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Credit for small and marginal farmers

The Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) has a plan for disbursing loans among small and marginal farmers including small rural entrepreneurs under a Tk 100 billion credit programme. If things go according to the plan, the long-term credit scheme will take off on March 17 next year. The professed objective sounds...

The rising English knowledge bankruptcy

The secondary and higher secondary students who nowadays pass their school and college final exams with GPA-5 understandably get high grades (80+ or 'star marks') in all subjects. The subjects also include English, which invariably causes dread to average students. Thanks to mushrooming of coaching centres and availability of myriad...

Austerity has to be all-encompassing

It took a new Prime Minister in Boris Johnson and a new Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javed to officially bring to an end the nine-year old Austerity era on which the UK Conservative party was elected. The British people moaned under the measures that effectively halted much required funds...

For a modern consulate

We, the Bangladeshis working in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), sometimes have to visit the Bangladesh Consulate office in Dubai to renew passports. The expatriates have to go there taking a day's leave and unless the formality is completed in a day, they have to sacrifice another day's wage to...

Needless caesarean deliveries

Following rampant use of c-section for delivery of newborns, health experts and physicians expressed concern at the trend. At a discussion last week, they called on the government to stop unnecessary caesarean deliveries at the cost of mothers' health and financial burden for the family. Health service providers were requested...

Losing seasonal variation

A unique country with six seasons, Bangladesh is losing beauty of seasonal diversity due to global warming. It is late autumn but the elderly people say they can hardly differentiate it from hot and humid autumn in Bangladesh this year. January is the coldest month in this part of the...

Digital library

Living in an information age, a person needs to be updated about latest developments and established knowledge, to meet his/her daily necessities. The more accurate information one has, the more powerful s/he is. A modern library can supply a variety of information to people in a proper manner. Digital Bangladesh...