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The rising ferocity of floods, the aftermaths

The rising ferocity of floods, the aftermaths

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...

US scenario: The centre-right is out for the kill

US scenario: The centre-right is out for the kill

-- 2017-09-07 06:05:34

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...

A look at Charlottesville

A look at Charlottesville

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...

The ignored plight of the Rohingyas

The ignored plight of the Rohingyas

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...

The USA trumps Pakistan, takes a new stance in Afghanistan

The USA trumps Pakistan, takes a new stance in Afghanistan

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...

Political centre-left evaporating in the Atlantic zone   

Political centre-left evaporating in the Atlantic zone  

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...

Brexit — Britain\'s road to perdition

Brexit — Britain\'s road to perdition

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...

Strengthening the Securities & Exchange Commission

Strengthening the Securities & Exchange Commission

-- 2017-08-14 18:02:12

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...

Donald Trump\'s \'fire and fury\'

Donald Trump\'s \'fire and fury\'

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...

Surviving America\'s political meltdown

Surviving America\'s political meltdown

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...

Intertwining of the global economy

Intertwining of the global economy

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...

Addressing the issue of the evolving roles of men in families

Addressing the issue of the evolving roles of men in families

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...

Relevance of Tagore to the 21st century world

Relevance of Tagore to the 21st century world

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...

While globalisation gently sleeps

While globalisation gently sleeps

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...

Credit analysts and good corporate governance

Credit analysts and good corporate governance

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...

HDR 2016 and a critical view

HDR 2016 and a critical view

-- 2017-08-07 22:13:18

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...

Protecting land owners against developers\' exploitation  

Protecting land owners against developers\' exploitation  

-- 2017-08-07 22:11:50

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...

Travelling in Iceland: The Land of Fire and Ice

Travelling in Iceland: The Land of Fire and Ice

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...

Blending labour advantage with high-tech innovation

Blending labour advantage with high-tech innovation

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...

Lessons learned from Rajon\'s death

Lessons learned from Rajon\'s death

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...

Sailing from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka along the coastline

Sailing from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka along the coastline

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...

European Union\'s response to Brexit: UK still in a muddle

European Union\'s response to Brexit: UK still in a muddle

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...

European Union\'s response to Brexit: UK still in a muddle

European Union\'s response to Brexit: UK still in a muddle

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...

Self-sufficient in food grains but deficient in nutrition

Self-sufficient in food grains but deficient in nutrition

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...

Aid for Trade - donors call the shots

Aid for Trade - donors call the shots

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&#3...

Modernising the system of bank guarantee in foreign exchange

Modernising the system of bank guarantee in foreign exchange

-- 2017-07-24 18:34:57

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...

Technology progression creates a policy dilemma

Technology progression creates a policy dilemma

-- 2017-07-24 18:25:25

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...

OIC and its human rights commission

OIC and its human rights commission

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...

The G20 Summit, 2017: An overview

The G20 Summit, 2017: An overview

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...

Artha  Rin Adalat Act: Liability versus security

Artha Rin Adalat Act: Liability versus security

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...