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Funding road maintenance

When the Road Maintenance Fund (RMF) was created five years ago, it had raised strong hopes that the vast road network of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) would be regularly maintained. But the fund has remained inactive and that hope has largely been dashed. What has caused the delay...

Ethical recruitment of migrant workers

As the migrant workers are vulnerable to exploitation in different ways and stages, a move is now underway by the Bangladesh government to ensure international standardisation of manpower recruitment agencies.Such an initiative basing on the International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS) of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is aimed at...

Past and present -- eternal face-off

The news report about the opposition of some villagers to an attempt to excavate a historical site in an area initially triggered premonition of many. They suspected the action to be the work of obscurant elements. These sections of people have demonstrated least interest in the country's past heritage, let...

Opportunities in emerging fast food industry

The fast-food industry has been booming over the last few decades across the world. In Bangladesh, it gained popularity around the mid-1980s when people began adapting their habits and lifestyles with that of the West. The local fast food sector saw a boom around the 1990s and early 2000s as...

Benefits of watching good movies

Good movies can teach viewers about social issues in a fictional or documentary form. As a result, such movies have the power to help viewers make decisions and take positive actions. In such ways, movies can be a great learning tool.Movies like 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Forest Gump', 'Silence of the...

Alarming rise in liver diseases

A survey by the Hepatology Society has found that one in every three citizens of Bangladesh is suffering from some sort of liver disease.But the country does not have enough specialised doctors and hospitals to fight the disease. Also, Bangladesh does not have any liver transplant centres.Hepatitis is the most...