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Prospect of Aman rice procurement

The prospect of meeting the just-announced procurement target for Aman this year remains somewhat clouded because of several factors. Notable among them are high prices of rice in the market, possible shortfall in production due to consecutive floods and dwindling volume of rice stored in the public silos. The rice...

A thriving economic belt in the making

A multi-billion dollar fund is expected to' be established to pull in resources from various parties to set up a thriving economic belt connecting Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar.About 55 percent of the fund might come from various multilateral development partners while the rest might be borne by the four...

Unstoppable march of new reality

Even many decades after people in the Indian sub-continent became acquainted with moving sound pictures on screen, i.e. cinema, the rural Bangladesh remained stuck in the culture of 'bioscope'. It centred round still pictures glued to one another. Those were made to roll on, containing attractive views of nature, kings...

Improving healthcare service at home

Thousands of rich and middle class Bangladeshis once went to countries such as India, Singapore and Thailand for medicaltreatmentuntil the outbreak of the coronavirus. So, all irrespective of their economic status were bound to take treatment at home during the shutdown especially during thesuspension of flights to and from different...

Positive move to save St. Martin's Island

Tourists who would be travelling to the country's only coral island, St. Martin's, have been asked not to go to the Chheradwip, or the 'separate island'. The environment ministry has issued the order to protect some coral reefs there, in view of possible rise in the flow of tourists to...

Dream chaser Laungi Bhuiya

A lower caste man in India's Bihar state has fought alone for decades to bring water to their poor village for cultivation. As he tried to dig a canal to connect to a hilly stream a few miles away from the village, people including family members called LaungiBhuiya a madman....

Work from home

Working from a distance is already being discussed as the ultimate destination after the coronavirus has dwelt a devastating blow to the office culture. The office-goers including those who loved holidays are commonly missing the old culture. Even the unhappy ones may think the old days were not bad. Again,...