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Honing anti-money laundering capabilities

The growing menace of money laundering, apart from that of terror financing, is a worrying development. This is more so in a situation where the Finance Minister, who heads a body relevant to these matters, admits the country's lack of preparedness to combat them. Most people are now aware of...

Poverty alleviation amid soaring cost of living

The city residents saw their cost of living go up by 8.44 per cent last year compared to that in the previous year. It hit a four-year high in 2017 due to spiralling prices of rice, vegetables, electricity, gas and other services as well as rising house rent. According to...

How safe is bottled water for drinking?

The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) has of late made a sensational revelation regarding the quality of water different companies supply for drinking in and around Dhaka. According to the findings of the government study, 'coliform bacteria' has been found in 97 per cent of so-called filtered water supplied in...

Applying technology rightly

TECHNOLOGY is often blamed for being responsible for deteriorating the moral texture of the society. Many senior citizens hold technology responsible for moral and ethical degradation of the society. But while doing so we tend to forget a simple fact that it is technology that has brought us to the...

Education system over-reliant on memorizing

IT is undeniably true that at present our students are fully dependent on memorising their lessons. Our system of examination is mostly responsible for it and the parents/guardians have accepted it as a way of life. Our education system encourages our students to memorise only and blunts their free thinking...

Ensuring adequate safety for all workers

EVER SINCE industrial revolution hit the world, focus shifted from agriculture to industry and people have been migrating to towns and cities from villages. Although rate of exodus was initially slow in our country, it started to accelerate with growing industrialisation and urbanisation. Majority of these rural migrants with no...