Whither self-reliant Bangladesh?
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Mazid : Bangladesh was born out of a war for freedom, democracy, social justice and self reliance, what Andre Malraux once called “the last noble cause.” Since seceding from Pakistan and...
Anniversary Issue – 2019
Bangladesh: The State-Language and the State
Prof. Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq : The whole of the history of mankind shows that man’s language is inseparable from his life. Human life is impossible without language. In course of evolution and development...
Captive politics is not student politics
After the brutal killing of a BUET student, the issue hotly debated countrywide is whether student politics should be permitted at public universities. Only the government universities run with public money have student fronts...
Glimpses of Cultural heritage in Bangladesh
Prof. Dr. Anwarul Karim : Introduction Culture is a total human phenomenon. It is the special and exclusive product of human being, which he she learns as a member of the society either orally,...
Bank customers’ risk management
Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled : Bank failure is not uncommon. We witnessed bank crises in the United States as well as in Europe. During first decade of present century, US economy underwent serious turbulence. Banks...
‘Development’: Rhetoric for Authoritarian Rule
Anu Muhammad : We are living in the digital age of globalization under neo-liberal model of capitalism. This phase can be described as development with steroid, growth with environmental disaster, affluence with poverty, digitalization...
Malraux’s visit to Bangladesh
Dr. Mahmud Shah Qureshi : It was in April 1973. Andre Malraux (1901-1976) France’s most legendary living figure in the domain of arts and letters, politics and philosophy, came to Bangladesh for a short...
Serious threat of global climate change
Dr. Anu Mahmud : “For centuries, wars have been fought for territorial expansion, ideological or religious dominance, and national pride. In the future, as climate change progresses and its effects become more pronounced, conflicts...
Assessing Appropriate Technology for SMEs in the changed business perspectives
Saleh Ahmed Choudhury : Introduction Today the process of globalization has encouraged the Multinational companies to spread their branches and offices all over the world. Globalization has inevitably kindled keen competition in the operations...
Positioning Banking brands
A.S.M. Sabbir Hossein Khan : Rashida lives in Debigonj, an upazila in Panchagarh, a far away district from Dhaka. Her only daughter works in Dhaka and sends money to her mother regularly for her...
Success and transformation of agriculture and it’s institutions towards achieving SDG
Agriculture in Bangladesh is a glaring example of success stories in the development paradigm that put the country from a deficit to a near surplus country in staple food item particularly rice. We made...
Blue Gold Program : A way forward for coastal Polder Water Management
Engr. Md. Amirul Hossain The coastal zone of Bangladesh borders the Bay of Bengal with length of about 710km and is- the delta of the three largest rivers of the world – the Ganges,...