Price hike of gas calls for more exploration
The government's announcement last Sunday of an average rise of 32.8 per cent in the price of natural gas for consumers across the board is hardly welcome. It is the seventh time in last ten years that gas prices have been increased. While it is likely that domestic consumers never...
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Use of solar power for irrigation
A major problem farmers all over the country find critically linked to cultivation, also to their misery, is the scarcity of power or the high cost of oil-propelled power for irrigation. The situation has improved to some extent recently, and chances are that it would improve noticeably in the near...
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City's siren-blaring ambulances
The wailing sirens that nearly rupture the road users' eardrums at dreadful Dhaka traffic gridlocks are invariably those of ambulances. It has now become a nuisance. Vehicles appear to remain perennially ground to a halt at jams. Given the highly noticeable presence of ambulances on the roads of the city,...
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Sufferings of city rickshaw-pullers
A second-page news item of the Financial Express on June 28, 2019 revealed findings of a survey report of the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS). It was found that the monthly average estimated income of a rickshaw-puller in the capital city is Tk 13,382. It also mentioned that 96...
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Hike in gas price
Price of the gas tariff has gone high again and it is for the sixth times in the last ten years. It will put pressure on the middle-class people who are already facing pressure due to price hike of everyday commodity. The energy regulator of Bangladesh has decided to increase...
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