Trade in bones and kidneys
A haul of a large number of human skulls and bones by the police from a house on Mymensingh's Ramkrishna Mission Road and unearthing by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) of a kidney-smuggling ring based in the city with an extensive network emerge as blood-chilling episodes. Interrogations of the...
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Protecting expatriate workers
The remittances sent home by Bangladeshi expatriate workers in recent times, especially since the advent of Covid-19 pandemic, have been contributing a lot towards revamping the country's economy. An upward trend has been observed in the inflow of remittances since June following a negative trend in March and April. Alongside...
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Turning working age people into productive force
The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Bangladesh remains more or less static for the last several years due to alleged weakness of the family planning services. Although population increase has witnessed a slow growth, the country could not make it to zero level due to a number of reasons.The government,...
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Covid-19 vaccine in the offing!
After almost a year's uncertainty, people now hope the vaccine to prevent coronavirus would arrive soon, as two companies in the US announced breakthroughs in research. Also China, the UK and Russia have reportedly made progress in their pursuit of a vaccine to save millions of lives from the deadly...
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Testing children a challenge
The government has announced that the secondary school students would be promoted automatically to the next class, a decision which is not applicable to primary school children. The primary and mass education ministry said they would assess the students and then give them promotion. But, according to media reports, until...
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Making MFS affordable
The government has brought down the charges it paid to mobile financial service companies for reaching the money of social safety nets to their beneficiaries. According to a finance ministry order, the government would pay Tk 7.0 for sending Tk 1,000 through bKash, Rocket and Nagad, whereas for the common...
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Need for a bridge to connect Aftabnagar with Banasree
Two important and crowded areas within the Dhaka city - Banasree and Aftabnagar - are divided by a channel. People living there have to go to the other side to buy essentials from the kitchen market, send children to schools, colleges and madrasahs, doofficial jobs and banking transactions. And thousands...
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