The challenging New Year
Yet another year on the Gregorian calendar passed into perpetuity leaving behind events and memories that were both relishing and nightmarish. With the end of the year 2017, the nations across the world have stepped into yet another year unaware of what remains in store for them. Nonetheless the start...
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Saga of abuse of development projects' vehicles
The Power Division back in 2012 took up a project to install solar power-based PV LED light on 1000 km-long streets of seven city corporations in the country at a cost of Tk 3.16 billion. The pious intention behind initiating the project was to save 27.82 million kilowatt-hours electricity annually....
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Whose New Year's Day is this?
The peoples in this part and other parts of the world celebrate at least two -if not more -New Year's Days. One has its origin in the culture and clime of a people, community or indigenous people and the other is perhaps most widely celebrated one because of the colonial...
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Recognising martyred intellectuals as freedom fighters
THE nation observes martyred intellectuals day every year by paying tributes to the intellectuals who were brutally murdered just two days before Pakistan army surrendered to the allied forces of our liberation war. Some renowned intellectuals were picked up and killed by the collaborators of Pakistan army. The nation can...
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Recycling and saving the environment
Recycling is a buzz word in today's world. It is good to know that gradually people of our country are becoming more conscious about the importance of using recycled products. 'Reduce, reuse and recycle' is already a common phrase in the developed world. Recycling is the process of collecting and...
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