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In New York, on board the aircraft carrier Intrepid of Second World War vintage that is now the Intrepid, Sea, Air and Space Museum, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump told...
THE Government of Bangladesh has been awarding stipends to poor and meritorious students doing well in public examinations like PSC, JSC, SSC, HSC to encourage them and provide relief to...
OUR country is becoming a difficult place for woman to live as they have to face all kinds of negative incidents like sexual harassment, stalking and eve-teasing. Parents are often...
OUR Prime Minster deserves special thanks and gratitude for taking the initiative to provide the poor and destitute people with rice at only Tk10 a kg. I hope this will...
In our country which is perennially beset with hundreds of problems, a unique few that afflict some areas for a long period of time hardly register in the minds of...
Salman Rushdie has said, "The difference between a memoir and an autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story,...
Just as special or export processing zones catalyse the national economy on its upward climb, border haats similarly spur the rural economy. There is no competition between the two: both...
Two reports, one datelined Dhaka, September 02, and the other from New Delhi, dated September 04 have conveyed more or less the same message pertaining to growth, employment and demographics....
With less than two months to go before the next US President gets elected, the trajectory seems to be shifting to a new direction much to the surprise, if not...
Rains bring immense sufferings for the Dhaka city dwellers as roads like Uttar Badda Bazaar, Malibagh, Mouchak market and many others are in a dilapidated condition and it seems nobody...
The remittance flow decreased in the last two months by around 15 per cent and it is a piece of negative news for our economy. We should monitor the remittance...
Love Road in Tejgaon of Dhaka city that connects Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani and Tejgaon industrial area has been in a dilapidated condition for a long time. There are so many...
Corporate banking customers are valuable assets of a bank. Instead of just serving the needs of corporate clients, 'relationship managers' get to know their clients and their business needs by...
Growth is good, but growth with stability is better, especially in a poor country where so many people live at the margin. For the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), it...
ENOUGH is being written on the existing high price and low speed of the internet in our country and its effects. Slow speed internet is affecting almost all areas of...
Dhaka is our capital and as an ordinary citizen, I think it deserves better maintained roads. One can hardly find a road in Dhaka which does not have ditches on...
It is disheartening to note that the remittance inflow to our country has gone down during the last two months by around 15 per cent, thus casting a dark shadow...
Donald Trump had entered the race for the Republican Party's ticket by making the case of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country that are largely Hispanics the signature...
Giving the poor access to financial services is accepted wisdom. What isn't appreciated is how this is undermined by a lingering lack of trust in banks among the people most...
Lower petroleum prices have perennially been an importing country's dream-come-true, the deeper the cuts made, the bolder the imaginations. For Bangladesh, however, the tumbling prices of the past several months...
A testament made ages back by Nelson Henderson, a simple farmer in the Swan River Valley region of Manitoba, Canada, made him famous. Henderson philosophised: "The true meaning of life...
Mother Teresa became synonymous with the slums of Kolkata. On the eve of her nineteenth death anniversary, Pope Francis declared her a saint on Sunday (September 04). To be considered...
US Secretary of State John Kerry was on a nine-hour visit to Dhaka on August 29 to tell Bangladesh that his country wants to share the country's fight against militancy....
The nine-hour whirlwind visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to Dhaka just three months ahead of formal exit of the Obama administration was a good gesture of the...
In rural Bangladesh, a great challenge is to tackle the low pay, poor-quality jobs that are unrecognized and unprotected by law, widespread underemployment, the absence of rights at work, inadequate...
In Bangladesh, e-Commerce is a relatively new phenomenon. At its nascent stage, there appears to be more than 5,000 merchants selling products online; out of them, 200 are mainstream players. ...
Great Britain's chances of exiting the European Union were split (about 50:50) on the eve of the country's vote; but once the results started trickling in, not only were the...
In telephone conversations with this writer in 1991, then participating in the Iowa International Writing Program in the USA, Shahid Qadri once said he was very much eager to go...
Education is a basic human right and a driver of personal, social and economic development. It is seen as the key to a better future, providing the essential tools that...
BASHUNDHARA Residential Area is fast becoming a highly populated area with increasing number of people and families. There are many schools, universities, hospitals, shopping malls and numerous offices in and...
PEOPLE of Bangladesh have heartily congratulated Margarita Mamun alias Ritha, a Russian athlete of Bangladeshi origin who won Gold Medal in Rhythmic Gymnastics at Rio Olympic Games breaking all previous...
IT is really good to know that the government is trying to send the migrant workers at a fixed cost for the Saudi manpower market. This will facilitate sending an...
Demutualisation of the bourses of Bangladesh has been effective from November 21, 2013. From then on the share market of the country has remained steady and got rid of the...
Historically, relations between Bangladesh and Burma, now Myanmar, date back to the rule of the King of Arakan in 951 AD and King Meng Khamaung extended his authority up to...
EID-UL-AZHA, the second biggest festival of the Muslims, is just round the corner. A lot of people living in Dhaka go to their respective village homes to celebrate Eid with...
SWIMMING is one of the most effective physical exercises to have a healthy life. But unfortunately Dhaka city does not have enough water bodies to allow people to stretch themselves...
IT is indeed very sad to know about the demise of our eminent poet Shahid Quadri who was living in New York. He has been one of our premier poets....
In Bangladesh, the word palm oil is synergic with Malaysia. Regardless of the import sources of palm oil, people of Bangladesh think it is from Malaysia. Such perception has developed...
A lot of confusion is now prevailing in the country over the construction of the Rampal power plant. Environmentalists and civil society bodies are opposing the project vehemently in view...
THE poultry sub-sector of Bangladesh has already established itself as an important area of necessity. Poultry products like egg and chicken meet our protein requirement. It is estimated that there...
IT is exciting to know that Afghanistan will play three One-Day matches before the England series against the Tigers. The Tigers have not played any international match for a long...
The Bank of France's losses were notable but not unique, Belgium and the Netherlands being other cases in point. They underscored the perils of foreign exchange markets. Gone now were...
After remaining in oblivion for a long time, the issue of South-South cooperation seems to have resurfaced. If necessity is the mother of invention, then its resurgence has to be...
Change is ever present: only the extent and depth make some periods ascend over others. Unlike many other septuagenarians, Donald J. Trump turned out to be a significant agent of...
AN earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter Scale caused havoc in central Italy on the August 24 and the death toll has already touched 250 and many are still missing....
A report carried by a national daily recently indicates that Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) recently suggested the government to fix premium rate of US$1.78 for each barrel of diesel from...
ON August 24, I was in my office in Lotus Kamal Tower-2 and was busy doing my office work. All of a sudden the building jolted with a heavy tremor....
Islamic finance is fast growing across the world. Ernst & Young, a consultancy and accounting firm, estimates that Islamic banking assets grew at an annual rate of 17.6 per cent...
FACEBOOK has a staggering 1.65 billion active users per month and the number is more than the population of China. Facebook has become an integral part of our life. Facebook...
ONE of the major issues that man had to face over the centuries is mental depression. Although it was more prevalent among the Western people, it also became a cause...
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