Yet another TIB assessment on graft situation
What the Bangladesh chapter of the Transparency International (TI), the Berlin-based anti-graft watchdog, has revealed in its latest household survey on graft situation in the country is unlikely to create any special interest among the people in general. The findings are almost identical to that of the previous years. The...
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Diversifying export products, destinations
Bangladesh has set an ambitious target to achieve $50 billion apparel export a year by June, 2021. In order to achieve such a target, the country needs to raise its apparel export from $30.61 billion to $50 billion in three years. According to a media report, apparel sector has to...
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Profiting from SMS on cellphone
That advertising can be a formidable tool for earning revenue was realised by most media outlets back in 1836. In June of that year, French newspaper La Presse carried paid advertising on its pages for the first time. The results were phenomenal as the advertisement had helped the paper lower...
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Easy retting of jute
The country's squeezing water bodies are part of the harsh realities besetting its agriculture. In spite of the occasional onslaughts of floods, the land is becoming drier. With rivers shrinking, canals disappearing and ponds and marshes being filled, the villages are fast losing their age-old swampy look. Nowhere has the...
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Overhauling of healthcare system necessary
The healthcare system in the country has become more of a luxury than a necessity. Most common people cannot afford treatment due to the hefty charges of physicians, prices of medicines, treatment costs at clinics, hospitals and other facilities and so on.There exists an illegal nexus between doctors and diagnostic...
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