The new guidelines issued by the Financial Institutions Division for incentive bonuses of state-owned banks and financial institutions are driven as much by the aim of linking rewards to actual performance as by the broader need to bring discipline and accountability to a troubled sector. For a lon
Before delivering a new and obviously higher pay scale for employees in government service, the National Pay Commission (NPC) has brought civil servants' tax privileges under the scanner. It has asked for a report from the National Board of Revenue (NBR) on the tax privileges granted to the bureauc
With the number of people in their old age (65 years and above) remaining at around 12 million in 2025, representing 7.0 per cent of the total population, Bangladesh is going through a fast demographic transition. Since people need different types of support and care in old age, their families, the
At a time when Dhaka City's liveability is increasingly becoming suspect, the interim government has come up with an ambitious mega project called the Blue Network Programme under which the urban water infrastructure in and around the megalopolis will be restored. All water channels such as rivers,
Frequent spells of rainfall over the last couple of months have created ideal breeding conditions for mosquitoes. While all three genera of mosquitoes---aedes, anopheles and culex---have proliferated due to the favourable conditions, the most dreaded one is aedes that causes dengue and chikungunya.
Confidence in any economy is contingent upon the fair assessments provided by credit rating agencies and on investors' trust in the financial information guiding their decisions. This, thus, places a fundamental duty on these agencies to act as an impartial voice and call the risks as they see them
Admittedly, in the post-autocracy dispensation, the volume of inward remittance has been demonstrating a steady rise as the expatriate workers are turning in greater numbers to official money transfer channels including banks and authorised digital platforms. The highest ever remittance receipt reg
The introduction of the Public Procurement Rules (PPR)-2025, in place of the earlier 2008 framework, represents a major policy shift in management of one of the largest channels of public expenditure in Bangladesh. With government procurement estimated at around $30 billion annually, the implicatio
That animation has developed as a global industry within the media and entertainment sector is not widely known. However, its application to feature films, television cartoon series and video games has kept the entertainment world moving. The virtual world thus created becomes an edition of the rea
Hospitals and other health service providers in the public sector have long earned infamy for corruption as well as substandard services. Reports on such irregularities abound. One might recall here the Transparency International Bangladesh (TI,B)'s study report of November 2020 during the outbreak
