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Abdullah Abu Sayeed is well-known as a writer, editor, social activist and a popular teacher. He earned fame also as a television presenter. In the last few decades he has...
North Korea would have been nothing but an irritant to the rest of the world because it does not conduct its foreign relations in accordance with the established international norms....
MOSQUITO menace and summer have become synonymous for the city dwellers. On the one hand, the city dwellers have to bear with extreme summer heat accentuated by load-shedding and scarcity...
IT is indeed heartening to note that the rate of poverty went down in the country last year and the level of poverty now stands at 25.6 per cent and...
SAVAR is an industrial hub in Bangladesh. It is a border Upazila of Dhaka district. One can reach Savar municipality within one and a half hours by road from zero...
When the residents of Dhaka were celebrating the Bengali New Year, a 45-year old woman cried herself to death after her 2.5-acre rice field was washed away by flash floods...
It is not uncommon for people here to lament over the highly constrained growth of tourism in the country. Their main complaint is that Bangladesh fails to draw attention of...
The Government of Bangladesh has been increasingly reliant on the sales of National Savings Directorate (NSD) certificates for budget deficit financing. Net sales of NSD certificates stood at Tk. 28,894.15...
ALTHOUGH summer in our country is hot and humid, it is a season for variety of fruits. Summer has been a fruit bearing season over the centuries in our country....
RAILWAY is a very popular and convenient mode of transport. Unfortunately it has been one of the most neglected sectors in our country since independence. All governments over the years...
SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could have played a bigger role in Bangladesh's economy if the government gives them the incentives they deserve. Although the government has been patronising the...
Following a grim warning from the European Union (EU) of pulling Bangladesh out its trade benefits under Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), the government formed a working committee this week...
On April 22, scientists from around the world will mark Earth Day by participating in an unprecedented "March for Science." The aim of the march will be to "celebrate and...
The Prime Minister at a recent meeting with teachers of privately-managed Qawmi Madrasas declared Certificate of Dowara Hadith as equivalent to Master's degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies. As a...
The report presents Centre for Policy Dialogue's (CPD's) perspectives in the context of the upcoming FY2018 budget by taking the current dynamics of macroeconomic performance as the reference points. Here...
The Home Minister recently asked the Bangladesh Bank Governor to monitor movement of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) fund so that it does not reach terrorists or is not laundered abroad...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has maintained measured silence and let Parliament members and her part spokespersons lambast Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) for its observations on the productivity of Jatiya Sangsad...
If slow and steady are the key to win a race Bangladesh is destined to make it in the area of human development. The inclining forward by the country year...
FOOD adulteration is rampant across the country. Apart from posing a serious threat to our health, adulterated food is costing us more money. We cannot remain silent on this all-important...
BEGGING is demeaning for human beings. We should rather encourage the beggars to become workers and leave this shameful profession. Dhaka was once known as a city of mosques and...
LYNCHING is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often informally executed by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a group....
When some glimmers of hope peek through the gloomy public transport scene, you like to latch on to it thinking how worse it could get before getting better after all!...
Crop insurance has, of late, found its long expected space in the country's insurance sector. Because of the vulnerabilities that essentially characterise farm cultivation in this part of the world,...
Many of the immigration debates now raging around the world reflect the faulty assumption that admitting immigrants is an act of largesse - and a costly one, at that. But,...
HATIRJHEEL offers a break from the monotony of city life. It is indeed a nice and cosy place where one can unwind oneself. With so many food shops around it...
HSC examination is going on. A large number of students are crowding around the coaching centres and guardians had to admit their wards to one of these centres which had...
IT is true that education is the backbone of a nation and people who impart education are teachers. People respect their teachers like their own parents. But the fact remains...
The 10th International Poultry Show, held recently in Dhaka, has presented a thorough picture of the huge potential the industry holds in Bangladesh. Today, poultry farms are found in every...
Empirics point out that infrastructural development like market links contributes to rural development. It has a positive effect on marketing of inputs and outputs and employment. It is obvious that...
The latest labour force survey of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) reports that 58.1 million people are employed in different occupational sectors of the country. In 2013, 87.1 per...
SUMMER is on and we are already experiencing mild load shedding every day and understandably so as our production is less than the actual demand. Situation will be further worse...
IT is indeed frustrating for us to see that the sensational Sagar Runi murder case is not going anywhere although five years have passed and despite repeated assurances by the...
A few years ago, one of my friends narrated to me about his train journey in the United Kingdom. One day he was travelling from Plymouth to Preston. He reached...
Time is not only uncertain, it is treacherous too. Living in such a time, it is not easy to live one's dream and also share it with others, particularly when...
Human-rights abuses in Myanmar's Rakhine state have led to mounting international condemnation and calls for a United Nations Commission of Inquiry. The atrocities there must be investigated, and their perpetrators...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) maintains that in the next two years the developing Asian countries will drive the world economy. However, at the same time ADB warned of uncertainties...
Research on women's works saw substantial progress in the past decades. It focused four major areas: documentation of women's activities, evaluation of their work in monetary terms, explanation of factors...
Income inequality has now become the principal topic of public debate not only in the developed world but also in developing countries like Bangladesh. So much has been written and...
THERE is a makeshift market on the main Bonosree Road at Meradia Bazar every Wednesday which creates a heavy traffic jam. Every day thousands of people negotiate this road and...
THE High Court upholds the death sentences for four main convicts who brutally tortured a minor boy Rajon to death accusing of stealing a van. The perpetrators of this ghastly...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) observes Anti-corruption Week quite ceremoniously through rallies by students throughout the country. But it remains to be seen whether this will have any impact on the...
People in the Dhaka metropolis are used to a lot of appalling spectacles; they range from the macabre, the repulsive, the tragic, to the purely funny. Lately, things belonging to...
After exports, inward remittance from the expatriates is the second highest revenue earning sector for Bangladesh. But the country suffered 2.55 per cent fall in inward remittances last fiscal year...
People touched in the head are targets of ridicule in almost all societies. In backward communities, the deranged people are looked down upon or marginalised --- and even persecuted in...
THE holy month of Ramadan is only a month away and the commerce ministry must step up its efforts to ensure that prices of essentials remain under control. Every year...
EDUCATION is decidedly one of the key drivers of a country's economic growth. Being one of the basic needs of a society, its effect on the overall economic performance of...
PAHELA Baishakh is the first day of the Bengali calendar. Last year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) recognised one of the significant rituals of Pahela Baishakh...
The expansion of Global Value Chain (GVC) has posed a new challenge to developing countries like Bangladesh. Gone are the days when manufacturing meant efforts of large factories to bring...
It is summer time and monsoon is only a couple of months away. However, a number of brief showers in recent weeks gave strong indications that the city dwellers are...
The exuberance over celebration of the Pahela Baishakh, the New Year's day on the Bangla calendar, is unmistakable. But the emotion and passion that go into making the occasion are...
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