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Helping shrimp exporters

Downslide in shrimp export continues as exporters of the item are in a double whammy. Shrimp exporters, on the one hand, are fighting a losing battle against low-priced 'vannamei', one species of shrimp, exports and, on the other, struggling hard to cope with the soaring prices of black tiger variety...

Jobs are what villages need, desperately

How should one explain the development now taking place in vast rural areas of the country? Should he or she refer to newly built roads or power connections to rural houses or disappearing thatched houses or kids going to school wearing colourful uniforms? Some people tend to explain development or...

'No' to bringing electoral process to disrepute

If election campaign was marked by some stray incidents of violence, the polling day happily was free from all such incidents. Post-polls time was also mostly peaceful. But an ugly incident of sexual and physical abuse of a mother of four in Subarnachar, Noakhali has come as a great shock...

DITF 2019 begins on January 9

The winter is the best time for fairs, weddings and picnics. For Dhaka city-dwellers, it is also the season for the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF). This year, the month-long DITF will begin on January 9. The DITF has been an annual event in Bangladesh since it was first organised...

New ride-sharing service in city

After Uber, Pathao, Shohoz, Obhai and others, another ride-sharing service has initiated pilot operations in Dhaka. The name of the service is Jobike. It is the first-ever bicycle-sharing service in Dhaka. Last year, the service was introduced in Cox's Bazar, two public universities and in Chattogram. The two-wheeler on demand...

TV addiction: A silent danger

I will never forget the day when a monochrome or black-and-white TV came into our house for the first time in 1978. It was a wonderful device that allowed me to learn and be entertained at the same time through programmes like quiz shows, news, sports, international television series, movies...