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Bangladesh is overcrowded with one of the highest density of populations in the world. The pressure of population is mostly severe on cities as elsewhere in the world. Two of...
A front page write-up on a rickshaw puller Samad Sheik of Faridpur, published in a local English daily on February 18 was indeed a fine story. This simple and poor...
Dhaka City has passed almost a meatless week on account of the strike called by the Bangladesh Meat Traders' Association and the Dhaka Metropolitan Meat Traders' Association. Meat lovers certainly...
In the second week of January last, a High Court bench ordered the relevant authorities to issue a notification asking doctors to use capital letters while writing their prescriptions or...
Richard Branson, the phlegmatic owner of Virgin, was able to look at the funny side of things when he posed next to an employee taking a nap while at work....
Inland fisheries comprise about 80 per cent of the total fish production of the country. Kaptai Lake, with an area of 68,800 ha, is one of the important water bodies....
SHAHEED SHAMSUZZOHA - an educationalist and professor of Rajshahi University, was the first Bangladeshi teacher to embrace martyrdom for the sake of freedom from Pakistani oppression and exploitation. The professor...
AT PRESENT, all roads lead to Ekushey Book Fair at Bangla Academy. Immense participation in the fair reflects people's hunger for knowledge regardless of age. Their constant enthusiasm for books...
FEBRUARY 21 is a glorious day in our history due to a tragedy of martyred heroes like Rafiq, Salam, Barkat, Jabbar and others who sacrificed their lives for the cause...
Just saying the ferocity of drug abuse has marked an alarming rise in the country is understatement. It has been so since long. Despite the apparently stringent anti-drug steps taken...
The Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) announced last week that a joint drive would be launched against buses over 20 years' old, unfit vehicles, and illegal drivers in...
The multilateral trading system as envisioned by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) now faces more uncertainty than ever before. The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiation launched in 2001 has...
Donald Trump declared, in his acceptance speech, at the Republican National Congress in last July, "I alone can fix it." Throughout the presidential election campaign he boasted "I know how...
The exceptional growth of global tourism over the last 6 decades is one of the most remarkable economic phenomena of the 21st century. It has emerged from being a relatively...
I came across a letter in your column a couple of days ago on national highway no.1 and felt encouraged to share my delight at the almost completed job. The...
DHAKA has been rated as the second most polluted city in the world after Delhi. Not surprisingly so, as we can see it with our naked eyes. Until recently China...
THE mobile phone operators often make various tricky and vague offers to allure customers. One mobile operator offered one GB internet and get another free. But when I bought the...
Since education is a fair measure of a nation, the procedure of an examination recognises the aptitude or skills of individuals appearing at it. The process however can either be...
No other head of government in post-liberation Bangladesh has ever taken note of fast depleting farmlands as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina does. She loses no time in calling for preserving...
Most road accidents occur due to over-speeding of vehicles and desperate attitude of drivers. This is the finding of the research institute of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology...
Economic growth and employment generation are considered to be inextricably linked. In Bangladesh particularly, the most recent experience relating to growth-employment nexus does not seem to hold good. Again, within...
There is a raging debate as to the congruity of keeping Secularism and Islam in the Constitution. We need to understand that a secular state does not need to be...
The vastness and neat arrangement of the Ekushey Book Fair this year has surely made the book lovers happy. At the main fair opposite the earlier venue at the Bangla...
Bangladesh Cricket team has come back after a solitary Test against India that ended in defeat for the tourists. It was not a one-sided affair and was quite a close...
We, a group of teachers and students of the East West University embarked on a novel venture to form an Environmental and Social Club that took off in September, 1999...
Tofael Ahmed, Minister of Trade and Commerce informed parliament on Wednesday that Bangladesh has a trade deficit of US$4763.28 millions with India alone. We have trade deficit with Pakistan, Bhutan,...
The residents of Dhaka city, it seems, will continue to suffer due to lack of coordination between different utility service providers and two city corporations. An order issued by the...
The news on the arrest of six students of different polytechnic institutes on Sunday last allegedly for their involvement in question paper leak is ambivalent. Its contention is that they...
As the United States leads the rest of the world into the Fourth Industrial Age, Donald J. Trump's advent poses some truly formidable questions. Many of those over the obvious...
Theoretically, a project is a temporary endeavour with a defined beginning and end - often constrained by time, funding or deliverables, and undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives -...
Economic integration is a process of harmonising trade and investment-related policies and reducing/withdrawing tariff and other non-tariff trade and investment barriers between two or more countries. The 1947 General Agreement...
BANGLADESH and India share an excellent bilateral relation for a long time. But things are not moving well on the India-Bangladesh border as we regularly see Bangladesh citizens dying at...
BLUE economy, the extended step of green economy, has already established a strong position to face the challenges of the 21st century, that is, attaining economic growth and saving environmental...
SINCE there is a link between education and career opportunities, acquiring skills and knowledge should be the primary objective of education. But lack of practicability in education can discourage the...
In a landmark judgment, the country's High Court has recently upheld its earlier order that had asked 34 medicine manufacturers to stop production and withdraw of all of their medicines...
The Darul Ihsan University, one of the early starters among the private universities in the country, now has been ordered to be closed by the highest judicial court of the...
The meeting of the Asia-Pacific Business Forum (APBF) held in Dhaka last week received significant attention from international quarters. During the February 08-09 event, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a London-based multinational services...
The Finance Act 2017 imposed a crippling burden on Company-to-Company (C2C) business with far-reaching consequences. It makes inter-company linkage transaction costlier that will ultimately force thousands of packaging and supporting...
Producing Renewable Energy (RE) and improving energy efficiency (EE) are two key areas for energy sustainability and policymakers of both developed and developing countries are increasingly focusing on the issues....
WE are deeply troubled by the news of falling remittances from our migrant workers. In fact, remittances from more than 10 million migrant citizens are very important for the economy...
LONG five years have passed since the double murder of Sagar Runi was committed by unknown assailants. Law enforcing agencies are yet to make any headway in either identifying the...
THE government took a laudable decision in the year 2016 to introduce and operate one driving course at technical training centre in each district. It was long overdue as Bangladesh...
Setting a timeline, allocation of funds and fulfilment of financial targets to correspond to the physical targets are key to successful implementation of a development project. The synergy of these...
It may not be palatable for the Dhaka Municipal Corporation to count how many eviction drives were undertaken in the past decade or so, and what those actually resulted in....
CAREER counselling is very important for building a better career for students who are going to be graduated. Students take admission in universities for higher studies. During the time of...
RAKIBUL Hasan is a 25-year-old young man who always wears a smile on his face and a beard that gives him a casual look. I had the privilege of knowing...
WALKING is a good form of exercise and if we walk 10000 steps everyday we cover 5 miles and it will help us keep in good shape. There are many...
They all cheat passengers in the name of 'seating service'. Passengers are charged higher fares as the buses were supposed to touch only certain spots on the routes where their...
A conference titled 'Delivering for Success at Scale' was recently held in Dhaka. Jointly organised by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (iccdr.b),...
There is a skewed belief that multinational companies do well because they empower their employees, set realistic objectives against which employee performance is evaluated and that they manage their budgets...
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