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Fraught countdown to Eid-ul-Azha

The days preparatory to Eid-ul-Azha remain beset with misgivings in the country nowadays. The other large Musilm festival, Eid-ul-Fitr, does not cause such worries thanks to its different character of celebrations. The festivities of Eid-ul-Azha are basically centred round the ritualistic sacrifice of cattle. This very aspect warrants a massive...

Adieu, the Editor

When I was asked by the editor to write an op-ed piece on Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani, renowned business leader and managing director of the International Publications Ltd (IPL), the owning company of the Financial Express (FE), after his death, the thought that I would have to write a similar...

Miles to go to consumer-friendliness

Notwithstanding the significant progress in creating a consumer-friendly environment in the country, there's still some way to go. Consumer complaints are being addressed though in a gurgle with some getting compensation but the other aspect, that of advertising standards, is way off. UK's Advertising Standards Authority has recently forced Eurostar...

Illegal 'Bengalees' in NE India

After the suspected racial profiling in Assam in northeastern (NE) India, now the state of Meghalaya is being found on the scene. True, thousands of Bengalees crossed the border into that state in 1971 after the Pakistani junta started genocide in the occupied Bangladesh. They returned to their independent homeland,...

Protesters prove that traffic can be managed properly

The school and college-going protesters need to be thanked for showing the rest of the country that discipline can be brought to the city roads. Unfortunately, this was something that the traffic police and law enforcers had failed to achieve in the past few decades. FromAugust 02, the protesting students...

Road & highways: Deadly traps

Despite ongoing protests demanding safe roads, the number of road accidents has not decreased. At least four people died across the country through two road accidents on Friday. A statistic has revealed that 50 per cent people who died in road accidents are between ages of 14-35 years. Also, Dhaka-Chittagong...