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 sector is not faring well. The plunderers have plundered Farmers Bank…
Dr Muhammad Abdul Mazid, Former Chairman, National Board of Revenue (NBR) : Banking business in the country will be difficult if discipline cannot be brought back. The banking sector face a hard time unless some reforms are made to it. Many people are taking away money from the banks in different ways and the existing…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain hints at the possibility of two candidates from his party who won in the December 30 polls taking their seats in the House. “We are looking at the matter positively,” said Dr Kamal, also the Jatiya Oikya Front chief, reports BDnews. “And we will…
DOT Desk: In Bangladesh, after graduation, the first question that probably comes to the mind of a fresh graduate is whether they will get a proper job or not which is in line with their acquired degree, reports The Financial Express. But do they think of the skills they have acquired over the years, that…
Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, Former Governor of Bangladesh Bank : Defaulted loans continue to swell, as the banks are not active enough to recover them. To resolve the crisis, the banks should go for a strong measure. If this does not work out, then the banks should take legal actions. The loan defaulters should not be…
Afsan Chowdhury speaks to DOT : Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) can demand re-election while Awami League can dismiss it. According to the government, the 11th parliamentary elections were held in a free and fair manner. Therefore, there is no question of re-election. Now let us wait and see which way the wind blows. This is…
Bdnews24: North South University student Saidur Rahman Payel had promised to buy a large cow for Eid-ul-Azha to celebrate the homecoming of his expatriate father and brother for the festivities. But on Eid day the family’s house held only grief. It has been a month since Payel was brutally killed after taking a bus from…
Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University/Aljazeera Why did Trump, Bolton and Mattis refuse to listen to the tape of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder? Because of Arabic? “We have the tape,” US President Donald Trump finally admitted that there is a tape-recording of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi –…
DOT Desk Anam Biswas’s film ‘Debi’ has become the most successful film of 2018, reports The Daily Observer. Its box office collection abroad has also become unparalleled, the film’s international promoter claims. It is the first production from Joya Ahsan. Yesterday marked the fiftieth day of the film’s release. On this day the actress-cum-producer released…