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The country's major trade bodies of late have been making strong pleas to the policymakers to improve infrastructures and do the needful for reducing the cost of doing businesses in...
Developing nations, like Bangladesh, have been increasing investment in technology usages-primarily in the capital goods. In the globally connective economies, competition force is driving the usages of more technology intensive...
Some people of Bangladesh are happy that Donald Trump has made it to the White House. Many of them belong to the business community and to those allied to them....
I am writing on behalf of the non-resident people at Dubai, who bought some goods with their hard-earned money and sent them to Bangladesh. Unfortunately, all the parcels containing the...
THE lifeline of transportation in Bangladesh is the highway between Dhaka and Chittagong. Apart from being a link between the country's two largest cities, the road, which is approximately 250...
I was shocked to learn about the death of a journalist, Abdul Hakim who was working for the daily Shomokal. He was caught between a gunfight of two opposing groups...
Unlike many other large historic cities across the world, Dhaka appears overenthusiastic in its steps to demolish heritage sites. They include buildings in the main. The actions are evidently prompted...
The country's prime chamber -- Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Dhaka -- has called for reducing cost of doing business. In a meeting with Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed...
Japanese development partner JICA-assisted Matabari Coal-Fired Power Generation Project is finally on a roll again. Some uncertainties were created in the financing and implementation of the project following the unholy...
The key political divide in the United States is not between parties or states; it is between generations. The millennial generation (those aged 18-35) voted heavily against Donald Trump and...
THE BURDEN OF PUBLIC EXTERNAL DEBT HAS FALLEN: Some analysts are often misquoting the level of public external debt in media as US$73 billion. They lump together public debt with...
USE of mobile phone while driving is frequent. It distracts the concentration of a driver and raises the possibility of accidents on the streets causing undesirable casualties. Talking on mobile...
HAVING a home is the basic right of all citizens of a sovereign country. Sadly, it is a dream in Bangladesh, not a reality. Possessing a piece of land or...
A nation founded by immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing now shut its doors to refugees fleeing war-torn Syria and suspended entry from seven...
Computing exaggerated statistics to give rosy pictures of economic trends or performance of an economy are self-defeating. For example, people question and throw away such data when they visit kitchen...
Education and gender equality are the key concerns in the new Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda adopted at the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly in September 2015. The...
Printed books still enjoy a buoyant market in New York, Washington DC, London or Paris. In the 21st century, bookstores in many cities have their avid clientele. The news may...
HERMAPHRODITE or transgender, known here as hijra, is the name of a phobia these days. Wherever you go, you may be prey to the gang of common gender and will...
THE drive by DCC South to free the footpaths has already started bearing fruits. Indeed, it has become easier for us to move along them. For example, I do not...
EKUSHEY book fair is on. The fair is organised every year in memory of the martyrs of language movement of 1952. February 21 is being celebrated as the mother language...
It is a piece of welcome news that both the pre-qualified bidders---Marubeni Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation, two large Japanese conglomerates, submitted their bids for the Matarbari coal-fired power plant Tuesday...
The capital's footpaths as usual make news for all the wrong reasons. In recent times the focus on those is even more intense because of the Dhaka South City Corporation's...
The Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), the first agreement negotiated and adopted by the members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 22 years since its inception, is now set to...
Economic indicators are always open to interpretation and debate. Some analyze these numbers objectively whereas others fall prey to their biases. In the latter case, analysts gather and present only...
SYEDUZZAMAN: Yes, President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as you know, was assassinated by a faction of the army. That was a very sad day for Bangladesh because--well, it's a sad...
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the...
I refer to the publication of the letter of the old pensioner in the page-5 of your daily dated 22/12/16.The writer has sincerely tried to focus on the poor life...
The menace of diabetes is growing at an alarming rate. Not only in our country alone, it is spreading globally, although efforts are on to curb it. It is the...
The wintry chill is conspicuously absent this year. One wonders what has happened to the weather pattern. The Bengali month Magh has entered into its third week. The country is...
The government has of late shown its interest to bring multinational companies to the country to do business, including in the stock market. The Ministry of Finance recently held a...
At this time last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported disappointing global gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 3.1 per cent in 2015, and promised that growth would increase...
My stint as a professional economist lasted for a year in 1964, spent in Dhaka university as a teacher after which I switched over to government service, a career move...
LEWIS: How long did you continue as the Secretary for aid coordination? SYEDUZZAMAN: Well, I continued until end of '75, throughout the period of the first government [of Bangladesh]. And...
DHAKA International Trade Fair 2017 became a centre of attraction for the citizens as we saw people swarming in particularly at the weekend. Dhaka has a few places to go...
The world was shocked to read about shooting in a mosque of Quebec City, Canada that claimed six lives and injured many others. Canadian Prime Minster called it a terrorist...
IF you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key to it is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone...
There were incentives for British Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump to meet in Washington last week-end. The changing of the guard in the White House and...
In a land-scarce country like Bangladesh, losing arable land is one of the common worries that frequently gets in the way of achieving many development objectives. There is an element...
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the single most important indicator used to assess the health of an economy. Along with GDP, other macro-economic indicators such as Gross national income (GNI);...
SYEDUZZAMAN: The Pakistan government had also suspended payment of debt because their balance of payments position was also very precarious. And I remember that the Pakistan government had obtained the...
A news item that Imam Sheikh, a van Driver, has been awarded a job in the Air Force has made me really happy. Recently, Sheikh Hasina and her family members...
THE Tigers will be touring India for one test match and it will be interesting to see how they fare there. India is a very strong side in its own...
IMAGINE, you need a police clearance and you are outside the district you are from -- the situation is critical for you. Recently, Bangladesh Police has taken a smart initiative...
Any reunion evokes emotions in association with a nostalgic journey down the memory lane. The reunion of the alumni of the English Department, the University of Dhaka, on Friday last...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith seems to be truly interested to give more powers to the local government (LG) institutions. He has expressed his feeling in public statements on a number...
As pulling one's ears is to pull one's head, so one can't bypass the context of agrarian structure while talking about rural transformation. The academics raised storm over a teacup...
The rising demand for vegetables led to a rise in price, which allowed farmers to get higher returns, compared to low-incentive rice. Rise in profitability contributed to the boom. The...
BANGLADESH is a developing country where half of the total population are women whose socio-economic condition leaves a lot to be desired. In other words, half of the population is...
A circular bus service has been introduced in the Hatirjheel project area to help people who go there for recreation or from one point to another on urgent business. Housing...
RECENT attack on the journalists of the ATN is being condemned by all and sundry. It is shameful to see the journalists being manhandled at the police station while performing...
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