Prudent investment of remittance money
The role of inward remittance in the life of millions of families, particularly living in rural areas, and in the country's overall balance of payments (BoP) cannot be overemphasised. This is why any notable increase or decrease in the inflow of remittance does always hit the newspaper headlines. A report...
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Boosting organic farming
Although cultivation of organic products has been gaining importance for long, marketing potential of these products is far from being adequately tapped. Developing countries which turned away from their long-established organic farming traditions to embrace the West-innovated inorganic techniques should now get back, as a gainful endeavour, to the organic...
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A balance sheet on Eid-time boom
The month of Ramadan leading to the greatest Muslim festival, Eid-ul-Fitr, is a long spell that marked transactional booms and infusion of multi-faceted buoyancy into the economy.As a matter of fact, festivity-centred transactions have been on the rise year-on-year basis with the difference this year that buying-selling sprees were more...
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Muhith and the budget
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith should be felicitated for the national budgets he has placed in parliament so far. The minister, with his government machinery, mobilises a massive sum of money as budget outlay and, on the other hand, takes measures to spend the same within the next one...
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Football and a united world
It seems to me that the whole world has caught the World Cup (WC) football fever. Wherever we go these days, we see that people are talking about football. Almost all the big names have made a shaky start except for France which beat Australia 2-1 and pocketed all three...
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