Escalating onion price
Almost every year onion makes screaming headlines for outrageous increases in its price. This year is no exception to the rule. Onion prices have gone up by Tk 15-20 to Tk 65-75 a kilogram within a couple of days. What is, however, most disquieting is the syndicated nature of abnormal...
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Bridging the budget deficit
In the backdrop of a week financial market, the government is now facing difficulty in mobilising sufficient resources for budgetary expenditures. The expenditures are rising but there are big shortfalls in revenue earning. Operating expenditure for running the statecraft has significantly increased of late, especially due to enhanced salaries and...
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Need to streamline healthcare services
Health risks are posing as the greatest threat to the lives and livelihoods of the people. According to a study, the country's healthcare system gets ineffective frequently in reaching the poor, generates less benefit for the poor than the rich, and imposes repressive cost burdens on poor households. Consistently inequitable...
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BRI and Bangladesh
China, enjoying a huge surplus money, is promoting Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in order to not only utilise its money but also consolidate its economic might, promote trade and pursue great power diplomacy through massive infrastructure building. BRI envisages greater connectivity with Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan as with...
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Ranking of Bangladeshi universities
London-based The Times Higher Education (THE) magazine published the list of top 1,000 universities in the world but none of the Bangladeshi universities found their names within 1000. The World University Ranking-2020, which was published on September 11, 2019, mentioned that only Dhaka University was there in the list of...
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