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Effortlessly adapting to an e-commerce ecosystem in Bangladesh

Effortlessly adapting to an e-commerce ecosystem in Bangladesh

S M Samiuzzaman 2019-12-20 21:54:41

The e-commerce landscape in Bangladesh is quickly evolving as more than three million people placed an e-commerce or f-commerce order in the last twelve months. With the rise of smartphone and interne...

Securing street children's rights

Securing street children's rights

Nilratan Halder 2019-12-20 20:34:58

The High Court has ordered the ministry of women and children affairs, the ministry of social welfare and others concerned to submit within 40 days what measures they have taken for rehabilitation of...

Rural interest trade and hapless victims

Rural interest trade and hapless victims

M Aminul Islam 2019-12-20 20:33:49

Can you recall the characters of the Bangla classic 'Jok' of Abu Ishak that you might have read in your teens? Beat your brains and you will remember the textbook episode at high school level in the 1...

The tale of lost childhood

The tale of lost childhood

Arafat Ara 2019-12-20 20:32:43

Sharmin Aktar (not real name) is living almost alone at home. She is about to forget laughing and even playing with her mates. Sharmin, a 10 years old girl, is studying in class three at Char Shalepu...

BADSHAHI KA TAKTH

BADSHAHI KA TAKTH

Sajid Bin Doza 2019-12-20 20:31:37

How this special floor derived Bengal was greatly influenced by the Asia-minor region as well as Persia. Islam became a mission to spread over the hinterland. Sultans adopted the cultural manners of...

Charlatanism at its worst in the name of art

Charlatanism at its worst in the name of art

Nilratan Halder 2019-12-14 12:47:37

An artwork is so because the sense of aesthetics that goes into its making transcends beyond the creation to take its viewers into its sway. Well, the spell may not work on the uninitiated but art c...

SMEs in promoting sustainable growth

SMEs in promoting sustainable growth

Mohammed Emtiaz Uddin 2019-12-14 12:41:40

Cottage, Micro, Small & Medium industries and the agricultural products play an important role in achieving the recognition of Bangladesh as a developing country. The development of the SME indust...

Women's edn for sustainable development

Women's edn for sustainable development

Hussain Ahmed Liton 2019-12-14 12:36:32

Before the emergence of the feminist movement in the then British colonial Indian socio-cultural ambience, a woman appeared with a lamp for women’s emancipation who is nobody but Begum Rokeya Sa...

Bangladesh's future choice

Bangladesh's future choice

Arafat Ara 2019-12-14 12:31:18

Bangladesh is the world's 6th largest manpower exporting country but it ranks 9th in terms of receiving remittances, the latest statistics show. The country has seen migration of around 12 million p...

Derivatives to breathe life into stagnant investments

Derivatives to breathe life into stagnant investments

Sagira Sultana Provaty 2019-12-08 20:37:36

An efficient capital market is a prerequisite at both the micro and macro levels of the economy. At the micro level, a well-organised capital market aids investors by providing a range of investment o...

Flawed system robs children  of their childhood

Flawed system robs children of their childhood

Neil Ray 2019-12-06 20:28:57

Schooling tiny tots is not only challenging but for many parents highly traumatic. Here is an education system under which a most critical point arrives at the time of admission to a choice school. Pa...

Graft's disservice to BD's global branding

Graft's disservice to BD's global branding

Adnan Hossain Bhuiyan 2019-12-06 20:28:03

The avowed official efforts to address corruption have neither resulted in improvement in the governance situation, nor contributed to brightening the country's international image, suggest different...

Marketing system through cooperatives in Bangladesh: Issues and challenges

Marketing system through cooperatives in Bangladesh: Issues and challenges

Samir Kumar Biswas 2019-12-06 20:27:16

What is marketing? Commodity-based economic activities are widely dependent on marketing system. In this connection we should be clear about marketing and its perspectives. There are many definitions...

IS claims responsibility for London Bridge attack

IS claims responsibility for London Bridge attack

-- 2019-12-01 12:52:07

Islamic State said the London Bridge attack on Friday was carried out by one of its fighters, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Saturday. The group did not provide any evidence. It added...

Bangladesh development perspectives: Implementation challenges

Bangladesh development perspectives: Implementation challenges

Shamsul Alam 2019-11-30 21:04:42

All goals of Bangladesh Delta Plan (BDP) 2100 are directly or indirectly related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It must be mentioned that all six BDP 2100 goals are fully linked with...

Japan’s Abe may soon see real ballistic missile launch, N Korea warns

Japan’s Abe may soon see real ballistic missile launch, N Korea warns

-- 2019-11-30 11:58:14

North Korea’s state media on Saturday lashed out at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an “imbecile and political dwarf” for calling Pyongyang’s latest test of a large multi...

London Bridge attacker had terror conviction

London Bridge attacker had terror conviction

-- 2019-11-30 10:47:38

The man who carried out Friday's stabbing attack at London Bridge was a former prisoner convicted of terrorism offences. The attacker, named by police as 28-year-old Usman Khan, was out of prison on...

Bangladesh development perspectives: Planning strategies

Bangladesh development perspectives: Planning strategies

Shamsul Alam 2019-11-29 20:41:14

Development activities of Bangladesh have gained tremendous momentum in the last decade. The indicators of an exceptionally strong development record have inspired the country to aim even higher. The...

Respecting other lives  and Nature's  inviolability

Respecting other lives and Nature's inviolability

Nilratan Halder 2019-11-29 19:56:19

On Bangla calendar, Agrahayan was never very chilly but the first footfalls of the winter could easily be heard at this time. That the planet is getting warmer is quite evident from the fact that this...

Acting towards consumer protection

Acting towards consumer protection

Minhazul Amin, Shahriyar Hassan and Md. Adnan Chowdhury 2019-11-29 19:55:32

Recently the prices of onion hit Tk 220 per kg in the kitchen market of Dhaka city as India banned onion export in last September. With the price of onion, one can buy some 7.34 kg potato, 2.75 kg car...

Remembering Mohon Mia

Remembering Mohon Mia

Md Moshiur Rahman 2019-11-29 19:54:22

The nation remembers every year a great leader whose demise cut short a continuous flow of significant contribution to the political, social and cultural life, particularly progress and advancement of...

Provisions shortfall soars in nine months

Provisions shortfall soars in nine months

Siddique Islam 2019-11-29 10:15:16

The provisions shortfall against classified loans in the country's banking system swelled by nearly 23 per cent or Tk 15.15 billion during the first nine months of the calendar year. The total shortf...

IS may shift operations to Southeast Asia, Malaysia says

IS may shift operations to Southeast Asia, Malaysia says

-- 2019-11-27 15:48:25

A Malaysian minister warned on Wednesday that the Islamic State militant group may shift its base of operations to Southeast Asia after the death of its leader, according to a media report. Authoriti...

Holey Artisan attack: Seven militants sentenced to death

Holey Artisan attack: Seven militants sentenced to death

-- 2019-11-27 12:32:08

Seven men were sentenced to death on Wednesday for their roles in the Holey Artisan café attack, the deadliest terror attack in Bangladesh’s history that claimed the lives of 22 people, i...

Gulshan attack: Eight accused in court as nation awaits verdict

Gulshan attack: Eight accused in court as nation awaits verdict

-- 2019-11-27 11:22:09

All eight accused in the Holey Artisan café attack case were brought to the court amid tight security on Wednesday morning. A prison van carrying the accused from Keraniganj Central Jail reach...

Seismic survey in offshore blocks: Norwegian-US JV set to get the job

Seismic survey in offshore blocks: Norwegian-US JV set to get the job

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2019-11-27 10:53:49

The Norwegian-US joint venture (JV) company TGS-Schlumberger is finally bagging the job of carrying out the non-exclusive multi-client seismic survey in offshore blocks in December nearly four years a...

Banks channel farm loans thru microfinance institutions

Banks channel farm loans thru microfinance institutions

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2019-11-23 10:55:01

The share of bank loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) has been on the rise for the straight eighth year, as the banks are required to meet their farm loan target. According to the Microcredit R...

An innovative approach

An innovative approach

Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Quamrul Ahsan, Anisul Haque, Munsur Rahman, Shampa and Shamal C. Das 2019-11-22 00:00:00

For more than 55 years, ever since the first Water Resources Master Plan was formulated by IECO (1964), the policy makers and engineers have continued to seek more rigorous means of managing the water...

Major markets of woven fabric in Bangladesh

Major markets of woven fabric in Bangladesh

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2019-11-22 00:00:00

Bangladesh is famous for its woven fabric worldwide, the tradition stretching back to over one thousand years. Previously, there were arrangements for selling the woven clothes locally through informa...

Celebrating Hemanta -the dusky month

Celebrating Hemanta -the dusky month

Nilratan Halder 2019-11-22 00:00:00

On the Bangla calendar Jibananada's Hemanta has arrived more than a month ago. Blades of Aman paddy plants or grasses heralded the advent of this dusky season spreading, in its turn, a thin veil of gl...