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DIGITAL Bangladesh is a buzzword that came to the fore thanks to the ruling political party Awami League. The party in power coined this term before 2008 elections that became...
IT was Bangladesh's hundredth test match and the historic moment set a milestone in our cricketing history. The Tigers sealed first Test win against Sri Lanka and it was sweeter...
WHEN Sri Lanka won the World Cup trophy in 1996, Bangladesh was not even in the list of World Cup participants. Sri Lanka at that point of time was a...
We, in Bangladesh, have started experiencing a sudden change in climate: winter this year was extremely short-lived. Even in the first week of Bengali month of Chaitra, cold breeze is...
As morning shows the day, so is a half-yearly review for the economy. A review sheds some light on the economy's performance for the whole year. The present write-up highlights...
It is not that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR) suddenly alerted us to the role of education in accelerating technological progress. If it was not known before, then the incomplete...
At the very outset let us have a close look at the latest UN Report: l Globally, one in nine people in the world today (795 million) are undernourished; the...
Russia and China are both making an effort to have more government control in the use of the internet facilities operating in their respective countries. This is being done in...
The concept of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RECP) agreement in the Asia-Pacific region has emerged recently following the new US administration's decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. ...
INTEGRITY is unquestionably a supreme quality for leadership. No real success is possible without it, no matter whether it is on a football ground or in an army, or in...
BLESSINGS of development have turned into a curse for Dhaka city. Particularly, flyover construction sites have become a kind of war zone, where no passer-by feels safe walking below or...
Already 16 stone pit workers have perished in Sylhet's stone extraction areas. This casualty figure of two and a half months of this year surpasses the total deaths of the...
Bank depositors are fortunate they have a regulator like the Bangladesh Bank (BB). The regulator maintains constant watch on every bank. Notwithstanding such vigilance, some banks start showing signs of...
These days question papers of different public exams are being traded openly (in social media) among students like 'products of daily necessity'. So, students as well as their parents purchase...
The perilous nature of construction works has brought Dhaka city's existing hazards like pollution and traffic jams to the fore. On Monday last, a pedestrian was killed when a girder...
Few among the readers have a clear idea about the nitty-gritty of the country's publication sector. The annual February book fair featuring creative books provides them with the opportunity to...
Good news is that Bangladesh is getting fresh natural gas supply from two newly drilled onshore wells. Some 40 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of natural gas is being...
The French will elect a new President in April or May. The first round of the election will take place on April 23 and if no candidate fails to secure...
The impeachment, and removal from office, of South Korean President Park Geun-hye on charges of corruption and abuse of power has rocked the country's political establishment and divided the electorate....
The independence of the members of an audit committee is crucial for making checks and balances of the committee really effective. If the country circumstances so permit, an audit committee...
Since the electoral victory on November 08, 2016 Donald Trump began articulating the priorities of his government. The issues appeared most crucial to him were the abrogation of the Affordable...
IT is most unfortunate to see so many self-proclaimed religious leaders "Pir Baba" exploiting the innocent common people and cheating them in many ways. Very often newspapers carry tragic stories...
CONSUMER rights are now an integral part of our lives like a consumerist way of life. As a consumer, one should know how market products are constantly underweight, of inferior...
DIGITAL marketing is now spread all over the world. Through digital marketing a marketer can keep contact with their customers digitally. Digital marketing mainly includes website design, search engine optimisation,...
For the last two decades, Bangladesh has been witnessing a gradual proliferation of information and communications technologies (ICT) - from the introduction of the internet in 1996 to the phenomenal...
That Bangladesh is now partially reaping demographic dividend is amply evident from the crucial role the country's expatriate workers are playing in the country's economy. Remittances increased by 19.6 times...
Taxation policy is one of the major tools used by the government to create a sustainable revenue base for implementing public programmes successfully. An efficient tax administration and collection system...
INHALING dust is calamitous for survival. Nobody knows it better than people of Dhaka, who cannot leave the city for their livelihood (employment, education, business, own home etc). Both organic...
CONTRARY to government optimism for turning Bangladesh into a full-fledged digitised society by 2021, the country seems to lack the necessary infrastructure to attain developmental goals in the information and...
A sort of cat-and-mouse game is on between hawkers and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) officials over unauthorised occupation of footpaths. The DSCC mayor appears to be bent on evicting...
It is a serious charge made by none other than Vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka, Dr. Arefin Siddique. The charge concerns publication of results by the National University (NU)...
To a number of people in the last forty-five years, the 9-month-long Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 has been little more than a period of 'confusion' --- 'Gondogol' in Bangla....
THE UK AND THE US: The In 1992, the Cadbury Committee issued the Code of Best Practice that recommended that boards of U.K. companies include at least three external directors...
The National Jute Day was celebrated for the first time in the country. The week-long programme concentrated on rallies and fairs of jute products These activities are geared to promoting...
Repeated accidents and loss of lives in building flyovers in the city and elsewhere only manifest that the authorities are not serious about public safety at the project sites. The...
There are many rich persons in Bangladesh, but not all of them pay taxes. Either they do not file any tax return or if they file any at all, they...
Bangladesh, though still a least developed country (LDC), has already caught up with the modern trend of electronic commerce or e-commerce. It means business transactions, buying and selling of products...
Bangladesh Flag Vessel (Protection) Ordinance (BFVPO) 1982 is a legal regime for the international maritime transportation industry of Bangladesh. It was enacted pursuant to the UN Convention on Code of...
This article deals with some of the key issues related to audit committees in central banks. Among the issues to consider, when designing an appropriate governance structure, are the prevailing...
SONALI Bank Limited has recently published its promotion policy-2017 wherein an ambiguity or confusion regarding court case related clause has been revealed. As per clause 7(ka), an employee who is...
LAWS in most countries of the world protect the rights of the consumers when they buy or sell goods or services. In most countries, there are institutions that help the...
AS a girder of the Malibagh-Mouchak flyover was being carried by a crane, it fell on a passer-by who died a tragic death. Any unnatural death causes agony among the...
'Green technologies' and 'green growth' have emerged as buzzwords in these days of climate change. It is often argued that since Bangladesh is facing the fallout of climate change, the...
Global poverty has definitely declined. According to the findings of the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) poverty has halved globally in around a decade or so. This means that there...
The concept of regional connectivity is not new. As most of the countries of South Asia became independent and sovereign after the end of colonisation, these countries felt the need...
BANGLADESH has made spectacular progress in growing rice, our staple food, and attained food autarchy. Besides rice, potato, a common vegetable, is also grown in plenty to fulfill the demand...
YOU just choose a product and order for the same through internet. You receive the goods after some time either at home, or in office as you desired. This was...
Two developments in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector, one structural and the other, representing a breakthrough, at a crunch time, merit instant attention and reflective analysis. That is because: a)...
A lot is being heard about micro-credit possibly because Bangladesh is its birthplace. But micro-insurance (henceforth abbreviated as MI) is now emerging as a policy tool to shield micro-credit clients...
Commenting on the restriction imposed by the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) on the employment of low-skilled foreign workers, the Financial Express editorial of February 19 said, "The restriction imposed...
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