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Problems of gas supply shortage

Shortage of gas supply has become a recurrent event in Dhaka and its adjoining areas. One usually cannot predict about its timing and frequency, but one can hardly be assured about its arrival during each and every winter season. Consumers of all types, including the industrial ones, have been suffering...

Ensuring economic justice and equity

Concerns are being expressed over the increasing inequality in the country since 1990s. There is apparent lack of 'distributive justice' so that everyone gets the benefits of the growth. Such inequality, alongside the country's economic growth, is creating social instability and imbalance.In fact, economic inequality has been rising alarmingly in...

Longing for rural innocence

Despite its being a small village-dominant country, Bangladesh nowadays is no Arcadia. Apart from the high population density, the mushrooming growth of urban localities near the rural areas has long played a role in robbing villages of their pristine beauty. This beauty includes innocence, moral purity as well as not...

No headmaster in 352 primary schools

THE importance of primary education often referred to as elementary education, in laying the foundation of a strong nation can not be overemphasized. Primary education is the basic and foremost right of every child. As a first step in the creation of welfare and just society, universal primary education is...

Social media: A blessing or a curse?

COMING back from school and going out to play games with friends, watching cartoons on TV, drawing pictures during leisure time at home ? are expected to be some of the regular activities of a child of class VI. But of late the scenario has been completely changed due to...

Potato farmers in a quandary

BUMPER production of potato this season has not brought any good news for the potato growers of Rangpur Division which earned the distinction of being the largest potato producing region in the country. In fact, low price of potato brought financial disaster for the farmers. Many of them were compelled...