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Why we should care about banks

A bank is a financial institution which acts as an intermediary between borrowers and savers, and thus enables efficient allocation of financial resource across various sectors of the economy. Banks are the main source of indirect finance in a financial...

We are all climate refugees now  

Modern humans, born into one climate era, called the Holocene,...

The scourge of river erosion  

Large segments of the country's rural areas have long been...

Wiser than parents

The country has been witnessing a 'revolution' of a different...

Adieu, the Editor  

When I was asked by the editor to write an...

Connecting farmers, raising income  

Predominantly, rice has been influencing the Bangladeshi food plates. But...

Student protest against road anarchy  

Dhaka city has been in turmoil for consecutive five days....

QE turns ten

November 2018 will mark the tenth anniversary of quantitative easing...

Promoting ecotourism to secure tourist hotspots

The tourism sector holds enormous potential for gearing up the...

Concerns about current account deficit

Current account (CA) is the most important component of the...

Challenges before IoT in Bangladesh  

The year 1990 brought a new dimension to the world...

Dealing firmly with coal scam

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered for reinvestigating the Barapukuria...

The promise of inclusive education

Ali Moussa and Mahmoud are sixth graders in Zanzibar. Both...

Disquieting message from HSC results  

When the education minister claimed that it did not matter...

Liberalising IP regime

"The copyright and patent laws we have today look more...

Earthquake round the corner!  

The world experiences millions of earthquakes each year. But not...

Changing faces of rural labour  

An array of activities is being carried out in the...

Finding the right kind of education  

The pass rate (66.64) of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate...

Diversified use of jute: Achieving new branding, global dominance  

One has to agree with Prime minister Sheikh Hasina that...

Bringing about economic emancipation  

Bangladesh was born through a war of liberation based on...

Need for paradigm shift in transport operation  

Of the total 4.6 million motor vehicles registered in the...

Role of regulation in an economy

One of the striking changes any rich-world traveller to low-income...

Reviving Dhaka through eastward expansion  

As one of the foremost urbanisation experts Jane Jacobs (1992)...

Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki leaves the world flabbergasted

President Trump made it more than evidently clear many times...

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