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Tapping export trade potential

With Western donors going for belt-tightening in the field of overseas aid for their practical reasons, it is urgent for Bangladesh to look for effective ways to boost its export earnings. But the country's trade deficit has worryingly been yawning. Since fiscal 2012-13, the deficit has been hovering around $6.0...

Two ways of meeting the problem of drinking water

About 300,000 people living in various areas of the country are victims of salinity and arsenic contamination. A typical example is the village Madra under Tala upazila of Satkhira district. More importantly, the region is adversely affected by climate change. These have taken a heavy toll on lives and livelihood...

Ensuring free legal aid to the poor

Easy and cheaper access to justice is a fundamental human right. But unfortunately, an alarmingly huge backlog of unsettled cases jamming lower courts in Bangladesh indicates that justice is denied to the poor litigants in most cases. It often takes years and decades to have disputes resolved. The government, however,...

Hunger strike of government primary school teachers

GOVERNMENT primary school teachers have been on a hunger strike since Saturday. Several teachers have already fallen ill due to the cold and lack of food. They are urging the government to reduce wage gap between trained head teachers and trained assistant teachers. Thousands of assistant teachers of state-run primary...

Breast cancer spreading alarmingly

Bangladesh Breast Cancer Conference was held for the second time at Dhaka, on December 01, 2017. The conference provided the cutting-edge insights into the areas of prevention, optimal diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. In our country every year about 15000 women are affected by this deadly disease and 7000 of them...

Ensuring safety for migrant female workers

REMITTANCE inflows are an important pillar for our national economy. In 2016 alone migrant workers of Bangladesh remitted nearly $15 billion, and based on a five-year average, it accounted for about 9 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). In addition, international migration eases the pressure on the...