Few people were aware of 4B Movement before it got going following Donald Trump's election as the 47th US President. Neither is it American homegrown. It has its origin in South Korea way back in the mid-2010s before the #Me Too movement spread its roots in America in 1017. Both are feminist moveme
Equity investing can be a remarkably rewarding journey, yet it always carries the inherent risk of market unpredictability. Time and again, it has been proven that market fluctuations-whether justified or not-are inevitable, and a market can remain depressed for years. Take the Bangladeshi market
In Bangladesh, micro and small enterprises (MSEs) and cottage enterprises (CEs) which are mostly managed by own-account workers together provide a vast majority of employment for the country's enterprise sector. Latest available statistics of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) show that CEs
The advent of the new millennium has brought about a new reality and dynamism in the socio-economic perspective in least developed and developing countries. The access to information through Internet and mobile phone has helped the common people understand more about their civil rights. In a given
Social media has attained a wide range of dynamics over the years. In various countries these dimensions have included maintaining general security and using it for civil and criminal investigation. At the same time, footage of citizen-documented police brutality and other misconduct has sometim
Bangladesh's financial services landscape has significantly transformed over the past decade, with the rapid shift from traditional cash-based transactions to digital payments. This evolution is particularly pronounced in microfinance, which has long been crucial in addressing financial inclusion
Bangladesh is a major producer of tea. But it has not been able to create a culture of tea drinking. It may not be an exaggeration to say that laziness is a national disease of this country. Most of us, professionals in particular, detest physical work unlike the western world. For them it is dign
Is modern politics predominantly marked by a hubris syndrome? The Bangalees do not have to be in high position to demonstrate an overdose of hubristic trait. Or, how do you explain a man on the street of no consequence yelling to another of his counterpart, "Do you know me? I'll take your eyeballs
The winning of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States of America on Wednesday appears to be a big blow to the world economy and trade. The Republican Party leader has yet to be formally declared as the country's president, although the primary results of the Electoral College votes
A gregarious animal, man has in modern times anachronistically become lonely and despondent. With the breakup of joint families into fragmented units in the first half of the past millennium, even the Bangalees started to get separated from their immediate past ancestral kith and kin. The partition
On August 6, when sighs of relief were flying all around, a pall of gloom hanged over my personal world because remittance, one of the heart valves of our business, nosedived putting our existence at stake. This was the time when I heard a prophetic voice in my chamber claiming that the remittance
Without memory, language, relationships and even an individual identity would never have developed. Related to the neuron, memory is a data processing system. Particularly, working memory serves as a processor capable of encoding and retrieving. What would have happened if forgetfulness ruled in th
Transforming Gonobhaban, the official residence of the deposed Prime Minister, into a museum dedicated to the students and people's revolution that led to the downfall of Sheikh Hasina's government, would be a profound symbol of Bangladesh's enduring fight for democracy, justice, and liberation. Mu
