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Hasnat Abdul Hye 2019-05-14 20:45:46
John Maynard Keynes, the architect of Keynesian revolution in post-war world who turned neo-classical economic thought on its head, wrote: "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt fro...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-05-13 21:02:38
If we don't do it now, it will become far more expensive later. With one of the biggest shopping moments forthcoming this month, Bangladesh is set to be hit by a whammy. No, it is not any Hurricane...
Kemal Dervis in Washington, DC 2019-05-13 20:45:15
On May 23-26, voters across the European Union (EU) will go to the polls to elect members of the European Parliament. Much will be at stake. "Never, since World War II, has Europe been as essential,...
M Rokonuzzaman 2019-05-12 21:15:14
Not long ago, we were in the 2G era of cellular communication. The ubiquitous availability of cellular service at an affordable cost made the dream of voice communication for all a reality. Moreover,...
Mahmudur Rahman 2019-05-11 22:00:15
From Ukraine to South Africa, anti-corruption platform plagues democracies raising the point that the 'ism' allows for it more than otherwise. So fed up are people that they're willing to put their tr...
Mekhla Raina and Ismail Shakil 2019-05-11 21:29:35
Insys Therapeutics Inc said on Friday that a cash crunch resulting from legal costs related to a US Justice Department probe into sales practices for the company's powerful opioid medication and other...
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-05-10 21:27:31
On May 07, journalists from across the world expressed their satisfaction on social media platforms following the release of two Reuters' journalists, who were jailed in Myanmar for 500 days. The two...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-05-09 21:17:04
Freedom of expression and media development has a critical role in maintaining the rule of law as well as enhancing good governance. This role is also included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Devel...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-05-09 20:33:23
Once an embarrassing Bangladesh trait, it now characterises low- and middle-income countries at large: remittances overtaking foreign direct investment (FDI). For Bangladesh, just as its low-wage wo...
S M Yasir Arafat 2019-05-08 21:02:16
Suicide is a global public health problem which is the outcome of complex interaction of numerous factors such as genetics, individual psychology, surrounding social factors, and cultural issues. What...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2019-05-06 21:14:37
Though no tangible agreement or joint-communique was issued, Kim's meeting with Putin in Vladivostok on April 25 has renewed historical relationships and understanding between Pyongyang and Moscow. A...
Al Fattah Md. Azim 2019-05-06 20:57:30
A California-based tech company named Zipline has been working on designing and developing drones to deliver emergency medicines in far-off destinations. The technology has already tasted success by s...
Muhammad Mahmood 2019-05-04 20:43:16
The Bangladesh economy has undergone profound transformation since the onset of economic liberalisation which started in the late 1980s. But the liberalisation process has become more vigorous since...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA 2019-05-03 21:49:58
The deadly attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo in the morning of Easter holy day (April 21) generated deep shock waves all over the world. It is estimated that over 259 people...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-05-02 21:19:23
The frequent discoveries of ancient ruins in the recent times point to a significant milestone in the country's archaeological past. If the excavations of newer sites go on without let-up, the archite...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-05-02 20:51:37
According to the 'World Health Organisation (WHO)', health is a state of complete wellbeing - physical, social, mental and spiritual - not just the mere absence of disease. And young people's health i...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-05-02 20:31:00
John Lennon said it best. "All we're saying," he proposed, representing the lay public, "is [to] give peace a chance." With Tom O'Connor's Newsweek piece (November 14, 2018), reporting $5.9 trillion U...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed 2019-04-30 22:00:22
At the invitation of Brunei's Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with eight of her cabinet ministers and a delegation of business leaders, officiall...
Md Shafiqul Islam 2019-04-29 21:45:26
Reduction of costs and improvement of the quality of logistics and transport systems lead to improved access of different goods to international market thus increasing international trade and fuelling...
Muhammad Risalat Siddique 2019-04-26 21:40:45
Is typical storytelling dying or evolving to something else? Do creative professionals need to rethink how to strategise brand content? Can marketers still follow Aristotle's three act structure or Fr...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-04-25 21:59:40
In a new study using a new measurement methodology (called "pseudo Bayes"), James Urton-Washington reported how just under half of all global migrants between 1990 and 2015 have returned home (World...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2019-04-25 21:51:46
At the risk of reiterating what should be obvious, the question of private or public ownership is distinct from the issue of competition or market forces. Despite the misleading claim that privatisati...
Shihab Sarkar 2019-04-25 21:25:43
Existence of incredibly desolate places is not rare even in today's world. In February 2019, the world population went past the 7.71 billion people mark, and this number continues to grow every day. I...
M Rokonuzzaman and Sajjad Zohir 2019-04-24 21:13:09
Like other developing countries, Bangladesh faces the challenge of developing a productive knowledge base, primarily in the technology stack that can drive the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) while...
Tupac Enrique Acosta in Phoenix, Arizona, USA 2019-04-24 21:05:16
The United Nations, as in so many other areas, gives lip service in support of Indigenous issues while lacking the political will and enforcement power over individual member states to comply with the...
Mohamed A. El-Erian 2019-04-23 21:42:59
Not too long ago, the conventional wisdom held that "Japanification" could never happen in Western economies. Leading US economists argued that if the combined threat of weak growth, disinflation, and...
Sunita Narain in New Delhi 2019-04-22 20:40:06
Our acceptance of climate change doesn't keep pace with our energy consumption reduction. However, the latest International Energy Agency's (IEA'S) Global Energy and CO2 Status Report for 2018 has som...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-04-22 20:36:41
One of the defining stories of the second-half of the 20th century was the divide between developed (DC) and less-developed countries. Often dubbed the North-South rift, it basically pitted North At...
Shafiqul Alam 2019-04-20 21:24:50
Energy security, as defined by the International Energy Agency (IEA) as uninterrupted supply of energy at reasonable prices, has both external and internal factors. It can be ensured through local a...
Muhammad Mahmood 2019-04-20 21:15:24
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has already pointed out a slowdown in global growth which still continues to grow and sees no possibility of growth moving into the negative territory. The most m...
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