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Muhammad Quamrul Islam 2018-11-16 20:51:26
I gained admission into Dhaka University as a first-year honours student in the Economics Department in 1957. I was a resident of SM Hall. That was a period of political instability in East Bengal....
Shihab Sarkar 2018-11-15 21:23:04
The recent detection of snow-filled clouds in the sky of Mars and the discovery of prehistoric figurative cave paintings on the Indonesian island of Borneo points to two things: no age is static. To e...
Frank Peters 2018-11-14 21:34:27
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is calling for an immediate ban on corporal punishment worldwide in all settings including schools, homes and madrasahs. In a strong statement issued this wee...
Peter Apps 2018-11-14 12:56:05
For Donald Trump's first foreign trip since Americans voted in the midterm elections, the bleak weather in Paris appears to have matched the diplomatic mood. The US president seemed subdued during his...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2018-11-10 21:33:12
In an unprecedented development in the US mid-term elections, at least one hundred women joined the election race and won. For the first time, two Muslim women and two native Americans - apart from tw...
M S Siddiqui 2018-11-10 21:15:57
The idea of an independent commission is primarily based on various legal and political contexts to bring together individuals of diverse views, expertise, and backgrounds to tackle legally difficult,...
David A Andelman 2018-11-09 21:29:16
Donald Trump heads to Paris to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the truce that ended World War One, surrounded by more than 100 heads of state, all of whom have followed with intense interest the ou...
Nalifa Mehelin 2018-11-09 21:21:39
Amidst the success of the Paris Agreement in committing towards a sustainable environment and the breakthrough in handling the refugee crisis in Europe, the year 2015 gained momentum when 12 countries...
Harun Rashid 2018-11-09 20:48:45
Financial ratios are the key to understand how a company performs. We will discuss five valuable financial ratios that every investor must know. Many of us probably heard about some of them, but let's...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2018-11-08 20:50:36
Creativity is one of the most important characteristics of humans. It is a dominant trait that makes us successful as individuals as well as groups. We constantly need new and better ideas for almost...
Shihab Sarkar 2018-11-08 20:41:10
The Honduran caravan, one of the longest migrant marches overland in recent times, plays out similar spectacles of the 20th and 21st centuries in mind. They include the marches that crossed thousands...
M Rokonuzzaman 2018-11-07 21:06:54
In the global innovation index 2018, Japan has been placed at the 13th position. Countries like Ireland, South Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom are ahead of Japan. Does it mean that Japan has r...
Hosna Saba Tarin 2018-11-07 20:58:42
When it comes to "micro-financing" in Bangladesh, the first names that pop into our minds are "Grameen Bank" and "BRAC". During the "battle" between these two giants, another institution has found i...
Syed Amdadul Huq 2018-11-06 21:31:17
No sooner had the euphoria about 4G technology died down, a vastly improved 5G started to knock at our door. Mobile telecom operators say, 5G will revolutionise the way in which we use the internet an...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2018-11-06 21:26:35
Hate crimes, anti-Semitism and bigotry have increased manifold in the United States since Donald Trump assumed the country's presidency in January 2017. Many have reasoned that these are happening a...
Habib Siddiqui 2018-11-05 20:43:06
American voters go to the polling booths today (Tuesday) to cast their ballots in what is described here in the USA as the mid-term elections. Usually, the mid-term elections are boring events in whic...
Helal Uddin Ahmed and Mehrabul Ferdausi 2018-11-04 21:35:19
Japanese philosophers have wielded considerable influences on the society and culture of Japan as well as the Southeast Asian countries since the ancient era. This article presents a chronological rev...
Shamsul Alam 2018-11-03 21:42:45
Bangladesh crossed over from a low-income economy to a lower middle-income economy in 2015. The country has already fulfilled all the criteria of graduating from least developed country (LDC) to a dev...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2018-11-01 22:04:43
From time to time, we get people who glorify societies through their knowledge, intellect, dedication and work. Khanbahadur Ahsanullah (1873-1965) was such a great person. He was a renowned educationi...
Shihab Sarkar 2018-11-01 21:28:08
Tourism days, weeks and, even, months are commonplace in the country these days. The government designated the whole year of 2016 to tourism. The objective was to showcase the potential for tourism in...
Mohammad Masoom 2018-10-30 21:28:18
Bangladesh's banking industry comprises 58 banks that include six state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs), three specialised banks (SBs), nine foreign commercial banks (FCBs) and 40 private commercial ba...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2018-10-30 21:26:50
By now there is almost a surfeit of literature on the subject of globalisation. From erudite academics to well-known journalists, books on globalisation are pouring in the market endlessly. There have...
Abdoulaye Mar Dieye 2018-10-28 21:03:48
As the old adage goes: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". Nowhere is this more appropriate than when it comes to conflict. Violent conflict causes not only human suffering and destruct...
Muhammad Zamir 2018-10-28 20:54:08
Controversy continues to stalk our ready-made garment (RMG) sector despite positive efforts undertaken by the relevant authorities in this regard. This issue has assumed importance because it is th...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-10-26 21:04:57
Managing numerical data is one of the biggest challenges for journalists in the digital era. They get data from multiple sources and they have to filter, cross check authentication of those data befor...
Shihab Sarkar 2018-10-25 21:01:17
The sudden death of pop music icon Ayub Bachhu on last October 18 and the pervasive gloom it created among his fans was phenomenal. The nation witnessed a cross-country outburst of spontaneous grief,...
Kaushik Bhowmik 2018-10-23 21:42:26
No more the effect would follow the cause. What was stashed away in the nook and fold of quantum physics, finally seems to have found light of the millenia. Thanks to this discipline, a latest finding...
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2018-10-22 21:17:00
The death of musician Ayub Bachchu on October 18, 2018 came as a shock to many Bangladeshis at home and abroad. The untimely demise of the rock-star was being deemed as the 'end of an era' by most fan...
Frank Peters 2018-10-21 20:32:11
Three cheers for Nepal. Hip-hip, hooray! Hip-hip, hooray!! Hip-hip, hooray!!! Having a population size of 26 million, the South Asian country last month adopted an Act relating to protection of childr...
Md Akther Uddin 2018-10-20 22:00:03
The Economist published an article last week titled 'Not interest-free' which posits that Islamic banks are drawing non-Muslims in increasing numbers not mainly because of ethical issues; rather...
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