Water crisis persists in different areas of the capital city round the year but it becomes acuter in certain metropolitan areas in the summer season. The records of other cities and towns in the country in providing their inhabitants with adequate safe water are no better. In the hilly districts...
Read moreUnlike in the previous years, Eid-ul-Fitr shoppers' movement throughout a large part of the city this year is apparently fraught with different types of handicaps. The multi-faceted metro rail construction work is going on in full swing, the track's length covering a distance of 20 kilometres. The line is set...
Read moreThe new World Bank (WB) President David Malpass seems to be dedicating the resources and efforts of the global lender towards poverty alleviation. Around the beginning of this month, WB announced that it mobilised over half a billion dollars in new resources to help people in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe,...
Read moreOn May 10, a boat capsized in the Mediterranean sea, leading to the deaths of at least 65 migrants including 37 Bangladeshi nationals. Fishermen were able to rescue 16 people including 14 from Bangladesh from sea. All of them were trying to reach Italy from Libya. The news became known...
Read moreSome dailies recently reported about the findings of a study which revealed that 50 per cent of bus drivers and helpers (assistants of the drivers) have vision problems. The study was jointly conducted by Road Safety Programme of BRAC and Junior Chamber International-Dhaka West on 1,200 transport workers in city's...
Read moreA few days ago, London based research magazine the Times Higher Education published the ranking of top 400 universities in Asia for 2019. It is shocking that not a single Bangladeshi university was found in the ranking, even though universities of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal were in the...
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