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The crime of cooking financial statements

The long-lingering concern over cooking of financial statements by a section of unscrupulous companies with the help of some dishonest chartered accountancy (CA) firms has not yet been properly addressed. That these companies, individually, prepare multiple financial statements to submit to the tax authorities and relevant other agencies with an...

Real estate sector is in disarray

The real estate sector is in doldrums again. Prices of major construction materials including rods, bricks and stones have been on a significant rise over the last several months. The upward trend in prices of major construction materials has become a cause of anxiety as the sector is already facing...

Prospects for exotic fruits, vegetables

The farming sector in Bangladesh is poised to undergo a remarkable metamorphosis. Many would like to call it 'alternative farming', because the practice doesn't follow the beaten track. It is the traditional agricultural trends that the country's majority of farmers are familiar with. They are routine works related to cultivation...

Shocking death in an elevator

IT was shocking to see a 7-year-old girl, Alveera Rahman dying as an elevator at a high-rise apartment building in Shanti Nagar Dhaka started moving up uncontrollably with the girl stuck inside the doors. I can not even imagine the state of her parents as they had to see their...

Lost in a dark pit?

It totally defies credulity to think of the vengeful killing of a 5-year-old baby girl. But in reality, it did occur in a village under Santhia upazila in Pabna the other day. The poor tiny tot was accompanying her father during a walk outside his house. As the print media...

Improving the air quality of Dhaka

AIR like water saves our life. We cannot imagine sustaining life without air. Air Quality Health Index or "AQHI" is now a universal scale to assess the quality of air around us and it is designed to help us understand what air quality means to our health. When the amount...