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Cash support for retrenched workers

The government is learnt to have drafted the long-awaited guideline to provide jobless workers of export-oriented industries with cash support through its social safety net programme. According to the plan, workers who lost their jobs to pandemic-induced layoffs of readymade garment (RMG), knitwear, footwear, leather goods and finished leather factories...

Relocation of plastic units

The spread of plastic in our lives is perhaps unlike any other manufactured products. Globally, plastic predominates as an indispensable item, despite the many harms it often causes to the environment. Currently, there are efforts towards cutting down the ill-effects, and one hopes these succeed to the benefit of billions...

Growth that eludes human development

Today, we're living in a world where most people have started calling everything as the new normal. Running after time to meet daily needs, losing social adda (rendezvous), falling prey to hegemony of technology, widening resource gap, shrinking space for ventilation and even the rule of kakistocracy - all these...

Reopening educational institutions

The pandemic has drastically affected Bangladesh's education sector, more than many other sectors. Everything except educational institutions is now open. Schools, colleges and other educational institutions have been closed since mid-March to contain Covid-19 transmission.However, a new survey finds that the country has started developing herd immunity against coronavirus and...

Little rainwater downs Dhaka

It is sad that the authorities have not learnt any lesson from previous experiences. Dhaka city goes down under water every time it rains and whenever it rains. According to media reports, it took only 54mm of rains to flood many parts of the capital city on Monday. Rajarbagh, Motijheel,...

Urgency for girls to return to schools

Educationists, at a virtual dialogue organised by Brac, on October 11, stressed the need for bringing girls back to educational institutes as soon as the institutions open. The government may consider opening educational institutes as soon as possible.Due to the pandemic, girls are attending classes online, but the majority of...

Natural wall against natural disasters

The mangrove forest of the Sundarbans provides coastal communities with several ecosystem services, reducing effects of tropical storms. However, depletion of mangrove trees may increase coastal erosion. Threats posed by human intervention can upset the natural balance.It is high time to protect the mangrove forest as it has an important...