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Sayed Kamaluddin 2016-10-02 19:28:38
Russian intervention in Syrian civil war supporting the besieged Assad regime in October last year has changed the ground realities and created an opportunity for Moscow to play an increasingly import...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-09-29 22:15:03
We are living in a world which is undergoing deep changes and global challenges affecting both women and men. Throughout their working lives, women continue to face significant obstacles to gaini...
Raihan M Chowdhury 2016-09-29 22:10:06
A book titled 'Foot Last Footwear: Structure, Types and Defects', authored by Noor Mohammad is an enduring effort of the writer and the publishers (LFMEAB and COEL) to support the labour-...
A. F. M. Mainul Ahsan 2016-09-28 21:59:30
Even public offices today all over the world are getting creative to increase their revenue. Apparently this practice is now being adopted by Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). As the part of continual devel...
Shamsul Alam 2016-09-28 21:54:27
Empirical evidences suggest that the share of agriculture in overall economy of the countries always decreases as structural transformation and urbanisation occurs. The labour force engaged in agricul...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2016-09-26 19:43:59
Bertil Linter's recent book, Great Game East, is best summarised by its very own subtitle: "India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier." Of course, the frontier is India&...
Xavier Vives in Bercelona 2016-09-25 19:59:36
The banking business has fallen on hard times. The combination of persistent low interest rates, increasing regulatory compliance costs, and the rise of new competitors taking advantage of financial t...
Asjadul Kibria 2016-09-22 19:35:22
It was one year ago on September 25, 2015 when global leaders adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), formally dubbed as Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in t...
Shihab Sarkar 2016-09-22 19:24:44
The spectacle of vast tracts of land beside a river lying for decades without even a faint trace of vegetation is now quite common in this country. These lands are made up of the geological constituen...
Frank Peters 2016-09-21 19:41:19
The sizzling hot question that's been asked in the red-carpeted corridors of power and throughout the United States right now is why did the State of Alabama paddle 19,000 students during the 2013...
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Responses by banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to the policy initiatives related to sustainable banking and finance are inspiring. Notable changes have taken place in terms of greater...
M Jalal Hussain 2016-09-17 19:28:41
Bangladesh is a low-cost emerging economy with the status of lower middle-income country, where apparels manufacturing and exports have become an important livelihood of millions of people from both u...
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Dhaka and the nearby Keraniganj have recently witnessed two events of a fast-disappearing folk sport --- boat race. Those were held on the Buriganga River, and the Shuvadya canal in Keraniganj. T...
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Child Friendly Schools, Published by UNICEF, 2009, Pages: 244, ISBN: 978-92-806-4376-3 On any given day, more than a billion children across the world go to primary and secondary schools. But...
B K Mukhopadhyay 2016-09-11 20:04:27
The latest forecast says agriculture could become Russia's second biggest export after energy. The country is gaining momentum as one of the world's leading exporters of agricultural products....
Shihab Sarkar 2016-09-08 22:00:44
In our country which is perennially beset with hundreds of problems, a unique few that afflict some areas for a long period of time hardly register in the minds of the people. The authorities concerne...
Rahman Jahangir 2016-09-08 21:57:02
Salman Rushdie has said, "The difference between a memoir and an autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to...
Maswood Alam Khan 2016-09-05 20:51:16
A testament made ages back by Nelson Henderson, a simple farmer in the Swan River Valley region of Manitoba, Canada, made him famous. Henderson philosophised: "The true meaning of life is to plant tr...
Zeenat Khan 2016-09-05 20:43:44
Mother Teresa became synonymous with the slums of Kolkata. On the eve of her nineteenth death anniversary, Pope Francis declared her a saint on Sunday (September 04). To be considered for sainthood, a...
Shihab Sarkar 2016-09-01 18:45:18
In telephone conversations with this writer in 1991, then participating in the Iowa International Writing Program in the USA, Shahid Qadri once said he was very much eager to go back to Bangladesh. In...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2016-09-01 18:41:47
Education is a basic human right and a driver of personal, social and economic development. It is seen as the key to a better future, providing the essential tools that people need to sustain their li...
A. K. M. Fakhrul Alam 2016-08-30 19:25:14
In Bangladesh, the word palm oil is synergic with Malaysia. Regardless of the import sources of palm oil, people of Bangladesh think it is from Malaysia. Such perception has developed among the Bangla...
Jamaluddin Ahmed 2016-08-29 18:27:14
The Bank of France's losses were notable but not unique, Belgium and the Netherlands being other cases in point. They underscored the perils of foreign exchange markets. Gone now were the dull day...
Mohammad Abu Bakar Siddique 2016-08-28 20:30:13
Islamic finance is fast growing across the world. Ernst & Young, a consultancy and accounting firm, estimates that Islamic banking assets grew at an annual rate of 17.6 per cent between 2009 and 2013,...
Anthony Costello in Geneva and Stefan Swartling Peterson in New York 2016-08-27 20:54:32
King Henry VIII, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, all lost their mothers to infections following childbirth, and literature abounds with tragic stories of maternal deat...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA 2016-08-27 20:51:39
In the 1953 classic Hollywood film, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn Monroe, gave a legendary performance. Clad in a bright pink ball gown and dazzling diamonds, she epitomised the significance of di...
Shihab Sarkar 2016-08-25 19:27:51
Two photographs taken recently in Aleppo city in war-torn Syria and published in the media have taken the world by storm. One has a small boy, smoke-blackened and bleeding, seated inside an ambulance...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled 2016-08-23 19:42:10
More than a dozen current and former board directors and senior managers of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) - the bank messaging system that helps transmit b...
Nironjan Roy 2016-08-22 20:26:07
During the last 50 years, innumerable rules and regulations have been enacted in the developed world but illegal means of earning money could not be prevented. Once financial crime was limited to m...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA 2016-08-22 20:11:49
Since the civil war in Syria started on March 15, 2011, why does it always take a little boy to make the world weep and see the horrors of this prolonged war? At first, on September 02, 2015, it wa...
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