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JAGANNATH University students have been demonstrating for last few days demanding residential students. This is one of the largest public universities of our country, where 21000 students study. Residential accommodation...
In today's fast changing world, business is not just a cake walk or goodwill tour that one lands, grabs the opportunity and then vanishes. Myopic approach is suicidal. Truly, success...
King Henry VIII, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, all lost their mothers to infections following childbirth, and literature abounds with tragic stories of maternal death, from A...
In the 1953 classic Hollywood film, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn Monroe, gave a legendary performance. Clad in a bright pink ball gown and dazzling diamonds, she epitomised the significance of...
DEVELOPMENT, for which people all over the world invest their labour and talent, has different connotations from social and political viewpoints. Apparently the meaning of development varies from country to...
ALL Bangladeshis were delighted and felt proud to know that Margarita Mamun who won a gold medal in Rio Olympics in rhythmic gymnastics is the daughter of a Bangladeshi father...
Two photographs taken recently in Aleppo city in war-torn Syria and published in the media have taken the world by storm. One has a small boy, smoke-blackened and bleeding, seated...
THE residential problem of Public Universities is quite well known. While number of students has increased manifold over the years, residential accommodation for students remains way behind requirement. As education...
SURPRISINGLY Japan's Shinzo Abe Government is going to increase its national defence budget for the next fiscal year 2017/18 by $52.00 billion dollars to counter recent military threats and global...
THE monetary policy for last half of the 2015-16 fiscal (January-June) had set a growth rate in the private sector credit flow at 14.8 per cent which finally stood at...
University education instill a great deal of expectation in students' minds. Finding a good job is one of the common expectations after having to spend considerable amount of time, energy...
BANGLADESH has a long cultural heritage and the people of this country are proud of this century-old liberal culture. But sadly, over the last few years, a tendency to ignore...
A group of intellectuals have been opposing construction of a power plant at Rampal, which is 14 kilometres away from the mangrove forest Sundarbans. They have been pleading that the...
It may be a coincidence. The day terrorists attacked a cafe in Gulshan area of Dhaka was the first day of the current fiscal year (FY17). The incident shocked the...
It may be a coincidence. The day terrorists attacked a cafe in Gulshan area of Dhaka was the first day of the current fiscal year (FY17). The incident shocked the...
More than a dozen current and former board directors and senior managers of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) - the bank messaging system that helps transmit billions...
TERRORISM poses an ominous threat to Bangladesh economy following the militant attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan on July 01, 2016. The savage attack in an upscale restaurant...
AN opinion page write-up was carried by a local daily on August 22 that welcomed the unbelievable turnaround of a 'drug-den' site to a peaceful and serene neighbourhood of Katabon...
During the last 50 years, innumerable rules and regulations have been enacted in the developed world but illegal means of earning money could not be prevented. Once financial crime was...
Since the civil war in Syria started on March 15, 2011, why does it always take a little boy to make the world weep and see the horrors of this...
RETURN of Bangladesh cricketer Ashraful from a lengthy ban is certainly good news for all cricket lovers of the country. We all hope that he will soon be back on...
IN whatever way poets look at it, rain in our city only adds to our miseries. Currently we are in the grip of continuous downpour. Depending on its volume, rain...
BANGLADESH sent its teams to nine Olympic disciplines but it is yet to win a medal in any event. This is rather unfortunate. It is more unfortunate because we can...
Mosquitos are a pest with no equal. Though not all mosquitos transmit life-threatening diseases, those that do kill approximately 7,25, 000 people worldwide every year. When not fatal, the diseases...
A 56 per cent quota imposed by the government in the country's most prestigious job sector is not only irrational but also unjust. It seems to us that the Public...
CYCLING is one of the most popular forms of exercise around the world. Happily, cycling is becoming quite popular in our city as more and more people in Dhaka are...
NEWSPAPERS and periodicals are gradually disappearing and going into oblivion. Many reputed newspapers around the world have already stopped their publication due to lack of readership. World famous Time magazine,...
Recently, I enjoyed the experience of boarding a new air-conditioned bus which has been introduced in the Gulshan area only a few days ago. I noticed that others who were...
A fascinating report about a young woman engineer from BUET breaking into the new and rapidly expanding international world of computer programming and its various applications was published in a...
In recent months, the word is going round that supply of gas to people through household connections would be stopped. The government has been considering the matter seriously. It made...
Mao Tse-Tung once pointed out that heat may be applied to stone or an egg, but the fact that chicken comes from one and not from the other is due...
The legend of King Canute describes how an early Anglo-Saxon King showed his subjects the limits of royal power. Canute set his throne by the sea and commanded the rising...
Since this writer has been observing presidential and congressional elections in the United States including his direct participation in election campaigns, he never came across the present trend of blaming...
Entrepreneurship is difficult with scores of external challenges. But should this hold you back? The answer is 'No'. Oggro and entrepreneurship Be courageous! "Entrepreneurship is extremely difficult in Bangladesh given...
The Buriganga river is a lifeline of our Dhaka city, but it has been gradually dying a slow and sure death. When I was a child, I remember, the Buriganga...
I am glad that Bangladeshi cricketer Ashraful has been back from a lengthy ban and I hope he will be back in cricket soon. Although he was out of cricket...
Low inflation, declining lending rates at home, falling prices in industrial raw materials and capital goods in the international market do offer an excellent opportunity to invest more in Bangladesh....
Swimming is a very effective exercise and although urban life deprives us of this useful work out. Honestly speaking, many of the present-day children who live in cities do not...
This is a question that is being frequently asked across the world. Every individual has a natural yarning for a better life. Everyone from every walk of life wants to...
POLICY & REGULATORY AND COMPLIANCE OF MFS in Bangladesh Practices of MFS service providers : KYC and Customers confidence support, security Background: Bangladesh MFS market current situation 1. Marketshare : ...
The Dhaka-Chittagong 8-lane highway was inaugurated by the honourable prime minister recently. It will reduce the journey time between the two major cities of the country significantly and bring relief...
TWO Bangladeshis, including a Muslim cleric, were killed in New York. They were walking together after finishing the afternoon prayers when a gunman shot them. The police have been suspecting...
THE government is planning to raise the price of gas by 95 per cent which will not be fair under the existing state of affairs. Firstly, because it will have...
In 1975, we were about 34 years of age in respective professional positions after passing out of Dhaka University in 1961. The preceding years were a period of academic serenity,...
AN excellent article on Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant was carried by a leading weekly recently. The write-up highlighted the risks of fatal radiation from the proposed plant and the continuous...
IN our mad rush for money and fortune, we often forget about the finer elements of life. We forget to spend time with family and friends and unknowingly stop being...
BANGLADESHI bowling sensation Mustafizur has undergone surgery in London and the whole country is praying for his quick recovery. We shall soon come to know how long it will take...
PUBLIC hearing was held by the Bangladesh Energy regulatory Commission (BERC) in response to proposal for increase in gas price. I would like to draw the attention of all concerned...
EVERY year a large number of Bangladeshi people visit India for different reasons. A few months ago the BBC Bangla reported that the Indian High Commission was surprised to know...
Joseph E. Stiglitz left academia in 1993 to serve on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton. From there he moved to the World Bank in 1997. He...
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