Mark Twain to 19th century British...
For any cinema connoisseur, a free entry for Mrinal Sen's highly acclaimed films is not a rosy prospect. The apprehension is that there will be a heavy rush and in...
"From this day forward," as the 45th US president alerted us, "it is going to be only 'America first'." Donald J. Trump might have spoken out of turn, but with...
Accreditation is an attestation of the competence and impartiality of conformity assessment bodies to carry out specific conformity assessment tasks. These bodies include but are not limited to calibration laboratories,...
NATURALLY, women look forward to a hassle-free job before opting for a traditional one. This is how freelancing can become more preferable for our female job-seekers. Since Bangladeshi women play...
SINCE the world is fast moving towards digitalisation, Bangladesh should find ways to promote the knowledge of computer usage among its disfranchised population segments. As far as "digital divide" is...
WE got it from the media that at least half the country had to face untold miseries due to power failure when at least one pylon of electricity supply of...
While the holy month of Ramadan is knocking at the door, most vital points and intersections are witnessing acute traffic congestion. Many roads are still un-repaired that hinders normal traffic...
It is difficult to keep money at home in any small economy, not connected strongly with the global system or not a member of any free trade or economic bloc....
In around three weeks or so, the United Kingdom's bemused voters will head for the hustings for the third time in fairly quick succession, thus time to elect a new...
It could very well have been a blockbuster Hollywood movie script. Only it isn't. It's real and it's happening to us today. Since May 12th, a Ransomware dubbed WannaCry is...
There will be a higher tax burden on the people in the upcoming fiscal year (FY18). Finance minister AMA Muhith has already made it pretty clear. In several pre-budget talks,...
In our banking industry, directors are elected on the basis of their own large number of shares or influence by their close relatives. So the Board of Directors is always...
Since the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) in 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco, environmentalists are very much worried about the influence of fossil fuel industries in...
Parkinson's is a chronic, insidiously progressing neurological condition. The most common clinical features are believed to result from the progressive degeneration and death of dopamine-producing neurones in the substantia nigra,...
The Finance Minister and the Energy and Mineral Resources Minister continue to assure the residents of Dhaka that no further gas connection will be given to households in view of...
Chinese President Xi Jinping last weekend proclaimed the Silk Road spirit, saying it has become a great heritage of human civilisation. Spanning thousands of miles and years, the ancient silk...
To top the list of cities in terms of density of population per square km is an unenviable distinction for Dhaka. Unfortunately, according to the UN Habitat data, said to...
The warning that the brick kilns spread out mostly on agricultural lands are a serious threat to the livelihood of millions has, of late, begun to be visible in some...
It is learnt from newspapers that the government is going to amend the Banking Companies Act 1991. The cabinet division has approved the draft of the Banking Companies (Amendment) Act...
Iran's ties with the European Union (EU) have clearly reached a threshold when the first Iran-EU Business Forum on sustainable energy opened in Tehran on April 29 last with European...
The made-in-China products and Chinese service are now gaining more popularity among the "Belt and Road" countries, and its manufactured rail cars and telecommunication services are proven to be representative...
Essentially in any form of governance, consequential decision of public policies requires consultation and at times public hearing before finalisation. Governance in its institutional form is a complex and self-serving...
THANKS to The Financial Express for publishing a letter titled 'No Textbook in the NCTB website' on January 10, 2017. And now almost all NCTB textbooks and teachers guides are...
MUSIC is a food for our souls. People love listening to favourite music when they have leisure time. Nowadays young people are seen listening to music from their mobile phones...
WE witness a mosquito menace after sunset as evening arrives and it seems that there is no one to see it. Two city corporations seem to have failed to discharge...
That media could play a positive role in reducing damages from natural disasters was adequately highlighted during a three-day media summit held in the capital last week. The summit proceedings,...
The groups that fill the otherwise empty buses in the sleepy English hinterlands speak in a language foreign to all but them. Their faces are the usual contrast of tiredness,...
If all else fails, try the previously unthinkable. It is not a bad principle for economic policy in the best of times. Today, it may be just what is needed:...
Now it is clear that one single hacker from any remote corner of the world can deface electronic information in any website, block any computer to catch a user for...
THE residents of Bonosree area have been experiencing untold sufferings over the last couple of months due to indiscriminate road digging. The road diggings have been continuing unabated for months...
CONSUMER rights are vital for protection of the citizens' rights. Sadly, citizens' rights are often neglected in many developing countries like ours. Consumers' right is a largely non-existent terminology for...
WHILE the date of announcing the annual budget for 2017-18 fiscal is drawing nearer, large-scale discrepancy remains in the country's tariff policies. The government should reformulate its tariff policies to...
When countries with predominantly Muslim populations experience deliberately effected lower commodity prices immediately before and during Ramadan, the holy month, Bangladesh unashamedly remains an exception. In this country, the business...
At 39, Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron, a former banker and a political newcomer has decisively won the French presidential election, defeating far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. By doing so he...
The state-owned Power Development Board (PDB) that once dominated the power sector as a producer has reportedly assumed the role of a buyer of electricity from the private operators in...
The new VAT law "The VAT and Supplementary Duty Act 2012" is set to come into effect with the new budget. Its full and effective implementation across the country, nonetheless,...
After passing a busy, active life many elderly males find it difficult to spend their time. Too many idle hours and veritably endless leisure lead to boredom. A lot of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to endorse the draft policy on utilisation of unused land and structures for investment and industrialisation scheduled to be placed at the next governing...
PARKING on the road is illegal, but we see people parking their cars along the road and narrowing the space for traffic movement. Dhaka is a city of traffic jam...
There was an eye-opening news item from Oslo, Norway by AFP which was published in a local daily on May 11. It was about heralding the beginning of a new...
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