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Unabated footpath encroachment

Blaming the law-flouting pedestrians wholesale for the chaotic state of the capital's footpaths and roadsides does not speak of pragmatism. True, there are compulsive lawbreakers. But pedestrians willing to abide by law, and thus remain safe, while walking along busy roads outnumber them. Then the question is: where are the...

Need for better infrastructure

Prospective investors have time and again sought reliable, sustainable and affordable infrastructure in Bangladesh and for investment of their money in industries profitably. Even development partners, grouped under the Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF), which held a two-day meeting in Dhaka recently, highlighted such a need. Leaders of the Dhaka Chamber...

Export of manpower

The overall manpower export from Bangladesh witnessed a robust growth of 36.31 per cent in 2016 as some 758,000 workers got overseas jobs in the last calendar year, according to news agency reports. This was 36.31 per cent higher than that of 2015, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul...

Fog impeding boro cultivation

IN different parts of the country dense fog impedes preparation of boro seedbeds, newspapers report.Farmers apprehend that there might be serious shortage of boro seedlings as a huge number of boro seedbeds has already been damaged. Since the country's rice stock largely depends on the boro output, there might be...

Bangladesh: An example of religious harmony

BANGLADESH has been a country of communal harmony both traditionally and constitutionally. More than 160 million people of different religious communities have been living here since its birth. People of all religions of the country celebrate their respective religious festivals peacefully. Like all previous years Saraswati puja, one of the...

Child marriage must be stopped

DESPITE progress on many fronts, Bangladesh continues to have one of the highest child marriage rates worldwide. Fifty-two per cent of our girls are married by their 18th birthday, and 18 per cent by the age of 15. Child marriage is more prevalent in rural areas where 71 per cent...