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Regulating marketing of pesticide-treated foods

The reported instructions from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) asking two relevant ministries to ensure enforcement of the mandatory requirements in the matters of safe consumption of farm produce, including vegetables, and poultry birds, do deserve serious attention. What the PMO asked a couple of ministries recently was the enforcement...

PPP: Entertaining unsolicited offers

The government has been struggling for long to implement a large number of infrastructure projects under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangements. Every year, a significant amount of fund, to the tune of Tk 30 billion, is earmarked for the PPP to implement such projects. The authorities also introduced a number of...

Tapping the vegetable virtues

The presence of enthusiastic visitors at the 3-day National Vegetable Fair 2018 offered an upbeat sight, and quite evidently at that. The annual fair on vegetables this year concluded at the city's Krishibid Institution on January 16. Like in the previous two years, the event in 2018 was organised by...

Dishonouring a school teacher

A news item on a shocking and unfortunate incident appeared in some newspapers recently. It was about a school teacher being manhandled by an incumbent lawmaker in Ramu, Cox'sbazar, over a trivial issue. The teacher had been working in a primary school located in the lawmaker's own constituency. Whatever may...

Driving vehicles on wrong side of the road

POPULATION of Dhaka city is swelling as a result of increasing migration of people from villages. Dhaka is too crowded now to move, as there are serious traffic congestions on most of the roads till midnight. Traffic congestion in Dhaka is natural as there are too few roads in the...

Tigers' massive win against the Lankans

THISARA Perera unleashed a burst that was all-too-short, lashing Shakib for two fours and as many sixes in the 30th over, but fell later in the same over, caught at long-off attempting another ambitious stroke. That was precisely the end of Sri Lankan innings. The Tigers played too well with...