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Facing the economics of rain-hit cricket

Good or bad, rain affects all human activities including cricket. As the whole country, and indeed the entire cricketing world, would like to pass days in excitement and thrill during these World Cup cricket days, rain has come as a dampener of sorts. Four full matches out of the first...

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Classroom teaching more important than GPA index

There is yet another initiative for bringing about a change in the format of exam results of public examinations. Whether this will happen to the primary education completion (PEC) examination results also is not known. This is because the education boards now busy doing the homework has no jurisdiction over...

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Not the perfect shot in the arm

The government has been at the receiving end for years because of very dismal performance of the stock market, an important barometer of a country's economic health. It has tried a few measures from time to time to buoy up the market. As expected, those being piecemeal in nature did...

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First iron mine in Bangladesh

This letter is in reference to a news item, titled 'Country's first iron ore mine discovered in Dinajpur'. The news item was published in the front page of the Financial Express on June 19, 2019. The report stated that for the first time in Bangladesh, a magnetite (iron ore) mine...

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Impacts of poor waste management

Bangladesh is the ninth most populous country in the world. Around 22.40 million tons of waste is generated by this vast population of the country every year. As the population increases every year, the size of waste products is also expanding. It is dreaded that the total amount of waste...

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