Tackling the greed harming migrant workers
The plight of the workers going abroad for jobs cannot stop making news again and again. Their difficulty starts from home and continues till they return, and including their stay overseas. Although several wage earners would complete their tenure, many come back dejected. The female workers going out as domestic...
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Cement industry: Burden of surplus production
Surplus production of manufacturing products may often be a cause for concern, particularly when channels for absorbing the surplus are hard to find. This unwittingly appears to be the case with Bangladesh's cement industry. It is true that that the country's cement industry has grown without much of a direction...
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Nutrition at workplace boosts productivity
A healthy workplace is a prerequisite for health and wellbeing of employees. Public health strategies place increasing emphasis on opportunities to promote healthy behaviours within the workplace setting. Productivity at work can be greatly affected by one's physical and mental health. Many people suffer symptoms such as anxiety, depression, stress,...
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Dengue is still not a countrywide disaster
When an aedes mosquito bites an individual infected with the dengue virus, it becomes the carrier of the virus. It releases the virus into the blood stream of the individual it bites. This is how an infected man contributes in the outbreak of the disease. So an area is relatively...
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Dilemma with deposit and advance rates
The Bangladesh Bank, being the regulatory authority, has given directives to all the scheduled banks that they should downsize the deposit and lending rates to 6.0-9.0 per cent respectively. Recently, during a meeting with senior officials of the scheduled banks, the BB reiterated and instructed the scheduled banks to strictly...
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