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Story of a maize man

Story of a maize man

Nilratan Halder 2019-01-11 20:24:42

His presence is ubiquitous at street corners, on the pavement of shopping malls or any busy spots of the city. The afternoons and evenings are the most propitious time for him. His business roars with...

A philanthropist educationist in context

A philanthropist educationist in context

Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2019-01-11 20:23:37

Bangladesh lost a philanthropist on January 16 2017 in Md. Fazlul Haque, who dedicated his life to spread of education among womenfolk, in rural Bangladesh in particular, and one of the pioneers of es...

Essential health care for all

Essential health care for all

Mohammad Rajja 2019-01-11 20:22:00

Advances in medical discipline as well as technology and demographic changes pose widespread challenges to nations in their preparedness for the future. Health science and scientific medical care are...

Economic governance in Bangladesh: Challenges to reform

Economic governance in Bangladesh: Challenges to reform

Shamsul Alam 2019-01-06 20:58:36

Bangladesh's macroeconomic management has usually focused on the following goals which are quite similar to what was laid out in the Maastricht Criteria: (i) low and stable inflation (Bangladesh's mon...

Miss Culture Worldwide-2018  title for Bangladesh

Miss Culture Worldwide-2018 title for Bangladesh

Nilratan Halder 2019-01-04 20:08:01

This is not as widely known a competition as the Miss universe or the Miss World but perhaps in substance and significance far outpaces those beauty pageants. This is Miss Culture Worldwide. And do yo...

An appraisal of the Trump administration

An appraisal of the Trump administration

Mohammad Amjad Hossain, from Virginia 2019-01-04 20:07:06

Since assuming presidency on January 20, 2017 of the United States of America, the oldest democracy and a global leader in the world, Donald Trump has been unlike any other president in the history of...

Our economy, their economy: What's in store in 2019?

Our economy, their economy: What's in store in 2019?

B K Mukhopadhyay 2019-01-04 20:05:42

The global economy looks poised to slow moderately from 3.8 per cent in 2018 to 3.5 per cent next year in Goldman Sachs Research's view, led by deceleration in the US and further softening in China. B...

The mystery behind creation of Chakma speech variety

The mystery behind creation of Chakma speech variety

ABM Razaul Karim Faquire 2019-01-04 20:01:50

The Chakma inhabited Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh and its neighbouring regions in India and Myanmar. They belong to the Tibeto-Burman (TB) ethnic folk, though they speak one of the Indo-...

China's 2019 growth outlook: Coping with international uncertainty

China's 2019 growth outlook: Coping with international uncertainty

Dan Steinbock 2018-12-30 21:02:35

Amid the Christmas meltdown, the Dow Jones plunged to less than 22,000, the lowest since September 2017. Thereafter, it soared over 1,000 points; the biggest single-day point gain ever. Nevertheless...

Development, foreign assistance, foreign loans, FDI, public debt

Development, foreign assistance, foreign loans, FDI, public debt

Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2018-12-29 21:11:23

Bangladesh has been regarded from the beginning as a test case for development. In October 1974, the Bangladesh Aid Group was established under the aegis of the World Bank, with 26 participating gover...

Exploring entertainment journalism

Exploring entertainment journalism

Nilratan Halder   2018-12-29 11:19:17

A new branch of journalism has flourished rather imperceptibly in this part of the world. There is nothing as trendy as the Harper's Magazine, GQ or the likes here. Once, the Chitrali was a naïve...

A giant in child healthcare in Bangladesh

A giant in child healthcare in Bangladesh

Sheikh Sazid 2018-12-28 20:28:05

In recent years, a series of studies by the United Nations and the World Bank applauded Bangladesh's efforts in curbing child mortality. In Asia, among the least developed and middle income countries,...

Women’s stake in overseas job market

Women’s stake in overseas job market

Md. Mazadul Hoque 2018-12-28 20:25:32

In the recent couple of years migration of female workers from Bangladesh to different countries for jobs had been a much-talked-about issue, among others. Now both host and destination countries are...

Ensuring sustainable banking practices

Ensuring sustainable banking practices

Md. Mashiur Rahman 2018-12-28 20:24:04

A bank is a financial institution that acts under the prevailing bank company act of the country and takes its licence from the central bank. Banking means what the bank does. Presently banks are doin...

Heavy traffic congestions taking toll on Ctg

Heavy traffic congestions taking toll on Ctg

Pankaj Dastider 2018-12-22 13:44:50

Chattogram port city suffers from severe traffic congestion. An intolerable situation prevails on all working days except Fridays and Saturdays. Traffic gridlocks are witnessed even during late hours...

Compliance with campaign rules

Compliance with campaign rules

Nilratan Halder 2018-12-21 20:23:31

Mashrafe BinMortaza, whose Midas touch as a captain of the Bangladesh cricket team has changed the outfit's attitude and shape, has left his sobering influence on yet another area-politics to be preci...

China makes poverty a museum piece

China makes poverty a museum piece

Naim-Ul-Karim 2018-12-21 19:31:55

Frustration and hopelessness were all that Lankao county's Yan Qing Guan had in his miserable life. That was until the Xi Jinping government helped him run his own business that finally saw his fortun...

Woes and opportunities in Bangladesh labour market

Woes and opportunities in Bangladesh labour market

Nuzat Tasnim Dristy 2018-12-14 21:20:25

Bangladesh has made considerable progress by achieving economic growth rate of 7.85 per cent during FY 2018. However, the country still needs to generate 2 million jobs every year to accommodate new e...

Behind aggressive election campaign

Behind aggressive election campaign

Nilratan Halder 2018-12-14 21:20:20

The more it is the merrier -this seems to be the motto of life. But this is only when the good things are concerned. In politics the motto is overstretched to the point where nobody knows where to sto...

Gas crisis in Chattogram and an agency

Gas crisis in Chattogram and an agency

Pankaj Dastider 2018-12-14 21:18:47

Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Co Ltd (KGDCL), dedicated to supplying gas to the Chattogram region comprising Cox's Bazar, Rangamati, Bandarban, Khagrachhari and Chattogram, was always plagued by numerou...

Women’s fight on the climate front

Women’s fight on the climate front

Samia Mallik 2018-12-14 21:17:18

Climate change has a greater impact on those sections of the population, in all countries, that are most dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods and/or who have the least capacity to resp...

A call for ensuring rights-based dev

A call for ensuring rights-based dev

Ayon Debnath 2018-12-14 21:15:12

In recent years Bangladesh made commendable progress in ensuring minority rights. However, the need for promotion and protection of the constitutional rights, human dignity and social inclusion of Dal...

Volatile exchange rate: Time to take precaution

Volatile exchange rate: Time to take precaution

Mohammad Nahian Mursalin   2018-12-12 21:31:44

Exchange rate has gained a lot of attention in recent months due to its unrestrained movement. Policymakers, businessmen and others have expressed concern over the persistence of the volatility in the...

A critical look into the skill gap in the textile industry

A critical look into the skill gap in the textile industry

Nazneen Ahmed and Mitali Parvin   2018-12-09 21:42:29

The textile industry of Bangladesh, for quite a long time, has been making significant contribution in expanding our exports, employment generation, women empowerment and socio-economic development. T...

Inclusiveness and equality can boost economic growth

Inclusiveness and equality can boost economic growth

Shamsul Alam 2018-12-07 21:29:25

December 3 was celebrated globally as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). Originally, annual observance of the IDPD was proclaimed for the first time in 1992, through a resoluti...

Frustration, addiction  and waste of youth

Frustration, addiction and waste of youth

Nilratan Halder 2018-12-07 19:06:22

Addiction and crime stay like cosy chums huddled together. Not all addictions, however, show the symptom of criminality initially. It is like a trap into which one steps never to turn back. The situat...

A look back in time

A look back in time

Tahira Islam 2018-12-07 19:05:24

Being a recent graduate of computer engineering in the field of digital technology, my aspiration is directly linked to the digital revolution of the late 20th century. Digital revolution marks the tr...

An adage in vogue  long before Trump

An adage in vogue long before Trump

Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2018-12-07 19:03:03

Jamal Khashoggi, a great journalist of Saudi Arabia, was brutally killed inside the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct 3 last. Since then, the Aljazeera TV channel of Qatar has been...

Meet 20th century Japanese philosophers

Meet 20th century Japanese philosophers

Helal Uddin Ahmed and Mehrabul Ferdausi 2018-12-07 18:59:44

Japanese philosophers have wielded considerable influences on the society and culture of Japan as well as the Eastern and Southeast Asian countries since the medieval era. This article presents a chro...

Economic growth and erosion of real wage

Economic growth and erosion of real wage

Asjadul Kibria   2018-12-05 20:56:37

Bangladesh economy has been registering a consistent upward growth for the last few years. At the same time, inflation rate has also been maintaining a modest hike. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose...