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.
6y 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.
6y 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.
6y 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.
6y 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.
6y 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
6y 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.
6y ago
September 18, 2017
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
September 15, 2017
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
September 12, 2017
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
September 8, 2017
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.
September 8, 2017
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
September 7, 2017
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.
August 28, 2017
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.
June 18, 2017
'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
June 4, 2017
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.
June 2, 2017
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.
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