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.
28 November 2018, 18:00 PM
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.
27 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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.
10 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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.
24 September 2018, 18:00 PM
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
3 September 2018, 18:00 PM
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.
8 August 2018, 18:00 PM
A friend in need is a friend indeed
Two years ago, Bangladesh felt a “strengthened bond” with India that “would benefit people of the two countries as well as of the
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Too little, too late
Although it came quite late in the series of events, the UN Security Council statement Wednesday just reminded the world how terrible
14 September 2017, 18:00 PM
So low, so fast
Seldom, if ever, in history has a world hero fallen so fast into disrepute. Never have so many people and organisations representing
11 September 2017, 18:00 PM
We, the 'Amm-public'
I am a 'Janagon'—an 'Amm-public'. If you still don't get it, then let me spell it out for you, because I know you are an 'Amm-public' too—the ever-so-celebrated mango people. I hope you now realise who I am as well as who you are.
7 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Caught in the thick
Indian Premier Narendra Modi's stance on the Rohingya issue has emerged as another example of how the plights of the ethnic
7 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Myanmar Cauldron: Birth of Arsa
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army or Arsa, an armed group that emerged in Rakhine state in 2013, has no sizable weaponry to sustain the struggle. But that is how things remain in the beginning – small but potent.
6 September 2017, 18:00 PM
News Analysis: Nobody's people
The latest wave of Myanmar's killing of Rohingyas and the preceding world reaction to the continued genocide happening in the Southeast Asian country have truly put these hapless people at the risk of complete annihilation.
27 August 2017, 18:00 PM
'Best' bank put in a sticky stew
By all indicators it was deemed to be the best performing bank in Bangladesh, posting a profit of Tk 2,300 crore last year, leaving any
17 June 2017, 18:00 PM
TEARS for taxpayers
Year after year, the government has been allowing this easy scheme of plundering our banks -- a group of politically well-connected people will stretch their long arms and take loans from state-owned banks with all kinds of shady schemes. Then they will forget to pay back.
3 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Big target, tricky route
Mega dreams require mega shake-ups, sometimes crushing ones, especially if you have little control over costs and transparency. Finance Minister AMA Muhith's proposed budget has come with the same impact -- putting the people through the VAT machine to take out every mint possible to be spent on a budget that is bigger by a quarter than the present one.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Beneath The Shine
Bangladesh is caught in a limbo between dreamy possibilities and the nitty-gritty of reality. The possibility of moving at a much faster rate is tempered by the grim reality of the current architecture that denies that speed.
31 May 2017, 18:00 PM
GENOCIDE 1971: Govt moves to get UN recognition
At the end of his ruthless massacre and war against an unarmed people, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi who led the Pakistan army in the killings, described the genocide of Bangalis in his book “Betrayal of East Pakistan” as “a display of stark cruelty more merciless than the massacres at Bukhara and Baghdad by Chengis Khan and Halaku khan or Jallianwala Bagh by the British General Dyer.”
20 March 2017, 18:14 PM
The Circus Story
Shahin is no Priyanath Bose. Nor does his outfit come anywhere near the Great Bengal Circus. Yet he is carrying forward the legacy of circus in Bengal through thick and thin.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM
The high price of the World Bank’s blunder
It is incredulous that the World Bank, with its expertise on almost anything under the sun, failed to understand through its legal departments that the so-called evidence was all moth-eaten and flimsy.
14 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Padma bridge: Bank's big bungle
It is incredulous that the World Bank with expertise on almost anything under the sun failed to understand through its legal departments that the so-called evidence is all moth-eaten and lame. This one single incident will have dented the organisation’s standing in the eyes of the nations.
14 February 2017, 09:33 AM
Analysis: He made a fool of the world
The bafflement and bewilderment among the saner heads are now widespread as the US election results show Trump has triumphed.
9 November 2016, 07:35 AM
News Analysis: Should innocent too suffer?
We will never be able to feel his pain and trauma. We will never know his helpless nights in the dungeon of the jailhouse.
3 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Opinion: Tahmid’s nightmare
We will never be able to feel his pain and trauma. We will never know his helpless nights in the dungeon of the jailhouse. Because even the strongest empathy will fail the experience.
3 October 2016, 07:02 AM
Not merely a forest but life
The land mass that rose from the sea bed from the siltation of two mighty rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, supports a
26 September 2016, 18:00 PM
DISASTER written on the wall
As a debate rages over the Rampal power plant and its impact on the Sundarbans, a substantive amount of information is available for us to reach some conclusion. The plant may have a far-reaching impact on the world's unique mangrove forest.
26 September 2016, 18:00 PM