Surrendering to greed
Leakage of question paper is again in the news. This time it is the HSC maths question paper. The leaked question paper was posted on...
Editorial
Never ending decrease in manpower exports and remittances: What are BD embassies doing?
AN in-depth investigative report in a Bangla daily has revealed the secrets of the exponentially decreasing trends in manpower exports. It found that the criminal...
PPP failed to gain ground
PUBLIC Private Partnership (PPP) was considered as a new investment paradigm to develop a congenial business environment in FY 2009-10. The government then allocated some...
Moving from control to ban tobacco
Amanullah Khan, FCA :Since the recorded human history began, tobacco has been the longest and the worst serial killer. Its use is linked to the...
Enhancing service-sector exports
Dr. Atiur RahmanGovernor, Bangladesh Bank :Bangladesh’s economy grew by an average of over 6 percent a year during the past decade. Over the same period,...
A test of governance
Suresh Kumar :T.S. Elliot may well turn in his grave believing that poetic injustice is being done to his turn of phrase used to describe...
Hollande’s troubles soar
Eric S. Margolis :France’s embattled president, Francois Hollande, is “fini.” So goes the prevailing view here from cafes to boardrooms. With three more years to...
KKR made it again
Determination, conviction to win, physical and mental fitness and teamwork are the qualities of success not only in sports, but also in all the human...
Police held Chhatra League’s activists
At least 13 activists of Jahangirnagar University (JU) Chhatra League were held by police yesterday allegedly for seizing three buses of Hanif Enterprise Ltd on...
Economists are concerned about political uncertainty : PM is relying on army for saving democratic process
INVESTORS are refraining from making new investments in the country because of an absence of an investment-friendly environment – a Dhaka based research center has...
Our diplomacy must show due effectiveness
In a series of diplomatic and not-so-diplomatic, rather, military tensions with Myanmar, Bangladesh has lost one of its BGB soldiers and a good number of...
Impose higher tax, curb tobacco usage
A REPORT published in this newspaper on Thursday said quoting a WHO study that about 57,000 people die in Bangladesh annually on account of tobacco...