There is a lot of noise in the media world about the restriction imposed on journalists to enter the Bangladesh Bank (BB).  The obvious question is why this is happening. And the obvious answer is that it's for the protection of the financial system which the BB heads in the name of regulation

That Bangladeshi investors and entrepreneurs are facing trouble or face trouble when doing business is not a secret. That the cost of doing business in Bangladesh is high is well known and the situation has been so for ages. While it's true that the pre-1971 situation was hobbled by lack of politic

It's been seven years since the Rohingyas arrived in their latest edition and this time caught most international attention. They had been coming here for a long time, expelled by the Myanmar authorities as outsiders historically.  Various Bangladeshi regimes have responded as per their percep

Global markets are undergoing turbulence and none can say how long they will last or if they will become the way future markets play. The same syndrome applies to Bangladesh as well including the IT sector. Information technology exports from Bangladesh dropped 4.4 per cent in the first five month

What motivates the mainstream newspapers in Bangladesh to choose newsmaking needs more scrutiny as they face greater challenges than ever to survive functionally. It's not just about being in the news but about being relevant as market pressure intensifies. This correlates with the structural chang

Most human beings are unaware of most of the potential disasters that may wipe out mankind. This is natural because human beings don't think they are responsible for their own actions and consider nature as separate. It's perceived as external. Thus humans are unable to comprehend complex disaster

Graduate employment is highly stressed in Bangladesh with the middle class unable to cope with the nature of changing market demands and its contingent labour market. The World Bank says the rate of unemployment is roughly 4.7 per cent but it's based on official statistics which is rarely reliable.

The financial sector regulators led by the Bangladesh Bank (BB) must come to terms with their limited capacity for competence and performance relating to the non-banking financial institutions (NBFs).  It's not a rant but the NBFI mess is so deep and murky that people have far less confidence