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New law for ship-breaking industry

The piece of legislation that the Jatiya Sangsad late last week adopted to discipline the country's ship-breaking industry has been long overdue. Notwithstanding its importance in the economy and the risks that it poses, when unregulated, to the environment, the governmental efforts were too scanty for streamlining the ship recycling...

Speeding up gas well exploration

Despite loud drumbeating about the efforts in oil and gas exploration, the government-run Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (Bapex) drilled 10 exploration wells during the last nine years and only three small gas fields with merely 800 billion cubic feet of gas reserves were discovered. On the other hand,...

Saving the girl-child from a trauma

The crime of sensual assault on vulnerable women is understandable in one or another way. The beast in a section of males may come alive in order to satiate their carnal desire or due to their being influenced by substances. In this country, property-related feuds or avenging may also lead...

Robbery at minister's farm

FROM reports published in a section of online news portals, I came to know that 10 cows from a dairy farm owned by Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman were taken away by robbers in Phulbari upazila under Dinajpur district in early hours of Saturday. The cows were worth...

Saving rivers from pollution

RIVERS are like blood streams in the body politic of a country. They keep us alive socially, economically and politically. But these rivers that constitute the life line of the country are at times appearing as threats to the land and its people not because of any fault of their...

Impact of excessive TV watching on children

YOUNG kids nowadays are suffering from eyesight problem than ever before as they spend an too much time in front of the TV screen. A few days ago, I went to see an eye specialist where I saw a seven years old boy having problems with his eye sight. Quoting...