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Motorbikes sans headlight

Long beset with atrocious irregularities, Dhaka's traffic movement scenario has lately begun witnessing a new malady. The city's motorbikes have already provoked a lot of trepidation among the road users. Their defiant movement and the flouting of basic traffic rules is now virtually a normal sight. The latest menace related...

Poverty alleviation: State-market collaboration

The poverty trend in the country, revealed by various documents, tends to show that income-poverty level has declined over time. This has amply been established by quantitative as well as by qualitative indicators. However, the whole process of the assessment has been put to serious question in recent times as...

Bank interest rates vs savings certificates

The government is yet to reduce the rates of savings certificates fearing public backlash ahead of the general election. Earlier, it announced a plan to reduce the interest rates of savings certificates and the central bank had also advised to do so. But the government has opted for not to...

Air pollution in Dhaka

AIR pollution in Dhaka has made it one of the worst livable cities in the world. The city today is covered with dust which coupled with fog has made things worse this winter. The level of air pollution actually started to turn worse in 1990 and by 2015 it reached...

Significance of warm water

AS summer is approaching fast, very soon we shall see increasing number of people in urban areas going for refrigerated rather than normal water. But an infinitesimally small portion of our population is aware of the health benefits of drinking warm water. Medical sciences of both Indian Ayurvedaic and ancient...

BTCL land phones should go wireless

ONCE land phones were the only means of telecommunication for people. Demand for land phones was also very high and people had to wait for a few years in some cases to obtain a land phone connection. Thanks to cell phone operators who appeared on the centre stage of communication...

Correction (13-02-2018)

The correct spelling of the name of the writer of the article titled 'Liquidity pressure: Premonition of economic downturn in our Orwellian society', published in FE (Page-4) on Monday, is Safwan Rob. The mistake is regretted.