Dealing with the menace of expanding Yaba trade
That the volume of confiscated narcotic drug, popularly known as Yaba, has been on an unabated rise, is hardly surprising. The addiction has now spread to almost all spheres of society. Smuggling of the drug into the country primarily from neighbouring Myanmar has thus also gone up. The rise in...
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Now loan, not equity, under EEF!
The government has learnt the hard way. It has tried to promote small-scale entrepreneurship in agriculture and information and communication (ICT) technology sectors through equity financing. But it has burnt its fingers, for most part of the funds given to the so-called entrepreneurs as 49 per cent equity of each...
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Reviving the architectural beauty of the JS
A signboard on the south-western side of the Jatyio Sangsad (JS) precinct reads like this: "Playground suitable only for the physically challenged children". To say this is anachronistic is more than an understatement. It could be the joke of the decades since the country has become independent. If the signboard...
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Bangladesh Railway's e-ticketing service
BANGLADESH being a densely populated country, there are queues everywhere for different services -- banks, hospital outdoors and medical centres, bus and railway ticket counters and so on. Bus service providers recently introduced online ticketing system which reduced the pressure of passengers before ticket counters and helped them save a...
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Drawbacks of freelancing in Bangladesh
THIS refers to a letter titled "Freelancing career" by Md. Arifur Rahman Sumon published on May 4, 2018 in your Letters to the Editor column. Mr. Sumon highlighted the potential of a freelancing career. But I would like to point out some serious difficulties faced by freelancers as they are...
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