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DESPITE being a hated profession, begging continues to exist in various forms in our society as the earnings from begging are known to be quite lucrative. It is said that...
IS there any possibility that intelligent animals like human beings on earth, may inhabit the countless stars in the vast galaxy of stars beyond the solar system? Whether they can...
Charlie Chaplin's most famous comic character, The Tramp has many things in common with his near namesake, Donald Trump. The antics of the little vagrant fellow in Chaplin's silent films...
Here is an eye-catching development from a corner of Europe! Wallonia, a small constituent of Belgium has vetoed a prospective deal with Canada, citing environmental and social reasons.This has paid...
Dealing with "disruption" has become the "defining challenge" of our time. So was Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's appraisal of Singaporeans to economic conditions in August 2016. He might have...
The first issue marking the literary journal Natun Diganta's stepping into its 15th year (October-December, 2016) of publication is undoubtedly a remarkable event in our world of journals. Like its...
Few people could help being emotion choked seeing a front-page photograph printed recently in this newspaper. The photograph shows two pedestrians trying to pull out a street dog from beneath...
"MARKETS may have hands but not soul", said Dr. Atiur Rahman while addressing a panel discussion on 'Sustainable Finance in Developing Countries' in Dubai organised by UNEP and UAE. It...
THE tendency to have fast food particularly among the young generation is growing alarmingly resulting in a rapid growth of fast food shops across the country. We take fast food...
NOW-A-DAYS most people of the city travel by rickshaws due to lack of public transport. As the city population is rising transportation within the city is becoming increasingly dependent on...
Since the second presidential debate held on October 09 the political atmosphere in the United States has taken a turn for the worse. Donald Trump sharpened attacks against his rival...
According to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report, "Corruption is widespread in social services such as health and education, as well as in public utilities that provide electricity and...
OUR hearts were broken and hopes crushed on the fifth and final morning of the epic Test match at Chittagong. Resuming on 253 for 8, requiring only 33 runs to...
IT is neither imperceptible nor incomprehensible that the country is in leadership crisis. Leadership crisis is everywhere, almost at all strata of our national life. I am sure my fellow...
Francis Key Scott, a lawyer and an amateur poet, wrote the US national anthem The Star-Spangled Banner in 1814. In 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes added the fifth and last stanza...
Corporate social responsibility as well as sustainability has recently reached an important place on the global corporate agenda. Corporations are engaged in responsible and sustainable business practices to create social...
THE performance of the most of the Mutual Funds (MF) now in force is quite unsatisfactory. One of the most glaring examples of this underperformance lies in the fact that...
WE have a good number of Civil, Electrical, and Computer engineers in our country who are taking their degrees from different reputed institutions. But unfortunately we are still branded as...
The member countries of BRICS- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - representing nearly half of the world's population were looking for ways to boost trade among their developing...
Jobs are a two-way street - give and take. Negligence creates neglect, and that is the moral of this story. Most times, employees are over-worked and less compensated - not...
In recent years, a growing number of authorities both at national and international levels have made financial inclusion a policy priority. The international financial sector standard-setting bodies are increasingly engaged...
SWIMMING is the most effective full body exercise. There are very few exercises that take care of our entire body at the same time. There are hundreds of thousands of...
AN effectively performing health sector is an essential precondition for the overall development of a society. Recently the Bangladesh Health Facility Survey found that, only around 25 per cent of...
In less than three weeks, we will know who will be the next president of the United States. What kind of partner that president finds in Europe will depend substantially...
Historically relations between Bengal and China date back to as early as before the Christian era. Contacts between the peoples of the two countries, which may be traced back to...
The global economy is still recovering from the global financial meltdown. Nevertheless, the focus on boosting global growth has never obscured the financial inclusion agenda. In fact, practitioners and policymakers...
BANGLADESH Bank published a circular to recruit "Officer (General Side)" against its vacancies in June 2014. After almost six months of the publication of the circular, a preliminary test was...
THIS writer got this actual report from the current (October) issue of "Popular Mechanics". The report based on an actual event that took place, back in 1962 stated that we...
More than 2,100 years ago, during the Han Dynasty of China, the original Silk Road was established. The goods along the Silk Road moved from east to the west. The...
The art of handwriting is fast disappearing and will soon be treated as a matter of the past and thrown into the archives. Whether handwriting should be allowed to decline...
Bangladesh's decision to finance a massive 6.2 kilometre bridge over the Padma River, the local name for the Ganges, from internal resources was indeed a watershed in the country's history....
IT is really unfortunate that despite Bangladesh and India sharing an excellent relationship, we do not see its reflection along the borders of the two countries. We often see Bangladeshi...
IT is a matter of great regret that the intensive care unit (ICU) of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) is running without any attendant. Only a few days ago a...
BANGLADESH has had the rare distinction of bringing down the rate of extreme poverty from 45 per cent to 12.9 per cent in 45 years after its independence in 1971....
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a growing concept under the present-day market oriented economy across the world. In the implementation of large public infrastructure projects governments can find it convenient to...
Improving Children's Lives, Transforming the Future: 25 years of Child Rights in South Asia, Published by UNICEF, 2014, Pages: 81 Since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of...
Bob Dylan's had been a popular name among the country's young pop music lovers all through the 1970s, the 80s and the 90s. The popularity stemmed largely from the rock...
Trade in services or service trade is still a confusing concept in many countries including Bangladesh. Unlike merchandise trade where visible products and commodities are exchanged among the trading partners...
Trade in services or service trade is still a confusing concept in many countries including Bangladesh. Unlike merchandise trade where visible products and commodities are exchanged among the trading partners...
BANYAN tree was once used to be in abundance around the country, particularly in villages. As a matter of fact, one could not think of a village where at least...
IT is too well-known to elaborate how early rising benefits our body and mind. The axiom that 'Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and...
BANGLADESH football has reached its rock bottom. Its recent loss against Bhutan in Asia Cup qualifying playoff by 3-1 bears ample testimony to this. Bangladesh ranks 185 in FIFA ranking...
According to government statistics, as of May 2014, the total number of slum dwellers and floating population in Bangladesh was 2.23 million. Of them 29 per cent were in Dhaka...
An often-heard refrain, increasingly voiced in US politics, is that corporate America is excessively influenced by short-term stock-market considerations. While the US presidential election is not particularly focused on policy...
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim's choice of Bangladesh to mark the End Poverty Day last Monday was a very imaginative and innovative idea with which he came and...
It is frustrating to find that money could not be organised from within for financing the second Meghna Bridge and another bridge at Daudkandi over the river Gumuti on the...
Electricity plays a crucial role as an input for socio-economic development of a country. It is widely recognised that no underdeveloped country has managed to achieve development beyond a subsistence...
After 15 years of intense dialogue and cooperation with two major economic powerhouses of the region as its members, the BCIM forum, comprising Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar, has now...
HONOURABLE Minister for Public Administration said in national assembly on June 16, 2016 that 328,311 posts are lying vacant under different ministries and departments of the government. He gave this...
AGE limit for recruitment and retirement age for public servants had been 27 and was 57 years respectively for a long time. The entry age was increased to 30 years...
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