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Outcome of traffic week

Extension of the on-going traffic week by three more days is claimed to have been made following 'good response from the masses to discipline the chaotic public transport'. Commuters on the capital's roads are unlikely to agree with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP's) contention. Nor do the pictures carried in...

Bangladesh women in changed times

Stocky young women on the driving seats of massive buses are common spectacles in many Western countries, especially in the USA. So are female chief executives running large organisations. In spite of their strong visibility in the work world, women in these countries view themselves as being underrepresented in the...

The case for low-floor buses

Most of the public buses in Dhaka as well as across the country are not access-friendly for the passengers. Women and children as well as the elderly and the physically challenged people find it an uphill task getting into these buses. High-floor buses have long been dominating the roads of...

‘Adieu, the Editor’

I have just finished reading a piece of tribute to A.H.M Moazzem Hossain by Mr Shahiduzzaman Khan published on August 05 in the Financial Express. I feel really impressed.Unfortunately, I did not know Mr Hossain very well. As far as I can recall, we shook hands and exchanged verbal greetings...

Germs on currency notes

Notes of taka as our local currency are exchanged daily. It helps us buy products and services. Notes of taka are something we draw as remuneration for our hard work at the end of every day or every month.We usually see the positive and intrinsic side of the currency. But...

Liquidity crisis in banking sector -

Liquidity crisis is the inability of financial institutions to provide its customers with necessary loans in due time according to their needs. It seems that the liquidity crisis in the country's banking sector has intensified.Due to the ongoing liquidity crisis, customers at present are failing to take loans from banks....

Health complications from chewing jorda (tobacco leaf)

Tobacco is reportedly one of the prime reasons behind thousands of deaths across the world every year. When the number of tobacco users is decreasing gradually in the developed world, the opposite trend has been observed in the poor and developing countries.Tobacco is being used in many forms and many...