Surplus current account-balance utilisation
Bangladesh has so far proved many downbeat forecasts about the performance of its pandemic-affected economy wrong. For instance, the two chief sources of the country's hard currency income, the readymade garment (RMG) exports and the remittances sent by migrant workers, have been the subject of much speculation. At the early...
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Light engineering needs the care it deserves
That the country's light engineering sector has the potential to grow to boundless level can hardly be disputed. In fact, no one has ever disputed but it is far from assuming the role it is supposed to take. Although mostly informal with unregulated scope and pattern of work, light engineering...
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Lest country falls in complacency trap!
Why the developed countries don't always find charismatic leaders of their own for industries and national governance may be deemed a mystery in the underdeveloped world. Answer may lie in another question as to why most sons of the soil of France or America, for example, would take pains of...
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What teachers deserve
People once took teaching not as a job but as passion and that's why they were so honoured in society in the past for their self-less service. Side-effects of such approach include mindset of looking at teaching as a very attractive regular profession for the new generations in Bangladesh. It's...
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Arsenic contamination
It was a serious concern in the 1990s and early 2000s that Bangladesh's underground waters are getting contaminated with excessive arsenic substance, which is dangerous for human health. Surveys conducted 17 years ago found that almost 12 per cent people are drinking arsenic-contaminated water while 30 per cent tube-wells contained...
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How to stop rape epidemic
It has been such a talk of the country that we must be ashamed of the situation prevailing. It's horrifying for individuals, families, women and society as a whole. A few months ago, a Dhaka University student was raped on the busiest sidewalk in the busiest city of Dhaka. A...
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