Letting rivers flow in full buoyancy
Finding the total number of the country's rivers now at around 400 in place of the previous over 700 carries elements of a puzzle. Apart from mainstream flows, these rivers also include tributaries and distributaries. The drop in the number of rivers is replete with a feeling of dread and...
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Crisis of liquidity in stock market
Nothing appears to be working as far as buoying up the country's stock market, a vital economic indicator, is concerned. Since its collapse in December 2010, if not others, the Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), either by its own initiatives or under outside influence, has tried to infuse dynamism into...
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Dreams destroyed, people reduced to numbers
The Orwellian dystopia is being staged in the capital of Bangladesh with ruthless intensity and much too often. Human beings have been reduced to mere numbers and turned lives as insignificant as they can be. At a time when the inhabitants of the city are still struggling to overcome the...
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Safety should be a top priority
The bus that hit and killed Abrar Ahmed, a student of the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), was being driven by its conductor who did not have a driving licence. Also the bus did not have fitness certificate.As many as 71 people were killed in the Chawkbazar inferno. We came...
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Written segment in DU admission questions
The University of Dhaka is going to introduce written segment in addition to the existing one of Multiple Choice Question (MCQ). The syndicate of the university decided so in its meeting last Thursday. Earlier, there were only MCQs--- 120 marks were allocated for MCQs and 80 marks for scores obtained...
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Honesty of porters
A few days back, one of my relatives was coming to Dhaka from Chottagram by train. He got off at Dhaka Airport Rail Station. Later, he realised that in a haste he had forgotten one of his bags in the train compartment. At first, he thought it is of no...
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