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Safeguarding the textile industry

Textile manufacturers losing domestic market has been a subject of worry for quite some time. Recent reports published in local dailies make it clear that the situation has assumed an alarming proportion due mainly to smuggling and other misdeeds taking too oppressive a toll on the capital-intensive industry. Some of...

The AI governance challenge

On the sidelines of the last World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos in January of this year, Singapore's minister of communications and information quietly announced the launch of the world's first national framework for governing artificial intelligence (AI). While the global media have glossed over this announcement, its significance...

When teachers turn sexual predators

Nusrat Jahan Rafi lost her battle for life but not her indomitable courage to fight injustice and evil. Indeed, she did not back out of the charge of sexual assault she brought against the principal of Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa where she studied. To her, the principal was an...

Safe environment necessary in academic institutions

It was reported by a Bangla daily last weekend that female students from the Department of Botany of Nawab Siraj-Ud Dowla Government College, Natore have sent letters to journalists and human rights activists. In the letters they have described the case of a female student who has been sexually harassed...

RTGS: A costless way of fund transfer

Instant payments made by an individual to an account of a different bank will now be safer, more secure, fast, costless and hassle-free through the RTGS (Real-Time Gross Settlement) payment system.This is the most customer-friendly and efficient means of interbank (account to account) fund transfer system at the moment. To...

Pollution of the Buriganga

This weekend, while going from Dhaka to Barishal in a water vessel, I had entered the washroom to clean my face and hands. But I could not wash my face due to the odour that was emanating from the water. I took a bottle full of mineral water and used...