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HATIRJHEEL is a very important road. Places like Gulshan, Banani, Rampura and Shatrasta are linked by Hatirjheel and people living in the area can also move to these busy areas...
As the mango season is approaching fast, it is now time for launching an awareness programme among farmers about the do's and don'ts keeping in view bitter experiences of the...
Across the world, Bangladesh is believed to be the birthplace of microcredit. Over time, innumerable books, articles and research papers poured into this 45-year-old financial route to rural poverty eradication....
Diabetes is a physical disorder; it is preventable if detected early. If it is not detected early, it will affect eyes, kidneys, legs, nerves, heart, etc. A retired medical college...
As more than 95 per cent of the country is covered by already deployed 30,000 towers, the policy should encourage access of smaller operators as well as new entrants to...
Media reports suggest that loan management is not doing well. At the moment around 10 per cent of the total loans are in default category. Former Deputy Governor of Bangladesh...
Every citizen of every country looks forward towards a meaningful and accountable governance structure. It is this expectation that has led to the abolition of absolute monarchy and the introduction...
RECENTLY I visited the Dhaka Textile and Garments Machinery Fair held in the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. As it was a weekly holiday I found a big crowd at the...
I was really surprised to see a pile of construction materials heaped on the roadside in Moghbazar area, which was creating obstruction to pedestrians and hampering traffic movement. Keeping construction...
HONESTLY, I sometimes wish that 'sites' such as facebook, twitter (or any social networking site) had not been invented at all. Undoubtedly, they are great and incredibly useful. But the...
Is this nation going to be known as a child murderer? The rate at which child homicide, including filicide, is committed all across the country should be enough to earn...
The Manikganj Additional District and Sessions Court on February 22 sentenced Jamir Hossain, driver of a bus, to life imprisonment as he was found guilty of reckless driving and negligence...
In 2016, Bangladesh's manpower exports witnessed a robust growth of 36.31 per cent while the remittance inflow declined by 10.87 per cent in the same year. The country's Expatriates' Welfare...
THE inherent tendency of our students is to find a job after graduation as our education system motivates them to do so. It would be good if our teachers could...
BANGLADESH has moved long ahead since independence about 46 years ago. The major driving force of this country is its youth. From the Language Movement in 1952 to the War...
A famous documentary movie about a devastating earthquake shows the part of a wall of a battered building standing as the lone surviving structure. The film was made in the...
The World Bank (WB) has granted a fund of US$200 million for exploring the potential of the Blue Economy. This is obviously good news for Bangladesh. The Blue Economy conceptualises...
International water expert, the late B M Abbas A.T will no doubt have turned in his grave had he been around to hear Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar suggesting that...
The incidence of income poverty is being discussed from different angles. The conclusion is that (a) poverty level declined in Bangladesh between 1988 and 2014, and (b) particularly income poverty...
The calendar year that ended was a slog for the world economy. Weak international trade and subdued investment, among other culprits, conspired to slow world growth to its weakest pace...
According to a FE report, foreign aid has accumulated to a record high of nearly US$35 billion in the current fiscal for failure of government agencies to utilise it. Officials...
ALMOST all over the world the rising trend of non-performing loans (NPLs) is a matter of grave concern. NPL means bank loans unpaid beyond their dates of payment which may...
THE agony that one has to go through to avail public transports is well known to everybody. It is particularly painful during office hours as our public transports are inadequate...
Unfortunately, Dhaka is being considered one of the world's most inhospitable cities - it ranks second among the world's megacities with the worst levels of air pollution. It is not...
All is not well in agriculture. Humayun Kabir, headmaster of a high school in Chandpur district, last year leased his 10 decimal farmland to a neighbour only for Tk 500...
The country is on the threshold of having either an inclusive citizenship process or an exclusive citizenship. Let us start with primordial days when there was no concept of statehood....
Most recently Muktobuddhi Prokasana, a leading publishing house in the country, launched a book of outstanding merit authored by noted academician Professor Abul Barkat. The book entitled Political Economy of...
Perhaps no other recognised language in the modern world ever meets the same pitiable fate as Bangla. The language is spoken by over 210 million people in Bangladesh, India's West...
ALTHOUGH a lot is being done by the present government, many things are yet to be done in the communication sector. We need to improve our communication and add speed...
THIS refers to this writer's 'letter to editor' titled "Nature lover par excellence" published in your letters column on February 10. The daily involved has gifted the poor rickshaw-puller a...
EVERY year a lot of young men and women join banking jobs with the dream of a golden career. But they are soon disillusioned and lose their hopes at the...
A few government agencies are found involved in various sorts of whimsical acts as far as the execution of development projects is concerned. Instances of recurrent rise in cost and...
An unrelenting procession of deaths from road accidents marks the first month and the two-thirds of the second month of the 2017. Various sources put the number of deaths at...
The February 2017 report of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwCs) Top-30 country projections repeats a theme earlier visited in Scopus (January 03, 2017) - of the tables of global wealth inverting, placing hitherto...
It is not just strange but puzzling to see that the government, despite all kinds of threats and warnings it regularly issues, is not at all in a position to...
THE Tigers will travel to Sri Lanka and play two test matches, three ODI and two T20I matches there. It is a great bonus for the cricke-loving people of the...
FOOD adulteration is still rampant in our country. Particularly in Dhaka city where we can see fruits sprayed with various kinds of chemicals. Many health complications arise due to such...
A news about 'refrigerant gas', published in a newspaper on February 20 drew my attention. The newly developed 'refrigerant gas' will reduce electricity consumption of all 'refrigerators and deep-freezes' which...
Early this week the second annual economists' conference of the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (Sanem) devoted a session exclusively to IT and Financial Inclusion. The central concern and...
The Dhaka University has once again agreed to take back under its jurisdiction the seven famous Dhaka city colleges like Dhaka College, Eden Mohila College and Shaheed Suhrawardi College. Some...
The transition between nothing and governance isn't one that rolls smoothly. Unfortunately, the time taken between becomes exasperating as political opponents diametrically opposite in thought and process require time to...
When the World Bank (WB) cancelled the US $2.0-billion loan for the construction of the Padma Bridge on the spurious ground of corruption the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) felt not...
The tragic road accidents that take place everyday in the country have brought about a sense of insecurity among the people when they travel short or long distances. On February...
EARLY this year, a news item titled "No one admitted in four departments of RUET" drew my attention. The departments were Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), Computer Science and Engineering...
AS of July 2016, more than 280,000 homeless people were staying in Dhaka and the number is going up at present. Numerous people from Bangladesh's rural countryside left their homes...
DESPITE being a megacity of more than 10 million people, Dhaka's solitary cattle market at Mirpur is unable to cater to the upward demands of all 'Dhakaites'. Located in the...
Highways are the lifeline of an economy as these are usually built for speedy transportation of men and materials. A traveller is supposed to experience an uninterrupted movement of transports...
The South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) organised a two-day annual economists' conference (February 18-19, 2017). The first day of the conference was devoted to an interesting panel discussion...
Debate over definitional issues of small and medium industries has gone for long, but the general agreement both in this part of the world and in developed countries is that...
Breakfast is the first meal of the day, most often eaten in the morning before undertaking the day's work. The word literally refers to breaking the fasting period of the...
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