Every time a Western consumer walks into the store and checks the manufacturing source, they don’t question the quality, but the ethical integrity of the product.
Business associations have been subjected to an endless game of masquerade where garlands, pictures and faces changed with the direction of the political wind.
Although we have the Graffiti Writing and Poster Sticking Control Act, 2012 to prevent visual pollution, nothing much has been done to implement it. Why, though?
Politics 101 today runs the risk of being solely authored by autocrats from all over the world.
Eating less and battling calories have been pains of the highest order. But little do we know that our minds have everything to do with our appetite.
Instead of better governance and practices yielding better returns, most US companies emphasise 'value' over 'values.'
The RMG sector needs to be united in being professional, go forward with value addition and, most of all, opt for strong industrial relations with labour.
Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.
Luckily we don't live in the United States of America. Luckily we don't have to take to the streets to protest the executive orders of the president.
Three hundred and sixty nine billion people, who constitute the poorest 50 percent own USD 426 billion.
This year, many of us read about 'listening hairbrushes' taking control of our split ends, toothbrushes filming the inside of our mouths, beds reacting to a person's sleeping position, cars learning from the brains of drivers, like the Concept-i car by Toyota, which, with an advanced artificial intelligence system, can act as a faithful dog or a pining boyfriend.
1 and 9 have always been the most significant numbers in my life. Most of what has happened to me (save one) has always taken place on dates that add to either 1 or 9.
I get apprehensive every time I discover a questionnaire on my table. Each questionnaire seems to be arriving with a specific agenda.
I saw a butterfly following me around. Usually, butterflies mean either death or marriage in the family. Every time, I see one, I shudder in fear and uncertainty.
The BGMEA building has been termed a "cancer". Today, it is almost symbolic to bring the BGMEA building down.
Strangely, we are not where we used to be anymore. Students who used to steer movements against tyranny have themselves become tyrants.
A car hit one of the workers working in our house this morning. He was cleaning the wall and the car smashed his bones.
What has actually gone wrong in the South Asian landscape? If one singles Pakistan out in this South Asian equation, one then naturally wonders, why the leaders of a single country that is projected to take off as the next investment friendly area, be unwise to jeopardise regional integration that could turn South Asia to record the highest GDP growth by 2030?