There is no gainsaying the fact that a nation's real wealth is its skilled manpower with the youth playing the central role. But have all the graduate-degree-holder youths of the country been able to contribute desirably to become the nation's wealth? To answer the question, one needs to look into

The death of Begum Khaleda Zia yesterday, December 30, is an irreparable loss to the nation at a moment when it is at a critical juncture. In fact, this is no eulogy to her memory to say that Khaleda Zia was the first elected female prime minister of the country or that she was elected prime minist

The 3.32 km Karnaphuli Tunnel, South Asia's first underwater river tunnel connecting the port city of Chattogram with Anwara upazila, aimed at increasing connectivity and boost trade, has turned out to be a white elephant. The reason is that the forecasts about the project's earning from the toll t

The size of the investment that the formal lending institutions, that is, banks, have already made or are willing to make in a particular sector of the economy is indicative of the particular sector's importance in the economy. From that perspective, the blue economy does not seem to play a substan

That Bangladesh's agro-processing industry remains mired in layers of regulatory hurdles is no secret. The sector, despite its immense potential to drive export growth, rural employment, and value addition to agricultural produce, continues to struggle with a host of compliance challenges. Exporter

At a time when a high-level United Nations (UN) team arrives in Dhaka to discuss Bangladesh's progress for graduation from its least developed country (LDC) status to a developing nation, Japan brings off a tariff reform allowing continuation of the generalised system of preference (GSP) for the ne

One of the conditions Bangladesh was to meet for utilising the multilateral lender IMF's US$4.7 billion loan package has been improvement in the country's tax-to-GDP ratio, one of the lowest in the world. Currently, the ratio is 6.6 per cent, which the IMF wants to be raised to 8.4 per cent within

The reported government's move to crack down on online gambling deserves unreserved commendation. For too long, this digital menace has flourished unchecked, feeding on people's vulnerabilities and taking advantage of technological loopholes. The decision, taken at a high-level meeting at the Bangl