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Closure of reopened railway stations!

The Prime Minister's directive to reopen all the closed railway stations is yet to be fully complied with. She issued a directive on March 13, 2016 to reopen all such stations within a year. The opening of only 80 out of the 162 closed stations after two years and four...

Disciplining the AGMs of companies

Unlike in the industrial democracies, shareholders' activism in Bangladesh has, of late, taken an ugly turn. Some of the shareholders with only a few stocks are found to team up with the ill motive of creating problems including that of vandalism in the AGMs (Annual General Meeting) in order to...

Why is automation of land registration taking so much time?

The delay in digitising the country's manually-managed deed registration system is raising questions about the objective of the government to make the system corruption-free. The present system is age-old, very slow and cumbersome. It continues to breed scopes for bribery and graft at every level.The digitisation project for land registration...

WC Quarter-finals: Stage set for clash of the titans

England beat Colombia 4-3 during a pulsating penalty shootout in the last match of the 'Round of 16'. England will now face Sweden in one of the quarter-final matches. The two are among the eight teams vying for the four positions in semi-finals. Brazil will face Belgium, Uruguay will take...

Citizenship holds key to Rohingya solution

It has been reported in the media that no citizenship guarantee was given for the Rohingyas in a secret agreement signed between the United Nations agencies UNHCR, UNDP and the Myanmar government.Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing is the one who opposed the citizenship of Rohingyas since the very beginning...

Save Buriganga, save Dhaka

When I visited Sadarghat a few days back, I saw the river Buriganga in a very sorry state. I remember during my childhood, I used to enjoy boat-rides in the river. It was vibrant and sparkling clean then. When the Mughals declared Dhaka as their capital in 1610, the shores...