Happiness is the sole reason for every human action. No matter what we do, we do it to make ourselves happy. However, going by this year's World Happiness Report, brought out by the United Nations, we in Bangladesh are not a happy nation. On a list of 137 countries, Bangladesh has ranked 118th, dro
Amid Dhaka's unbridled rise in pollutants, its air quality moves back and forth in the zones of 'unhealthy' and 'very unhealthy'. On a day last week, the city's air quality index (AQI) score was found at 155, reported a news agency. Dhaka ranked seventh in the list of cities worldwide with worse ai
The holy month of Ramzan, or Ramadan, has started. Though the people in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are largely used to saying and writing Ramzan, there is a growing trend of using Ramadan. The first is originally a Persian word and was adopted in Urdu and Hindi, whereas the last is Arabic. Both
All is now quiet on the country's stock market front. With daily turnover plummeting below Tk 3.0 billion and the main index hovering at around 6,300 points, the market, maybe for the time being, is almost in a moribund state. The floor price mechanism introduced by the securities regulator sever
Whether the fiscal framework of the fiscal year 2022-23 (FY23) was designed considering the correct set of assumptions remains a critically important question. While the economy was already reeling under immense pressure due to the ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation on the eve of
This is for the first time Samia Noor is fasting during the holy month of Ramadan away from home. Like many other residential students of Dhaka University, she is staying away from her family for her mid-term exams. And it is not easy for her to observe fasting at a time when her exam is going on.
The situation of the foreign exchange (forex) reserve remains uncertain for the Bangladesh Bank (BB). Although forex supply has increased somewhat on the back of rising exports and remittance earnings, the erosion continues due to the compulsion for importing several essential items during the holy
Water, freshwater to be specific, has always been a scarce resource. And stories of conflicts between territories, regions, and even nations over the control of the sources of water abound. With the increase in population and the expansion of agriculture and industry, the demand for water has also
Few nations have the experience of their day of independence like that of Bangladesh. The traumas of panic and genocidal killings distinguished its night of 25th March, 1971. On March 26, the nation emerged as an independent nation, dumping away all the vestiges of Pakistan into the past. The Benga
More than five decades after its independence, Bangladesh is yet to establish a social order. Though the country has emerged as a vibrant economy defying many odds, the lack of a sound social order is a big drawback. Not that the social order is at its worst form, or there is a perennia
Thanks to the supervision and care of an institution like Biswa Bharati, all publications of Rabindranath Tagore are still available to the interested readers. The institution holds the copyright of all published books by Tagore. However, a number of books have already been declared free of copyrig
Most national dailies have been carrying reports on the unabated hike in prices of essentials for the past few months. Indeed, the rate of price increase for a few items--- poultry birds and red meat and fish in particular---has been astronomical. Consumers have meanwhile resigned to their fate. Th
That prices of essential foods in Bangladesh would become dearer on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan has become unavoidable. Reluctantly people have to bear with this yearly price ordeal. What is different this year of course is that prices have been soaring ever since the war began in Europe.
