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Price hike of water unjustified

At a time when the majority of the people's hardship has increased manifold under the influence of coronavirus regime, the utility services are playing the proverbial Sword of Democles. First, it was the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) that played a trick on electricity subscribers: it prepared enhanced bills twice,...

Public investment for the recovery

Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to respond to the Covid-19 crisis. While maintaining the focus on addressing the health emergency and providing lifelines for households and businesses, governments need to prepare economies for the transition to the post-Covid-19 world-including by helping people get back to work.Public investment...

Overseas job market in deep crisis

More than 165,658 workers returned home from 29 countries between April 01 and September 30 this year due to various reasons. According to a report, such hapless expatriates were forced to return in the face of situations like job cuts, irregular status and expiration of their job contracts.However, the country's...

Our unsung heroes

Although the coronavirus outbreak has affected almost all economic activities and disrupted the supply chain in Bangladesh, the agriculture sector has played a key role in saving lives and livelihoods. Food production has not been halted and majority of the rural people had recourse to farming as a means to...

Monitoring children's internet use

When it comes to the use of internet, children are more efficient in using it. It is often seen that children are teaching their parents and guardians the ICT skills. Some families fail to understand that their children are making excessive use of the internet. Many children with a tech-savvy...

Shortage of quality TV drama

In the 2000s when Bangla drama started losing popularity, people switched to foreign channels especially to the so-called Hindi daily soap operas. Since then,watching the Hindi soaps have become a common practice for Indians and Bangladeshi people alike.It is already known that these serials are women-centric where women dominate and...