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Ensuring affordable power for low-end users

Reiterating the obvious arguments of the volatile global energy market, the state minister for power, energy and mineral resources did make out a case for raising power tariff before the media at a recent meet-the-press event in the city. However, the issue of power price hike has already been on...

Dealing with forex market manipulators with iron hand

The country's central bank, the Bangladesh Bank (BB), is learnt to have found that certain state-owned as well as privately-run commercial banks have been providing false information about the reserve of US dollar and purchasing remittance dollars at a higher rate and thereby creating artificial crisis in the country's foreign...

Revamping public buses in Dhaka

Road traffic in Dhaka is a nightmare thanks to inadequate and haphazard public transport dispensation. Other factors like faulty roads and streets and encroached footpaths aggravate the problem. Despite knowing these, most of the measures taken to address the issue are ad-hoc, flawed, overambitious and costly. So the result is...

Preventing suicide among university students

More than 100 students of different universities in Bangladesh took their own lives last year, according to a survey. The tendency to committing suicides does not seem to have seen any letting up this year among our university students. Instead, it is increasing day by day. A number of university...

Making sign language compulsory in schools

According to World Health Organization (WHO), five per cent of the population of every country consists of people devoid of the ability to speak and hear. There are only a handful of schools across Bangladesh that caters to the needs of such differently-abled people. Thus, they remain deprived of their...

Taking action against fruit adulterators

In Bangladesh, summer comes with sweltering heat. But nature offers us a number of juicy and nutritious fruits to beat the heat and diseases in this season. These fruits boost our immune system and provide our bodies with essential vitamins and minerals. Regrettably, some unscrupulous farmers and traders are playing...