Illegal installations in the vicinity of the Sundarbans
The latest information about more than a hundred small and medium-sized industrial units' location in the vicinity of the Sundarbans makes a bad case not just for the environmentalists but also for all conscious citizens. This is more so when the government's firm stance on Rampal coal-fired power plant remains...
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Countering the threat from plastic
The bad news is that people around the world have dumped an estimated 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastic on the planet. Half of this huge plastic trash has been thrown away since 2004. The good news is that a mutant enzyme, produced accidentally by scientists in a laboratory, is...
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MNCs play both foul and fair
Only a few multinational companies (MNCs) are operating in Bangladesh -- and those with global reputation are even fewer. Some little known foreign companies have entered the country's market in recent years. But many large MNCs stayed away notwithstanding the fact that most foreign firms have been doing well, in...
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Reviewing income tax slabs for service holders
SERVICE-holders in Bangladesh had been deprived of reasonable pay since independence. On realising the situation, the present government doubled the compensation packages for public servants effective from July 2015. But the present individual income tax slabs will reduce the increased income of public as well as private service-holders significantly if...
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Sundarbans under threat
IT is evident from various statistics available that the number of tress and animals in the mangrove forest Sundarbans is declining everyday. Recently a cargo vessel containing about 775 tonnes of coal sank in Passur River and the effects of the accident must be spreading across the river affecting the...
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