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Proposed tariff hike and gas pilferage   

Gas distribution companies could not wait any longer. In less than a month from the polls day (December 29, 2018) they submitted fresh proposals to the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) for raising gas tariff for all section of consumers....

Saving the dying rivers  

The government is drafting a master plan to protect the...

Ensuring quality and equitable education

After an exciting and exhilarating performances in the Millennium Development...

Month of colours, flowers and festival  

What a time it is! The first day of Falgun...

Relocating plastic factories  

Following the shifting of tanneries from Hazaribagh to Savar, the...

Promoting need-based education and training

The issue of appropriate skill development surfaced again on last...

Reining in loan defaulters  

Each and every bank of the country is expected to...

Is Bangladesh on track of SDG targets?  

The General Economics Division of the Ministry of Planning (GED)...

Transforming villages into towns!  

Words are making rounds now for sometime about transforming villages...

Feeding the ten billion

Our current diets are bad for our health and are...

Clipping the winged money  

So, here we are again. Making headlines on money flight!...

Combating dust pollution in Dhaka  

The January 30 announcement of a drive by DSCC (Dhaka...

High cost, low quality  

It is no secret that the cost of road construction...

Need to harness blue economy potential  

The government's move for creating a data bank on blue...

Option for not rice alone  

The era of rice as a predominant food item in...

Only state-run public transport in capital  

As traffic anarchy in Dhaka city and road accidents across...

The case for digital identification

Worldwide, more than four billion people are connected to the...

Say yes to mandatory contract farming  

Exporters of vegetables and agro-products are reportedly upset at the...

National imperative of saving hills  

After afflicting the greater Chattogram region, the menace of hill-cutting...

Deaths on roads, highways  

The statistics, presented by the Jatri Kallyan Samity, a passengers'...

Strategy for efficient power generation  

The government's decision to develop new coal mines on its...

Behind adoption of agro-technology  

Quite obviously, the advent of a modern technology, say in...

When physicians do disservice to their profession  

That physicians of hospitals and clinics situated in outlying upazilas...

Fewer Chinese babies intensify an old story

Fewer Chinese babies are really an old story. The country's...

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