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The Brexit impasse continues

The Brexit impasse continues

Muhammad Mahmood 2019-01-19 20:47:24

British Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal was voted down in British Parliament on Tuesday (January 15) by a majority of 230 votes - with 432 Members of Parliament (MPs) against and 202...

Graphite to graphene — Sri Lanka's path to innovation

Graphite to graphene — Sri Lanka's path to innovation

M Rokonuzzaman 2019-01-18 21:17:46

Like many other developing countries, Sri Lanka has also the inspiration to enter and succeed in the innovation economy. On stepping into innovation economy, Sri Lanka has been paving the pathway with...

The case for residential universities and JU

The case for residential universities and JU

Shihab Sarkar 2019-01-17 20:58:24

The 48th founding anniversary of Jahangirnagar University, the country's only fully residential public university, was a great occasion for jubilation and festivity to both the present and former stud...

Creativity in education and beyond

Creativity in education and beyond

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-01-17 20:56:00

Over the course of history, human creativity has moved hand in hand with technology. There is a greater need for creative thinking in this ever-changing world today than ever before, and new technolog...

A closer look at the World Bank's sizable China portfolio

A closer look at the World Bank's sizable China portfolio

Scott Morris and Gailyn Portelance 2019-01-14 21:18:40

China continues to borrow an average of $2.0 billion a year from the World Bank, making it one of the Bank's top borrowers - despite being the world's second-largest economy and itself a major global...

The Rohingya - the forgotten genocide of our time

The Rohingya - the forgotten genocide of our time

Leila Yasmine Khan and Daud Khan 2019-01-12 21:11:40

The Rohingya are a minority community living in Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Muslim Rohingya are considered intruders into Buddhist Myanmar – illegal immigrants from bordering Bangladesh. They...

Dynamics of One Belt One Road

Dynamics of One Belt One Road

Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2019-01-12 20:57:05

The Kunming Initiative, which is known as "BCIM (Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar) Economic Connectivity Forum for Regional Cooperation" began its journey in August 1999 in Kunming, capital of China's s...

Bedeys leaving their traditional boat-homes, let the boat drift away aimlessly

Bedeys leaving their traditional boat-homes, let the boat drift away aimlessly

-- 2019-01-10 21:23:39

'Bedey' children attending classes at primary schools on the city suburbs are a common spectacle now. News reports of these students performing brilliantly at the junior-level and secondary school exa...

Launch of Bangabandhu-1 satellite: From Mujib to Sajeeb

Launch of Bangabandhu-1 satellite: From Mujib to Sajeeb

Shafiul Alam 2019-01-10 21:18:16

With its GDP growth rate at 7.86 per cent in the last 2017-18 fiscal year and per capita income hitting US$1,751, Bangladesh is now a befitting riposte, before the world, to the infamous criticism of...

Justice Murshed: The legend

Justice Murshed: The legend

Tamijuddin Ahmed 2019-01-10 21:15:10

The Late Justice Syed Mahbub Murshed became a legend through his professional and personal efforts. Justice Murshed was undoubtedly an enlightened personality during his time and it was this enlighten...

Climate change: Complex challenges for agriculture

Climate change: Complex challenges for agriculture

Peter Lüthi in Zurich, Switzerland 2019-01-09 21:22:56

The unusually hot summer of 2018 showed that climate change affects a central part of our lives: agriculture. The severe drought in Liechtenstein led to large losses in the hay harvest. In countries...

Transportation systems: Teething problem of trade digitisation

Transportation systems: Teething problem of trade digitisation

Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2019-01-09 21:20:35

International trade transactions and associated services are highly regulated. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is the authority for regulating and supervising all trade services related activities including...

Insurance coverage in Bangladesh: A long way to go

Insurance coverage in Bangladesh: A long way to go

MS Siddiqui   2019-01-05 21:14:49

The major concerns for the nation can be grouped under five categories. These are: Finance, Economics and Trade Risks; Geopolitics and Security; Natural Catastrophe and Climate; Technology and Space;...

Trump's Syria withdrawal - two sides of the decision

Trump's Syria withdrawal - two sides of the decision

Jeffrey D. Sachs in New York 2019-01-04 21:17:02

President Donald Trump's announced withdrawal of US forces from Syria has met with near-universal condemnation by Democrats and Republicans alike. That says less about Trump than it does about the US...

Social realism in Mrinal Sen's cinema

Social realism in Mrinal Sen's cinema

Shihab Sarkar 2019-01-03 21:08:50

The last of the legendary South Asian film makers' trio --- Mrinal Sen (b 1923) passed away on December 30, 2018. The two others, Satyajit Ray (b 1921) and Ritwik Ghatak (b 1925) died in 1992 and 1976...

Crowdfunding: Developing policy and regulatory framework

Crowdfunding: Developing policy and regulatory framework

Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2019-01-02 20:48:13

As the crowdfunding industry grows, several legal issues, risks, and implication related matters are coming up.  Experiences with crowdfunding arrangements in emerging economies are also coming u...

Bangladesh's stakes in Asian economic integration

Bangladesh's stakes in Asian economic integration

Md. Joynal Abdin 2019-01-01 20:47:19

Most economies from the Asian and the Pacific regions maintained six per cent growth in 2018 (other than the high-growth nations). Intraregional cooperation between the Asian nations is moving toward...

Can new banks really contribute to the economy?

Can new banks really contribute to the economy?

Syed Md Aminul Karim and Md  Ariful Islam   2018-12-31 21:31:06

Currently, there are 64 banks in Bangladesh, including both scheduled and non-scheduled banks. With the recently approved Community Bank, 47 of them are scheduled commercial banks of which 41 are p...

Is cancelling Brexit now inevitable?

Is cancelling Brexit now inevitable?

Anatole Kaletsky 2018-12-30 20:51:06

In times of political turmoil, events can move from impossible to inevitable without even passing through improbable. In early 2016, the idea of Britain leaving the European Union seemed almost as a...

Deaths of three cultural figures in December

Deaths of three cultural figures in December

Shihab Sarkar 2018-12-27 21:12:17

The deaths of three brilliant figures in the country's field of the arts in a gap of little over a fortnight is hard to endure --- especially on the part of those who are engaged in the allied branche...

The Eurozone's solidarity fallacy - risk sharing versus risk reduction

The Eurozone's solidarity fallacy - risk sharing versus risk reduction

Jürgen Stark 2018-12-25 21:27:07

Since 2010, many measures have been adopted to "crisis-proof" the eurozone. In addition to tighter budgetary rules and the start of a banking union, new efforts are underway to strengthen the Europe...

Hacking the STEM syllabus

Hacking the STEM syllabus

Mitchell Baker in San Francisco, USA 2018-12-24 21:19:01

After a prolonged honeymoon for the digital economy, the dark side of the Internet, social media, and "Big Tech" has become increasingly apparent in recent years. Online, what is good for business is...

Human trafficking - hidden in plain sight

Human trafficking - hidden in plain sight

Romy Hawatt 2018-12-23 21:39:18

The media globally tends to have a bias to negative, sensational and headline grabbing stories and events and this certainly applies to reporting related to human trafficking in the third world. With...

World experts hail China's miracle-like achievements over 40 years

World experts hail China's miracle-like achievements over 40 years

A Xinhua commentary 2018-12-22 21:16:59

As China celebrated the 40th anniversary of its reform and opening-up policy on Tuesday (December 18), the achievements it has made over the last four decades were hailed as a miracle. Experts said t...

India's AI strategy in perspective

India's AI strategy in perspective

M Rokonuzzaman 2018-12-21 21:05:06

Every major country in the world has been responding to the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Unlike many other technologies, AI has the potential of causing massive harm as well a...

COP24 Summit: A tipping point for people power

COP24 Summit: A tipping point for people power

Polin Kumar Saha 2018-12-21 20:59:36

The COP24 UN Climate Change Conference 2018 closed in Katowice, Poland on December 15. Over the past two weeks at the conference, demand for climate action has been increasing. However, despite the la...

Lost in Dhaka's maze of roads and buildings

Lost in Dhaka's maze of roads and buildings

Shihab Sarkar 2018-12-20 21:43:03

The pace, in plain terms, is unbelievable; and a little absurd too. The dizzy speed at which the look of Dhaka is changing can be termed mindboggling. It requires the imagination to be stretched to a...

Bodies that conduct polls: Roles & responsibilities

Bodies that conduct polls: Roles & responsibilities

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2018-12-20 21:29:49

We live in a changing world where people have ever-higher expectations with regard to the quality of their democracy. A country cannot be truly democratic until its citizens have the opportunity to ch...

Roadmap to Paris Agreement

Roadmap to Paris Agreement

Tarequl Islam Munna 2018-12-19 21:17:39

Three years on since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, more than 23,000 delegates from across world came together at the 2018 United Nations (UN) Climate Change 24th Conference of Parties (C...

How automation can help CFOs

How automation can help CFOs

Adrian Johnston   2018-12-18 21:37:54

The theory that people use only 10 per cent of their brains has been dismissed as a myth. Still most people are willing to embrace it as a truth as they know that human beings fail to achieve their fu...