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Quamrul Ahsan 2019-07-29 21:40:46
TRANS-BOUNDARY WATERSHEDS: The Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna (GBM) river basin encompasses a total area of about 1.72 million km2, of which only 7 per cent is located within Bangladesh. They...
Quamrul Ahsan 2019-07-28 20:53:16
The Government of Bangladesh has recently approved a plan that calls for a secure, safe, resilient and prosperous Bangladesh. An adaptive delta management (ADM) practice is said to be the cornerstone...
Jeffrey D. Sachs in New York 2019-07-27 21:08:49
How did the world's two most venerable and influential democracies - the United Kingdom and the United States - end up with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson at the helm? Trump is not wrong to call Johns...
Roberto Savio 2019-07-27 20:59:18
When all is said and done, it appears that Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century English philosopher who had a dire vision of man, was not totally wrong. From the frivolous to the serious, in just a week w...
Rania El Gamal and Saeed Azhar in Dubai, UAE 2019-07-26 20:59:18
When Saudi Aramco was on the verge of a deal last year to buy a stake in an Indian oil refinery, its boss quickly boarded a company jet in Paris and flew to New Delhi. Chief executive Amin Nasser arr...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-07-25 20:58:20
The recent increase in tourists visiting and discovering newer spots bears signs of better days for domestic tourism. Even a couple of decades ago, tour operators were heard lamenting the stagnant sta...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-07-25 20:54:09
Social scientists, specifically the anthropologists, conduct their research in many ways; but the method most characteristic of the discipline is one of fieldwork based on 'participant observation'. T...
Isaac Wasi 2019-07-25 20:50:38
Though a fiction, In a Promised Land is in fact based on the true reflection of third world elites like Professors, Doctors, Engineers and PhDs, and their lives, full of broken dreams, in the first wo...
Nava Thakuria 2019-07-24 20:41:17
After years of bad precedents on journo-murder incidents, India has slightly improved the statistics this year, as there is report of two journalists' murder till date. The robust democracy with over...
Ferdous Ara Begum 2019-07-23 21:22:48
The investment target set for fiscal year 2019 under the '7th Five Year plan (2016-2020)' is 32.7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). Of this, 25.1 per cent is earmarked for the private sector....
James Reinl in UN Headquarters, New York 2019-07-22 21:51:51
July has been hot. In recent weeks, climate scientists have monitored a freak heatwave in the Canadian Arctic, droughts around Harare and Chennai and forest fires across southern France that have sent...
Daniel Yang 2019-07-21 21:23:21
When the United Nations General Assembly met in 2007 to vote on North Korea's human rights record, only 10 of the 56 African countries voted with the US-led western coalition. The overwhelming majori...
Thalif Deen 2019-07-19 20:26:14
The Trump administration, in its continued hostility towards the United Nations- and as part of its policy aimed at undermining multilateral institutions and international commitments- has withheld it...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-07-18 21:09:07
It may not sound surprising if people in the near future begin calling Dhaka a metonymy for all kinds of waterlogging. Waterlogging and the accompanying sufferings might one day come to be known as 'D...
Ferdaus Ara Begum 2019-07-16 20:30:37
The growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Bangladesh by about 68 per cent ($ 3.6 billion) in 2018 compared with 2017 is an outstanding performance of the country. But compared to India ($42 bil...
Md Abdur Rouf 2019-07-15 22:24:50
Value Added Tax (VAT) is a consumption tax. Generally, when goods and services are supplied or sold, VAT is applied. With regard to goods, there are three stages where VAT is applied when those are so...
Muhammad Zamir 2019-07-14 20:53:49
The ties between Bangladesh and China have evolved into a deeper relationship over the last few years. This dynamics has intensified in its diversity through Bangladesh's "Look East Policy" and greate...
S M Rayhanul Islam 2019-07-11 21:05:57
The education system of Bangladesh has gone through endless experiments. After nearly five decades of our independence even our primary education system is not following any coordinated schooling mode...
Md Abdur Rouf 2019-07-10 20:08:08
Every tax has a base to apply, a time when it becomes payable, and a time when actual deposit to the government treasury is to be made. This is the normal course of the administration or collection of...
B K Mukhopadhyay 2019-07-09 21:23:21
At the very outset, let us have a close look at what the latest Economic Survey and the budget reflect about India. Accordingly, the performance of the banking sector has improved as bad loans decline...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA 2019-07-08 21:22:27
On June 30, Donald Trump became the first sitting US President to cross into the demilitarised zone, immediately after wrapping up the G-20 summit in Tokyo, Japan. As such, he has made history. Since...
Muhammad Zamir 2019-07-07 20:44:20
There is a general consensus after the 2019 EU elections held at the end of May that certain power blocs have lost their grip on the EU Parliament. Analysts have pointed out that both the big centre-r...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2019-07-06 20:35:44
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid a five-day official visit to China from July 02-06 during which she attended the Summer Davos of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Dalian. During the visit, PM Hasin...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2019-07-04 20:34:33
Micro-fiction, a sub-genre of short stories, is increasingly becoming popular among many young writers across the globe. Placed within this category, six-word stories or sixes are considered to be the...
Md Nazrul Islam Khan 2019-07-01 21:34:08
There are two basic organs in the management of listed companies, namely board of directors and members. The board is responsible to perform its fiduciary duties within the ambit of the Article of Ass...
Mustafa K. Mujeri 2019-06-30 21:17:42
In Bangladesh, it is reasonable to assess the budgetary allocations from a pro-poor perspective. Latest government estimates show that, in 2018, 21.8 per cent or nearly 36 million of the country's...
Muhammad Zamir 2019-06-30 21:15:12
Chinese President Xi Jinping's two-day state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from June 20-21 took place about a week before the 2019 G20 summit held in Osaka, Japan. This...
Muhammad Mahmood 2019-06-29 21:46:11
Trump's trade war is increasingly taking the shape of a part of a larger scheme of things - who will dominate the global economy. He is pushing his agenda to maintain the US as the sole global economi...
Jeffrey D. Sachs in New York 2019-06-29 21:35:54
US President Donald Trump has based his foreign policy on a series of harsh economic blockades, each designed to frighten, coerce, and even starve the target country into submitting to American demand...
SM Shamsul Arefin 2019-06-29 21:02:38
Global gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2018 was slightly lower than that of the previous year mainly because of the trade issues between China and the USA, slower economic activities in the Uni...
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