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Reducing migration cost

If low-cost and safe migration of workers from Bangladesh continues to elude, both the competence and remittance earning by the country will shrink. The two issues of low-cost and safe migration are inter-linked. Trained and skilled manpower is more likely to be in demand and such demands should minimise the...

On money laundering, capital flight

Perhaps no country in the world has been successful in stopping money laundering and capital flight from its territories completely. Although differently defined, money laundering and capital flight are related and done by separate people or the same people. In case of the former, the motive is to make a...

Separate VIP lane: An 'unrealistic' approach

Expensive projects like flyovers and widening of roads are of no use in resolving the city's chaotic traffic snarl. Over-passes and under-passes are also failing to deliver the desired result. Nobody knows when the proposed metro-rail project will be implemented for giving relief to the citizenry.A huge amount of money...

A praiseworthy step to prevent question leak

I THINK the education department has taken a prudent decision to release question papers just 25 minutes before the exam. This will possibly help remove all uncertainties over question paper leaks and the students will be totally focused on their studies instead of frantically looking for question papers all over...

Sexual abuse of Rohingya girls

RECENTLY, BBC Bangla Radio aired an investigative report on sexual harassment of Rohingya teenage girls and widows at Cox's Bazar camp. The report mentioned about a gang of local influential kingpins who employed Rohinga teenage girls as domestic help in an elite area outside Cox's Bazar. But these girls were...

World Cup football warm-up matches

TWO arch-rivals of world football played a couple of friendly matches before the World Cup football in Russia. Hot favorites Brazil beat Germany by a solitary goal, but Argentina conceded an embarrassing 6-1 defeat to Spain. Brazilin star Gabriel Jesus scored the winning goal as his team avenged a humiliating...