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AN-26 crashes in Bay of Bengal

AN-26 crashes in Bay of Bengal

S M Nasimul Haque 2016-03-12 23:13:18

On the morning of March 09 a cargo flight of True Aviation took off from Cox's Bazar airport R/W 35 for Jessore with shrimps. The set of crew were all from Ukraine. The Captain was a veteran pi...

Regional connectivity on a wider canvas

Regional connectivity on a wider canvas

Shahiduzzaman Khan 2016-03-10 00:43:42

Regional connectivity has to be based on a wider canvas linking Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar by road, rail, water and air, if it is to deliver desired outcomes, following a multimodal concept that...

Open options

Open options

Mahmudur Rahman 2016-03-10 00:39:17

The news that Janata Bank, too must be probed for inappropriateness in loans sanctions close to Tk 7.42 billion (742 crore) has had more impact than the now usual, if sad, bank scam. This was th...

Hassles and funding

Hassles and funding

Shamsul Huq Zahid 2016-03-09 00:31:05

The story about the hassles a public servant has to encounter to get his/her retirement benefit file cleared is an old one. The situation in this area has not changed a bit even 45 years after t...

Tax collection: The dilemma

Tax collection: The dilemma

M A Taslim 2016-03-04 00:28:38

The Finance Minister will soon commence his annual ritual of consulting the high and mighty of the populace to prepare the draft of the next budget. This is a good way to make them a party to th...

Small savers and missing ‘warmth’ in economy

Small savers and missing ‘warmth’ in economy

Shamsul Huq Zahid 2016-03-02 00:39:28

Small savers, particularly the pensioners, are now in a quandary about the destination of their funds. They have three investment options -- time deposits with banks, stock market and the stat...

Reaping benefits of demographic dividend

Reaping benefits of demographic dividend

Shahiduzzaman Khan 2016-02-25 00:22:28

Economists and others taking part in the annual conference of the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM) in Dhaka this week dwelt at length on the demographic dividend. They discussed...

Providing the much-needed impetus to FDI

Providing the much-needed impetus to FDI

writes Tahsin Farah Chowdhury 2016-02-25 00:11:32

Bangladesh's economy is at an inflection point, ready to move to a higher growth trajectory. But it is falling short of a critical ingredient -- foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI is recogniz...

A catalyst for investments: Prospects and challenges

A catalyst for investments: Prospects and challenges

write Khurshid Alam and Tahsin Farah Chowdhury 2016-02-25 00:09:16

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are areas within a country with special economic regulations aimed at enhancing its investments including foreign direct investment (FDI). They enable businesses to pr...

Something more terrible than insurgency

Something more terrible than insurgency

Shamsul Huq Zahid 2016-02-24 00:40:32

Bangladesh does produce neither phensidyl nor yaba. Its two next-door neighbours-India and Myanmar-do. But the country has to bear the disastrous consequences of two narcotics that are available...

The case for surge funding

The case for surge funding

George Soros in Munich 2016-02-22 22:51:17

Important progress was made at the donors' conference for Syrian refugees convened in London on February 4. But much more remains to be done. The international community is still vastly underes...

No Brexit

No Brexit

Anatole Kaletsky in London 2016-02-22 22:50:32

Among the multiple existential challenges facing the European Union (EU) this year - refugees, populist politics, German-inspired austerity, government bankruptcy in Greece and perhaps Portugal - o...

Reflections on 21st February

Reflections on 21st February

writes Muhammad Quamrul Islam 2016-02-20 21:09:28

We are of the generation of the early 1940s. We became imbued with the spirit of the movement for the mother tongue while at the junior level of school. We heard from classmates and seniors about t...

O amar ei Bangla bhasha

O amar ei Bangla bhasha

writes Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA 2016-02-20 21:08:43

Yesterday was a sunny, windless, frozen afternoon as I was walking along the trails in my suburban American town. Above me the sunlight was pouring through the naked branches of the trees without l...

The immortal Ekushey

The immortal Ekushey

writes Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2016-02-20 21:07:36

The Bengali Language Movement  which gave birth to the incidence of 21st February in 1952, sixty four years ago, popularly  known as the supreme sacrifice on  Ekushey (the 21st), was a socio-politi...

Bangla language -- lot more than a mother tongue

Bangla language -- lot more than a mother tongue

writes Shihab Sarkar 2016-02-20 21:06:47

Sixty-four years after the full-scale Language Movement on 21st February in 1952, many would like to have an in-depth look at the later fruits of the historic movement. It has long been an establis...

Winter festivals boost our rural economy

Winter festivals boost our rural economy

writes Muhammad Zamir 2016-02-20 21:05:49

Winter is looked forward to in our country. It is a season that arrives towards the beginning of December and lasts till the third week of February. It also assumes special importance because of th...

Saying to the world: Endonymously yours!

Saying to the world: Endonymously yours!

writes Imtiaz A. Hussain 2016-02-20 21:04:53

When asked, our typical citizen identifies his/her language as Bangla, which, in phonetic English, becomes "Bengali". With English as the official language in over 80 countries (from tiny Singapore...

Written-off or ‘forgotten’ loans

Written-off or ‘forgotten’ loans

Shamsul Huq Zahid 2016-02-17 00:37:10

The size of the toxic assets of the country's banks, according to the latest statistics of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), stood at Tk.513.71 billion at the end of the final quarter of 2015, repre...

Overhauling China Keyu Jin in London

Overhauling China Keyu Jin in London

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Pessimism about China has become pervasive in recent months, with fear of a "China meltdown" sending shock waves through stock markets worldwide since the beginning of the year. And practically eve...

Sustainable development and Bangladesh perspective

Sustainable development and Bangladesh perspective

Mohammad Humayun Kabir, Mohammad Joynal Abedin Khan and Jafar Ahmed 2016-02-12 20:14:16

According to The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development's Report in 1987, "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromisin...

Tourism: Bangladesh a place to discover for nature-lovers

Tourism: Bangladesh a place to discover for nature-lovers

Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled 2016-02-12 20:12:30

Bangladesh is a country blessed by nature more than most other countries in the world. With all the natural beauties like the Bay of Bengal and the Sundarbans, Bangladesh surely is a place to disco...

Gearing up process of industrialisation

Gearing up process of industrialisation

Shahiduzzaman Khan 2016-02-11 00:06:50

A new industrial policy is in the offing with its major focus on encouraging promotion of a high-priority industrial sector with the aim of giving an impetus to public-private partnership (PPP)...

AIIB to boost Asian Infrastructure and Connectivity

AIIB to boost Asian Infrastructure and Connectivity

Zaidi Sattar 2016-02-08 00:05:53

Launched in Beijing last month, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is the latest multilateral development bank (MDB), coming 15 years after the establishment of the European Bank fo...

Milking the consumers, freely

Milking the consumers, freely

Shamsul Huq Zahid 2016-01-31 22:29:52

     

Wage board for journalists totally unnecessary: Muhith

Wage board for journalists totally unnecessary: Muhith

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Journalists in Bangladesh get paid more than civil servants, and should therefore not have a wage board, claimed Finance Minister AMA Muhith. He made the comment at a discussion organised by the New...

Extradite Noor Chowdhury, PM asks Canada

Extradite Noor Chowdhury, PM asks Canada

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the Canadian government to extradite Noor Chowdhury, one of the self- proclaimed killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "One...

Uttar Pradesh suspends hospital chief after deaths of 60 children

Uttar Pradesh suspends hospital chief after deaths of 60 children

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The head of a hospital where dozens of children died in recent days has been suspended, as officials traded blame over cash shortfalls that led to supplies of medical oxygen being cut. The governmen...

Barcelona attack suspect shot dead

Barcelona attack suspect shot dead

Reuters

Spanish police on Monday shot dead an Islamist militant who killed 13 people with a van in Barcelona last week, ending a five-day manhunt for the perpetrator of Spain's deadliest attack in over a deca...

Muhith seeks Japan’s funds for mega-projects involving billions

Muhith seeks Japan’s funds for mega-projects involving billions

FE Report

Finance Minister AMA Muhith sought Wednesday funds from Japanese banks for financing mega-projects.   "After having attained some maturity, now we think that we should go for mega-projects. And...