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Making use of trade deals

The contradiction is obvious and the irony reads like a comedy of errors! On one hand, government functionaries had signed up to bilateral or multilateral trade deals aplenty, even went to town with their prospective benefits. But only briefly, with very little by way of follow-up, publicising the contents, laying...

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Environmental pollution in villages

Villages in Bangladesh were once viewed as epitome of everything pure and genuine. The sylvan charm pervading the rural landscape and its people used to be a favourite subject of songs, poetry and other cultural expressions. Those days seem to be disappearing fast. In the last few decades, villages have...

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It's time for accountability

It has taken another 80 lives for realisation to dawn that incendiary chemicals cannot legally or illegally be stored in densely populated areas commercial or otherwise. As it turned out most of the victims at Chawkbazar were either pedestrians walking by or residents where the disastrous chemical explosions took place....

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'Tourism versus terrorism'

This is in reference to a letter titled 'Tourism versus terrorism' by Vinod C. Dixit from Ahmedabad, India which was published in the Financial Express on March 01. No doubt, Jammu and Kashmir is called the heaven of earth and tourism is the main business of the state. The sector...

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Expatriate Bangladeshis should invest in Bangladesh

Bangladesh was ranked 176 among 190 economies in the ease-of-doing- business index, according to the 2018 annual ratings of countries by the World Bank. Bangladesh came last among all the South Asian countries. This position of the country in the global ranking should be improved if the country wants to...

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Amusement services for the youth

The amusement services in Dhaka have drastically changed in recent years in terms of quantity and quality. Now-a-days, young men and women can visit the Cineplex, Blockbuster movie theatre, gaming zones like Ultimate Fun Factory, theme parks such as Toggi World, Fantasy Kingdom, Water Kingdom and many more to spend...

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