Mango: Bumper harvest dampens price at growers' level

Growers of mango have experienced bumper harvest this season, but still they are frustrated over low market price compared to that of the recent years. Mango prices, irrespective of varieties, never went below Taka 30 per kilogram in recent years. Mango was sold at Taka 100 per kilogram even two...

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Battery-run three-wheelers need policy support

Battery-run three-wheelers (BRTW) are popularly known as Easy-Bikes and Tom-Toms in some districts of Bangladesh. It has been in use in the country since 2004, and has become one of most widely used means of transportation for the mass people in both urban and rural areas. A rough estimate says...

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Monday watched a mad time at the World Cup

Spellbound, captivated, enthralled, shell-shocked - these are all old clichés so overused that none of these words could precisely describe the dramas the world witnessed on Monday night in Russia. Two unbelievable plays between Brazil and Mexico in Samara Arena and two hours later between Japan and Belgium in Rostov...

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