Tax collection: The dilemma

The Finance Minister will soon commence his annual ritual of...

Small savers and missing ‘warmth’ in economy

Small savers, particularly the pensioners, are now in a quandary...

Reaping benefits of demographic dividend

Economists and others taking part in the annual conference of...

Providing the much-needed impetus to FDI

Bangladesh's economy is at an inflection point, ready to move...

A catalyst for investments: Prospects and challenges

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are areas within a country with...

Something more terrible than insurgency

Bangladesh does produce neither phensidyl nor yaba. Its two next-door...

The case for surge funding

Important progress was made at the donors' conference for Syrian...

No Brexit

Among the multiple existential challenges facing the European Union (EU)...

Reflections on 21st February

We are of the generation of the early 1940s. We...

O amar ei Bangla bhasha

Yesterday was a sunny, windless, frozen afternoon as I was...

The immortal Ekushey

The Bengali Language Movement  which gave birth to the incidence...

Bangla language -- lot more than a mother tongue

Sixty-four years after the full-scale Language Movement on 21st February...

Winter festivals boost our rural economy

Winter is looked forward to in our country. It is...

Saying to the world: Endonymously yours!

When asked, our typical citizen identifies his/her language as Bangla,...

Written-off or ‘forgotten’ loans

The size of the toxic assets of the country's banks,...

Overhauling China Keyu Jin in London

Pessimism about China has become pervasive in recent months, with...

Sustainable development and Bangladesh perspective

According to The United Nations World Commission on Environment and...

Tourism: Bangladesh a place to discover for nature-lovers

Bangladesh is a country blessed by nature more than most...

Gearing up process of industrialisation

A new industrial policy is in the offing with its...

AIIB to boost Asian Infrastructure and Connectivity

Launched in Beijing last month, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank...

Milking the consumers, freely