The Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA) and other allied rights organisations have drawn the government's attention to one of the much neglected health hazards in the capital city. The hazard concerns dust pollution at an unacceptable level and with which people are compelled to live as an attendant ill of urban...
Read moreKamla Bhasin, the world-famous feminist from India, with a sweet smile, introduces herself as 'The Midnight Generation' - the generation of Indians born around the time of their independence, 'at the stroke of the midnight hour', in 1947. The eldest among five siblings, she grew up around villages in India...
Read moreThe UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has forecast a third successive season of little or negative food production growth, mainly rice. Barring major setbacks, according to the latest Food Outlook report published by the FAO, production recoveries could instead permit Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to slightly lower their 2018...
Read moreI do not know about others, but I felt like crying when I heard about the ludicrous demand of the CNG auto-rickshaw workers' union. The union wants a ban on app-based transport services like Uber and Pathao. Leaders of the union in a press conference declared that they would go...
Read moreLIFE of people in disease can only be saved if proper treatment is prescribed by registered doctors. A patient or some one else on his or her behalf buys medicines from pharmacies according to doctor's prescriptions. But there are medicine shops who sell medicines on demand from the customers and...
Read moreAS citizens of Dhaka, it is very frustrating for us to see that there are too few patches of open spaces in the city. We all are aware that greenery is essential for human beings to survive. More unfortunately, the limited green space has been declining further because of the...
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