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Coping with the monster of corruption

Coping with the monster of corruption

Masud Ahmed 2018-01-06 12:10:34

We have been harping on a matter relating to the essence of the book's content since long. That is "there is corruption in every nook and cranny of our society and polity". Accordingly this book title...

Responsibility of society to the elderly

Responsibility of society to the elderly

Mohammad Anisur Rahaman 2018-01-06 12:09:22

The Division for Social Policy and Development Ageing of United Nations (2017) has revealed that between 2015 and 2030, the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals, the number of older perso...

Challenges lie in coordination

Challenges lie in coordination

Mohammad Tarikul Islam 2018-01-06 12:08:23

Bangladesh is undeniably the world's most disaster - prone country. Repeated disasters destroy the economic resource base of the poor people and drain out economic potentials. Effective humanitarian c...

The North Korean-US stand-off: Will Trump 'make deal' with Kim?

The North Korean-US stand-off: Will Trump 'make deal' with Kim?

Muhammad Mahmood 2018-01-06 08:28:57

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un in his new year address claimed that the USA was within the reach his country's nuclear missiles but those weapons would be used "only if our security is threatened''....

Schoolboy dies in Barisal road crash

Schoolboy dies in Barisal road crash

-- 2018-01-01 11:21:03

A class-three student was killed as a motorcycle hit him on Janukisingh road in Kaunia area of Barisal district on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as Tanvir, son of Delwar Hossain and cla...

What to watch in 2018     

What to watch in 2018    

Peter Apps       2017-12-31 10:59:14

Professional forecasters like to say that making predictions is difficult, particularly about the future. As we reach the end of 2017, however, here are some of the key themes - and questions - that...

Treatment of cardiac diseases can be less costly

Treatment of cardiac diseases can be less costly

Nilratan Halder 2017-12-30 12:25:42

The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) is known as a state-of-the-art hospital for treatment of coronary or popularly called heart diseases. So far as the facilities are concerned f...

Taking research to the global height

Taking research to the global height

P R Datta 2017-12-30 12:24:52

Bangladesh, like a number of South Asian countries, is one that has its rich cultural history, one that has been influenced by its natural setting. It witnessed the rise and fall of empires, with the...

Credit risk management: Doing it diligently

Credit risk management: Doing it diligently

Md. Mashiur Rahman 2017-12-30 12:23:33

A risk-focused examination process is there to direct the inspection process to the more risk-prone areas of both operations and business. Skills in risk-focused supervision are continually being deve...

Muggers on the prowl, again

Muggers on the prowl, again

Nilratan Halder 2017-12-23 12:44:56

Muggers are on the prowl again -this time with renewed vengeance. The other day a woman on a rickshaw in the city coming from Shariatpur for treatment of her son had to suffer the loss of her baby whe...

Rohingyas: Lurching from crisis to crisis

Rohingyas: Lurching from crisis to crisis

Farid Ahmed in Cox's Bazar 2017-12-23 12:43:55

Ferdous Begum was cleaning her child after he had defecated in the open, using leaves she collected from a nearby tree at Bangladesh's Teknaf Nature Park. The settlement is packed with Rohingya refuge...

Exorcising the ghost of question leaks

Exorcising the ghost of question leaks

Pamelia Khaled 2017-12-23 12:42:30

Curriculum theorist Aoki's planned curriculum reminds us of Leonard Cohen's (1992) song, The Anthem: There is a crack in everything. That's how the light comes in. The meaning of pedagogy is stranded...

Feasting on nature’s wintry veg bounties

Feasting on nature’s wintry veg bounties

Fahmida Hashem 2017-12-23 12:40:50

Eating more vegetables make you more attractive, veg can change your skin pigment and improve circulation causing a "natural glow". It can help you lose weight. Most vegetables are very low in calorie...

Complacency will be tested in 2018

Complacency will be tested in 2018

Stephen S. Roach 2017-12-18 09:18:01

After years of post-crisis despair, the broad consensus of forecasters is now quite upbeat about prospects for the global economy in 2018. World gross domestic product (GDP) growth is viewed as increa...

Only martyred intellectuals and no more!

Only martyred intellectuals and no more!

Nilratan Halder 2017-12-15 09:19:44

They are martyred intellectuals. Yes, martyr has a positive sense in that one chooses to suffer or die rather than giving up a strongly held belief. By doing so, one advances a cause or principle. Dec...

School banking: Welcoming children to the financial world

School banking: Welcoming children to the financial world

Md. Mazadul Hoque 2017-12-15 09:18:03

Monetary matters are the part and parcel of everyman's life. There is no way to ignore it. Without financial empowerment no plan can work. So, if the habit of dealing with monetary matters prudently i...

Let Annisul Huq's unfinished  jobs be completed

Let Annisul Huq's unfinished jobs be completed

Nilratan Halder 2017-12-09 12:55:31

At death some people are mourned because mortality is a great leveller and those alive feel an obligation to reconcile with this universal fact. Here is an unavoidable fact people recognise from a sen...

Rohingya's ordeal in crowded camps

Rohingya's ordeal in crowded camps

Naimul Haq 2017-12-09 12:54:28

Mariam Akhtar, 23, is desperately searching for her young daughter two weeks after arriving from Myanmar in Cox's Bazar, a southeastern coastal district in Bangladesh. Already traumatised by the extr...

The necessity of a vibrant bond market

The necessity of a vibrant bond market

Md. Toufique Hossain 2017-12-09 12:53:08

By definition, capital market is a vast term. It includes stocks, bonds, derivatives and others. But unfortunately, the capital market activities in Bangladesh are almost limited to banks, merchant ba...

The portrait of an ambassador:  Anwarul Karim Choudhury

The portrait of an ambassador: Anwarul Karim Choudhury

Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2017-12-09 12:47:56

Although I have had met Ambassador Anwarul Karim Choudhury on two occasions, I held him in high esteem for his sagacity to pursue diplomacy doggedly and for his personal amiable behaviour. Anwarul Kar...

Where did the benefits of economic growth disappear? Who saves?

Where did the benefits of economic growth disappear? Who saves?

M. A. Taslim 2017-12-05 09:21:06

There is some disquiet among economists about the quality of data provided by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). No less a person than the Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister has expressed his...

Revisiting income inequality and poverty in Bangladesh

Revisiting income inequality and poverty in Bangladesh

Muhammad Mahmood 2017-12-03 12:00:00

Since my article on the same topic was published on  November 12, 2017 in this newspaper, the Preliminary Report on Household Income and Expenditure (HIES), 2016 has been made available in the pu...

Political immunisation at school level

Political immunisation at school level

Nilratan Halder 2017-12-02 12:31:07

So, Bangladesh is going to have an early dose of politics like immunisation programmes against the deadly disease of militancy. The immunisation programme of vaccination and oral therapy of vitamin A...

Doing away with question leaks

Doing away with question leaks

Md Rizwanul Islam 2017-12-02 12:30:17

There has been so much said and written about the very deplorable series of question leaks at different public examinations as well as admission tests and job entrance examinations. It seems that leak...

An unmapped frontier

An unmapped frontier

Prottoya DS Chowdhury 2017-12-02 12:28:59

The immense possibility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking the rein of global development architecture is a hope that most people in the developing world, including Bangladesh, have not considered...

Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury: A modest  tribute

Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury: A modest tribute

Asjadul Kibria 2017-12-02 12:26:58

It was only two months before my joining The Financial Express.  Mr Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, the consulting editor of the newspaper, died in a road accident in Dhaka. In the afternoon of November...

Going green to woo foreign buyers

Going green to woo foreign buyers

Monira Munni 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Local apparel makers are banking on green technology heavily in running their factory operation to brighten the image of the readymade garment sector and the country abroad after the recent industrial...

The glooming and booming apparel retailing markets

The glooming and booming apparel retailing markets

Olivier Zieschank 2017-11-29 02:19:58

The world largest companies by market capitalisation in 2006 lost their leading position to the benefit on IT giants in 2017. The traditional industrial heavy weights, such as Exxon Mobile, General...

The link between investor and customer value for RMG companies

The link between investor and customer value for RMG companies

Bill Humphries 2017-11-29 02:12:29

The RMG industry has made a very significant contribution to Bangladesh's national economy by generating foreign exchange earnings and creating employment opportunities that reduce poverty. Various re...

RMG export to the EU: The challenges ahead of Bangladesh

RMG export to the EU: The challenges ahead of Bangladesh

Zillul Hye Razi 2017-11-29 02:05:42

About two years ago, Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) had set a goal to increase annual export of readymade garments to 50 billion US dollars by 2021. There is also...