Return of mugging in Dhaka, other areas
The menace of mugging, by all available indicators, has staged a comeback in the capital, after a considerable period of lull. To the trepidation of the city residents, the fresh mugging onslaught is not limited to the earlier notorious crime points; they are also occurring in many well-known secure and...
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Declining women employment
The Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) has recently come up with a rather unsettling finding on the state of women employment in the country. The BIDS study, no doubt a laudable work, presents the narrative of faltering female employment in the country over a period of some 4-5 years,...
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Question paper leak bursting morality dam
A view-exchange meeting of a desperate kind was held between the Anti-Corruption Commission and the Education Ministry officials at the national secretariat last Sunday. The desperation comes from helplessness being felt by the authorities to cope with the surge in question paper leaks. So much so that even the annual...
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Road repair schedules
CITY dwellers have been facing severe inconveniences due to lack of prior information on maintenance and repair works of the city streets by different government agencies including the city corporations.
Recently, on reaching in front of my house at Mirpur Section-6 area at around 11.30 pm, I found that the...
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Making train journey comfortable
LAST Thursday, that is, on December 14 I went to Kamlapur Station around 1:45 pm to avail Rajhahi-bound Silk City Train which was supposed to start at 2:40 pm. As I had no advanced booking, I stood in the long queue for AC (air-conditioned) compartment tickets. When my turn came,...
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