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Ooty -Queen of South India

Ooty -Queen of South India

Nilratan Halder 2019-08-17 13:19:11

On way to Ooty, lovingly called the Queen of the South. A cradle of Nature's bounties, Ooty is blessed with an eternal spring season. The highest temperature usually persists on an average between 17-...

The growing footprint of women in banking sector

The growing footprint of women in banking sector

Md Mazadul Hoque 2019-08-17 13:13:13

Once upon a time women were regarded as only housewives globally. Even the graduate women were forced to stay inside the four walls of their dwellings. Their keen interest to do jobs had been nipped i...

Remembering Bangabandhu in the month of August

Remembering Bangabandhu in the month of August

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2019-08-17 12:37:49

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated along with his family members on the dark night of 15 August 1975. A pall of gloom overpowers the Bangali nation as the month of August arrives each...

The wrong way to educate girls

The wrong way to educate girls

Manos Antoninis 2019-08-17 12:31:50

Recent decades have brought significant progress toward a more just and equal world in areas such as poverty reduction, immunisation, and life expectancy. But in some areas, change has been painfully...

An education crisis for all

An education crisis for all

Alice Albright in Washington 2019-08-10 00:00:00

Aichetou, a 14-year-old girl, lives on the outskirts of Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, in Africa's Sahel region. Every day, she makes a difficult trek through the sand to get to a school with...

Overhauling needed

Overhauling needed

Helal Uddin Ahmed 2019-08-10 00:00:00

Table Tennis in Bangladesh appears to be passing through a period of gloom and stagnation, especially during the past 5 years. The latest episode that caught the attention of its adherents has been th...

Tale of a child labourer

Tale of a child labourer

Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled 2019-08-10 00:00:00

Child labour is very common and widespread in Bangladesh. A child of around 10 years of age of an affluent family of the country normally gets off the bed, brush teeth, take breakfast and gets ready f...

Not exactly into the heart of a forest

Not exactly into the heart of a forest

Nilratan Halder 2019-08-10 00:00:00

Off to the Bandipur National Park. The earlier the better. Those who can avail the first foray into the jungle at 6.00 a.m are the luckiest. But we missed the prime opportunity of taking the first saf...

PABL-FE Roundtable on Insurance Industry’s  Expectations and Attainments in the Budget 2019-2020

PABL-FE Roundtable on Insurance Industry’s Expectations and Attainments in the Budget 2019-2020

-- 2019-08-08 20:51:18

Date: July 31, 2019 • Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. • Venue: Purbani International Hotel, 1 Dilkusha, Dhaka Chief Guest: Mr. M A Mannan, MP, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Planning, Govt...

Internet in rural Bangladesh: A story of transformation

Internet in rural Bangladesh: A story of transformation

Zisan Bin Liaquat 2019-08-06 16:34:00

Rahmatullah Bashar is beaming. He looks around his tea shop, his eyes dancing from person to person, taking in the throbbing crowd. His eyes grow misty, and he says that even 6 months back, he was wor...

Addressing chaos in communication sector

Addressing chaos in communication sector

Mohammad Amjad Hossain 2019-08-03 00:00:00

I have a bitter experience during my recent visit to Bangladesh, particularly in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh which is a crowded city while traffic is chaotic indeed. Dhaka turned out to be the bigges...

Equipping Rohingya children with education

Equipping Rohingya children with education

Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-08-03 00:00:00

At first glance, Ayatullah (13) seems like an average teenager. He loves to play tag with his friends, devour candies and dreams about growing up really fast like most children his age. But his fun-lo...

FinTech changing shopping experience

FinTech changing shopping experience

Mohammad Saiful Islam 2019-08-03 00:00:00

FinTech is the synergy between finance and innovative technology to meet the need for dynamic financial services with improved ability resulting in faster, reliable and low-cost financial services. Th...

In Mysore past and present  meet together, happily

In Mysore past and present meet together, happily

Nilratan Halder 2019-08-03 00:00:00

With the roseate light of the setting sun at Mysore dusk getting serrated through the trees, the graveyard of Tiupu, inventor of cannon, looked so forlorn and uncared for that the site cannot but make...

In the eye of his successor

In the eye of his successor

Shah Husain Imam 2019-08-01 14:14:22

The one outstanding feature of Moazzem's professional persona was that he wore many hats. Most people identify him as the founding editor of The Financial Express that grew from a scratch to being a f...

A committed, patriotic editor

A committed, patriotic editor

Mir Nasir Hossain 2019-08-01 14:09:57

We recall with great sorrow that today is the 1st death anniversary of one of our iconic business journalist and the founder Editor of The Financial Express Mr. A. H. M. Moazzem Hossain. A brilliant s...

A journalist par excellence

A journalist par excellence

Zaidi Sattar 2019-08-01 01:00:51

On 01 August 2018, exactly one year ago, Bangladesh lost one of its finest journalists. At heart and in mind, he was the epitome of what is best in sound journalism. Unassuming to the core and a true...

A journalist's journalist

A journalist's journalist

Sadiq Ahmed 2019-08-01 00:00:00

I first met Moazzem Bhai in 2010 through a common friend Dr. Zaidi Sattar. Zaidi Bhai and I were colleagues at the World Bank and then we started our collaborative endeavour of the Policy Research Ins...

A man who abhorred greed  and pretension

A man who abhorred greed and pretension

Zakir Ahmed Khan 2019-08-01 00:00:00

I first met Moazzem in 1964 when we both got admitted in the Economics Department of Dhaka University as undergraduate students. I met him last in July 2018 at his residence on the eve of his departur...

The guiding light that we lost

The guiding light that we lost

Shahiduzzaman Khan 2019-07-31 21:18:32

A long distance call helped change my work plan in the USA. It was Moazzem Hossain from Dhaka. 'What are you doing Shahid over there right now?' he asked. 'Nothing of the sort,' I told him. "I'm wait...

‘Moazzem lived his life wonderfully’

‘Moazzem lived his life wonderfully’

Muhammad Mahmood 2019-07-31 21:10:29

"There is no death daughter, People die only when we forget them'', my mother explained shortly before she left me. ''If you can remember me, I will be with you always''. Isabel Allende in Eva Luna...

As SDGs falter, the UN turns to the rich and famous

As SDGs falter, the UN turns to the rich and famous

Barbara Crossette 2019-07-28 21:05:05

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are in trouble. United Nations officials are concerned and say so publicly. Secretary-General António Guterres joined in raising an alarm in mid-July wh...

Everlasting lure of Mysore

Everlasting lure of Mysore

Nilratan Halder 2019-07-26 19:58:25

Our South Indian family tour was mostly a hectic touch-down at as many tourist sites as possible in as little time as could be spared. Such visits are nothing more than superficial, not allowing one t...

The discourse over debts

The discourse over debts

Md. Mashiur Rahman and Ayon Dutta 2019-07-26 19:57:14

A debt trap is a situation in which a debt is difficult or impossible to repay along with interest and principal. As such, a borrower is led into a cycle of re-borrowing or rolling over the loan payme...

Will ever the law-justice divide be bridged

Will ever the law-justice divide be bridged

Syed Mahbubur Rashid 2019-07-26 19:54:27

The scribe had the opportunity of visiting the University of Law, Hyderabad, India. This university is widely known as NALSAR (National Academy for Legal Studies and Research). It is located at a plac...

The harmful 'monkey see, monkey do'  attitude among social media users

The harmful 'monkey see, monkey do' attitude among social media users

Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-07-26 19:53:19

Over the past couple of weeks, social media platforms especially Facebook, Instagram and others, seemed to be flooded with photos of senior citizens. Actually, these were photos of users themselves th...

Are central banks losing their big bet?   

Are central banks losing their big bet?  

Mohamed A. El-Erian in Zurich   2019-07-22 21:30:51

In recent years, central banks have made a large policy wager. They bet that the protracted use of unconventional and experimental measures would provide an effective bridge to more comprehensive meas...

Eat healthy food to get a good mood

Eat healthy food to get a good mood

Sharmin Sultana 2019-07-20 00:00:00

To keep functioning properly, a car needs fuel. Similarly, if we imagine our body as a car and our brain as its engine, we can understand that to keep our body and brain active, we also need fuel. In...

How GARBAGEMAN turning  Dhaka's waste into resources

How GARBAGEMAN turning Dhaka's waste into resources

Tanvir Sufi 2019-07-20 00:00:00

By any measure, GARBAGEMAN is a maverick enterprise. It recycles waste into resources, a process known as upcycling, to save the environment. Most people will grimace at the thought of running a busi...

Extreme weather events: Harbingers of worst times ahead

Extreme weather events: Harbingers of worst times ahead

Syed Tashfin Chowdhury 2019-07-20 00:00:00

The month of July corresponds with the Bengali months of Ashar and Shraban in Bangladesh. It is well-known that these two months fall in the monsoon season. So heavy rainfall and related natural disas...