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The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered as the engine of growth throughout the world. About 97 per cent to 99 per cent of enterprises in Asian developing countries...
THE winter is an endearing season for all. It brings a refreshing change from sweltering heat of summer. Number of power cuts reduces and water crisis remains under control. Winter...
WHILE it is heartening to note that the country is now enjoying demographic dividend, the government is yet to capitalize on it. Not only that, the concerned authorities are not...
THE Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) elections were held in a festive mood and the voters gathered at the polling stations to elect their favourite candidates. After a long time we...
The cultural aggression so passionately decried by this scribe through the years has now begun to hurt beyond the sensitivities. All on a sudden, the threat to livelihood for actors,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated government policy of extending cooperation to the private sector to further flourish and develop through transparent management. The private sector, she said, is the...
Goal-6 of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has mentioned about ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. Goal 6.3 mentioned about improving...
The Constitution of Bangladesh stipulates that a fundamental responsibility of the state is to provide basic necessities of life to citizens (Article 15). But the Fragile States Index 2016 depicts...
I met my best friend Maryam in the spring of 1980. We both attended the same university in Rhode Island. The very first conversation I had with her was about...
Energy security of Bangladesh is threatened by lack of domestic energy resources, high dependence on imported fuels and poor energy infrastructure. The country has to look for alternative energy sources...
MIGRATION cost is high in our country compared to the neighboring ones. According to a World Bank survey report, Bangladeshis pay the highest cost for migration and it is difficult...
I suddenly felt like writing something and sharing it with my fellow readers of The Financial Express about Dilip Kumar, a legendary actor of Indian cinema. I am a great...
IT is indeed sad to see that many playgrounds of Dhaka are increasingly being encroached upon by influential people and are not being used for the purpose they are intended....
In the last fortnight, two slum fires in a single week took the capital to the dreadful days of these horrific disasters. Normally these blazes occur in the scorching summer...
As media report suggests, the government is thinking of floating a sovereign bond, aiming to use a portion of the piled up foreign exchange reserve with the Bangladesh Bank. The...
After the assertion of US President-elect Donald Trump that United States (US) will only make bilateral reciprocal deals, neither GSP (Generalised System of Preferences) nor multilateral trade arrangement will bring...
Like in the last few years, textbooks are set to be ready by this December for distributing those among the school students. The government conducts the programme, in which students...
THE ongoing unrest and abstention from work by some garment factory workers is unfortunate. A vested quarter is trying to destabilise the sector that is the highest revenue earner for...
IT was really hard to believe as we learnt from the media that the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved the sale-cum-export of some Bangladeshi medicines to the...
THE news appeared in an English daily on December 22 and should be published in all dailies to create increased awareness for our people. The important discovery which was about...
On Saturday morning, a local bus and another vehicle collided head-on on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Gazipur, leaving six passengers dead and nine others injured. Then a pick-up van overturned...
With the culmination of the Asia and the Pacific Decent Work Decade (ADWD) -- 2006-15, countries of the region are now taking a stock of their achievements made on their...
Fragile ecosystems in Bangladesh comprise a substantial proportion of land and population. For example, the flood-prone ecosystem accounts for roughly one-thirds of the land area. The saline coast affects roughly...
SHAHANAJ Parvin, a teacher of Sherpur Upazila Model Government Primary School in Borgra, has been nominated for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2017, the most prestigious award for teachers...
THE pensioners who retired from service before implementation of the 2005 pay scale of the government and who surrendered 100 per cent of the pension money are not in a...
The much-heralded public-private partnership (PPP), despite its huge synergic potential for collaborative investment and enterprise, has yet to make any tangible headway. In fact, one could almost say that past...
The attainment of low middle-income country status a couple of years ago was trumpeted as a monumental accomplishment; Bangladesh was projected to exit the club of the least developed countries...
Fifteen years have passed since China officially joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on December 11, 2001. Over the years, China, as the biggest developing country in the world, has...
Bengal delta is one of the active deltas in the world and Bangladesh is located within this deltaic region. Every year, numerous rivers flowing through Bangladesh carry a huge load...
Energy experts say the additional amount of money that is required to meet the expenses for increased salary of the government service-holders, can be collected from the surplus fund, now...
US President-elect Donald Trump should have a relatively clear road ahead at home for the implementation of his economic program: with Republicans holding majorities in both houses of Congress, he...
Unlike the World Bank income classification, the United Nations (UN) considers several standards and sustainability related factors besides per capita gross national income (GNI) to classify countries. A least developed...
JAHANGIRNAGAR University (JU) was established in late sixties of the last century. Soon after its establishment the university was widely acclaimed for quality education in Bangladesh. Most of the graduates...
THE Tigers have reached New Zealand and soon they will start their tour with the first one-day international match on December 26. The cricket fans of Bangladesh are waiting eagerly...
ACCORDING to a survey of 2016, at least 8,642 people died and 21,856 were injured in road accidents across Bangladesh last year. As Bangladesh is a poor county, death toll...
ALOE vera has multiple health benefits and is widely used as a beauty product all over the world. It is gaining popularity among the health conscious people. It is an...
The statement made by the education minister the other day on export of technology may be far too optimistic considering the ground realities. But the intention behind it was innocuous...
Quite shockingly, the Bangladesh government had lost Tk 34.18 billion in land revenue in the past three decades due to widespread corruption and irregularities in 64 ADC (Revenue) offices across...
Over the last three years Bangladesh ready-made garment (RMG) industry has undergone a remarkable change in terms of safety compliance. Building, fire and electrical safety inspections in over 3700 factories...
Reducing the cost of trade by reducing time and money is always an important matter in global trade. A simple but long-term solution is cutting the red tape along with...
Considering the priorities and challenges of Bangladesh banking sector, training and capacity development programmes demand attention in some critical areas. In Bangladesh, availability of alternative jobs and growing number of...
DHAKA is one of the most polluted cities in the world and its pollution level has reached an alarming level. We are fast losing green patches and instead high-rise structures...
IT is sad and unfortunate that the people of the world are silent over the atrocities being committed by the Myanmar authorities against the Rakhine Muslims under an ethnic cleansing...
IN this age of globalisation, progress in the fields of science and technology and research has reached an unprecedented level. Every year developing countries are sending their students to western...
The mark of a good marketeer is the ability to think out of the box about consumers. In the barrage of communication directed towards the consumer extolling the Unique Selling...
In Bangladesh, inception of the formal financial system for providing rural credit started with the establishment of the Agricultural Development Bank in the 1960s. Later, the government also encouraged commercial...
"Swarm electrification" may become Bangladesh's answer to its burgeoning domestic energy needs. According to a Sara Badiei report for online magazine Motherboard (November 29, 2016), Bangladesh's entry into this form...
The winter is my favourite season and I like it very much as during the winter we can have a relatively comfortable life in Dhaka city without load-shedding, water crisis...
Why should I pay tax? It may sound strange. But I certainly do not understand why should I pay tax? Because our government unilaterally imposes tax on people and people...
Now-a-days students face a regular problem in the public transport. Recently bus companies started a new system called checking. Under the system they post checkers at some distances and realise...
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