The Financial Express

Trump's policy in Asia

After President Trump's abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which excluded China, his Asia policy advisers came up with a very hot new idea to extend US reach even beyond the Pacific. The policy was dubbed as "Indo-Pacific''. Indo-Pacific looked...

Views

Dynamics of engineering jobs, evolving competence needs

Often wealth creation capacity of a country is linked to...

Resolving the 'connectedness' crisis

Bangladesh's pathetic placement in the 2018 Global Connectedness Index (GCI:...

Tapping the potential of BCIM-EC

The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridor (BCIM-EC) is a sub-regional initiative, earlier...

The ethos of February within our socio-cultural horizon

The much awaited month of February marks for all of...

Skywalk: A smart solution for pedestrians in Dhaka

Global economic tensions and rising militarisation of Europe

Replacing sunset with sunrise

Curbing arsenic and iron contamination in ground water

No-deal Brexit, Europe's EBA & Bangladesh: Hitting home, fighting back

Strategising policies for easing trade deficit

Columns

Demographic dividend vs disaster

Bangladesh has recently reached the regime of demographic dividend wherein...

What will succeed GDP?

Revamping BRTC: But how?

Road anarchy: Painful phase of nonchalance

Proposed tariff hike and gas pilferage

Saving the dying rivers

Ensuring quality and equitable education

Opinions

The other side of integration

There was a time when an almost sneering view was...

Agribusiness is the problem, not the solution

For two centuries, all too many discussions about hunger and...

A bright future for Africa's girls

Education gives young people the tools they need - from...

Rationalising tax provisions on amortisation

The country's investment promotion agency -- the Bangladesh Investment Development...

Unhealthy bottled and jar water

West Africa's democratic tipping point?

The debate over commercial coaching

Introduction of pensions in Bangladesh: Points to ponder

Munich security conference: US goes it alone

Fire at hospital

Reviews

Cyber security: The Malware threat

A UK-based research body, Comparitech, has published the findings of their study on cyber security of 60 countries. In Comparitech's Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI), Bangladesh was ranked as the sixth least cyber secure country in the world. Given the government's vision to achieve a 'Digital Bangladesh' by the year 2021,...