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Tragic deaths at stone quarries

Illegal stone extraction in Sylhet's border region goes on unabated but this makes news only when workers hired for collecting stones from quarries are killed and injured under the falling debris. In the latest such accidents -- one in Companiganj and the other in Jaintiapur -- on Sunday last six...

Selecting a strategic investor for the Dhaka bourse

Finally, after much waiting and searching, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country's prime bourse, is going to have, hopefully, a strategic investor as its shareholder. The Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange have proposed to take up together 25 per cent of the equity of the DSE by...

Speeding up offshore gas hunt

After a long period of lull, a joint survey is now underway to discover hydrocarbon in the offshore areas. This will be the first-ever joint survey in the country by the international oil companies (IOCs) that are engaged in hydrocarbon exploration under separate production sharing contracts (PSCs). Bangladesh's entire natural...

Summer and mosquito menace

SUMMER is yet to arrive, but menacing mosquitoes are already there. They are all over the place every day as soon as the sun goes down, or may be a few minutes before. I live in Dhaka and therefore I have very little knowledge about what is happening now in...

Significance of libraries for academic and research support

A library is an organized source of information and knowledge made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, documents, videotapes, DVDs, discs, e-books, databases and other formats. A library is also a mirror of civilization and holds the...

Let us encourage honesty and respect honest people

HONESTY has become a rarity in our society and we only read about honest people in books and newspapers. A few days ago, I heard from a colleague of mine that a rickshaw puller returned her purse when she forgot about it as she was in a hurry getting down...