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A budding young entrepreneur

A budding young entrepreneur

Emu Chowdhury 2021-12-11 00:00:00

A young entrepreneur named Noureen Afrose Piya, at an early age started a business. At the very outset, she dreamt of becoming a model, but as she got older, she changed her mind. Then she dreamt of d...

MFIs striving to get back on feet

MFIs striving to get back on feet

Md. Ziauddin Iqbal 2021-12-11 00:00:00

Bangladesh's Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) demonstrated proven and outstanding capabilities in the past in dealing with natural disasters and other emergencies at the local and national levels. The...

When passengers have to  push an aircraft off the runway

When passengers have to push an aircraft off the runway

Nilratan Halder 2021-12-11 00:00:00

For auto-rickshaws, cars, buses and trucks, it is not quite unusual to suddenly stop moving right on the middle of the road. Much as the driver may try to reignite the engine, it refuses to take comma...

Ctg: A commercial capital in name only

Ctg: A commercial capital in name only

-- 2021-12-04 00:00:00

The incumbent government is trade and business-friendly. Its policy attuned to the needs of the businesses has helped the exports and imports of the country recover from the Covid-19 shock, says Shaib...

Supporting mkts for poor's nutrient-dense foods

Supporting mkts for poor's nutrient-dense foods

Bhavani Shankar and Mohammad Jahangir Alam 2021-12-04 00:00:00

A diverse diet is the key to good nutrition. In South Asia, however, diets have been traditionally cereal-heavy - in Bangladesh, about 70 per cent of daily energy intake per person comes from cereals....

Transformation  of winter with  climate change

Transformation of winter with climate change

Nilratan Halder 2021-12-04 00:00:00

The mercury has dipped but not by much. This is the beginning of December and the third week of Agrahayan on the Bangla calendar. Gone are the days when farmers carried huge bundles of freshly harvest...

Altering the sequence of entrepreneurial proliferation

Altering the sequence of entrepreneurial proliferation

Farabi Shayor 2021-12-01 17:59:22

New dawn emerged with a new declaration on 24 November, Bangladesh was graduated officially to become a developing nation by UN General Assembly. A new title comes with a cumulative need for growth a...

The link, severity and  self-management

The link, severity and self-management

Shaheda Zannah 2021-11-27 00:00:00

Diabetes is a health condition in which the body faces difficulty with converting glucose (a type of sugar) into energy. In this condition, the glucose level becomes high in the blood. If this too muc...

When men suffer silently in their own homes

When men suffer silently in their own homes

Nilratan Halder 2021-11-27 00:00:00

A report released in June this year claimed that as many as 37 divorce petitions were being filed a day in the capital city during a few months preceding its publication and 70 per cent of those were...

The digital divide in virus-time education

The digital divide in virus-time education

Soma Dhar 2021-11-20 00:00:00

In 1971, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stated Bangladesh as an International Basket Case. But with outstanding progress, Bangladesh would be an upper-middle-income country by 2031 and be a hig...

A layman's understanding  of climate change

A layman's understanding of climate change

Nilratan Halder 2021-11-20 00:00:00

A layman's contribution to greenhouse gas is insignificant. He and his family may burn sliced logs, straws and leaves for cooking and other purposes and in the process cause carbon emission of a paltr...

Post-pandemic recovery scenario and role of vaccination

Post-pandemic recovery scenario and role of vaccination

Bazlul H Khondker 2021-11-19 20:33:22

The estimated cost of Covid-19 has been large on the global economy. The Covid-19 costs manifested in various forms - contraction of the economy, increase in job loss rates and rise in poverty rates....

Surrealistic Pillow in the Summer of Love

Surrealistic Pillow in the Summer of Love

Swadhin Shahporan 2021-11-15 18:55:49

The Summer billed as ‘the Summer of Love’ that drew some peer-driven 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967 in search of glamour, ecstasy and utopia, also delivered a n...

গানের হুমায়ূন, হুমায়ূনের গান

গানের হুমায়ূন, হুমায়ূনের গান

মোজাক্কির রিফাত 2021-11-13 16:13:40

আজ ১৩ নভেম্বর, নন্দিত কথাসাহিত্যিক হুমায়ূন আহমেদের জন্মদিন। সামাজিক যোগাযোগমাধ্যম থেকে পত্রিকার পাতায় -- সর্বত্র আজ প্রিয় লেখকের স্মৃতিচারণ। তিনি আজ আমাদের না থেকেও আছেন তার অমর সৃষ্টির মাঝে। স্মৃতি...

Looking for a dream home  in Dhaka

Looking for a dream home in Dhaka

Nilratan Halder 2021-11-13 00:00:00

Emon ami ghar bendhechhi ahare jar thikana nai/ swapaner siri die jekhane paunchhe ami jai (a home have I built which unfortunately has no address/ there do I reach on the staircase of my dreams). Thi...

Less in performance, more in press conference

Less in performance, more in press conference

Tanvir Ahmed 2021-11-08 20:17:45

People of Bangladesh, regardless of class, gender, age or any other criteria, are cricket fanatics.  A garments worker, after all the hard work and overtime duty, sit in front of the TV to watch...

Innovation for survival

Innovation for survival

SHEHRIN HOSSAIN 2021-11-06 00:00:00

Innovation is essential to business -- it always has been. The metrics by which business innovation is measured, however, have evolved in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Innovation is required not...

Recognising the value  of space

Recognising the value of space

Nilratan Halder 2021-11-06 00:00:00

Bhanu Bandapadhya, known for his extraordinary wit and humour, used to cut jokes out of the ordinary. One of his celebrated joke concerns football as he poses the question, why so many boys are runnin...

India beat Afghanistan convincingly in a do or die clash

India beat Afghanistan convincingly in a do or die clash

Rakimul Huq 2021-11-04 00:01:42

India beat Afghanistan by 66 runs margin to stay alive in the race for a semi-final spot. The Super 12 encounter between India and Afghanistan was much more highly-anticipated than what one might hav...

Pakistan's T20 form: Back where they belong

Pakistan's T20 form: Back where they belong

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2021-11-03 18:07:31

Lendl Simmons catches a mistimed slog in deep mid-wicket by Umar Gul at Mirpur and Pakistan gets bowled out within 84 runs. Windies won that game as Pakistan bid adieu to the T20 World Cup 2014 from t...

Farewell to Asghar Afghan: An Afghan Cricket legend

Farewell to Asghar Afghan: An Afghan Cricket legend

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2021-11-01 17:42:35

Afghanistan enjoyed a dominating win against Namibia, their second in this campaign to make a real chance for the semi-finals.  The crowd present at the scorching heat of Abu Dhabi cheered for t...

Common health issues to watch out for during Winter

Common health issues to watch out for during Winter

Imtiaz Ahmed 2021-11-01 16:44:19

Winter is almost here. The cool breeze of winter, while welcomed by many, also brings some health hazards. It is important to be aware of the common winter ailments and be prepared for them. The risk...

Alternative credit scoring for fintech

Alternative credit scoring for fintech

Ahmed Armaan Siddiqui 2021-10-30 00:00:00

Bangladesh has been at the centre of attraction for the emergence of fintech with the growing mobile financial services (MFS) and on-time regulations which attracted most of the banks and its concerns...

Taking survival lesson  from a dinosaur

Taking survival lesson from a dinosaur

Nilratan Halder 2021-10-30 00:00:00

So the stark choice today is between survival of the species and giving up the array of irrelevant elements pretentiously presented as life's essentialsAs part of its "Don't Choose Extinction" campaig...

All good for Pakistan's new coaching staff

All good for Pakistan's new coaching staff

Aniruddha Bhowmik 2021-10-28 20:57:14

To continue with the sense of unpredictability that has always remained with the Pakistan side over the years, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the inclusion of a completely new coaching sta...

India blown away as Pakistan break the deadlock

India blown away as Pakistan break the deadlock

Ayman Chowdhury 2021-10-24 23:37:13

Pakistan beat India emphatically by 10 wickets in their first match of Group B in the ICC T20 World Cup to finally break the deadlock of defeating India in an ICC tournament. Going into this match, P...

ETFs and Index Funds: Way to the future?

ETFs and Index Funds: Way to the future?

Rafid Fayaz 2021-10-23 13:09:48

There is a saying in Wall Street that in the long term the market always goes up. So, it stands to reason that investing in the broad market will yield results in the long run. Doing so will also rem...

The mainstay of  sustainable dev

The mainstay of sustainable dev

Sheikh Riyaz Uddin 2021-10-23 00:00:00

Bangladesh has qualified to graduate from the least developed country (LDC) club one after 50 years of independence. It is expected that the country will be upgraded as a developed one within 2041. In...

Society and world full of conflicts expose raw sore of civilisation

Society and world full of conflicts expose raw sore of civilisation

Nilratan Halder 2021-10-23 00:00:00

The governing instinct in animals is self preservation. But should it clash with self-preserving instinct of others? Until or unless there is an urgency to dominate fellow beings and stake a claim to...

Afghanistan ready to fight neck to neck

Afghanistan ready to fight neck to neck

Shafin Saif 2021-10-20 16:13:03

With all the political turbulence and odds, Afghanistan made a promising emergence in the cricketing arena last decade.  Taliban takeover of the government this year has added the newest edition...