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Light engineering

With a domestic market of Tk 500 billion, the country's light engineering industry and service sector has not received the patronage it deserves. Rhetoric on industrialisation of the country takes, more often than not, over pragmatic steps and solution. Speakers at a seminar held in Jashore on light engineering on...

Clipping the winged money

So, here we are again. Making headlines on money flight! Not into the thin air of course. Stories on the subject have been doing the rounds in local and international media for quite sometime. Concerns were raised from various quarters, and over time it seems as though all we are...

Social defence against drug

Despite stringent government measures against drug peddling in the country, presence of substances has become ubiquitous. From lanes and by-lanes in cities and towns to the remotest corner of the rural areas the invasion of drugs has been unrelenting. It has been observed that around 80 per cent of the...

Largest e-library in South Asia

The Financial Express published a report on February 02, 2019, where it was stated that the Dhaka University Faculty of Business Studies has opened the largest e-library in South Asia. The informative report mentioned that the library, offering both printed and e-books, was established in August 2015 through the joint...

Focus on grades is misplaced

Tasmina Begum, a 15-year-old from Jointapur in Sylhet, committed suicide on Monday, February 04, 2019. The resident of Telijuri village of Jaintiapur Upazila hanged herself after performing poorly in the first two exams of the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations.Family members claimed that Tasmina killed herself around Monday noon...