Even a cursory look at Dhaka roads choked with cars is certain to belie the fact that the country does not have one single automobile manufacturing plant. Roads congested with private cars in other major cities of the country will only confirm such an impression. If the absence of a...
Read moreBoth large and low-intensity floods have two stages. At the onset of the calamity, the victims in the rural areas are made to flee their flooded homesteads. They helplessly watch their crop fields go under water. As the flood water continues to rise to dangerous levels, they start deserting their...
Read moreA survey by the BRAC Migration Programme has recently found that the incidence of questionable deaths of female migrant workers has been rising in the recent years. Between 2016 and June 2019, death-bodies of 311 women migrants were sent from the Middle East - mostly from Saudi Arabia. Out of...
Read moreWe often hear that Bangladesh's businesses are suffering for a dearth of quality hands, especially technically sound people and mid-level management personnel, when hundreds of thousands of youth including graduates are coming to the job market every year. 'Poor' quality of education, mostly at the secondary level, is often blamed...
Read moreExcessive use of cellphone involves some other hidden issues, such as stress, nervousness, melancholy, or depression. This addiction may leave compound effects on these issues, resulting in insomnia and other problems. If you utilise your cellphone as a familiar object to calm sentiments of nervousness, forlornness, or ponderousness under certain...
Read moreChewing tobacco, or what is used as Jorda, is a common habit in our country and many people use it with betel leaf, popularly known as paan. Unfortunately, a colleague of mine died after a long battle with throat cancer developed, as physicians said, for his addiction to chewing tobacco....
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