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IN recent times, I find many of my friends and classmates getting involved in a spate of discussions on leadership. This has been an important topic of discussion for centuries....
ALTHOUGH Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of Bangladesh is not as busy as any other international airports in developed countries of Asia or Europe, it is busier than countries like Nepal...
Just over a month or so after a whole-scale purge of the top echelon, Islami Bank is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Year after year, it emerged...
One can't bypass the context of agrarian structure while talking about rural transformation. The question of agrarian structure in the 1970s and the 1980s raised storm among academics who often...
Developing countries attach a growing importance to science and technology (S&T) to pursue their development agenda. In Industrial Development Report 2016, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has given...
DO you know that the government has started operating a national help desk with a toll-free number 999? Anyone can avail of any kind of support now nationwide for 24...
We are all used to politics in every segment of our social, professional and personal life. Bangladesh is a country where everyone starting from an ordinary rickshaw-puller to the wealthiest...
CHILDHOOD presents many challenges for children with special needs, particularly on the playground. In today's society, children need to adapt to circumstances that may pose potential problems for them. Educational...
At a time when Bangladesh feels the heat of arguments against a law passed in parliament with a legal leeway for underage marriage only in exceptional cases, a school in...
The interns at public medical college hospitals are now in the midst of their72-hour work abstention programme, launched to protest the government actions against four of their colleagues. The health...
Time has come for bankers to rethink about the obsolete form of bank finance and thus restrict widespread use of OD/CC (Overdraft/Cash Credit) limit in bank finance. The entire loan...
The role of haat-bazars (market places) as the hub of the rural economy is immense in achieving economic growth of the country. But some features of the rural markets create...
Growth of an economy is heavily dependent on energy and its sustained supply. The indispensable role of energy has been acknowledged by historic events like the Industrial Revolution. Following its...
TIGERS play the Sri Lankans in their first Test from March 07. The cricket loving people of both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are anxiously waiting to watch the contest between...
MIRPUR, Khilgoan and many other localities in Dhaka are now suffering from short supply of gas in their households. The gas supply is particularly low from 9:00 am to 3:00...
ROAD accidents is now an alarming issue in the country. According to a report by Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), as many as 1489 accidents took place across the country...
Amid the flurry of news about myriad government and private sector-driven rural uplift works, those about the other sides of life remain largely unreported. A chief reason for their being...
The country's energy regulator —Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) -- is reported to have been scrutinising proposals to hike power tariffs submitted by the state-owned power distribution companies. When the...
Ample research has been conducted to define the role of rural infrastructure in Bangladesh's economic growth and poverty alleviation. Arguably, studies have produced tremendous impact on policymaking - revealing that...
Gasping for breath under heavy pressure of road traffic, the Bangladesh capital has gone for construction of a number of flyovers. Can the Maghbazar-Mouchak flyover ease city commuters' travail? The...
Donald Trump promised that if elected as the president of the United States, his administration would become a tsunami for the Muslims, the immigrants and Iran, that it would simply...
Are the global financial regulatory institutions and organisations doing enough to check or contain illicit financial flows (IFFs), especially from the developing countries? There is no simple answer to the...
A realistic essay on the subject was carried in a local English daily on March 2 which clearly and succinctly described how our government is wasting hard earned foreign exchange...
YEARNING for democracy by increasing number of countries during the last four decades has resulted in impressive progress in governance, rule of law and human rights. At the same time...
An angry mob of transport workers attacked the police on Tuesday night - torching a police wrecker, a police box and a nearby ambulance at Gabtoli, Dhaka. The clash resulted...
Gasping for breath under heavy pressure of road traffic, the Bangladesh capital has gone for construction of a number of flyovers. Can the Maghbazar-Mouchak flyover ease city commuters' travail? The...
While working in a bank in Bangladesh, we frequently noticed that there were some borrowers who personally came to the branch, waited in the Manager's chamber, spent some time in...
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the world's largest interdisciplinary research association devoted to the scientific study of education and learning. Founded in 1916, AERA is concerned with improving...
Scores of countries around the world are literally composed of immigrants, who migrated to these lands hundreds of years ago. They belong to different ethnicities, and are from distant shores....
THE sad death of Adnan Kabir in Uttara, Dhaka has become a burning issue in Bangladesh right now. Adnan who belonged to a youth gangster group was killed by his...
The tirade against the US news media by no less a person than President Donald Trump is disgusting. The attack on the media escalated sharply at a White House press...
The private rental power plants (RPPs), rightly or wrongly, are given much credit for the improvement in power situation in recent years. But the policymakers, it seems, are consciously avoiding...
What is the transport strike about? On the face of it, the strike is about saving a driver condemned to life imprisonment for causing death to five people including Tareque...
International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is a sombre occasion, eliciting a handshake between what is becoming seasonal patriotism and constantly increasing cosmopolitanism. For Bangladesh, it is extra-special since it falls...
Bangladesh has entered an age of demographic dividend with wider slabs for working-age people in population pyramid. It has overtaken baby-boom of the 1970s and has now more youths after...
WE are now familiar with the word Truecaller, courtesy of smart phones. It is the only dialler you will ever need to identify unknown callers and block unwanted calls. It...
PRINT media of the country recently reported that the government has undertaken a project to complete dredging of 24 major rivers routes by June 2018. A total 101.4 million cubic...
THE ongoing transport strike across the country has intensified the miseries of the people who were surprised and frustrated at the sudden action of the transport workers. The transport workers...
We hear and also read media reports very often that patients or their relatives assault physicians and vandalise hospitals allegedly for mistreatment or wrong treatment. But doctor-patient relationship was once...
Inclusiveness in political economy refers to a situation when there is no discrimination against any citizen on the grounds of religion race, caste, sex or region. It is a situation...
The recent rising tide of trade protectionism in Europe and the US has triggered economic challenges, but at the same time exposed their myopic political vision, said a commentary published...
ONCE known as the beautiful looking patch of green in Dhaka, Ramna Green has worn its present look due to years of negligence. It is in the heart of our...
THE jail authority has decided to allow the prisoners to talk to their family members over phone. I think this is a very good initiative on the part of the...
ELECTRICITY production in Bangladesh is much below its demand. As demand for power is rising, production should be higher. Many oil-rich countries are showing their interest to produce electricity from...
Ambitious budgets have been a major feature of the government over the past eight years and the ninth one promises to be even more so. These have been essentially achieved,...
Some of the world's top apparel brands were set to stay away from the just concluded Dhaka Apparel Summit alleging repression of trade unions in the country and denial of...
On February 25, the Canadian High Commission celebrated the 45th year of diplomatic and economic relation with Bangladesh. Canada, which recognised Bangladesh on February 14, 1972, is among the major...
Transparency International (TI) has been publishing its annual flagship report Corruption Perception Index since 1995. The index was estimated for only 41 countries in the first year from the polls...
EAST West University Environmental and social Club was founded in September, 1999 with the vision to 'save life, save earth' through different environmental and social activities. The moderator of the...
THE number of road accidents in the country is rising alarmingly. The government is working hard to improve the situation, but accidents are taking place almost everyday. We hope the...
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