Barrister AHM Belal Chowdhury, Director, FM Consulting International: Bangladesh Bank has a while ago framed an outsourcing guideline for the banks for using third-party services. The new guideline has allowed banks to outsource twenty types of services to third party which ...বিস্তারিত
Afsan Chowdhury, Researcher, Political Analyst: Procuring 150,000 electronic voting machines (EVMs) is a politically sensitive issue. The Election Commission should have talked to the political parties before taking the decision to use EVMs for the next general election. Is ...বিস্তারিত
Professor Abu Ahmed, Economist: The corruption at the banks will reduce upto 50 percent if the Chairmen and the Managing Directors practice honesty. The country's economy is now faring well. However, it is not as much as the government is thinking. The country's banking s ...বিস্তারিত
Hossen Sohel: The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country’s biggest religion and the govern ...বিস্তারিত
A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Professor of Television, Film, and Photography, Dhaka University: The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) involving seven South and South East Asian countries has just concluded its 4th summi ...বিস্তারিত
M Hafizuddin Khan, Former Caretaker Government Adviser: The Election Commission's move to procure electronic voting machines (EVMs) for the upcoming general election is quite absurd. There has been no consensus among the political parties over the use EVMs in the next nat ...বিস্তারিত
Barrister Nadim Ahmed, Associate lawyer, FM Associates : Rampant use of harmful chemicals like formalin, additives and other toxic materials have only led the food suppliers to banks while it landed the consumers, especially children, to hospitals. As tax-paying citizens of ...বিস্তারিত
Sadiya S. Silvee, Research Assistant, Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs: There remains a controversy, many times, in the cases relating to murder- whether decision of a particular High Court (HC) bench to be followed or not in deciding the appeal. Gene ...বিস্তারিত
UNDP Fourteen years ago Razia Bewa`s husband passed away, as a 30-year old widow with 4 daughters, she was not prepared for what life had in store for her. Her husband was a landless farmer who worked as a day laborer in other people`s farms and after his death their hand ...বিস্তারিত
Mary Dejevsky, Writer and broadcaster/Gulf News The Myanmar leader’s fall from grace is partly because we made the mistake of putting her on such a high pedestal The image of Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was one of untrammelled moral rectitude, remote dignit ...বিস্তারিত