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Editor Moazzem Hossain set high standards

Editor Moazzem Hossain set high standards

Khawaza Main Uddin 2020-08-04 21:45:23

As if he is still with us, present very much in every activity of our lives in Dhaka. Journalist AHM Moazzem Hossain - our beloved Moazzem bhai - lives not just in the memory of his colleagues and fri...

Pandemic, debt and development

Pandemic, debt and development

Anis Chowdhury   2020-07-27 21:11:22

Covid-19 will take a heavy humanitarian and economic toll on developing countries with large informal sectors and very weak health systems, threatening to undo progress towards Sustainable Developme...

Covid-19 could benefit the education system

Covid-19 could benefit the education system

Sir Frank Peters 2020-07-26 21:45:38

The Coronavirus Covid-19 has brought the world we knew to a complete standstill. What we're seeing now is not the world we once knew or are we ever likely to see again. Despite all the wishes and pray...

EU summit: Leaders strike a recovery deal

EU summit: Leaders strike a recovery deal

Muhammad Mahmood 2020-07-25 22:30:49

European Union (EU) Leaders met in Brussels last week  for four days (17-20 July)  to discuss the recovery deal to respond to the Covid-19 crisis and a new long-term budget. The challenges f...

Discoveries: Newer horizons beckon man

Discoveries: Newer horizons beckon man

Shihab Sarkar 2020-07-23 21:35:00

Had the legendary explorers of the past been alive today, they would certainly have been attacked by prolonged bouts of depression - and also ennui. The state of today's amateur explorers is no better...

Realignment between two adversaries worries Washington

Realignment between two adversaries worries Washington

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury   2020-07-22 22:20:06

China and the United States have been at trade war ever since Donald Trump became the president. Following protracted negotiation, a deal was reached in the middle of last year. Both sides expressed...

Covid-19's legacy: This is how to get the Great Reset right

Covid-19's legacy: This is how to get the Great Reset right

Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret    2020-07-22 21:17:46

The worst of the pandemic is yet to come. To date, only a few countries are effectively containing the virus, while in a majority of nations, Covid-19 is either raging or resurfacing with local outb...

NPL and its impact on the banking sector of Bangladesh

NPL and its impact on the banking sector of Bangladesh

Tanzirul Islam 2020-07-21 20:53:08

Banks provide short and long term finances to various organs of the economy. Banks are also supposed to get back the money with interest as profit as per the repayment schedule. Due to many reasons, h...

Identifying beneficiaries of social protection system in Bangladesh

Identifying beneficiaries of social protection system in Bangladesh

Jasim Uddin Haroon   2020-07-20 21:15:18

Selection of beneficiaries of the country's social protection schemes may be improved if a quality national household database is used. Currently, the beneficiary selection for social safety net pro...

Should digitally delivered products be exempted from customs duties?

Should digitally delivered products be exempted from customs duties?

Rashmi Banga 2020-07-19 21:41:52

As the digital revolution unfolds, more products are leaving their physical carriers and being traded online. For example, movies and music are being traded digitally rather than through CDs, CD-ROMs...

Commonwealth trade deflection and way forward

Commonwealth trade deflection and way forward

Syed Mortuza Asif Ehsan and Salamat Ali 2020-07-13 21:39:12

One of the major developments in the world economy over the past three decades or so has been the rapidly growing share of the developing countries. Indeed, the rise of developing countries as signifi...

With sliding economies, families struggle to survive

With sliding economies, families struggle to survive

Syed Badrul Ahsan 2020-07-13 21:37:32

Social realities are taking newer, darker shades of meaning in the country. The coronavirus pandemic has been creating havoc in individual and family economies. Tens of thousands of people, mostly in...

Remembering polymath Allah Malik Kazemi

Remembering polymath Allah Malik Kazemi

Atiur Rahman 2020-07-12 21:25:11

A distinguished central banker, Allah Malik Kazemi, left us a few days ago for ever. The ravaging corona onslaught didn't spare him either. Not only the community of central bankers but all other ba...

A university's politico-cultural identity

A university's politico-cultural identity

Shihab Sarkar 2020-07-09 21:52:34

The University of Dhaka's non-inclusion in most of the lists over the last three/four decades containing the names of the world's major universities may not be that unusual. To these list makers, mo...

Mapping the Covid-19 implications for Bangladesh's stock market

Mapping the Covid-19 implications for Bangladesh's stock market

Suborna Barua, Akramul Alam, Isfaqur Rahman and Rakibul Hossen 2020-07-08 21:44:17

Financial markets worldwide are responding abruptly to the on-going coronavirus pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to produce widespread impacts on financial markets and institutions in almost...

Coronavirus pandemic: Banking in New Normal and after

Coronavirus pandemic: Banking in New Normal and after

Md. Rashaduzzaman 2020-07-07 22:24:36

Now a days, banking is much different than it was in pre-pandemic times. Many banks allow their employees to work from home with fourth generation ITC support through core banking software and well es...

How scuba divers are turning ocean waste into Covid face masks

How scuba divers are turning ocean waste into Covid face masks

Douglas Broom 2020-07-07 21:45:05

A group of scuba divers have come up with a neat way of tackling two major problems, by recycling ocean plastic waste into coronavirus face masks. Using water bottles recovered from the sea, the Prof...

Covid-19 -- the need to find a turning point

Covid-19 -- the need to find a turning point

Muhammad Zamir 2020-07-05 21:51:43

There is general agreement that the way of life throughout the world has changed since the advent of the COVID virus. It has evolved to a point where many socio-economists tend to identify this as a p...

Contact tracing app: What it does, how it works

Contact tracing app: What it does, how it works

Fida Hasan 2020-07-04 21:57:03

Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is not as deadly as many other diseases that human history went through; it is, however, the fastest spreading infectious disease. So far, nothing has been proved useful...

How health workers are doing their duties

How health workers are doing their duties

ABM Kamrul Hasan 2020-07-04 21:54:20

Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities have submitted a bill of Tk 20 crore for their health workers to stay, eat and transport at the hotel in two months. The brawl has started. The issue has spr...

India-China territorial dispute

India-China territorial dispute

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2020-07-03 21:54:14

When people around the world are preoccupied with confronting intractable Covid-19, the troops of India and China had a violent clash in Galwan valley, Ladakh in the Himalayas on June 15. New Delhi re...

From Russia, with love

From Russia, with love

Nazmun Nahar 2020-07-02 21:19:44

The book is not only the descriptions of spots and people the writer has visited. Ray keeps in mind many historical events and facts related to Russia. He then tries to link those to the current reali...

Keeping pace with the tech revolutions

Keeping pace with the tech revolutions

Shihab Sarkar 2020-07-02 21:16:20

Amateur photographers, camera buffs, and those having a passion for photography, may have already started feeling distressed. A quite unexpected piece of news on June 24 has prompted this mood of desp...

Trends of excess liquidity versus banks' real lending capacity

Trends of excess liquidity versus banks' real lending capacity

Haradhan Sarkar 2020-07-01 21:57:18

The government offered a number of bailout packages worth more thanTk.1.00 trillion to cope with the adverse impacts of COVID-19. Obviously the onus of bulk financing has fallen on the banking sector....

Covid-19: New vocabulary in the new normal

Covid-19: New vocabulary in the new normal

Syed Badrul Ahsan 2020-06-30 21:57:30

These are abnormal times we are expected to refer to as the new normal. That is but one of the many changes the Covid-19 pandemic, or the coronavirus, has been inflicting on life all across the glob...

Remembering A M Kazemi, former deputy governor of BB

Remembering A M Kazemi, former deputy governor of BB

Syed M. Ahsan 2020-06-30 21:38:24

I am most saddened to hear of the passing of Mr. A M Kazemi last week due to ill health and eventually a victim of COVID-19. While we all pray for the salvation of his soul, let me, through you, those...

Changing nature of childhood thru time

Changing nature of childhood thru time

Shihab Sarkar 2020-06-25 22:18:47

Childhood is the most pleasant phase in one's life. It's accepted universally. Few of the adults hesitate to admit that they have passed their most enjoyable time during their childhood. According to...

The Broken Planet: Quest for Revival

The Broken Planet: Quest for Revival

Sabbir Ahmad   2020-06-24 21:40:46

It has now been a few months since we have started living in a different world. In the meantime, many of us became used to a life confined within our four walls. We are no longer rushing to a tea stal...

Education budget and our response  to crisis

Education budget and our response  to crisis

Quazi Faruque Ahmed   2020-06-23 21:23:29

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal presented the 49th national Budget of Bangladesh on June 11. We have, in the meantime, received many responses on the various aspects of the budget, including the...

Pain stresses of garment workers at workplace

Pain stresses of garment workers at workplace

Hasnat M Alamgir 2020-06-22 21:17:18

Before even the Covid-19 pandemic brought in another layer of health hazard and employment insecurity for Bangladesh's garment workers, mounting social and public pressure and rising consumer expect...