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Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-05-24 20:34:08
Anthologies are usually a compilation of writings of an author or a number of authors based on a certain theme. Usually anthologies are more popular than novels as the stories do not require extensive...
Md Mazadul Hoque 2019-05-24 20:33:07
Paddy growers are now demanding fair prices for their produce instead of celebrating Nabanno, a post-harvest traditional festival, as the crop sells at rates lower than their production cost. Forty-ye...
Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit 2019-05-24 20:31:48
BJP has created history by securing a historic mandate in the national elections, crossing the majority mark of 300 seats on its own while the NDA bagged 350 seats. By winning a larger share of the vo...
Nilratan Halder 2019-05-17 21:08:23
Stories about thieves are plenty and some are funny, a few are exemplary and others are heart-rending. The one highly laudatory relating to Haji Mohammad Mohsin and a thief is quite famous. It is so b...
F R Chowdhury 2019-05-17 21:07:09
I remember late Sanaullah Chowdhury of Atlas Shipping with a lot of love, respect and admiration. He was a good friend of mine. He was laid to eternal rest in Dhaka on April 25 last. With his sad demi...
Md Kawser Mamun 2019-05-17 21:05:43
Bangladesh is one of the developing nations in the modern world. It has become an independent nation more than five decades ago. During this period the country has been engaged in efforts to attain de...
Md Kawser Mamun 2019-05-17 21:04:25
With a 7.1 per cent economic growth rate, Bangladesh is rated as the second fastest growing country economy-wise according to the IMF. This is based mainly on its ever-growing market structure such as...
Zaid Bakht 2019-05-11 21:20:44
The financial sector of Bangladesh and the banking sector, in particular, did not perform well during 2018. Dividends declared in 2018 by many publicly listed banks were significantly lower than those...
Nilratan Halder 2019-05-10 20:25:34
A joke got currency for a while in this capital city. The joke was that if the Dhakaites ate something really unadulterated, it upset their stomachs. Why? Their stomachs have become habituated to eati...
Muhammad Iqbal Hossain 2019-05-10 20:24:31
French Naval officer and ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 - 1997) once said, “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.&r...
Muhammad Mahmood 2019-05-10 20:22:27
Tagore has been an inescapable reality for all 250 million Bengali speaking people around the world. He is widely revered all over Bangladesh and in India. He commands a towering presence in the...
Sima Rani Dey and Md Monirul Islam 2019-05-08 20:58:54
Generally, consumption refers to the use of goods and services by households while consumption expenditure is the purchase of goods and services for use by households. Consumption contributes to the g...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-05-06 21:15:30
If the essential message of the last Scopus piece ('Economic consequences of the global war on terrorism,' May 03, 2019) was understood, the thrust of this particular piece should be predictable. That...
Dan Steinbock 2019-05-04 21:05:31
For three years, the nuclear accord (JCPOA) offered Iran relief from the multilateral sanctions on energy, financial, shipping, automotive and other sectors. The shift in the US policy began...
Nilratan Halder 2019-05-03 20:51:56
At a time when crimes like murder, abduction, rape, drug addiction etcetera are rocking the very foundation of society everywhere, some youths are silently dedicating themselves to the service of the...
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-05-03 20:50:09
According to some estimates, the capital city Dhaka currently has a population of 20 million. Most of these people need to commute between their destinations in different parts of the city during the...
Bipasha Dutta 2019-05-03 20:49:12
One in every five girls in the world marries before the age of 18. Each year 12 million child marriages (marriage before the age of 18) take place worldwide. A study shows that women who got married b...
Md. Mashiur Rahman 2019-05-03 20:48:20
Nowadays peace in the world is an important issue as human beings are very much focused on their own short-term benefits. After the September 11 attack in 2001 the word that is being used very frequen...
Bazlul H Khondker 2019-04-26 21:59:23
In developing economies, informal sector plays an important role in the generation of income, employment and absorption of surplus labourers, especially during economic downturn or economic transition...
Nilratan Halder 2019-04-26 21:07:28
Even in a competitive job market in this country, A Science graduate in Textile Engineering has quite a demand. Managing a job is not beyond such a graduate's ability. And indeed Fahad Akand was offer...
Monirul Islam 2019-04-26 21:06:31
That smoking causes serious diseases is widely known. Still, most people in Bangladesh do not seem very concerned to protest against this issue. Additionally, the dearth of laws that can address the s...
Mutasim Billah Mubde and Rafe Rais Hannan 2019-04-26 21:05:21
The technological space is constantly shifting, and with it the nature of work itself. Although the standard arrangement of working 9-5 at an office still exists, there is a growing trend towards work...
Al-Nahian Avro 2019-04-26 21:03:55
Fish has been an extensively accepted food since antique epoch throughout the world. Many moons ago when aquaculture was not incepted, people had to rely merely on the wild source in need of fish. But...
Zaidi Sattar and Sabrina Shareef 2019-04-24 21:08:28
In the past 25 years, the global trend has been moving towards flexible exchange rate regimes. Yet, roughly half the economies of the world still maintain fixed or managed floating regimes. Bangladesh...
Nilratan Halder 2019-04-19 21:16:12
The catchwords, 'Buy one, get one free' are sweeping the entire length and breadth of this land. This is, however, not the only temptation that companies and trading houses use to snare customers. Som...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2019-04-19 21:15:30
The outstanding academic performance of Syed Mainuddin Ahmed allured his parents to let him take admission to the Dhaka Medical College in 1964. This was a period when the students of the Dhaka Univer...
Naeema Chaudhury Quayes 2019-04-19 21:14:22
Before I met the man, I heard him from the far end of (what was then) the open corridor of our tiny IR department in the Arts faculty of DU. He was talking distinctly about the merits of a textbook th...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-04-18 21:26:08
The late Professor Muzaffar Ahmad was one of the leading economists of Bangladesh. He had a significant contribution in Bangladesh's economic and educational development. As the pioneer of different c...
Mohammad A. Razzaque and Syed Mortuza Ehsan c 2019-04-17 21:06:02
The 2008 global financial crisis gave rise to an anti-trade and anti-globalisation sentiment, with many countries, particularly those in the G20, adopting protectionist measures aiming to protect thei...
Mohammad A. Razzaque and Syed Mortuza Ehsan 2019-04-16 21:27:30
[The second of a three-part article titled Global Trade Turmoil] Although both the world gross domestic product (GDP) and exports suffered from the 2008 global financial crisis, f...
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