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Mr. Hemeyet Udddin is a retired mid-level government official. He has his wife and a daughter. The daughter is still studying in a public university. He does not own any...
If one is traveling around any urban concentration across the country, the scenes of erratic littering can in no way escape the vision. Kitchen wastes or construction debris or industrial...
Pessimism about China has become pervasive in recent months, with fear of a "China meltdown" sending shock waves through stock markets worldwide since the beginning of the year. And practically...
People engaged in the destruction of the country's bounty of nature seem to have at last discovered yet another ideal spot. It is Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). We have for...
There is no denying that corruption is rampant in Bangladesh in almost every sphere of life. It is pervasive at all levels of society. However, a series of high-profile corruption...
According to The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development's Report in 1987, "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of...
Bangladesh is a country blessed by nature more than most other countries in the world. With all the natural beauties like the Bay of Bengal and the Sundarbans, Bangladesh surely...
The UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 has been released which says that the women of Bangladesh have achieved equality in science education but they are lagging behind in engineering and...
The Dhaka Art Summit, now in its third year, concluded on February 8, 2016 after four consecutive days at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. This year's event featured a total of...
This country is no stranger to the queerest of oddities. Here anything and everything is possible. Oddities certainly have strong bonds with fickleness of mind. Here all professionals starting from...
There are some nervous minds in the policy planning realms when it comes to what appears to be a 'no brainer' in cutting fuel prices. The Finance Minister has referred...
With increasing public awareness of the potential risks and uncertainties over where our food comes from, organic food with its presumed health and environmental advantages has gained popularity among urban...
There are reasons to feel elated over the higher trajectory of growth and the consequent increase in per capita income in the country. Economic performance of this once very poor...
A new industrial policy is in the offing with its major focus on encouraging promotion of a high-priority industrial sector with the aim of giving an impetus to public-private partnership...
The government seems to be serious about ensuring a healthy environment by dealing effectively with industrial effluents. The shipping minister has recently issued a warning that the industrial units on...
The Investment and Policy Summit, held in Dhaka on January 24, tried to identify the problems that stand in the way of both local and foreign investment in the country....
Dhaka is a unique city in many respects. It witnesses serious traffic jam on the one hand, and on the other, the crisis of transports makes the life of the...
Although 2015 is marked largely by the strife-ridden events across most parts of the world, it is also notable for landmark events likely to impact, with significant twists and turns,...
Economics is not a hard science, and mathematical models do not explain why people behave as they do. A much broader perspective is needed. Economists around the world are frequently...
Rural people are generally engaged in different types of activities, and they can be segmented broadly into two groups. There are household-level work, often labelled as 'domestic activities', such as...
Launched in Beijing last month, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is the latest multilateral development bank (MDB), coming 15 years after the establishment of the European Bank for Reconstruction...
One of the best kept secrets of Bangladesh is that women are the best investments especially when it comes to paying back loans. Professor Yunus' gut feel that led to...
Have the police reversed its role with anti-social goons? When the muggers and extortionists are maintaining a low profile, it seems the men in uniform have embarked on a mission...
The stock of unspent aid money has bulged to around $19 billion. The amount is enough to build as many as five bridges, each equivalent to the one now being...
The repulsive spate of killing children over the last few years may soon earn yet another bad name for the country -- we are turning into a misopedist (child-hater) nation....
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), one of the world's biggest multinational trade deals, was finally signed by 12 member nations in New Zealand last week. The deal, which will cover 40 per...
The worst air pollution in China needs to be taken very seriously in Bangladesh in view of failure of the rising economic superpower to contain it. Viewed against this backdrop,...
Indications are clear that hostility to children in this country is on the rise. Tortures of the most outrageous type, abduction for ransom, rape and gang rape before murder in...
If you have business ideas on your mind but you have never really figured out how to get even started, Connecting Startups Bangladesh is looking for you to incubate and...
This week, I am visiting Bangladesh as part of my first international trip in 2016. Why did I choose Bangladesh? Bangladesh's growing economy and rising consumer demand make it a...
China's rise as an economic leader was not an accident nor was it thrust upon. It was a planned progress that led it to gradually unfold a vision in which...
The two-day Investment Summit held in the capital highlighted among others some key factors as both opportunities for and barriers to the desired growth of investment in the country. While,...
Corporal punishment (CP) has been much in the news of late, especially in Bangladesh, which this month celebrated the fifth year of its ban in schools to protect its children...
National-level information on labour force participation is available from the Labour Force Survey conducted occasionally by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. The latest survey conducted in 2006 recorded a civilian...
Consumers in Bangladesh are always at the receiving end. Almost everybody is out to milk them when it comes to fixing the prices of daily essential items. They might be...
"They didn't know what they were destroying" is the reaction of a maestro of Indian classical music, Pundit Jasraj. Indeed, the burning down of Alauddin Khan Sangeetayan at Brahmanbaria has...
A refreshing look awaits occasional visitors to Chittagong these days. The otherwise beautiful metropolis has lately been cleared of its mega billboards and hoardings. Those have long been obstructing the...
Bangladesh fails to attract investment, both private and foreign, due to a lack of policy supports, good governance, skilled manpower and poor infrastructure. Economic analysts, at an investment summit held...
The year 2015 was a cruel one for the children in Bangladesh. The brutal killings of Rajon in Sylhet, Rakib in Khulna, Rabiul in Barguna and Biju in Pangsha shocked...
Notwithstanding the government's emphasis on reviving the country's railway, the actual work has proved so far too little too late. On certain occasions, the programmes have simply misfired. A case...
The history of human civilisation is inevitably a history of 'thinking'. The day when man became aware of his thinking aptitude, he discovered an un-trodden domain before him. He got...
It has been high drama for quite sometime, and not an innocent one. What the tannery relocation drama has cost the nation is more than the continuing pollution or the...
Whatever gains Bangladesh today is making is due to common people's resilience. They are doing it themselves without waiting and looking for external guidance either in agriculture or small businesses...
The government has already cut interest rates of all types of government-owned savings certificates to near about single digit: no more payment of Tk. 1,000 as interest income per month...
The history of human civilisation is inevitably a history of 'thinking'. The day when man became aware of his thinking aptitude, he discovered an un-trodden domain before him. He got...
It has been high drama for quite sometime, and not an innocent one. What the tannery relocation drama has cost the nation is more than the continuing pollution or the...
Hats off to the Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha for his remark that writing of judgments after judges' retirement is unconstitutional. He said this on the occasion of the first...
Income is considered as one of the most important determinants of livelihood in a society. But it must also be admitted that ignoring distributional issues, increasing per capita income alone...
The old game is on. Fire broke out in a city slum that was set to be raged to the ground by bulldozers the previous day. On that day the...
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