Who is BB fooling?
Two things come easy in Bangladesh -- getting big bank loans and blissfully failing to repay. The money in the vaults seems to be the easiest prey today.
5y ago
Private Armed Guards: Firearms law flouted at will
Many private banks and influential individuals are illegally employing armed guards in violation of the firearms law.
5y ago
Janata going BASIC's way
Janata was almost a sound bank, the best among its state-owned peers until last year. It saw a dramatic fall in just six months since January this year.
5y ago
21 August Attack: Babar-nama
It was the cabinet's oath-taking night after the 2001 parliamentary elections. The phone rang in the newsroom of The Daily Star. On the other end of the phone was the quivering voice of a man who, in his Dhaka University student days, was an infamous “armed cadre” of a political party.
5y ago
Crown to crime
He was hardly known to outsiders until his father, General Ziaur Rahman who became Bangladesh's president in the process of several coups and counter-coups, died in another military putsch in May 1981. Through a Bangladesh Television programme, the countrymen, eventually came to know of Tarique Rahman. And today, he is facing life term as the court verdict goes. From the crux of political power he now lives the life of a fugitive.
5y ago
Licence of lies
It is a piece of paper full of lies and yet it is the legal government document that allows a person to drink alcohol in Bangladesh.
5y ago
Debt trap?
Devoid of the whims, high-handedness and the Cold War propositions of the bilateral and multilateral donors, smaller countries had found a new source of financing in China. Its funds could be easily tapped without being imposed with the harsh conditions like those of the World Bank and the IMF
5y ago
Shocking swindling by shoe exporter
“Oh my God! Incredulous!” was the expression of a banking expert as he leafed through the Bangladesh Bank probe report. Page after page of it explains in painstaking details how a Bangladeshi business entity allegedly skimmed at least Tk 765 crore in the name of exports from the state-owned Janata Bank and the BB from January 2017 to February this year.
5y ago
November 9, 2015
Amnesty Int'l views show political bias
Amnesty International (AI) has caused fury and rage in the minds of Bangladeshis with its latest statement in support of two war criminals awaiting death – SQ Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
November 8, 2015
Opinion: AI statement shows political bias
Amnesty International has caused fury and rage in the minds of Bangladeshis with its latest statement in support of two war criminals awaiting death – SQ Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
August 12, 2015
Highway accidents: The insane ideas
Every day as holidayers returned from home, scores died in road crashes. And this prompted the government to make some insanely funny decisions.
August 1, 2015
She exists, now as Bangladeshi
I thought she was long dead.
August 1, 2015
Freedom in the air
As the deadline nears for the enclaves to cease, things are changing fast.
July 31, 2015
Separated again 68 years after
It is nothing compared to the greatest migration in history when people moved like ants to cross borders into Bengal and Punjab. There will be no violence and death stalking them at every footstep. And yet there will be many similarities.
July 31, 2015
Trespasser in one's own country
It was like any other mundane day for Aziza Rahman, the sixty-year-old man - except that he landed in jail.
July 30, 2015
Set to end is life of non-existence
For his entire forty years of life, Nurul Islam's existence was nothing but a sorry tale of shame and fear, obscurity and deprivation, inconvenience and void.
July 30, 2015
She stays back for a grave
It's a grave that is going to split 60-year-old Shamsunnahar from her children, probably forever and beyond boundaries.
July 3, 2015
Getting ready to become a middle income country
Becoming a lower middle income country is certainly something to cheer about. It makes us firmly believe that we will soon elevate to the status of middle
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