Poor implementation capacity blocking foreign aid utilisation
AN English daily reported on Monday that some $1.94 billion in foreign aid remains unutilized due to our lack of of ability to use the...
Editorial
Let us recall the memories of Imam Husein
TODAY is the Holy Ashura, a day of noble sacrifice of Imam Husein, the grandson of the holy Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) on the 10th Muharram...
Tanners must respond to central bank’s green offer
DESPITE hectic orders and assurances of help from the government for relocating the hazardous leather industries from the capital’s Hazaribagh to Savar, almost nothing has...
Readers’ Forum
A mom speaks I have always been against the corporal punishment of children and could never understand why people who love their children would ever want...
Setting future vision for banking sector
Dr. Atiur RahmanGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :(From previous issue)Eventual cash flow difficulties of businesses and households force to use financing of shorter than needed tenors create...
Endless craving for Internet control
Seth L Cooper :Broadband Internet is the 21st century’s dynamic medium for free speech in a free market. If a federal agency gets its way,...
Deep seaport in deep water
CONSTRUCTION of the proposed deep seaport faces uncertainty as major regional and global powers have teamed up against China’s involvement in the multi-billion dollar infrastructure...
Need for an e-waste management policy
THIS newspaper on Saturday reported how electronic garbage has surfaced as a ‘killer’ threatening human health. The report said, the waste from the electronic goods...
Readers’ Forum
The good sense prevails Hectic debate continues as to what should be the marriage age of a bride and bridegroom? A circle within the government...
Setting future vision for banking sector
Dr. Atiur RahmanGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :(From previous issue) The rapidly digitized banking enabled ultra-pacing mobile financial services will encourage the women more to participate in...
Would US midterm votes form a better Congress?
Sabria Chowdhury Balland :“This is not some equivalence between the parties. The reason government does not work right now is because the other party has...
Renewable energies: A double-edged sword
Bradnee Chambers :The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has set a target of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2. One way...