Graduation from LDC and good governance
The graduation for Bangladesh from the least developed countries' (LDCs) league to that of the developing nations, as the latest indicators show, is not far away. Its graduation will be contrary to what some sceptics were prone to believe years ago. Now the key issue is not so much about...
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Challenges before Bangladesh on graduation from LDC
Having reached the lower middle-income country status in 2014, Bangladesh is now firmly poised to receive global recognition as an upper middle-income country by 2021. This in turn will lead to her graduation into a 'developing country' category from that of the 'least developed country' (LDC) status in 2024. The...
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Need for action on rivers
With March 14 regularly observed as International Day of Action for Rivers since 1997, the significance of the day has grown in dimension and spread across the world. The slogan for Bangladesh this year was -'Green vehicle, clean river`. In cities public transports driven by 'dirty energy´ are contributing to...
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Stephen Hawking is no more
STEPHEN WILLIAM HAWKING who was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge is no more. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in England. His genius and physical disability made him a household name...
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Beguiled clients of multi-level marketing company
JUBOK is now almost a forgotten name. But its clients who lost millions of taka by stepping into its trap cannot forget it. To find ways to return the swindled funds amounting to about Tk 26 billion, the government formed two commissions and one inter-ministerial committee to investigate into the...
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