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Getting a detailed view of unknown banks

Getting a detailed view of unknown banks

M S Siddiqui 2017-04-06 21:13:23

Stakeholders at home and abroad need information from a third party about the standing of banks for safety of their transactions. Bankers' almanac is one of these important sources of information...

The saga of Bangladesh villages

The saga of Bangladesh villages

Shihab Sarkar 2017-04-06 21:11:10

Few national anthems contain as much paean to one's motherland as the one of Bangladesh. It was none other than Rabindranath Tagore, who composed this lyric eulogising the natural charms of Bengal...

Establishing new banks or new branches of existing banks?

Establishing new banks or new branches of existing banks?

Md. Saiful Islam 2017-04-06 21:03:17

The news that two more new banks are about to be established is quite disconcerting. In 2012, the government approved nine new banks. Most directors and chairmen of those banks have direct or indirect...

Getting a detailed view of unknown banks

Getting a detailed view of unknown banks

M S Siddiqui 2017-04-06 19:11:33

Stakeholders at home and abroad need information from a third party about the standing of banks for safety of their transactions. Bankers' almanac is one of these important sources of information...

Economic cooperation with India: Removing the irritants

Economic cooperation with India: Removing the irritants

-- 2017-04-05 20:52:50

Over the last eight years, bilateral relation between Bangladesh and India has advanced significantly thanks to the political willingness of both countries. Bangladesh, certainly, has moved faster to...

Export growth: Emerging issues and sustainability

Export growth: Emerging issues and sustainability

Taslim Ahammad and Md. Julker Naim 2017-03-31 20:23:57

Apparently, Bangladesh achieved remarkable success in the labour-intensive manufacturing sector as displayed by the country's ready-made garment (RMG) industry. For the last two decades, mass manu...

Tapping the potential of herbal medicine

Tapping the potential of herbal medicine

Shihab Sarkar 2017-03-30 21:27:07

Recent discoveries of some remains of Neanderthals have led scientists to draw a unanimous conclusion. They now believe the use of medicinal plants was widespread among the long-extinct but closest re...

The Dutch general election: Politics pushed to the right

The Dutch general election: Politics pushed to the right

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-03-25 21:09:34

There is a sense of jubilation across Europe among European  political establishment leaders that Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, fended off a challenge from the far-right,  anti-Islam and anti-...

Of lies, fabrications and utter dishonesty

Of lies, fabrications and utter dishonesty

Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2017-03-24 21:06:52

A book titled 'Creation of Bangladesh: Myths Exploded' was published from Islamabad in 2016, authored by Junaid Ahmed. Few copies of the book were sent to Bangladesh High Commission in Islamab...

Trump, Merkel make diplomatic peace

Trump, Merkel make diplomatic peace

Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2017-03-24 21:04:25

President Donald Trump received German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House by on March 17 after spending much of 2016 bashing her, and accusing her of ruining Germany by allowing an influx of...

Looking for life beyond our solar system

Looking for life beyond our solar system

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-03-23 21:22:08

One of the most enigmatic questions we often ask ourselves is: What are the chances of life on another planet or are we alone in this massive and ever expanding universe? In his recent book The Search...

A city under occupation - a blend of defiance and tragic pathos

A city under occupation - a blend of defiance and tragic pathos

-- 2017-03-23 21:18:33

Every nation has its chapters of glory. These are mostly involved with their heroic struggles for freedom. In spite of being replete with sacrifices and myriad types of ordeals and hardship, the last-...

Ensuring water security in Bangladesh

Ensuring water security in Bangladesh

Shishir Reza 2017-03-21 21:05:18

The Earth is the only planet in the universe where water is available in a substantial quantity. Water is an essential commodity not only for development of industrial and agricultural development but...

While US ditches TPP, RECP initiative still to gather steam

While US ditches TPP, RECP initiative still to gather steam

Sayed Kamaluddin 2017-03-19 20:57:21

The concept of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RECP) agreement in the Asia-Pacific region has emerged recently following the new US administration's decision to withdraw from the Tran...

A challenging time for the French establishment

A challenging time for the French establishment

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-03-18 20:57:05

The French will elect a new President in April or May. The first round of the election will take place on April 23 and if no candidate fails to secure a majority of votes, then the two top candidates...

Bangladesh scenario: Time central banking, financial system were redesigned

Bangladesh scenario: Time central banking, financial system were redesigned

Jamaluddin Ahmed 2017-03-18 20:45:22

The independence of the members of an audit committee is crucial for making checks and balances of the committee really effective. If the country circumstances so permit, an audit committee should be...

Deconstruction is the priority in Trump White House

Deconstruction is the priority in Trump White House

Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Virginia, USA 2017-03-17 21:04:32

Since the electoral victory on November 08, 2016 Donald Trump began articulating the priorities of his government. The issues appeared most crucial to him were the abrogation of the Affordable Health...

The case for UN recognition of Bangladesh genocide

The case for UN recognition of Bangladesh genocide

Shihab Sarkar 2017-03-16 20:58:49

To a number of people in the last forty-five years, the 9-month-long Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 has been little more than a period of 'confusion' --- 'Gondogol' in Bangla. When...

Audit committee: A cross-country perspective

Audit committee: A cross-country perspective

Jamaluddin Ahmed 2017-03-15 19:03:24

THE UK AND THE US: The In 1992, the Cadbury Committee issued the Code of Best Practice that recommended that boards of U.K. companies include at least three external directors and that the positions o...

The relevance of audit committee in central bank

The relevance of audit committee in central bank

Jamaluddin Ahmed 2017-03-14 21:03:56

This article deals with some of the key issues related to audit committees in central banks. Among the issues to consider, when designing an appropriate governance structure, are the prevailing legal...

Rescuing Saudi Arabia: Asia’s new role?

Rescuing Saudi Arabia: Asia’s new role?

Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-03-13 20:02:12

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud began a month-long visit to various locations across Southeast and East Asia from February 26 on what may become a path-finding trip. Among them were two of the...

Post-WW II international order in disarray

Post-WW II international order in disarray

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-03-11 19:45:09

The rise of extreme far-right populist forces in Europe and North America is not simply rooted in the personality or psychology of  Trump, Le Pen and their likes but also in the seething popular disco...

Electronic government procurement and policy transparency

Electronic government procurement and policy transparency

Ferdaus Ara Begum 2017-03-10 21:36:05

Efficient public procurement plays a significant role in successful management of public resources, and acts as one of the problem solvers in implementing the government's annual development progr...

A heroic tribute to culture

A heroic tribute to culture

Shihab Sarkar 2017-03-09 20:58:36

Finally the 10-day grand cultural pageant, Bengal Sangskriti Utsab: Sylhet 2017, turned out to be a great achievement on the part of Bengal Foundation. The house, based in Dhaka, has been promoting li...

Civil society concerned over the lacuna in child marriage law

Civil society concerned over the lacuna in child marriage law

Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury 2017-03-07 21:24:57

Laws are necessary for safety, security and welfare of the people from the point of view of 'social contract theory', which forms the basis of the state. All laws veer round this concept. So i...

Trump\'s protectionist stance raises the spectre of trade war

Trump\'s protectionist stance raises the spectre of trade war

-- 2017-03-06 20:23:10

In a recent report, the World Bank has sounded a note of warning that protectionism and threats to undo or rewrite trade agreements on global scale in the Trump era has already created total political...

Energy sufficiency key to achieving SDGs

Energy sufficiency key to achieving SDGs

Muntasir Murshed 2017-03-04 20:43:28

Growth of an economy is heavily dependent on energy and its sustained supply. The indispensable role of energy has been acknowledged by historic events like the Industrial Revolution. Following its in...

Anti-Muslim agenda boomerangs on Trump

Anti-Muslim agenda boomerangs on Trump

M Serajul Islam 2017-03-03 20:19:26

Donald Trump promised that if elected as the president of the United States, his administration would become a tsunami for the Muslims, the immigrants and Iran, that it would simply sweep away all thr...

One hundred years of education research

One hundred years of education research

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-03-02 20:21:54

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the world's largest interdisciplinary research association devoted to the scientific study of education and learning. Founded in 1916, AERA...

The receding El Dorado of America

The receding El Dorado of America

Shihab Sarkar 2017-03-02 20:19:41

Scores of countries around the world are literally composed of immigrants, who migrated to these lands hundreds of years ago. They belong to different ethnicities, and are from distant shores. In the...