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The American market for Bangladesh garments

The American market for Bangladesh garments

Forrest Cookson 2017-10-30 00:00:00

The single largest market for "Made in Bangladesh" garments is the United States of America. In 2016, Bangladesh exported US$5.5 billion worth of garments to the US market slightly less than the $5.6...

Inclusive business: Ladder for higher  productivity, better working condition

Inclusive business: Ladder for higher productivity, better working condition

Mehdi Mahbub 2017-10-30 00:00:00

People with special abilities, generally known as persons with disabilities, who constitute 10 per cent of the total population, are very much part of our society. Unfortunately, this huge number of p...

How climate change will influence sartorial options

How climate change will influence sartorial options

Nilratan Halder 2017-10-28 12:47:46

When Bangla calendar has heralded the season Hemanto noted for the overhanging haze, there is surprise for all keen observers. First, the haze is missing. It gave for most part of the first week the f...

Agent banking: The momentum gathers pace

Agent banking: The momentum gathers pace

Md. Mazadul Hoque 2017-10-28 12:46:44

Agent banking operation in the country's far-flung areas has turned out to be a money multiplier among unbanked population getting access to need-based services, including small-scale investment facil...

The challenges and way forward

The challenges and way forward

Sajid Amit 2017-10-28 12:43:23

Financial inclusion can be simply defined as the universal access to and use of affordable, quality financial services, provided responsibly. The goal of financial inclusion is to bring the financiall...

Policymakers' obsession with growth fuels inequality

Policymakers' obsession with growth fuels inequality

Asjadul Kibria 2017-10-26 08:25:19

Now this is official. Inequality has increased in the country as economic growth is moving upward. On one hand, the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) surged to 7.11 per cent in FY16 from 5.5...

Man stabbed dead by ‘wife’

Man stabbed dead by ‘wife’

-- 2017-10-26 03:24:47

A man was stabbed to death allegedly by his wife and children over family feud at Charbaria in the suburb area of Barisal district town on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Moktar Bepari (45),...

Please, stop the Blue Whale game

Please, stop the Blue Whale game

Nilratan Halder 2017-10-21 12:43:25

The Blue Whale saga is on a relentless march worldwide. The terrible computer or video game has been making screaming headlines in Bangladesh for a few days now. However, the picture is yet to be clea...

Of predators in guises as teachers

Of predators in guises as teachers

Sir Frank Peters 2017-10-21 12:42:11

There are at least two questions without answers in the world today: how long is a piece of string and when will hideous corporal punishment to children end? The piece of string is harmless enough, b...

Sunzi's Art  of War in today's world perspective

Sunzi's Art of War in today's world perspective

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2017-10-21 12:40:36

The military experiences of the Euro-American clique suggest that technology in some way is a dynamic, absolute force to which people's doctrines, strategies and force structures must be adapted and a...

Man sued for distorting PM’s photo on Facebook

Man sued for distorting PM’s photo on Facebook

-- 2017-10-19 10:45:09

A case was filed against a man of Magura under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act for allegedly posting the distorted photos of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook. Tarikul I...

Rights campaigners seek EC probe into Bangladesh's GSP

Rights campaigners seek EC probe into Bangladesh's GSP

Monira Munni 2017-10-19 10:12:37

Five global-rights groups made a fresh plea to the European Commission (EC) to recheck Bangladesh's GSP status as they alleged continuous denial of core labour rights in the country's apparel industry...

Dhaka school students win study trip to Australian Univ

Dhaka school students win study trip to Australian Univ

-- 2017-10-19 02:01:11

Students from the International Turkish Hope School, Dhaka, have won a study trip to visit the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney as winners of the Bangladesh schools video competition 2017.&nbs...

Six cops die as suicide blast hits SW Pakistan

Six cops die as suicide blast hits SW Pakistan

Xinhua 2017-10-18 12:00:00

At least six policemen were killed and 22 others injured when a suicide blast hit a security forces truck in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday morning, local Urdu TV channel AJJ repo...

IU to enroll first ever foreign students

IU to enroll first ever foreign students

-- 2017-10-18 10:36:35

Islamic University (IU) authorities will first ever enroll foreign students in different academic programmes under its current 2017-18 academic session, a news agency reported. A total of 50 students...

Explosion hits Swedish police station, none injured

Explosion hits Swedish police station, none injured

Reuters 2017-10-18 02:08:15

An explosion overnight in the southern Swedish town of Helsingborg caused extensive damage to the entrance of a police station, authorities said on Wednesday. Nobody was injured in the explosion, whi...

One unit of power saved  is worth two generated!

One unit of power saved is worth two generated!

S. M. Formanul Islam 2017-10-17 12:33:10

Mr. X is a very smart senior officer in a company. His room is well decorated, air conditioned, brightly lit, and glass windows are covered by expensive blinders. The air conditioner (AC) of his room...

Omera: Best practices  in energy industry

Omera: Best practices in energy industry

Tanzeem Chowdhury 2017-10-17 12:31:53

There is ample opportunity to bridge the nation's gas crisis with alternate fuels. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is the greenest form of alternate fuel as LPG produces low carbon footprint when burned...

‘LPG industry needs a strong regulator’

‘LPG industry needs a strong regulator’

-- 2017-10-17 12:30:25

Demand for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) risen significantly in Bangladesh with growth of over 42 per cent to 45 per cent. Eleven private sector companies are working in the LPG sector with Bashundhar...

Bashundhara LP Gas: The pioneer

Bashundhara LP Gas: The pioneer

-- 2017-10-17 12:28:55

The beginning, in the year of 1999, Bashundhara LP Gas Limited, started off as the First Private LP Gas importing, bottling and marketing company in Bangladesh.The company has a state-of-the-art LP Ga...

Louisiana oil rig explosion injures at least six

Louisiana oil rig explosion injures at least six

AP 2017-10-16 12:42:57

An oil rig exploded Sunday night in Lake Pontchartrain in St. Charles Parish, a Louisiana police department said. Kenner Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brian McGregor said Sunday evening that rescu...

Two held with Yaba

Two held with Yaba

-- 2017-10-16 12:10:45

Police arrested two men along with 860 pieces of Yaba from Pingalkathi Bazar and Paschim Dumuria villages of Gournadi upazila of Barisal on Sunday night. The arrestees were identified as Md Idris Bar...

Miscreants hack security guard to death in Chandpur

Miscreants hack security guard to death in Chandpur

-- 2017-10-16 02:17:48

Some unidentified miscreants hacked a security guard to death and snatched four motorcycles from the garage of a house in Truck Road of Chandpur town in the wee hours of Monday. The deceased was iden...

Barisal road crash kills electrician

Barisal road crash kills electrician

-- 2017-10-15 11:30:10

An electrician was killed in a road accident at Choumohoni in Uzirpur upazila of Barisal on Saturday night. The accident occurred when a battery-run auto-rickshaw collided with a motorcycle, leaving...

Egypt frustrates North Sinai militant attack, killing two

Egypt frustrates North Sinai militant attack, killing two

Xinhua 2017-10-15 11:20:01

The Egyptian armed forces on Saturday frustrated a terrorist attack that was targeting a security check point in the North Sinai city of Arish, killing at least two militants, the army said in a state...

First flight lands on “world’s most useless airport”

First flight lands on “world’s most useless airport”

BBC 2017-10-15 01:27:19

The first scheduled commercial airline service to the remote British island of St Helena in the south Atlantic has touched down safely. The virgin flight, an SA Airlink service from South Africa, end...

Math, science in improving madrasa edn

Math, science in improving madrasa edn

Pamelia Khaled 2017-10-14 12:26:58

Ibn al-Shatir, whom historian David King calls 'the most distinguished Muslim astronomer of the 14th century', is someone whose astronomical model is believed by historians to have been taken over by...

Coming to terms with Trump's psyche

Coming to terms with Trump's psyche

Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2017-10-14 12:23:16

It is really an irony to see that a superpower like the United States of America is distancing itself from closed allies under the leadership of President Trump who is also under tremendous pressure a...

Obaidul Huq in context

Obaidul Huq in context

Raihan M Chowdhury 2017-10-14 12:00:00

Obaidul Huq (1911-2007), an eminent journalist, movie maker, novelist and raconteur, is no doubt an iconic figure in our literary world. He had edified our intellectual ethos for decades. He had made...

Nepalese bride and Bangladeshi bridegroom

Nepalese bride and Bangladeshi bridegroom

Nilratan Halder 2017-10-14 12:00:00

Marriages happen in heaven, they say. Or how else a carpenter with no education beyond literacy from Bangladesh can have a Nepalese girl as his spouse? For a Nepalese girl born and brought up in a hom...