Spatial Competition: Why do grocery stores, repair shops, and restaurants always seem to exist in groups instead of being spread evenly throughout a community? While there are several factors that might go into deciding where to place your business, clusters of similar companies can be explained by a very simple story called Hotelling’s Model of…
BBC: The Queen has urged people to find “common ground” and to respect “different points of view”. Commentators say the remarks will be seen as referring to the Brexit debate, with MPs due to vote on the PM’s deal for leaving the EU again next week. MPs rejected the deal last week but the UK…
Desk Report: The 10th International Inter University Short Film Festival has introduced a new category titled “Short Film on Refugee” this year with a call to submit short films on refugees, reports Daily Sun. 10th International Inter-University Short Film Festival- 2018” organised by Dhaka University Film Society (DUFS) in association with United Nations High Commissioner…
M Humayun Kabir: A leading US portal Politico reported that BNP has hired the services of two US-based firms to lobby the Trump administration on its behalf. However, several senior BNP leaders denied the authenticity of the report. The report published on September 10 read, “Abdul Sattar of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has hired Blue…
Hossen Sohel: The outgoing UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein said Myanmar’s de-facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, should have resigned over the military’s violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year. He told the BBC that the Nobel Peace prize winner’s attemps to excuse it were “deeply regrettable”. Hussein made the…
UNB Police recovered the body of a man from a pond at Panchbaria village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Friday night. Sub-inspector of Jessore Kotwali Police Station Biplob Hossain said locals spotted the body of Sahidur Rahman,50, son of Abdul Gani Molla, a resident of the village, floating in the pond, of one…
Nasrin Awal Mintoo, Founder President, Women Entrepreneur Association of Bangladesh : Value Added Tax (VAT) is a big obstacle for women entrepreneurs. If VAT is imposed from before taking loans, it will cripple business. I hope the authorities concerned will look into this in the upcoming budget. It should be made easier for women entrepreneurs…
Abu Ahmed, Professor of Economics , Dhaka University : The interest rate of the banks has to be reduced as their authorities have promised the promised the prime minister to do so. I also support the need of reducing the interest rate, but this is not easy. There are no other alternatives than to reduce interest…
Tips and tricks: It might not be the most newsworthy thing, but we love knowing what other people’s daily menus look like. Whether it’s our colleagues, friends or of someone we don’t even know: we love to know what they eat. Especially fascinating is celebrities’ daily menus. Everybody eats, but what do these people who…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Independent rights group Ain O Salish Kendra yesterday said 2018 marked the highest number of extrajudicial killings in history, numbering at 466, reports The Daily Star. Among them, 292 were during anti-narcotics drive alone that began since May and pursued until the national election in December 30, it said. In 2017,…