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Assessing ecological health of Sundarbans

That the government plans to conduct the Unesco-prescribed Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the world's biggest mangrove forest and its adjoining areas augurs well for the ecological health of the Sundarbans. The assessment will follow a Unesco Resolution adopted at the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee in Poland...

Fake Brexit or no Brexit

Since last year's Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom (UK) has been likened to a suicide who jumps off a 100-storey building and, as he falls past the 50th floor, shouts "so far, so good." This comparison is unfair to suicides. The real economic and political message today is "so far,...

Perils of storing old potatoes

Growing or dealing in potato in recent years has become really difficult. In fact, the problem surfaces when the harvest of new potatoes starts every year. The consumers, naturally, prefer newly harvested fresh potatoes to the old ones that are preserved in cold storages. Fresh potatoes taste better and consumers...

Tragedy at Chittagong

TEN people died in a stampede at the Qulkhani of former Chittagong mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury on December 18. Nearly 40 people were also injured in the incident. Both print and electronic media carried the item. Among the dead, there was a university student. The former mayor was a renowned...

Selling of mortgaged property

Bank's assets mainly refer to loans to its customers. Whether a bank is good or bad is judged by its asset quality. Generally non-performing loans of a bank means that the loans provided by it are not being paid back regularly. Loan scam is now a buzzword. But the duly...

Too many incidents of hijacking

HIJACKING has been increasing significantly over the past few years but we are yet to see any effective measures being taken by the authorities to stem the rot which is why such incidents of crime are on the rise across the country.Some hijacking incidents are tragic. A hijacker snatched away...