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Creating skilled workforce for local and overseas markets

Though Bangladesh is the world's sixth largest exporter of migrant workers, its place as a remittance earner is the eighth. The reason is that the migrant workers going abroad every year are mostly unskilled ones. Last year, the country sent the highest number of migrant workers abroad in its history...

Where is Bangladesh's 2nd refinery?

The fact that Bangladesh has no second oil refinery is a mystery that has been plaguing energy experts for more than half a century. The country's lone refinery was set up in pre-independence era. While the country's economy has grown to a nearly half a trillion-dollar size and demand for...

Quake in Turkish centenary year

It is simply nightmarish. An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude followed by another of 7.5 magnitude on Monday last killed thousands of people in south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria. The death toll from the disaster by Thursday stood at around 13,000 people in Turkey and 3,000 in Syria, bringing the total...

Control Dhaka's air pollution

The air quality in Dhaka city has been deteriorating to a dangerous extent day by day. The capital city has reportedly topped once again the list of cities around the world with the worst air quality on Thursday morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 225, Dhaka ranked...

Standing by earthquake-hit Turkey, Syria

Tragedies do not seem to end. The world has just emerged from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, only to witness an event that has recently cast a pall of gloom - the massive earthquakes, attributed to the Anatolian fault system that have struck Turkey and Syria. The visuals of...

Raising awareness of cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is the growth of abnormal cells in the lining of the cervix. It is the fourth most common cancer among women globally, with an estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths in 2020. The disease is more prevalent in low and middle-income countries due to poor healthcare awareness....