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Taxing polluters is no solution

The introduction of 'green tax' from the current fiscal year (FY) does otherwise serve as a pointer to government's recognition of the adverse effects of pollution, caused by a growing number of industries, on public health. Under the new Finance Act, the 'green tax' has, thus, been imposed on industries...

Basic Bank: What about the money?

Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, the man who has been in the national limelight of late for his alleged Machiavellian style of running the Basic Bank, a state-owned entity, is finally ousted from chairmanship of the bank. Finance Minister AMA Muhith broke the news to reporters last Saturday about Mr. Bacchu's...

Food as a diplomatic weapon

Not all countries produce enough food to feed their people. In the days to come spending on more production of food grains instead of acquiring money, arms and ammunition will be a vital issue for a country to establish its supremacy. Thus food diplomacy will be an effective weapon for...

Misleading notice

A warning notice alongside a road, presumably for drivers of vehicles read "GO SLOW", "Accident Porn Area". Possibly they wanted to write 'Accident Prone Area'; but ignorantly wrote 'Porn' instead of 'Prone'. Whoever wrote it in bright red on a white background possibly did not know the implication of the...

Cheers for Messi

Lionel Messi has inspired his team Argentina and took them to the dream semi final of the World Cup football after a gap of twenty-four years and it is indeed inspiring. I have this feeling that this time Messi will be able to do what Maradona did for Argentina in...

Stop torturing animals

I whole-heartedly support the views of Professor Dorie LARue, a foreign national working in Dhaka, regarding the abuse and torture of horses in old Dhaka. The view was expressed in a letter published recently in an English daily. The description of the 'tortured cart drawing horses of old Dhaka' in...

Foreign assistance

Very often we learn through media about the assistance, grant, loan from many agencies like the World Bank, the Asian development Bank, the Japan International Cooperative Agency, the UN, the UNDP etc. As a resident of the city I would feel that those assistances may be made in diverse sectors...