Lower interest rate on deposits hampering investment fund growth
IN recent years depositors in Bangladesh are very much hesitant to keep money in Banks due to low interest rates in real terms or negative...
Editorial
Readers’ Forum
Why Trump dislikes the Muslims The Republican candidate for the US Presidency Donald Trump dislikes the Muslims for 10 reasons. The Muslims are those who...
Toward a more reflective planet
David Keith and Gernot Wagner :The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about three million years ago...
Framing e-commerce rules
Luigi Gambardella :Who has not heard of (or participated in) the bitcoin revolution that is changing fundamentally the international financial transactions sector? Other sectors are...
Moral values in Islam
Khwaja Mohammad Zubair :There is no escape from moral rearmament if the Muslim world is to survive and make progress. Although most people in the...
Readers’ Forum
Contaminated iftar items During Ramadan, lots of iftar items are sold everywhere and the way these foods are handled contaminates the foods and very often...
Brexit’s impact on the world economy
Anatole Kaletsky :The febrile behavior of financial markets ahead of the United Kingdom’s referendum on June 23 on whether to remain in the European Union...
The agony of the Republicans
Elizabeth Drew :This is a grim time for America’s Republican Party. While most of the party’s rank-and-file members have embraced Donald Trump as their presidential...
When politicians are historians
Michael J. Boskin :“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme,” quipped Mark Twain. For generations, political leaders have been lending credence to that observation,...
Detaining children in court lock up not acceptable
NEWS REPORTS in The New Nation on Tuesday said Chief Justice Mr Surendra Kumar Sinha was highly annoyed seeing four children detained along with their...
Make no more delay in relocating tanneries to Savar
THE saga of relocating tannery factories from Hazaribagh to Savar’s new tannery city sees no end. Started from more than one decade ago delay in...
Readers’ Forum
Underused city waste bins THE latest initiatives of the two city corporations of Dhaka, the south and the north, to make effective the municipal waste...