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Burden of school bags on children

Parents and guardians do take heart from a vital circular issued by the Directorate of Primary Education recently. Prompted by a higher court directive, the directorate has issued on October 05 the circular on heavy bags school children are forced to carry by their institutions. Thanks to the High Court...

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When training matters

An article compares livestock transfer with and without training and thus highlights the importance of skill-training in the augmentation of household income. The research has been done by Jonathan Argent, Britta Augsburg, Imran Rasul on "Livestock Asset Transfers With and Without Training: Evidence from Rwanda". Rwanda is a state in...

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Rural development for arresting migration

The ministry of agriculture appears to have adapted the most appropriate theme on the occasion of world food day this year in the present context. It focused on the need to bolster development of the rural economy to prevent migration. Indeed the way the country's total remittances from migrant workers...

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Is Russian U236-fuelled atomic power plant safe?

NUCLEAR power generation is usually a two- edged weapon, more so for a technically backward country like Bangladesh. As far as this writer feels, the nuclear operation safety with 'Thorium' as the main fuel is considerably low. We are all set for installing a potentially fatal radiation source of infection...

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Talking over phone while driving

USING mobile phone while driving is quite common these days. It is widely considered dangerous due to its potential for causing distractions in driving. Due to the number of accidents that are related to receiving a phone while driving, some restrictions have been imposed. Many jurisdictions have enacted laws to...

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