Under a spell of frenzy driving by bus drivers, the capital city is reeling from the toll it is taking almost on a daily basis. The latest casualty is a car driver of 26 years old, working for a power company. Since April 04 when a college student Rajib Hossain...
Read moreEvery year billions of dollars are crossing nation's boundaries but Bangladesh is receiving only a tiny fraction of that. It is receiving much less foreign direct investment (FDI) compared to the size of its economy; many smaller economies are receiving more in this respect. Bangladesh wants FDI but the policy...
Read moreIn terms of reducibility, noise pollution comes first followed by air, surface and water pollution-- in that order. This means all types of pollution are containable (being mostly man-made and largely due to agency failure), only that high decibel sound is more easily curbed than the remainder of the environmental...
Read moreEDUCATION is like a shed on our head to protect us from social adversities. More than four decades have passed since we achieved our independence, but unfortunately illiteracy could not be eradicated completely from the country. It is well known that without eradicating illiteracy we shall not be able to...
Read moreTHE number of tigers, the largest of the cat species, are declining in our country as elsewhere in the world. But they should be protected from being extinct to maintain among other things ecological balance. It is, indeed, an endangered animal with the total number of the wild tigers across...
Read moreSCARCITY of open space in Dhaka is painful and the most depressing aspect of the episode is that young children are the worst victims of it. They are being kept away from much-needed physical activities essentially required for their overall well-being and physical and mental growth. The benefits of physical...
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