Battling adulteration
Adulteration of food items with unhygienic substances in this country has finally degraded into the mixing of edibles with things harmful to humans. They include toxic and purely hazardous objects. Take the cases of powdered dried chili and turmeric. They have long been singled out for their being mixed with...
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Foreign workers in the country
A couple of vital data --- the number of foreign workers in Bangladesh and the amount of money they remit to their home countries annually --- continues to elude the relevant policymakers. Data produced so far by one or two sectors that employ substantial number of foreign nationals are rather...
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In harmony with Nature
That a woman feeds a baby animal is a rare event, rarer still is the practice of feeding a fawn along her own baby. If the pictures of women from Bishnoi tribe from Jodhpur, Rajasthan feeding and nursing their small ones alongside orphaned baby deer are not manufactured, the elements...
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Curbing dengue outbreak
IThe number of dengue patients in Dhaka city is rapidly rising. Some 12 people have reportedly died from the disease. After being bitten by Aedes mosquitoes, dengue patients show symptoms like high fever, vomiting, muscle and joint pain, rashes etc. The dengue often leads to lower platelet count which can...
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Compulsory technical education for youngsters
Some newspapers have reported that the government of Bangladesh is going to make technical education compulsory for all schools and madrashas from 2021. Students of class six to eight will get preliminary level technical education. Later, students of class nine and ten would have to take one compulsory technical course....
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