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Welcoming four-lane highways

The news from the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges that four important highways of the country will be upgraded to four lanes from two-lanes can only augur well for the country's road communication sector. The roads under consideration are the Dhaka-Sylhet, Rangpur-Banglabandha, Rangpur-Burimari and Barishal-Faridpur highways. Apart from the...

Mismatch between power supply and demand

Although Bangladesh now has a capacity of generating 19,000 megawatts of electricity, the actual production hovers between 8,000 and 12,500 megawatts in the absence of sufficient demand. As a result, almost half the power plants remain idle causing wastage of productive capacity.Despite this, permissions have been granted to preferred people...

Anti-graft strategy to reform public sector

Corruption has been institutionalised in land registration offices across the country, says a research report of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) unveiled last week. No service is available without underhand dealings. Service seekers have to pay bribes ranging between Tk 500 and Tk 5,00,000 in every step of land-related services,...

Condition of road towards Gulshan

While commuting between home in Science Laboratory area and office in Gulshan-2, I have found that it is easy to reach Gulshan via the Maghbazar-Malibagh flyover entering from the Red Crescent hospital. The road leading to Mahakhali bus station from the flyover is relatively smooth. But in case, you turn...

E-commerce potential

A large number of people, we see while travelling to India, enjoy shopping online. About 28 per cent smartphone users do online shopping in India and the rate is 12 per cent in Pakistan. In Bangladesh, only 6.0 per cent of smartphone users are regularly making purchases from online shops....

Internet addiction

There are about 30 million active internet users in Bangladesh and we find many of them are greatly addicted to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media networking sites. Researchers call a reckless desire to spend an inappropriate amount of time on the net as "internet addiction". Many people, whenever...