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Making use of World Water Day theme

This year's World Water Day's theme 'Nature for Water' looks apparently simple. But often the simplest thing in the world proves to be the most difficult task to accomplish. Here the emphasis is on a return to Nature for a solution to the water crisis facing people the world over....

Effects of gas price hike after LNG import

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has recently gave a broad hint that the government won't be able to continue providing energy support at cheap rates for long as liquefied natural gas (LNG) is expected to arrive in the domestic market from next month this year.Petrobangla, the state-owned energy corporation, anticipates that...

Dhaka's summertime woes

Like in the rural areas, summer days in capital Dhaka, too, appear with features unique to it. Some are common to both areas. As time wore on, these summer features kept assuming their typically localised characters. In many respects they have parted ways. In others, summer in villages and the...

The other Stephen Hawking

THE passing-away of Stephen Hawking is a great loss to mankind. As a theoretical physicist, he has contributed a lot to the domains of cosmology and general relativity. His extended interpretations of the quantum gravity had helped scientists understand the modern space science more clearly. In short, Hawking accomplished a...

Patriotism without nationalism

IS patriotism possible without nationalism? The answer is a plain and simple 'no'. But unfortunately the members of our younger generation are more inclined to follow the westerners to grab modernisation and in the process they also tend to forget their own nationalism. If fire is not able to expand...

No language is adequate to express the shock

AS many as 50 lives were lost during the tragic US-Bangla plane crash at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on March 12, which is undoubtedly the deadliest accident in our aviation history. The tragedy made us speechless and we have found no words to express our condolences for the unfortunate...