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Rising popularity of app-based rides

Dhaka's communication and commuting landscape is undergoing a radical change, largely imperceptibly though. With app-based ride services like Uber, Pathao and others being increasingly availed by the city residents, the phase of auto-rickshaws appears to be on the verge of petering out. The middle-class passengers travelling in-city long distances had...

PPP initiative needs a shot in the arm

The Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) has rightly identified in a study that a number of factors like opaqueness in the process of selecting projects, unusual cost and corruption as key impediments to implementation of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects. Other barriers include non-completion of projects within the stipulated time,...

Child labour survives furtively

Despite the fact that they are residents of capital Dhaka - a distinctive position, the city's underprivileged children are in bad shape. Finding many of such children in the country's cities toil away at back-breaking and hazardous works detracts a lot from its shine as a nation committed to children's...

Return of 'kidnapped' teacher, journalist

THE kidnappers of North South University (NSU) teacher Mubashar Hasan Caesar released him after one and half month. He was missing since November 07 last. As members of the public we are happy and heaved a sigh of relief that Prof. Mubashar was set free alive by the kidnappers. But...

Age limit for government jobs

YOUTH unemployment is expected to be a major problem for Bangladesh over the next decade, according to a recent World Bank report. The report said the country was simultaneously experiencing a fall in the employment growth rate and a slow uptake in job creation. The report observed that the problem...

Music on headphones

IF we look around us on the road, we see many young gentlemen and ladies with earphones glued to their ears. It is needless to say that if these people are doing so while walking along or crossing the roads it could turn out to be extremely fatal. We must...