Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal last Sunday exulted over "all-time high" ADP spending during July-November period of the ongoing fiscal  year-- in the history of ADP implementation. According to the Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Planning Commission, Tk 364.3

This paper carried a news item on Sunday etching, we presume, a frown at the forehead, especially of those in charge of overseas employment of Bangladeshi workers and their welfare in workplace. Although in recent times, we have gotten  used to  hearing the news of returnee women workers

Bangladesh's performance in World  Bank's  Doing Business  Index, 2019 delivers an embarrassing  but  not a discouraging message  for us. It  will, therefore, be  important  to  wax  proactive  with readings on the barometer  rather t

Well, ordinarily, personal or family indebtedness is considered a liability but it has an important economic function in a broader perspective. The famous Shakespearean words -"Neither a lender nor a borrower be"- were worldly-wise counsel to keep inter-personal relationship above trouble by indiv

We cannot rest on the laurels of incremental GDP growth rates and the beckoning of an upper middle income country status. On the contrary, we are obliged to step up our efforts to preserve, consolidate, sustain and enhance aggregative gains to permeate all strata of society. Improving the citizen'

A report carried in this paper  on August 26  titled,  "RMG industry steadily  getting corporatised" highlighted the benefits  to be had  from  the  development in the  status  of the sector. Shorn of  frills , hard-headed pragmatism calls&nbsp

The pressure of increased purchase orders is weighing on the readymade garments sector. With already a plateful on its hands, more are in the pipeline, according to industry observers. Some entrepreneurs estimate a 20 per cent increase in orders compared with what was registered at this point in ti

In terms of reducibility, noise pollution comes first followed by air,  surface and water  pollution-- in that order. This means all types of pollution are containable (being mostly  man-made and largely  due to agency failure), only that high decibel sound is more easily curbed