Shihab Sarkar 2017-09-07 06:15:38
After playing havoc with vast swathes of the country's north and northeastern regions for more than three months, flood waters have started receding. However, spells of rain have not stopped altogethe...
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How and why the US Democrat Party lost the June 20 congressional replacement election in Georgia ought to become a required Politics 101 reading for all electoral candidates anywhere: the US centre-ri...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-09-05 12:00:00
It now appears President Trump's fire and fury was made manifest on the small town streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. The violent scenes at Charlottesville led to the death of a women and left many...
Kazi Anwarul Masud 2017-09-05 06:48:39
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and world leaders praised Senior General Than Shwe in 2011 for "his vision, leadership, and courage to put Myanmar on the path to change." In 2012, Foreign Policy maga...
M Serajul Islam 2017-09-04 07:59:06
It would be a waste of one's time to explain things that the USA is doing these days in the international arena. The reason is that the country has elected a president who has little clue about anythi...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-09-04 07:54:45
How do we explain the slow and unprecedented decimation of centre-left parties at the start of the 21st Century? Incompatibility with neo-liberalism pushed centre-left leaders like Bill Clinton and...
Anatole Kaletsky 2017-08-16 20:15:51
Full English Brexit is off the menu. Before leaving the European Union (EU) altogether, the British government now wants an "interim period," in which the United Kingdom (UK) would retain the commerci...
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The corporate board around the world nowadays is composed of executives who are an organisation's internal and non-executives who are its external. Non-executive directors (NEDs) are part-time and...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-08-13 20:47:32
The United States and North Korea appear to be on a collision course. Their differing national interests are heading towards irreconcilability and that is clearly reflected in President Trump's th...
Jeffrey D. Sachs 2017-08-12 19:18:11
The US is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralysed; and the world is looking...
Kazi Anwarul Masud 2017-08-12 19:09:10
Brexit and President Trump's 'America First' rhetoric notwithstanding it is unlikely that nationalism and economic nationalism would be able to arrest the march of globalisation. The world...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2017-08-10 22:04:46
The growing interest in the role of men in the family has been triggered by diverse demographic, socio-economic and cultural transformations that have occurred over the past several decades, impacting...
Shihab Sarkar 2017-08-10 21:15:00
It was a late-monsoon day. The medieval Bengalee poets would find such a day filled with an unexplainable sadness. In a rare coincidence, the 22nd of the Bangla month of Sravan, August 07, 1941 in Gre...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2017-08-10 21:06:07
Globalisation is not dead, not by a long shot. Amid the hoopla behind Brexit and Donald J. Trump's 'America First' policy-orientation over the past year or so, not to mention other similar...
Dipok Kumar Roy 2017-08-08 20:57:52
Credit analysts have an important role to play in framing a good quality loan portfolio of a bank. The authorities like credit committee and executive committee of the Board of Directors approve the c...
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Bangladesh has a somewhat comfortable position in Human Development Ranking (HDR). According to HDR Index 2016, Bangladesh has been ranked 139th among 188 countries. Bangladesh moved three notches up...
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The Bangladesh Constitution provides that it shall be a fundamental aim of the State to realise through democratic process a society free from exploitation, a society in which rule of law, fundamental...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-08-05 20:11:59
In a way it was a journey of a lifetime, not because the distance involved for me (I was almost travelling from one end of the world to the other end) to travel there but also seemed to be somewhat...
M Rokonuzzaman 2017-08-02 20:43:55
To reach high-income status by 2041, Bangladesh needs to find ways to increase per capita income above $12,000 from the current level of around $1,500. In order to increase per capita by more than $10...
Mokerrom Hossain 2017-08-01 20:44:34
Four persons were sentenced to death in Sylhet for killing a 13-year-old young boy Rajon in 2015. They tortured him to death accusing him of trying to steal a rickshaw. They video-taped their inhuman...
Md Shamim-Ul-Alam 2017-07-30 20:28:53
Through the official tour of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to Bangladesh during July 13-15, 2017, the two countries are back on the track to revitalise and strengthen their bilateral relat...
Muhammad Zamir 2017-07-30 20:24:44
The recent visit of Prince William and Princess Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to Europe was evidently a charm offensive to underline the deep links that exist between Great Britain and diff...
Muhammad Zamir 2017-07-30 20:22:25
The recent visit of Prince William and Princess Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to Europe was evidently a charm offensive to underline the deep links that exist between Great Britain and diff...
Abdul Bayes 2017-07-28 20:06:50
The Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), an international research partnership, has produced a number of important policy papers/briefs relating to agriculture and nutrition nex...
Asjadul Kibria 2017-07-25 21:31:29
During the second week of this month, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) organised a three-day event to review the latest status of Aid for Trade (AfT). Titled 'Aid for Trade Global Review 2017...
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The Bangladesh Bank (BB) brought about some changes in the Foreign Exchange Regulation a few months ago, allowing commercial banks to issue bank guarantee in foreign currency without its prior approva...
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Since the inception of human civilisation, there has been relentless effort to find ways and means to delegate roles from humans to machines. Such role delegation has been the underlying fact of incre...
Muhammad Zamir 2017-07-23 20:02:39
Upholding of human rights has gained focal attention all over the world. It is generally agreed that absence of this important factor within the paradigm of governance affects individual security, col...
Muhammad Mahmood 2017-07-22 20:25:57
Hamburg, the giant port city of Germany, hosted the twelfth G20 Summit on July 07-08, 2017. The theme of this year's G20 Summit was "Shaping the interconnected world". To convey that theme, the co...
M S Siddiqui 2017-07-21 20:23:58
According to Negotiable Instrument Act 1881, as adopted by Bangladesh, a cheque is a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker or not expressed to be payable other than on demand. That is, a cheque...
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