Reforming labour laws
The government is going to amend its existing labour laws to accommodate some suggestions on labour right issues from the European Union (EU) and International Labour Organisation (ILO). The aim of the move is to ensure that Bangladesh is able to enjoy the continued duty-free access of its exports to...
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The bumpy road to recovery
No doubt, things did not turn out as bad as many had predicted soon after the pandemic struck the country. The countrywide 'holidays' (a better coining for lockdown) also looked like causing a wholesale damage to life and livelihood. Mercifully, despite causing shocks to most areas of the economy, Bangladesh...
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Of integrity and social harmony
Surveys conducted in the past two decades suggested that most entrepreneurs complained about malpractice, harassment and red-tapism in any kind of service delivery in the country. Corruption, as it does, increases not just the cost of doing business, but also the pains of civic life that often misses the very...
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Congratulations Rafayat
While reading the news, sometimes it can feel like the media concentrates only on the bad things of life, rather than the good. But more or less, good things do happen. A 24-year-old environmentalist and social entrepreneur becoming the first Bangladeshi to win the AFS Prize for Young Global Citizens...
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Dealing with rice hoarders, syndicate
Rice is our staple food. We hardly can survive without it. But when the prices of rice go beyond the purchasing capacity of common people, their survival becomes difficult. According to the government, there is no shortage of supply; yet prices of rice are on the rise. Within a week,...
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Face masks, please!
It is unfortunate that most of us seem to have forgotten wearing our face masks since the casualties from coronavirus have started dropping. When the entire world is preparing for the second wave of the virus, we hardly find 'conscious' people in public places either wearing masks at all or...
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