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Export certification still in limbo

It is disheartening to see that the Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) established way back in 2006 by an Act of Parliament is still not in a position to deliver the required services to exporters. No doubt setting up of the BAB did promise a lot of relief for the country's...

Urbanisation and food system

Kerina Tull, of the University of Leeds Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, deals with changing food system in a regime of rapid urbanization. It is a part of very recent research (2018) -- a series produced by a programme called Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) commissioned...

Insensitivity at its worst

As a lot of development has already taken place in the country bringing many changes in society. Disappointingly quite a good number of the changes is negative. Growing insensitivity is one such thing. In this country, more and more people are turning insensitive to others. The insensitivity is in terms...

Taxing ship-breaking industry

Today, only three countries -- Bangladesh, India and Pakistan -- account for 70-80 per cent of the global breaking and recycling of oceangoing vessels. Sitakunda in Chattogram is the country's largest ship-breaking zone, where this industry has grown despite some challenges for yard owners, investors and money lenders. Thousands of...

Support for shipbuilding

The government is planning to floating a Tk 50-billion fund to support the country's shipbuilding industry, according to a report published by The Financial Express on September 10. Arrangement of bank loans at 4.0 per cent interest rate with a 25-year repayment period is also being considered reportedly as part...

No suicide

As the world observed the Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, suicide remains a threat to society that damages family and creates trauma for many others. Youths, aged between 15 and 30 years, are more prone to suicide. Depression, mental illness and injustice often lead some vulnerable people to take...