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DU admits unpreparedness for affiliation

At last the admission that the University of Dhaka granted affiliation to seven government colleges in the city without any preparation comes. After what has happened over the mess, there is no way even to say, "It's better late than never". Students of the so-hastily-affiliated seven colleges suffered beyond measure....

Slums and poverty

Bangladesh cities are growing at a rapid pace. About one-fourth of the population, as per census of 2011, resides in urban areas. The most recent guesstimates say that urban population constitutes roughly one-third of the total population. About 16 million people live in Dhaka alone and the number is projected...

BDF meet: X-raying the economy

The two-day meeting of the Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF) in Dhaka last week brought to the fore some bitter truths about the economic scenario of the country. A picture of the harsh realities obtaining at the ground level needed to be unearthed at the Forum meeting so that the country's...

Consumers are being cheated

Consumers are actually being cheated by LPG sellers. There is a fixed price for the sellers and some of them are not found to adhere to it. People use it for running motorised vehicles and cooking food. Unfortunately price of the product is not written on the body of some...

Food safety: A cause of concern

WE are what we eat. We take food items from superstores, eateries, and bakeries. But as we often come across in newspapers some of the establishments as above are penalized by the mobile courts for supplying or manufacturing sub-standard food items. Food adulteration is so rampant now that whenever common...

Small Innovative ideas needed for infrastructural development

Bangladesh is a riverine country. So it is regularly flooded during the monsoon. Inadequate road spaces and heterogeneous vehicles have made modern transportation and communication networks extremely difficult and expensive. The river boats and ferries traditionally used for transportation are cheap, but they are slow and inefficient. Poor and inefficient...