Worrying development in manpower export
The negative development, as reported last Friday in this paper, on the country's manpower export front during the first four months of the current calendar year would only revive the worries of the recent past. The manpower export during the period declined more than 26 per cent compared to that...
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Severe gas crisis amid weakening distribution system
Severe gas crisis is now persisting in the capital Dhaka and the port city Chattagram. Such crisis usually occurs in winter due to increased demand and condensation in the pipeline, but now summer is also witnessing such crisis. In fact, growing demand for the natural resource, low production and diversion...
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Child cruelty -- a great social problem
An enfant terrible is not necessarily an adorable mischief-monger. In conventional notion, these unpredictable children always remain busy making mischievous plans. In most of the instances, those prove to be innocent pranks. But as the children mature, many of them begin showing traits of bullying. A few thus end up...
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Rickshaws on city footpaths
Cycle-rickshaws being pedalled along busy footpaths in reckless abandon: perhaps it is this spectacle the Dhaka dwellers have been dreading in the city. In spite of the scores of irregularities and cases of flouting traffic laws, this was beyond the farthest corner of their imagination. Motorbikes speeding on footpaths scaring...
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Pre-Eid extortions need to be curbed
Eid-ul-Fitr is drawing near. Every year, this particular time sees various types of extortion stick out their ugly necks. This year is no exception. Although most of the operations resorted to by the criminals remain virtually out of public view, some occur openly and in broad daylight. One of them...
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