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e-commerce in troubled waters  

The names like Evaly, Eorange, Dhamaka have recently been in the headlines, but for the wrong reason. For those names are being equated with cheating. Posing as e-business platforms, they took millions of taka in advance from their unsuspecting customers...

Is coronavirus on its way out?

With the rate of Covid-19 infection plummeting below 5.0 per...

Geopolitics of foreign aid

Western countries often accuse China of pursuing 'debt-trap diplomacy', especially...

Facilitating land ports

Improving the state of the country's land ports is an...

Of pandemic and urban-rural exodus

During the recent corona-prompted lockdown, a distressing aspect of the...

Getting Covid-time dropouts back to classes

Most people feared a grim impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...

Inflation risk concerning

Even after passing through a series of restrictions or lockdowns...

Giving the Afghans a chance

After the Taliban formed what they said their caretaker government...

Curricula reform: How to implement it?

In a major reform of the academic curricula for primary,...

Unsettling regulatory action

Bangladesh needs proper legal framework for addressing disputes and attracting...

Nine-eleven revisited

The memory of 9/11 returned once again to haunt us.The...

Reclaiming riverbanks and improving navigability

Rivers are believed to be one of the most susceptible...

A silent, but grim, fallout of Covid-19

A grave phenomenon related to the one-and-half-year corona ravages in...

Easy targets and defiant recruiters

The overwhelming majority of the manpower recruiting agencies, according to...

How Bangladesh may benefit from new int'l development banks

Bangladesh has finally joined the so-called BRICS bank, The New...

Moral dilemma black money gives rise to

Reports say 11 banks including seven state-owned ones are facing...

Are schools ready for opening to students?

The decision taken in favour of opening schools and colleges...

Prospects for plastic recycling

The plastics industry basically emerged in Bangladesh during the 1980s...

Protecting consumers from e-business spoilsport

That the ongoing pandemic has many faces is evident from...

Learning to live with climatic extremes

The 'comprehensive review' prepared by the UN agency WMO, hopefully,...

The puzzle of surplus rice output

Two government stalwarts, reportedly, engaged in a verbal duel over...

Is current account deficit concerning?

For the fifth consecutive year, Bangladesh recorded the deficit in...

Changing narratives of crimes, rights

The year 2020 saw the highest number of hate crimes...

How and when to open schools and colleges

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her eagerness to open...

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