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Dealing with street protests

After several days of protest, Jagannath University (JnU) students called off their movement on Friday following the government's assurance to meet their demands. While this development is reassuring, the incident calls for a careful scrutiny and stocktaking by the authorities concerned to determine why a protest over legitimate demands escalated...

Protecting marginal chicken farmers

The country's poultry sector is again in distress. But it is not due to any manmade crisis often created in the sector by the so-called profit-hungry syndicates. As in the past years, here nature is at work. A report published early last month (April) referring to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department...

Double standard of political leadership

So, Donald Trump has made a great discovery, "A lot of people are starving" in the Gaza Strip. This brief remark, notably, comes at a time when the first foreign tour of his second term saw him about to conclude his itinerary in several Gulf countries but not in Israel,...

NBR bifurcation: A welcome move

We welcome the government's decision to split the National Board of Revenue (NBR) into two separate divisions-Revenue Policy Division and Revenue Management Division-and to abolish the Internal Resources Division (IRD). This move aims to streamline the country's revenue sector and raise the tax-to-GDP ratio.Reforms are indispensable in any vibrant society...

Unauthorised hostels at Farmgate

Farmgate is a vibrant educational hub, home to a number of educational institutions---a few of them reputed--- such as the Holy Cross School & College, Tejgaon Govt High School, Government Science College, Tejgaon College and Tejgaon Mohila College. Each year, the bustling place attracts thousands of students, university admission seekers,...