Tapping dry fish potential
Media footage and photographs of sea-based fishing communities spreading their netted catch in the sun are common spectacles these days. The sights this year began appearing in early November and are expected to continue up to March. The venues are the 'chars' or islets in the Bay of Bengal, close...
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Tax and GDP --- a mismatched growth
'Only 1.0 per cent of the population pay tax', screamed the headline of a news report published in a vernacular daily the other day. This was no revelation. Reports having identical headlines were published in newspapers in the past also. But those had little effect on the situation on the...
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Extraordinary life of a newspaper hawker
She is not held in high esteem but she does not care. Hers is what society considers a lowly vocation ---hawking newspaper. But the elderly woman named Dil Afroz Khuki in her 60s sees nothing wrong with what she honestly does for a living. Even if she had taken to...
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Kudos to Sadat
Usually every morning, we wake up with bad news in the media. But there are some days that come with exceptions. A piece of story saying a Bangladesh teen has won the International Children's Peace Prize for his efforts to educate young people about cyber bullying made my day recently....
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Justice for Raihan
Have we forgotten Raihan Ahmed who was reportedly tortured to death in police custody in Sylhet last month? The arrest of sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan who managed to flee away after the murder has made the media focus on the case again. After Akbar's arrest, we now demand the arrest...
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Marital rape and legal bars
The law of Bangladesh is yet to criminalise the act of marital rape. A group of lawyers, however, have recently filed a petition after a 14-year-old girl died last month at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital due to excessive bleeding after what the media said was "rape" by her husband....
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