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Municipal elections are scheduled to be held on December 30. The election of mayors on party basis has been introduced for the first time. The councillors, as in the past,...
Now that the Doha issues, fondly dubbed DDA (Doha Development Agenda), have almost been snuffed, is it time for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to prepare to preside over the...
At a time when the liveability rating of the capital city is at its lowest, poorest and ugliest, waging a war on it demands exceptional quality and courage. The two...
Any type of polling, be at the local or national levels, does always generate enthusiasm among the people in this country. Voters love casting their votes. Very often they get...
The news of future Mars explorers living for some time in NASA domes to experience psychological impact of a future prolonged stay on the planet has become old. The specially...
Many good decisions of the government remain confined in official files and the execution of many others progress at a snail's pace. Sometimes even snails move faster! A cabinet meeting,...
Having a GDP growth rate of 6.51 per cent is quite an achievement and the country should feel proud of its achievement. Given the political unrest and the havoc that...
"Move away, or I'll crush you", threatened a bus driver. The man whom he threatened was also an aggrieved driver but one of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw. Aggrieved because his three-wheeler...
For the first seven decades of the twentieth century, marketing was regarded as strictly an activity performed by businesses. In 1969, in one of their classic articles, Marketing Guru Philip...
Perhaps, pricing of the initial public offerings (IPOs) in markets across the world is a controversial matter. Sometimes the prices are overpriced and sometimes under-priced depending on market conditions and...
An important aspect of the ongoing globalisation process has been the increasing integration of national economies. Such a trend stems from the consensus that economies with geographical proximity could generate...
An important aspect of the ongoing globalisation process has been the increasing integration of national economies. Such a trend stems from the consensus that economies with geographical proximity could generate...
A survey-cum-study report released recently says around half of the secondary school teachers in the country do not have any training at all. Newspapers picked up the issue, and made...
Although agriculture still remains the dominant source of rural livelihoods, its relative role in generating income has been falling over time. This is reflected by a slide in the share...
Eminent writer and teacher Dr. Zafar Iqbal has complained that this government has done the gravest ever harm to education so far. His complaint is that the two public examinations...
The conventional wisdom about the current situation of the rural labour market in Bangladesh is that it is transforming to an extent. With diversification of the rural labour market, village...
The wide and busy street between Shishu Academy and the Curzon Hall in Dhaka has for quite some time assumed a special significance. Aside from its being an artery connecting...
In order to rejuvenate the private sector activities and reactivate the state-owned enterprises (SoEs), the government has recently moved for the merger of the Board of Investment (BoI) and the...
The government has signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2003 and accordingly formulated Smoking and Tobacco Products Usages (Control) Act in 2005. To meet the growing needs...
Countries like Bangladesh usually want to hear words of praise from foreigners. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank is not a foreigner of the Western stock but he...
More than 250,000 people have died since the violence broke out in Syria in 2011, and at least 11 million people in the country of 22 million have fled their...
The global agreement reached in Paris last week is actually the third climate agreement reached in the past month. The first happened at the end of November, when a group...
The day dawns today with the nation recollecting the jubilation and agony of 44 years ago. It was on December 16, 1971 that 75 million Bangalees of that time won...
Less than a week before the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference, beginning today at the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Director General Roberto Azevêdo urged upon all WTO members to "seize the last...
Less than a week before the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference, beginning today at the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Director General Roberto Azevêdo urged upon all WTO members to "seize the last...
Less than a week before the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference, beginning today at the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Director General Roberto Azevêdo urged upon all WTO members to "seize the last...
The dichotomy involving the phasing-out of rickshaws from the streets of the capital or not has supporters divided for and against with the majority willing to see those off. It...
'Coordination' is the rarest commodity as far as the decision making by regulatory bodies and government agencies in Bangladesh is concerned. The policymakers do often mention about the problem, but...
The long-range forecast factory is in overdrive as the year draws to an end. For financial markets, it may all be an unfortunate, if obligatory, waste of time. In most...
Young women riding bicycles or motorbikes on the roads of Dhaka are no longer a rare spectacle. One may come across these devil-may-care cyclists and bike-riders even on the busy...
Illicit financial flow (IFF) from Bangladesh has registered a phenomenal rise in recent years. The amount of money, illegally transferred from the country, stood at US$9.66 billion in 2013 in...
In Bangladesh child issues have many dimensions. There are infant mortality, malnutrition, child labour, school drop-outs, child abuse etc. The street children are a constant reminder that there are serious...
By the look of it, the objective certainly is pious. But whether the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) can deliver on it is yet to be clear. The DMP move concerns...
The Center for Development Research (ZEEF) of Bonn, Germany is an internationally reputed research organisation. It is devoted to empirical research mostly on rural economy and mainly in Africa. Led...
No matter wherever in the world mass killings or terrorist attacks happen - our feelings elicit shock, fear and revulsion. With endless reports about deaths and destruction due to mass...
Internet of Things (IoT) is now a big thing - like the way we heard about .com in the late 90s. The IoT refers to the networking of physical objects...
Social safety through public social security programmes came of age after the Second World War when a number of developed countries adopted policies to provide pension, unemployment benefit, health services...
Like other variants, addiction to computer has now become a serious problem for many, particularly among the youths. When certain behaviour or habit becomes compulsive beyond control, it tends to...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is still being cursed by a section of market players ---some of them were actively involved in stock price manipulation and some others are doing it...
Around a couple of months after the launch of the work of Dhaka's metro rail project, its next phase began last week. Like the previous one, the present one is...
The 17th SAARC Payments Council (SPC) meeting was held at Cox's Bazar last week amid ambitious hope for developing a unique cross-border payment system at a lower cost using latest...
What do Swedish supergroup Abba, the Nigerian central bank and UK economist Andy Haldane have in common? All three are helping to speed the demise of cash. The news that...
Historically, Bangladesh has the reputation of maintaining peaceful law and order and communal harmony. The country remained one of the safest and comfortable places to live in. No conspiracy has...
As expected, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA) is set to grind to a halt. Sadly, it's again bilateral political dispute that has found its way...
Since 1993, the government of Bangladesh has been implementing "food for education" programme to minimise primary school dropout by school feeding together with take-home rations. As of today, the quantifiable...
That the overall standard of education including that of the tertiary leaves much to be desired is a unanimous verdict. One of the reasons for the lacking is dissociation of...
In September, 2015, apparel imports into the US continued on their upward trajectory, with seven of the top ten supplier countries booking year-on-year growth. Bangladesh led the pack, posting a...
It is sheer coincidence that Paris was struck by terrorists on the eve of a key climate conference known as COP 21. To some, the attacks may appear like an...
In less than a year, world leaders will meet in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito to map out a fresh urban strategy for the coming two decades. The United Nations...
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