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Glimpses of Bangladesh's horizon

Mr Ragnar Gudmundsson, the Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Dhaka has raised quite a number of issues in a column of The Financial Express last Wednesday. IMF being an important partner in South Asian developmental journey its comments merit instant attention of the policy makers. Mr...

Blue Revolution in Bangladesh

"The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth are noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air."? Rabindranath TagoreUntil recently, the pretty old adage that...

Hefty fine to discipline road traffic

More than a year ago, the Road Transport Act, 2018 was passed in parliament. Now it has formally come into effect. Hefty financial penalty or fine for violating traffic rules is the main characteristic of the new law. The amount of fine has increased as high as 50 times without...

Farmland depletion

The government announcement that industries will not be allowed on arable land is an encouraging sign. However, the country is losing cultivable land by at least 8,000 hectares per year, due also to unplanned housing in both urban and rural areas, and reckless use of land for other purposes. What...

PPP fiasco

Only one project out of 74 listed as public-private partnership initiatives with the government is now in operation. Five projects are under implementation, and agreements were signed for seven more, a retired Secretary, Fauzul Kabir Chowdhury, wrote in a Bangla daily, referring to the list prepared by the PPP office....

Digital therapy

When around 11,000 people kill themselves in the country every year, psychologists have something to worry about, offering assistance to address the situation. High incidence of suicide is common in countries where people suffer from depression due to problems of career, money or family breakup. Deterioration in the people's mental...

Misguided by TV series

'CID', a popular television series broadcast by a foreign channel, shows how intelligent officers investigate various patterns of murder. Alleged killer of two women -- Afroza Begum (58) and her domestic help Bithi (20) -- who were murdered in Dhaka city's Dhanmondi area on November 01, Surovi (single name) was...