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The rural consumption opportunity (including the non-metro towns) has been a common topic of discussion in several investor conferences recently. Why the rural people buy as they do, and how...
Mustafizur Rahman shone brightly in his Indian Premier League (IPL) debut match. He was playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad and it was a day for the batsmen of the opponents Royal...
The government announced 2015 pay scale for the employees of govt. semi-govt., autonomous bodies, NCB and state owned financial institutions. It is said that provision is there to raise pension...
The owners of compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations have, of late, raised their voice in chime with others, for reducing the gas price proportionately to the planned cut in...
As it attempts to balance the budget, it would appear the government is veering further away from encouraging wealth accrual than ever before. The response towards tackling the three-pronged devils...
Bangladesh has been experiencing steady growth rate of around 6.0 per cent for a decade. The country has also been experiencing demographic dividend for a few years. With a projection...
In the mayhem that took place in Lahore, Ivory Coast, Brussels, Paris and San Bernardino, California in recent past, the assassins were disgruntled Muslim youths and the victims of assassinations...
Several international organisations are working to unveil the secrecy of so-called tax havens or offshore jurisdictions across the world. Their efforts enhanced significantly in the last few years with some...
The Financial Express in the first week of the current month ran a three-part series on stock market revival. There was no attempt on the part of the reporter concerned...
For all the magnificence of music, unplugged versions never ever go out of fashion. Perhaps it has something to do with the strings of the Sitar or Guitar, strumming tunes...
BANGLADESH has one of the highest rates of child marriage. Around 60 per cent of our girls get married before marriageable age, that is, 18. However, with continuous effort of...
WE are experiencing a blistering summer as the mercury rises and there is no sign of rain. Water shortage and load-shedding have already made life difficult for the city dwellers....
INHABITANTS of Bashabo in Dhaka city have been suffering a lot due to inadequate supply of water by Dhaka WASA. Moreover, the water that is supplied by it is also...
Since the April 05 Wisconsin primary election, the war of words between Hillary Clinton, Democratic front-runner for nomination in the US presidential election, and Senator Bernie Sanders, Hillary's main contender,...
The economy of the country is projected to grow at a rate exceeding 7.0 per cent in the current fiscal year, according to provisional data of the Bangladesh Bureau of...
When anybody hides his/her income from the government and does not report the actual income to evade taxes, the hidden income then becomes "black money". There are many other softer...
A report with an enclosed photograph from Dinajpur, was published in a local English daily on 10th April that narrated the story of a child living in a Police station....
A few days ago, I went to faculty of Business studies, University of Dhaka for some personal business. After completing my job, I was looking for a rickshaw to in...
The Prime Minister has recently directed the Railway Minister to resume operation of railway services in Barisal district since Barisal has been the lone district with no railway communications since...
The world has carefully been watching the gradual evolution of democracy (or quasi-democracy as some have termed it) in Myanmar. They have, however, been taken aback by a comment of...
A report in the Dhaka dailies on the proposed New Education Policy (NEP) has attracted the attention of many including this writer. It said the government is in the process...
Telecommunication (Telco) services are no longer a luxury; they have now become a necessity. According to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), 83 per cent of the total population of...
The summer is on and we have already started facing load shedding at the middle of the night. Frequent power outage leads to shortage of water supply. The combined effect...
The initiative of the government to stop private tuition or coaching is appreciable. This initiative will help bring equity in education system in the country. Before implementing the new law,...
The latest in a series of mysterious killings was Nazimuddin, a student of Law in Jagannath Univesity. Nazim died at the hands of miscreants in old Dhaka, which is otherwise...
The Bangladesh economy over the past two and half decades has been experiencing a steady rise in economic growth rate which has been accompanied by the country's increasing trade-GDP (gross...
After posting a year-on-year growth rate around 6.5 per cent for the past several years Bangladesh economy earned the reputation of being stable, weathering adverse situations. When even the economic...
Successful developing countries, at the very beginning of their journey, recognised industry-academia collaboration in research and development as one of the main vehicles to transform their economies. Science and engineering...
The performance of the annual development programme (ADP) in the current fiscal (2015-16) is the worst in the last five years. During July-February period, hardly 34 per cent of the...
Not all land is of the same quality. Land at higher elevation may suffer from infertility and be exposed to droughts and hence may not be as productive as a...
I remember during 80s and 90s the Bangladeshi movie songs were hugely popular among the mass people but nowadays we don't see Bangladeshi movie songs being popular and it seems...
Pahela Baishak is the first day of Bangla New Year and it is celebrated by people of all walks of life regardless of cast, creed or religion. The occasion is...
The inhabitants of Dilu Road at Eskaton are having a tough time as the road is totally broken and no steps are being taken in this regard. The road was...
All children have the rights to survival, developing and reaching their full potential without discrimination, bias or favouritism. The Convention on the Rights of the Child also draws our attention...
In a country just tasting independence after a Liberation War, the people invariably feel the urge to embark on a large-scale resurgence. It becomes incumbent on every sector in the...
It may have taken a while to comprehend Mark Twain’s beef with statistics. True to his nature he was short and dismissive in his oft quoted comment, ‘There are lies,...
Bangladesh has made spectacular progress over the recent years. The country has halved poverty and the economy has grown by about 6.0 per cent a year. But many challenges continue...
Across the globe, telecommunications are recognised as a necessity to improve the quality of life. Increasingly, mobile telephony and data have been central in making access to information and services...
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and de facto leader of the OPEC oil cartel, was determined so far to protect its global oil market share by continuing the...
Blackstone is betting that political shouting over American visas for foreign workers will come to nothing. The buyout group is offering up to $1.1 billion in cash for Mphasis, an...
Last fall, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won an endorsement of sorts from across the Atlantic. Jeremy Corbyn, on the eve of his election as leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party,...
If handled pragmatically, three converging developments open enormous Latin windows for Bangladesh. The first is the elevation of some of the original post-World War II low-wage countries into G-20 or...
Despite the presence of significant growth potential and growing investment in developing human resources, through both public and private initiatives, our success in software and IT services in increasing export...
This leap year, 2016, like other leap years, is unravelling once again the complex and tortuous path that characterises any US presidential election. It has continued to bring forth different...
If and when Mr. A M A Muhith presents the next budget, he would be doing so for the eighth consecutive year, an unmatched record in the history of this...
The academic case against a uniform tariff seems impeccable. How can then uniform tariffs be justified? There are three answers. First, policy economists generally think in terms of the protection...
There’s nothing pretty about the details of Foxconn’s deal to take control of Sharp. And fixing the loss-making Japanese electronics manufacturer will be a tough slog for the Taiwanese giant...
When I went into Old Homs just days after Bashar al-Assad’s regime regained it from the rebels in June of 2014, there was not a stray cat in the streets....
Creative persons find themselves under one or another state of siege at some point of their careers. For some, its duration is agonisingly long. Think of a writer in a...
Global banks are tying themselves in knots over Britain’s June 23 referendum on European Union membership. Bank of America Merrill Lynch has gone as far as to tell managers to...
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