Dhaka needs to improve on liveability
Sadly, there has been no improvement in Dhaka's global ranking during the past seven years in terms of liveability. The Bangladeshi metropolis has consistently remained among the worst ten performers in the index prepared by the UK-based The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) since 2012. This year, Dhaka's ranking has come...
Read more
Regaining jute's lost glory
In the last couple of decades, almost every year the pre-harvest period of jute accompanies a common mood among the farmers. They are happy about the bumper growth, and look forward to enjoying a profit bonanza from the sale of the crop. As days wear on, they become disillusioned. Come...
Read more
Campaign against genocide in Myanmar
Protest against the cleansing of the Rohingya minority in the Rakhine state of Myanmar has gained momentum in the United States of America and Canada. The demand for dignified rehabilitation of the victims has simultaneously become stronger. Burma Task Force (BTF), a coalition of 19 US and Canadian Muslim organisations,...
Read more
Post-'qurbani' spectacle
Unlike in the last three years, the two city corporations of Dhaka this year -- the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) -- have come up with a mixed bag of performance. True to their pre-Eid-ul-Azha promise, their cleaning teams started working to remove...
Read more
Jaywalkers' news and photos
After so many news and photos of the reckless people jaywalking in Dhaka, the menace appears to have made little impact on the errant people. The recent FE photograph of a middle-aged lady, presumably a teacher or a school staff, herding a group of child students across a road amid...
Read more
