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Keeping antenna high on corporal punishment

There is an incipient and hidden side to corporal punishment which is larger than the exposed side to it. That way it is fed on a culture of silence and its true magnitude remains concealed before the public eye. Here is how Ain-O-Salish Kendra unravels almost a year-by-year number of...

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Syndicates target ignorant farmers

To call the recent changes in the style of cropping and the achievements made in the country's agricultural yields in the last couple of decades amazing is no overstatement. Anyone revisiting Bangladesh after a long gap will be taken by surprise seeing the overall changes in the agro-sector. Apart from...

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Child labour increasing in agriculture sector globally

Of late, child labour is increasingly becoming a matter of concern for global observers. Last year, while observing World Day against Child Labour in June, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said that driven by an increase in conflicts and climate-induced disasters in recent years, child labour has been on...

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Relocating BIDA's office

The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) was launched on September 1, 2016 after merging Bangladesh Board of Investment and Privatisation Communication in a bid to promote investment and facilitate foreign and local investments. The primary objective was to provide all types of services to potential investors under one roof. In...

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English terms in Bengali medium books

Last year, my daughter was studying in Class Five at a Bengali medium school. One day when she was studying science, I took her book to look for English synonyms/terms. I did not find any. English terms/phrases were absent from other books of subjects like Mathematics, Bangladesh and World studies,...

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Exorbitant prices of BPL tickets

I am a big fan of cricket and all its formats. Bangladesh Premier League is very dear to me. Almost every season, I try to buy tickets to some BPL matches and watch them from the galleries. I love to watch the performance of local and foreign cricketers under the...

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