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The Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act, 2012 (the new VAT law) is scheduled to come into effect from July 01, 2016. Meanwhile, several issues have cropped up; of...
Less than half of the size of Sylhet division of Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam is an independent tiny sultanate on the northwest coast of the island of Borneo, wedged between the...
The people who are egging the government on to borrow overseas are no doubt assuming that the infrastructure built with the borrowed funds will add to the physical capital that...
Few months back, one of the largest exporters in the USA had been struggling hard to realise undertaking from their bank to negotiate a LC issued by a commercial bank...
FACEBOOK is at present the most popular social network around the world as it helps us to stay in touch with our friends and family members no matter where they...
THE Indian Premier League (IPL) is edging towards its final phase and excitement is mounting with every passing day. It has generated a lot of enthusiasm in the cricketing world...
OUR collective apathy is edging the river Buriganga towards a total extinction. The Buriganga is a lifeline for Dhaka that has been subjected to illegal occupation of the land grabbers,...
All the way through history, lightning has always captivated mankind. Lightning is usually shaped by cumulonimbus clouds, which have bases that are typically 1-2 km above the ground and tops...
IT is extremely shocking to know that more than 40 people died in lightning across the country on last Thursday evening. We never ever heard of so many people dying...
INCIDENTS of suicide in our country is increasing alarmingly. Bangladesh ranks 94th in the suicide chart of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Globally, the number of suicide has increased by...
MANPOWER market is fast expanding in Japan due to the Japanese government's concentration on some sectors including education. In this way, Bangladesh has become one of the top sources of...
In the telecommunication industry, the value added service (VAS) product has an evolving definition. Conventionally, Value Added Service (VAS) originated from enhanced telecom services, which add value to the standard...
Bangladesh government has undertaken a massive plan to set up high-capacity imported coal-based power plants to meet the growing demand for power by providing less expensive electricity. The government has...
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) recorded the country's export earnings in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year 2015-2016 rising by 9.22 per cent over the figures of...
Equality before the law stands for application of the same law without discrimination to all persons similarly situated. This principle has been incorporated in the Article 27 of Bangladesh Constitution....
THE death toll during the ongoing UP elections is shocking and unfortunate. Nobody seems to take responsibility for such untoward incidents, not even the Election Commission. The common people of...
Violence against women and children is increasing alarmingly in our society. Many incidents are not reported in the media and therefore remain unknown to society at large. Many victims of...
A very significant and exceptionally extraordinary write-up on 'Suborno Isaq Bari, a child of Bangladeshi origin born in USA, was published in your "Views & Reviews" page on May 5....
If one is asked to name two sectors that lubricate the wheels of the Bangladesh economy and substantially contribute to poverty reduction, surely remittance and readymade garments (RMG) would immediately...
THE experience of the city dwellers regarding prices of essentials during the month of Ramadan is not a palatable one over the years. As the holy month of Ramadan is...
AN egg is a wholesome food and we should include it in our daily menu. Egg is a great source of high quality protein and contains iron, vitamin D, B6,...
IT is our responsibility to give children a better childhood and this responsibility mostly lies with parents and other members of a family. It is very unfortunate that most children...
Steve Case's "The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision" could not have been better timed. Available in the market just as the World Economic Forum dedicated 2016 to the "Fourth Industrial...
Seventy-five years after the death of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) the multi-faceted genius of the great poet keeps being illumined. With the passing of time, Tagore experts and scholars in Dhaka...
_____________________________________ Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015: Scaling up investments in decent jobs for youth Published by International Labour Organization (ILO), 2015 Pages 98, ISBN 978-92-2-130108-0 Young people are the...
The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiatives of the government are reportedly getting good response, slowly but steadily. After completing the groundwork for more than five years to make it operational, the...
It is about re-routing of "undeclared funds" usually parked in overseas banks or other financial institutions. On this matter, this writer feels that diverting it to real estate will only...
Bangladesh does not have as many cattle as it requires for its population. It needs a huge number of cattle for Eid-ul-Azha. On the other hand, India, a large country,...
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has really caught the attention of the cricket-loving world. As we have two of our premier cricketers performing there creditably, the interest and attention of...
According to a research conducted recently by Credit Suisse, Oxfam and the Washington Post, global inequality is growing fast and half of the world's wealth now lies in the hands...
'Going Global 2016' education conference with the theme of 'Building Nations and Connecting Cultures: Education policy, economic development and engagement' took place in Cape Town on May 3-5. It drew...
Thomas Piketty has rocked the world by his monumental work 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century.' The book sheds light on income and wealth inequalities in the developed countries by using...
GETTING a seat at a government hospital is almost an impossible task for patients. A patient without any reference from top officials can never get a seat in a government...
To be fair, there has been a lot of progress in rationalization of the tariff structure in Bangladesh, since the early 1990s, such as (a) reducing the number of tariff...
Democracy everywhere is facing serious challenges. The United States is gripped by the most bizarre presidential primary campaign in living memory, with populist outsiders threatening to topple established party machines....
The trend, tradition and culture of preparing a national budget in the present advanced but financially and economically jolted world have been shaken. Although the aims of political leaders and...
Bangladesh is a developing country where respect and awareness regarding social justice and human rights are still at a low level. The condition is worse for the underprivileged mainly among...
Theoretical and empirical literatures on sources of economic growth emphasise on factor accumulation and factor productivity as two major sources of growth. Though factor accumulation can explain a significant part...
In the 1990s there was hardly any coaching centre available around Dhaka. The business of coaching flourished overnight after 2000 and now it has become a money spinner all over...
Many people in Dhaka city live in rented homes. But they have at the back of their minds a dream of owning a flat in Dhaka where they will be...
Over recent decades Bangladesh has seen amazing improvement across many health indicators. Maternal mortality has decreased 75 per cent, infant mortality has halved, and life expectancy has surpassed that of...
Non-Tax Revenue (NTR) is the recurring income earned by the government from sources other than taxes. Bangladesh, as a developing country, has been increasingly integrated with the global economy which...
The annual ritual of GDP-growth debate has resumed with an all too familiar flavour: the government swatting away less optimistic growth figures coming from every direction. That the economy reportedly...
READING a book, fiction or non-fiction, is a healthy habit. But sadly it is gradually becoming a forgotten habit and people are moving away from reading books in alarming numbers....
CRICKET is now the most popular game in our country and players like Mustafizur, Tamim, Shakib enjoy a huge following not only at home, but also in the countries where...
IT is a common experience for the pedestrians regularly using Maniknagar Bishwa Road of the capital. They are regularly haunted by hydraulic horns blown by vehicles particularly the buses. The...
Just 13 years after the successful completion of the Human Genome Project, the power of genomics applications to spur innovation is already becoming apparent. Indeed, though the genomics revolution is...
With a population of around 7.5 million and land area of 462,840 square kilometers, Papua New Guinea Undoubtedly, Papua New Guinea is world's one of the most linguistically, culturally and...
The 34th BCS final result was published on August 29, 2015 whereas the circular was published on February 7, 2013 and now it has been more than seven months and...
The holy month of Ramadan is only a month away and during the holy month the government should make sure that the Dhaka city dwellers do not face load-shedding and...
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