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Mega city Dhaka is already a city of contrasts --- a city of gigantic towers and slums, a city of too many personal transports and stagnant roads or the like...
The much vaunted balloon of structured questions, popularly known as creative method of evaluating merit of students, has ruptured. A survey conducted countrywide by none other than the Directorate of...
Stock market investment is now ruled by day-traders. Long-term investors are few and far between. Most of the investors who were active in the past have gone to the sidelines....
Small savers, particularly the pensioners, are now in a quandary about the destination of their funds. They have three investment options -- time deposits with banks, stock market and the...
India is the fastest growing economy in the world with growth prospects phenomenal. There is an 'if' though. The country needs major investments, especially in manufacturing and infrastructure, much of...
The idea of human rights is not limited only to the United Nations but also extended to the different regions of the world. Although the basic structures of human rights...
Professor Enamul Huq of the East West University and the present writer, undertook a study in the 1980s on impacts of tanneries on Hazaribagh areas of Dhaka city. The focus...
It was a tragic end of a lively family in the capital last Friday. An explosion caused by gas leak in their flat in Uttara model town in the city...
Young age is meant for study, cheering with friends and preparing oneself for future life. Youths, particularly aged between 15 and 19, are full of life and brimming with confidence...
Boosting up Dhaka-Yangon ties in the field of trade and commerce has for long remained a promising prospect, though still untapped by either country. When it comes to the subject...
Beijing is the new world capital of billionaires. It replaces New York, the business and cultural city of the United States, which had reigned supreme before to be home to...
It is now decided that the coal-based power plant at Rampal, a place very much close to the Sundarbans, the world largest mangrove forest, will be implemented despite all the...
A hailstorm accompanied by an 8-mm rain struck Dhaka on February 24. It clearly marked the advent of summer in the capital and elsewhere in the country. But the early-noon...
Malaysia has recently put a freeze on manpower intake on one hand and on the other, it has started a massive crackdown on the undocumented workers who are staying in...
Apple's refusal to unlock the iPhone linked to the extremist attack in San Bernardino, California, in December has triggered a public battle with the US Justice Department and the Federal...
You take your baby to the pediatrician for regular check-ups, vaccines and at the first sign of a fever. You keep her away from running-nose friends and keep clear of...
Problems that the migrant workers have to face both before and after their departure for countries of destinations are not myriad in number but formidable and daunting in nature. Illegal...
Economists and others taking part in the annual conference of the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM) in Dhaka this week dwelt at length on the demographic dividend. They...
Bangladesh's economy is at an inflection point, ready to move to a higher growth trajectory. But it is falling short of a critical ingredient -- foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI...
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are areas within a country with special economic regulations aimed at enhancing its investments including foreign direct investment (FDI). They enable businesses to produce and trade...
From traditional point of view, 'gender' means that women are virtually slaves who would just follow orders of their husbands and act accordingly. Women have no rights to raise voice,...
As the government keeps harping on the country's 'investment-friendly business climate' while potential players in the field do not consider it so, the dichotomy is not in spirit but in...
Bangladesh does produce neither phensidyl nor yaba. Its two next-door neighbours-India and Myanmar-do. But the country has to bear the disastrous consequences of two narcotics that are available abundantly even...
A country is known by its capital. It does not require one to study in-depth to know what Dhaka city or other towns look like. The image of the country...
Which factors determine how much of output will go to the market? This is an important question in view of a presumption that generally large farms sell more in the...
The railway sector in the country needs an urgent revamp. The overall scenario of the sector is quite deplorable with no tangible signs of improvement in near future. It is...
Important progress was made at the donors' conference for Syrian refugees convened in London on February 4. But much more remains to be done. The international community is still vastly...
Among the multiple existential challenges facing the European Union (EU) this year - refugees, populist politics, German-inspired austerity, government bankruptcy in Greece and perhaps Portugal - one crisis is well...
First, a leopard escaped a zoo in Bangalore to take shelter in a school where, mercifully, it was spotted by its close-circuit cameras before the opening of the educational institution...
Around 30 per cent of the banks are exposed to 'very high' risks of online fraud and security threats, according to a study. Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and plastic card...
'Radio Days', was a widely acclaimed 1987 feature film directed and starred by Woody Allen. The movie vividly showed that commercial radio network always had a dominant place in the...
A book fair that captures the Bangalee ethos at its most poignant has until today survived the onslaught of the latest finger-tip but highly advanced technology. But will it do...
We are of the generation of the early 1940s. We became imbued with the spirit of the movement for the mother tongue while at the junior level of school. We...
Yesterday was a sunny, windless, frozen afternoon as I was walking along the trails in my suburban American town. Above me the sunlight was pouring through the naked branches of...
The Bengali Language Movement which gave birth to the incidence of 21st February in 1952, sixty four years ago, popularly known as the supreme sacrifice on Ekushey (the 21st), was...
Sixty-four years after the full-scale Language Movement on 21st February in 1952, many would like to have an in-depth look at the later fruits of the historic movement. It has...
Winter is looked forward to in our country. It is a season that arrives towards the beginning of December and lasts till the third week of February. It also assumes...
When asked, our typical citizen identifies his/her language as Bangla, which, in phonetic English, becomes "Bengali". With English as the official language in over 80 countries (from tiny Singapore to...
Last four decades have witnessed the fastest growth of the global financial market. The finance industry all over the world has gone through rapid expansion during this period. Worldwide monetary...
It is still a long way to go to forecast who is going to enter the White House. There are many factors involved to cross the hurdles to reach the...
What if the EBL ATM booth had an automated security system where, anyone spending more than a specific number of minutes would instigate a signal to the EBL security stations?...
The world is currently undergoing a digital revolution. This revolution has already yielded significant economic and social benefits globally in the form of higher economic growth, expanded opportunities, and improved...
Bangladesh is a free economy in the sense that its citizens have been allowed to exercise their freedom to choose vocations they can earn their income from, where they can...
The size of the toxic assets of the country's banks, according to the latest statistics of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), stood at Tk.513.71 billion at the end of the final...
If anyone wondered what the lyrics of the fabulous Rolling Stones song 'I can't get no satisfaction', the attitudes of the new generation corporate executives may be a pointer. Staff...
'Quality education' has become the most talked-about topic in the field of education in this country as well as in the global arena. Different educationists define it in different ways,...
While rise in oil price is symptomatic of rise in prices of commodities and services making human living costlier, the recent fall -- unprecedented in ages - is more than...
The government has apparently begun enforcing a complete ban on the sale and use of polythene bags in the capital. Such a move was first undertaken on January 01, 2002...
Not all lands are 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...
The picture of a bearded man lying on his back on the footpath in the city's Gulistan area with an open carton on his chest, as carried in a Bangla...
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