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Sixty years of Dhaka cinema: Sweet and sour times

Sixty years of Dhaka cinema: Sweet and sour times

Shihab Sarkar 2016-11-03 20:16:24

It took more than 15 years for the movie city of Bombay to see the release of its first-ever 'moving picture' or movie in 1913 after Hiralal Sen's venture. Sen was a resident of the Dhaka...

Expansion of higher education in Asia: An appraisal

Expansion of higher education in Asia: An appraisal

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-11-03 20:12:23

Higher Education in Asia: Expanding Out, Expanding Up Published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2014 Pages 162, ISBN: 978-92-9189-147-4 Since the 1980s, higher education and res...

Bringing the financial system back on track

Bringing the financial system back on track

Nironjan Roy 2016-11-02 20:43:04

The proposed bailout project to clean up accumulated non-performing loans (NPLs) is a very big and challenging one. However, bailout package, securitisation, involvement of Asset Management Companies...

Introducing committee-based lending process

Introducing committee-based lending process

Nironjan Roy 2016-10-29 21:10:18

Board of Directors (BOD) is the supreme authority of a bank and it has a key role in keeping the health of loan portfolio in good shape. So BOD, among other things, must perform the following:  n BOD...

Green building: Ensuring compliance with LEED requirements

Green building: Ensuring compliance with LEED requirements

M. Aktaruzzaman Hasan 2016-10-28 21:21:22

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), "Green building is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient thro...

High rate of non-performing loan is an acute problem

High rate of non-performing loan is an acute problem

Nironjan Roy 2016-10-28 21:19:33

Banking sector in Bangladesh has rapidly developed during the last four decades. In fact, a revolutionary change has taken place in the country's banking arena. Product diversification, automation...

Journal with a unique character

Journal with a unique character

Raihan M Chowdhury 2016-10-27 21:13:53

The first issue marking the literary journal Natun Diganta's stepping into its 15th year (October-December, 2016) of publication is undoubtedly a remarkable event in our world of journals. Like it...

Man is not born doomed: Exploring meaning of human existence

Man is not born doomed: Exploring meaning of human existence

Shihab Sarkar 2016-10-27 21:10:55

Few people could help being emotion choked seeing a front-page photograph printed recently in this newspaper. The photograph shows two pedestrians trying to pull out a street dog from beneath a car, w...

Corruption undermines state\'s legitimacy

Corruption undermines state\'s legitimacy

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2016-10-26 20:40:25

According to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report, "Corruption is widespread in social services such as health and education, as well as in public utilities that provide electricity an...

BRICS continues to play an effective role in global economy

BRICS continues to play an effective role in global economy

Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled 2016-10-24 20:16:07

The member  countries of BRICS- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -   representing nearly half of the world's population were looking for ways to boost trade among  their developing ec...

Risk management strategies in financial inclusion

Risk management strategies in financial inclusion

-- 2016-10-23 19:49:07

  In recent years, a growing number of authorities both at national and international levels have made financial inclusion a policy priority. The international financial sector standard-setting bod...

Harnessing innovations for financial inclusion

Harnessing innovations for financial inclusion

Md. Saifullah Azad 2016-10-22 19:39:45

The global economy is still recovering from the global financial meltdown. Nevertheless, the focus on boosting global growth has never obscured the financial inclusion agenda. In fact, practitioners a...

China\'s revival of the ancient Silk Road

China\'s revival of the ancient Silk Road

Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA 2016-10-21 17:14:47

More than 2,100 years ago, during the Han Dynasty of China, the original Silk Road was established. The goods along the Silk Road moved from east to the west. The routes stretched from China through C...

A paradigm shift from public procurement to PPP procurement

A paradigm shift from public procurement to PPP procurement

Shafiul Alam 2016-10-20 21:28:53

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a growing concept under the present-day market oriented economy across the world. In the implementation of large public infrastructure projects governments can find...

Progress towards children\'s well-being in South Asian countries

Progress towards children\'s well-being in South Asian countries

S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-10-20 21:23:37

Improving Children's Lives, Transforming the Future: 25 years of Child Rights in South Asia, Published by UNICEF, 2014, Pages: 81 Since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

Bob Dylan\'s Nobel: Heralding a new cultural era?

Bob Dylan\'s Nobel: Heralding a new cultural era?

Shihab Sarkar 2016-10-20 20:41:29

Bob Dylan's had been a popular name among the country's young pop music lovers all through the 1970s, the 80s and the 90s. The popularity stemmed largely from the rock star's being part of...

Slums mushroom: Heyday for goons

Slums mushroom: Heyday for goons

Mariha Tahsin 2016-10-19 21:11:51

According to government statistics, as of May 2014, the total number of slum dwellers and floating population in Bangladesh was 2.23 million. Of them 29 per cent were in Dhaka city alone. A total of ....

The chimera of stock-market short-termism

The chimera of stock-market short-termism

Mark Roe in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2016-10-19 20:44:09

An often-heard refrain, increasingly voiced in US politics, is that corporate America is excessively influenced by short-term stock-market considerations. While the US presidential election is not par...

BCIM-EC: The prospects of a regional stock exchange

BCIM-EC: The prospects of a regional stock exchange

Maruf Khan 2016-10-18 20:23:58

After 15 years of intense dialogue and cooperation with two major economic powerhouses of the region as its members, the BCIM forum, comprising Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar,  has now become an...

Financial literacy facilitates financial inclusion

Financial literacy facilitates financial inclusion

Shah Md Ahsan Habib 2016-10-18 19:55:34

The proper design of financial products, along with their respective delivery methodologies, is fundamental to an institution's effective and sustainable delivery of financial services. Inclusive...

Financial inclusion needs legal and regulatory framework

Financial inclusion needs legal and regulatory framework

-- 2016-10-17 17:42:35

  Financial exclusion is a critical challenge to growth, and the benefits of financial inclusion go beyond growth both at the individual and macro level. In addition, access to financial services i...

One Belt, One Road in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

One Belt, One Road in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

-- 2016-10-15 20:41:07

  As a part of his programme to strengthen relations with South Asian countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Bangladesh. The core purpose of this trip was to accelerate the progress of a ke...

Making a case for genuine national identity

Making a case for genuine national identity

Shihab Sarkar 2016-10-13 21:24:24

Exclusive fashion shows focused on dresses from Bangladesh do not fail to trigger interest of our expatriates, and also people from South Asia. This interest is normally sparked by women's wear fr...

US election: Does character override everything else?

US election: Does character override everything else?

Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA 2016-10-11 19:09:21

Donald Trump's second presidential debate this past Sunday night (October 09) could have been far worse. In the end, the debate was not the dramatic cataclysm that everyone was bracing for. Prior...

America wakes up to Donald Trump with a video

America wakes up to Donald Trump with a video

-- 2016-10-10 20:32:09

  When the dust settles over the 2016 presidential election, the question that would no doubt come back to haunt Americans is how did someone like Donald Trump ever come within such striking distan...

Quantitative strategies for investing on DSE

Quantitative strategies for investing on DSE

Golam Sakline 2016-10-09 18:26:43

Data science, a field of study that has stolen the limelight recently, has triggered a massive race in the quantitative trading world. Dhaka-based firm Quantformatix, which provides consultancy and an...

Bidding farewell to Syed Shamsul Haq

Bidding farewell to Syed Shamsul Haq

Shihab Sarkar 2016-10-06 21:02:45

The huge gathering of people from the literary and cultural worlds at the farewell tribute to late Syed Shamsul Haq on September 28 is set to go down in history as a memorable event. Many present at t...

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Seven legal gladiators of India

Seven legal gladiators of India

-- 2016-10-06 20:38:23

Legal Eagles By Indu Bhan Pages 22+234 Published by Random House India (2015) Asjadul Kibria Public perception about lawyers in the developing countries is not very positive thanks to the natu...

Policy for use of environment-friendly chemicals brooks no delay

Policy for use of environment-friendly chemicals brooks no delay

-- 2016-10-04 20:15:47

A chemical use policy is a must. Outdated policies are still in force and some of them do not have rules for implementation. Time has come now to lay emphasis on this issue and inform people of less h...