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A recent data released by the International Monetary Fund, showed that China is significantly contributing to overall global economic growth. Actually according to the IMF, China contributed 1.2 per cent...
It may not be a police state but at times a section of the law enforcers gives the impression that it is, by all means, one. There is a long...
The current account deficit during the first five months of the current financial year (FY) reached a record level, in monetary terms, in the country's history. It was $726 million...
Jogging is one of the most popular forms of exercise as it needs no special instrument and we can do it anywhere and anytime. It is very beneficial for staying...
Upcoming Bangladeshi movie titled 'Doob: No bed of roses', directed by renowned director Mustafa Sarwar Faruqi has created a lot of buzz in our cultural arena as it will be...
In winter, we see garbage are being burnt in many places. This garbage burning is very much harmful for environment and our health. Garbage contains a lot of plastics and...
The rich tributes paid to writer Shawkat Osman on his birth centenary on January 02 have delighted his admirers. The celebration of the writer's 100th anniversary of birth was organised...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has reportedly prepared a five-year plan to improve the environment of doing business and make it easier for investors. The authority was born following...
Dream he had dreamt so many nights in childhood to be a CEO of Disney. The person is Chris Davis. Later, he fashioned himself by cutting his teeth at college...
The US has always presented itself as a model in terms of democracy and freedom of the press. It not only points fingers at other country with different systems, but...
A phone call from Tsai Ing-Wen, the Taiwanese President to US President-elect Donald Trump on December 02, 2016 in itself should not have caused a crisis in US-China relations. The...
Every literate person knows that the relation between inflation and cost of living is positive, when the former rises the latter follows in on the heel. This is particularly so...
BANGLADESH is a riverine country. Around 153 rivers are flowing across the country. These rivers play a significant role for socio-economic development. Many people depend on the rivers for their...
OF late, bus fares have been raised. Increased bus fare affects the common people and students. As per the rules of the government, a student is supposed to pay half...
A mild tremor, measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale, shook Bangladesh along with neighbouring Myanmar and some north-eastern states of India Tuesday afternoon. Two people, including a school girl, were...
Global trade is now in for harsh realities in view of long-standing recession in the developed countries where consumer demand has been squeezed. It is against this backdrop that Prime...
On January 20, 2017 President Obama will complete two terms of his presidency, relinquish his responsibility and vacate the White House. On the same evening, Donald J. Trump, the newly...
The Readymade Garment (RMG) industry of Bangladesh has not only been a miracle to its countrymen, it has also been taking the world by storm for the past four decades....
"Bloomberg Intelligence" listed 50 companies with a "blockbuster potential to watch during 2017 ("Bloomberg Business Week", October 2016-January 06, 2017, 92-103). Measured in terms of "revenue growth, margins, market share,...
According to Becker's household labour allocation model, each household member spends his/her total time in three ways: leisure, productive activity at home (non-market work producing utility) and productive activity outside...
Social scientists, specifically the anthropologists, conduct their researches in many ways, but the method most characteristic of the discipline is that of fieldworks based on 'participant observation'. This usually means...
The Chittagong station of Bangladesh Television (BTV) started broadcasting its own six-hour programmes daily from December 31. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the regional satellite TV channel of the state-run...
ACCORDING to the UN, at least 30,000 Rohingyas have been displaced by violence and brutality of the Myanmar armed forces. They have been made victims of gang rape, torture, eviction,...
GOING trough the 'Facebook', this writer came across the following pragmatic and fascinating example of the usual prospects for students of various calibres and their future prospects that gave interesting...
A Bangladeshi movie titled "Doob: No bed of roses", directed by renowned Bangladeshi director Mustafa Sarwar Faruqi has generated a lot of enthusiasm and appreciation in our cultural arena as...
The wintry chill is yet to be felt across most part of the country. The winter is supposed to be halfway through by this time. But the weather is behaving...
A report prepared by the Nirapad Sarak Chai (NISACHA), a social campaign group, claims that the number of road accidents in 2016 came down to 2,316 from 2,626 in the...
It is usually heard that China is putting up the shutters on its textile mills and garment factories and as a result Bangladesh's industry is going to be flooded with...
WINTER has set in and nature around us is changing. Winter presents us a pleasant environment so different from the scorching summer heat. Winter is pleasant for us as it...
THE Tigers lost their first twenty-twenty match against new Zealand despite a strong resistance by Mamudullah. Kane Williamson timed his unbeaten 73 beautifully to help New Zealand to a six-wicket...
THE Gulshan DCC Market-1 was gutted by a 16-hour-long fire. The whole market was devastated. It was the most popular market in Gulshan area and the merchandise of many shop...
Macro-economic minders, policy planners and balance of payments monitors may be a little twitchy at the declining inward remittance by a sizable 11.15 per cent in 2016 compared with that...
Is Dhaka destined to remain congested or jammed forever? Does the city have any alternative to save the wasting hours trapped in the terrible traffic? These are the questions that...
In our country interest rate on deposit is relatively very high and one of the reasons for high deposit rate is the government's deficit budget. Every year the government undertakes...
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the set of seventeen Global Goals, initiated by the United Nations as the 2030 global agenda for sustainable development. Whilst the SDGs have come as...
WINTER is usually the season to play badminton and we see around us people of all ages indulging in the game during the winter. Even ladies and girls are not...
IT is good to know that Saudi Arabia has withdrawn the restriction on recruiting male workers from Bangladesh. It is the biggest manpower market for Bangladeshi workers and around three...
FAST food has become widely popular in our country and around the world. We see urban people eating fast food day in day out avoiding normal menu ignoring its harmful...
Despite miles to go, there is no arguing that graduation from the LDC category to a relatively dignified developing country status is a reality fraught with disadvantages that Bangladesh should...
Quoting the findings of the 15th report of the Education Watch, the Financial Express reported on December 25, 2016 that "42 per cent of the recipients waste skills training". What...
WE stepped into a New Year when year 2016 came to a close. This year like all other years in the past began with a lot of hope and promise....
ON the New Year night, the news that rocked us was the gruesome murder of the current MP of Gaibandha-1 Monjurul Islam Liton. The police is still investigating into the...
ON the New Year's eve, 39 people were killed in an upscale night club at Istanbul in Turkey. They were killed when they were welcoming the New Year. The assailants...
Mass exodus of internal migrants to urban centres has led to unplanned urbanisation in Bangladesh. A recent study has found that 69 per cent of the country's urban population is...
Income is considered to be one of the most important determinants of livelihoods in a society. But it must also be admitted that ignoring distributional issues, the goal of increasing...
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) signed a deal with China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPPB) on December 08, 2016 to set up a single-point mooring (SPM) project with a double (110 km)...
In 2017, Saudi Arabia will continue to pursue the two key goals that King Salman set when he acceded to the throne in January 2015: to reduce the economy's dependence...
IT was nice to see that the law enforcing agencies took all-out measures to prevent any unwanted incidents taking place in our Dhaka city on the eve of the New...
It is needless to say that early rising offers us a lot of health benefits. First of all if we get up early in the morning, we have a long...
This is perhaps for the first time the examinees of village schools have fared better than their counterparts in cities in any public examinations. Not a single examinee appearing from...
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