The Labour Party has won a landslide victory in the UK general election, sweeping hundreds of seats across the country and ending 14 years of Conservative rule. Sir Keir Starmer subsequently has been appointed Prime Minister, ending a tumultuous era which has seen five different Conservative leader
In recent years, Bangladesh has emerged as a vibrant hub for startups, driven by rapid economic growth, a young and tech-savvy population, and improvements in digital infrastructure. Instead of opening another convenience store like 7/11, Chaldal, an online grocery delivery service, emerged. Inste
The Government of Bangladesh introduced electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) system to digitise public procurement processes. The formal inauguration of the e-GP portal took place on June 2, 2011, marking the beginning of digitisation in public procurement. The Bangladesh Public Procurement Aut
In the national budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 (FY25), some changes proposed to provide relief to low & middle-income groups, and to impose higher rates of taxes to high income groups. Retrospective to prospective tax system introduced for proper tax planning and embed some predictability (at l
On June 7, 2024, Bangladesh achieved membership in the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), an essential United Nations body representing the Asia-Pacific region for the 2025-2027 term. Bangladesh secured an overwhelming majority of 181 out of 189 votes during the UN General Assembly Hall electi
Quality of Service (QoS) is a common term in the mobile industry used to describe the services experienced by customers. In the telecom industry, standard QoS parameters are regularly measured to determine the service standard and customer satisfaction. The International Telecommunication Union (IT
Soon after its independence in 1971, western communities and foreign development agencies largely wrote off Bangladesh. Food insecurity for roughly 70 million people in a war-torn nation was the reason for labelling the country a "bottomless basket." But the country's agri-might has largely proven
Avi Shlaim is a Fellow of St Antonys College and a Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He was born in Baghdad in 1945 and grew up in Israel. He is one of the prominent ‘revisionist’ historians who critically analyse the establishment of the state of Israel
On May 1, in 1886, ten workers were killed by police opening fire on a demonstration in Chicago, USA. They were demanding an eight-hour working day instead of a 12-hour shift. This agitation on their part eventually forced the relevant authorities to accept their demand and the eight-hour day work
The fisheries sector holds significant importance in the economic advancement of Bangladesh, contributing substantially to the reduction of rural poverty and inequality. The contribution of the fisheries sector to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) GDP is about 3.57 per cent. The expansion
One more Pnochishe Baishakh has gone by. Once more we have had cause to celebrate the Bard whose poetry has lifted us all in the councils of the world, whose assertions of individual freedom have underscored his relevance in the landscape of reasoned thought. Rabindranath Tagore goes on being our h
The whole world is now struggling to deal with climate change and environmental challenges. In particular, the current concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of 421 ppm is causing a major headache, which has almost doubled from 280 ppm during the Industrial Revolution from ten thousand y
At long last a must-read book titled as Politiconomy of Bangladesh by Professor Abdullah A Dewan has landed on the soil of Bangladesh. The book is a compilation of newspaper columns about Bangladesh economy and political spectrum. Professor Dewan teaches at the Eastern Michigan University in the US
