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Nizam Ahmed

Business Editor

Nizam Ahmed, whose actual name is Nizamuddin Ahmed, ([email protected]) has been engaged in journalism for last 37 years. Currently he is the Business Editor of The daily Observer, Dhaka, from its inception. Before joining The Daily Observer, he served as a Special Correspondent in The Financial Express, Bangladesh from July 16, 2011 to December 31, 2013. In his long career he worked with multimedia Reuters as a text correspondent for 24 years, including 11 years as part-timer in Chittagong, before being shifted to Dhaka Bureau in early 1999. He completed his service term in Reuters in May 2011, as a Senior Political and General Correspondent. Nizam had his debut as a cub reporter in the now defunct The People’s View in Chittagong, where he also worked in the Daily Life, before joining the Dhaka-based The New Nation as the Chittagong Correspondent in early 1982. He founded Bangladesh News Agency (BNA) in Chittagong and operated it until he joined Reuters in Dhaka. BNA is now an online news portal operated by a company which bought the copyright from Nizam. Besides he used to contribute article to different newspapers time to time.
Nizam attended post graduation course on Political Science, in the University of Chittagong, before joining the profession.

Rising inflation is the greatest failure of the incumbent government

Nizam Ahmed

The failure of the Awami League government to rein in inflation has eclipsed all the unprecedented economic and infrastructural developments it has achieved in the country over the last 15 years.The current general inflation and food inflation in the country stands at more than 9 percent and nearly 11 percent respectively. The Tk 7,97,000 crore ...

Is Smart Bangladesh possible defying global conspiracies?

Nizam Ahmed

The main goal of Bangladesh now is to build a smart, prosperous country for its future generations based on the solid foundation of Digital Bangladesh laid in the past terms of Awami League, said Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali while announcing Tk 7,97,000 crore national budget for 2024-25 fiscal year in the parliament on ...

Bangladesh needs a new popular party for political balance

Nizam Ahmed

It is high time for the emergence of a progressive political party in Bangladesh to balance the socio political supremacy of Awami League government which has been in power for the unprecedented fourth consecutive and the fifth term.Birth of a new strong democratic political party is also essential to stop Awami League from transforming itself ...

Why some Somali fishers chose piracy as livelihood

Nizam Ahmed

According to the latest news all the 23 crew of Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah hijacked by pirates from the eastern Indian Ocean on March 12 last, are safe, but the ship was being moved to a new spot off Somalia as of on March 15. It is expected that all the crew along with the ...

Government should admit its failure to stop price hike

Nizam Ahmed

Acknowledgement of success and failure is the core of a democratic society comprising different political ideologies and interests. Bangladesh which attained independence following a nine-month-long war against Pakistan occupational army on December 16, 1971, was initially a "basket case," but now it is heading to be a "developing country by 2026."However, Bangladesh for the past ...

Government has no way to be complacent when commodity prices rise

Nizam Ahmed

There is no way for the incumbent government of the country in particular and the ruling Awami League in general to be complacent after winning the recent parliamentary election for the fourth consecutive and the fifth term under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.The government seems relieved as the western governments including the United ...

Killing on border by BSF is the most contentious issue

Nizam Ahmed

Killing of alleged Bangladeshi smugglers and trespassers on the borders by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has been the most contentious issue between the two friendly countries for decades. Every year dozens of Bangladeshis are killed by BSF on the different spots of the 4,096-kilometre-long international border, the fifth-longest land border in the world. More ...

BNP and allies lose ground boycotting election

Nizam Ahmed

Boycott of the 12th parliamentary election by the anti-government parties led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged a blunder, as the government could successfully hold the polls on January 7 last, defying all the obstacles, deadly violence, arson and sabotage allegedly committed by its arch rivals.Within four days after the election, the winning party Awami ...