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Preparing for fourth industrial revolution

With the fourth industrial revolution knocking at the door, nations the world over are either worried about its impact or getting prepared to welcome it. Some may still wonder what it will mean to them. How does Bangladesh want to respond to the challenges posed by this latest digitised, robotic...

Integrated farming: Its great prospects

Against the backdrop of squeezing landed plots, newer methods of agriculture continue to be tested and finally adopted in the country. These are mostly undertaken by venturesome rural male youths and a section of women: ever-undaunted, enterprising and innovative. Integrated farming stands out among these agro-methods. Normally topographical deficiencies, various...

Ensuring ecological balance with insects

In the greater interest of maintaining biodiversity and ecological balance, concerted intensive measures and approaches need to be adopted to protect and conserve beneficial insects surviving in the environment. While getting rid of destructive pests from farms and garden, farmers often destroy various species of beneficial insects due to lack...

May Day and rights of house workers

May Day is just one day away. We observe this day with due fervour but we do not take any step to bring improvement in the life of the house workers who work in our homes day in, day out. Thousands of house assistants -- especially women and children, working...

Job-oriented education system

This is in reference to the front-page lead item in the Monday's issue of The Financial Express titled 'Banking sector yet to meet global standards'. It is unfortunate that while the country is progressing in many parameters, its banking system lags behind the international standard. Undue interferences in the functioning...

Playing with people's emotion

A few days back, I met a man in front of Shooting Club in Gulshan who requested me to give him some money. I wanted to know what actually happened to him. He said in choked voice that one of his family members, most probably his father, died that day...