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Abuse of children

This country grew, according to a survey conducted by the Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), more hostile to children in 2017 than it did in the year before. The survey finds that 339 children were killed and 593 raped last year, registering a rise by 28 per cent and 33...

Making statistical data reliable

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) collects, produces and generates most of the data or figurative information in Bangladesh. There is no other organisation competent enough to do the same. The BBS, a government entity, carries out routine work of collecting data and publishing them yearly or at intervals. Analysing...

Legality of power price hike

The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) has threatened this week to move the High Court against Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) if it does not scrap 5.3 per cent power price hike effective from December last year. It gave a 10-day ultimatum to the commission to scrap it.Incidentally, the present...

ACC proposal to curb public sector corruption

I came to know from newspaper reports that the Chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Iqbal Mahmood on Monday expressed his dismay over the government's silence on an ACC proposal. In the proposal, according to Mahmud, the ACC expressed its willingness to work with the government to check corruption...

Stand beside helpless people in winter

BANGLADESH had traditionally been a tropical country with moderate winter. However during the last few years the country had experienced spells of severe cold waves that caused serious disruption to livelihoods and distress to the affected people. In January 2010 northern and southwest parts of the country experienced a rapid...

Unethical Banking Competition

AS many as 57 scheduled commercial banks including 4 state-owned units have been operating in a small country like ours and every year a good number of branches are being opened without any real necessity. Most of these branches are opened in the commercial hubs of cities without proper marketing...