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KAS Murshid 2017-12-05 06:48:52
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) is hosting the BIDS Research Almanac 2017 on December 6-7, with the overall theme of narrowing the policy-research divide. There will be 21 papers fo...
B K Mukhopadhyay 2017-12-04 06:46:03
Any study/scanning of development is important and at the same time interesting. It is important because in any economy, developed or developing, the scope for further economic and social development...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-12-04 05:56:10
It was not that when the United States entered World War I, prompted as it was by repeated German submarine attacks on civilian ships, it was a completely new contender in the global playing-field. It...
M Rokonuzzaman 2017-12-03 12:00:00
According to strategic thinkers, including Michael Porter of Harvard Business School, the development of a country progresses through three primary stages: 1. Factor driven, 2. Investment driven, and...
M Rokonuzzaman 2017-12-01 12:00:00
Innovation has become a buzzword in discourse among business, academic, development and media communities. It has many connotations. One of them is: taking ideas to market at profit. At the dawn of th...
Mahmudur Rahman 2017-12-01 09:03:18
On opposite poles, Emmerson Mnangagwa's departure from his country was as understated as was the spectacularity of the swing from the depths of exile to the Presidency of Zimbabwe. It is just one clas...
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For over a decade now, authentic restaurants have been on the rise in Dhaka City. In authentic restaurants, food is prepared in the same fashion, with the same ingredients, as the original versi...
Safwan Rob 2017-11-30 10:48:57
In recent weeks there has been much debate over the hike in electricity price by the regulator. Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has decided to increase the bulk power tariff to reduce the ta...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-11-30 10:45:28
A plain life does not, generally, make an interesting biopic. This medium of the arts comprises movies and some other audio-visual media. Flat life-stories do not result in appealing biographies eithe...
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In the central panel, Yama’s mother is punishing the transgressor by cooking his head in a pot. Gazi Pir is seated on a tiger, flanked by Manik Pir and Kalu. Gazi’s son Fakira, sister Laks...
Sayed Kamaluddin 2017-11-29 07:00:11
Since the formal launching of China's Belt and Road Forum in May this year in China at a glittering pageantry, its progress has been quite impressive. As many as 29 heads of state and government and r...
K B Ahmed 2017-11-28 09:40:54
The mission of the public leaders is supposed to ensure growth to raise the level of living standard of the people, welfare and environmental comforts for which employment of most of the citizens is t...
M Shafiqul Karim 2017-11-28 08:23:49
Renowned journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury left us on this day (November 29) three years ago in a tragic road accident near Sonargaon hotel while on way to take part in a television talk show. As he w...
Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2017-11-27 09:38:20
There were in the past instances of scattered initiatives when banks helped affected people following some deadly natural disasters. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) also became active later. In the initial s...
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With the average cost of arranging wedding rising by the day, many families, especially those from the middle class might be forced to cut back on some of the arrangements. Only using personal savings...
Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2017-11-26 08:00:08
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Hazards that could potentially cause considerable loss of life and catastrophic physical damage and disruption to society and the n...
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram 2017-11-26 07:07:20
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is increasingly touted as the elixir for economic growth. While not against FDI, the mid-2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) for financing development also cautioned...
Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2017-11-25 08:28:15
Disasters cause both direct and indirect damages: direct damages, by destroying immovable assets and stocks, partially or totally; and indirect losses, by affecting the flows of goods and services, in...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-11-25 07:33:09
The agenda for President Donald Trump's 12-day visit to Asia included North Korea and trade issues. Of course, he at the same time made it clear that he was also on a mission to correct mistakes...
B K Mukhopadhyay 2017-11-24 11:06:12
Agri-business as a concept was born in Harvard University in 1957 with the publication of a book "A concept of Agri-business, written by John David and A. Gold Berg. It was introduced in the Philippin...
Abu Dhabi 2017-11-24 11:04:20
The world's nations got together in Bonn, Germany, for the 23rd annual Conference of the Parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where nearly 200 countries and some...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-11-23 09:26:23
Writing is an art which helps a person express her/him-self effectively. It is one of the ways that we translate our thoughts for other people. Some people are better at expressing themselves in writi...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-11-23 09:22:49
Distribution of textbooks for free among the primary and secondary-level students has been an eagerly-awaited event for these learners across the country since 2010. The occasion is now one of the fes...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2017-11-22 12:00:00
King Salman bin-Abdul Aziz, the octogenarian ruler of Saudi Arabia, has announced to abdicate the throne in favour of his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman. It came as a bolt from the blue as none...
Masih Malik Chowdhury 2017-11-21 12:00:00
An article published in the November 09, 2017 issue of the Financial Express titled 'The Role of the FRC in the Economy' gives an outline of FRC's journey, leading to 2015. The 'cold war' of accountan...
Muhammad Zamir 2017-11-20 12:00:00
Traffic management in urban areas of the country in general and Dhaka in particular has long been a subject of widespread as well as intense public criticism. Citizens suffer inordinate delays every t...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-11-20 08:47:43
What is at stake in a cashless Bangladesh? One must bear in mind what Bangladesh presently is. Apart from its tigers, tea, and beach-replete tourist havens, it is a country whose economic climb owes i...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-19 12:00:00
With the modernity of globalisation, the phrases such as e-books replacing hardcover books, online stores replacing bookshops float around all the time. Bangladesh, however has managed to keep the lov...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-19 12:00:00
Bangladesh, in the past few years, has been progressing and challenging the global market in terms of all the industry, whether it be the social platform or the retail industry. Bangladesh Brand Foru...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-11-18 08:31:37
President Donald Trump has arrived back in the USA after 12 days of tour in Asia declaring his trip as a great success but political observers disagree. His Asian tour took him to Japan, South Korea,...
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