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Progress marginal

The number of households that have attained economic solvency in the past 11 years has risen by only 4.6 per cent, according to a survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). There has been very marginal progress in economic solvency during this period, the BBS noted. The BBS released the survey report on Sample Vital Registration System (SVRS)-2013 this month. “While 17 per cent of households were reported to be economically solvent in 2003, the proportion had increased to 21.6 per cent by 2013,” the report observed. The survey, however, did not show any significant rural-urban difference in economic solvency, with rural areas accounting for 28 per cent and urban areas recording 22 per cent. Only around 20 per cent of rural…

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Let ideology be path of life

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the leaders and workers of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL)…

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News

Rain ruins seedbeds of Aman transplantation

Bagerhat: As the time for Aman transplantation gets closer, more than half the seedbeds have gone under water due to incessant rainfall in the district over the last few days, reports UNB. According to officials at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), about 1,620 hectares of the 2,810 hectares…

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Metro

Huge rush of passengers at Barisal river port

A huge rush of passengers, returning to work after the Eid holidays, has descended on Barisal Port, forcing many to seek tickets from the black market. Barisal port sources said around 180,000 people have taken the river route to Dhaka in the past two days. As many as 18 vessels, including 16 triple-decker…

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Editorial

Visiting a different America from the Bush era

When I last visited America it was Bush era. The Gulf war was over, Saddam was awaiting a trial in a Kangaroo court which eventually gave him death sentence. President Bush was boasting that Iraq war was over and American supremacy had been reasserted all over the world. Some of the American media was…

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Op-ed

Notwithstanding the contribution that Bollywood makes

Bollywood has made India proud. Wherever Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an unknown entity, for instance in the distant Greek islands, it is Amir and Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai who are better known. Amir and Shahrukh are two of the three Khans while Aishwarya is a former beauty queen turned film…

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Miscellaneous

Income-generating activities help lift poverty in char areas

Thousands of extremely poor people living in the remote char islands (shoals) in Brahmaputra basin have successfully won over abject poverty through various income generation activities, reports BSS from Rangpur. They have also improved their life standard through achieving hygienic sanitation and access…

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Business

Hotel boom in Dhaka

For long, a luxury stay in Dhaka restricted the choice to just 700 odd rooms in three hotels of international standard– the Pan Pacific Sonargaon, the Dhaka Sheraton (later named as Ruposhi Bangla and now acquired by the Intercontinental Group, the first owner) and the good old Purbani. Given…

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Worldwide

Africa on the move

AFP, NAIROBI: US President Barack Obama declared yesterday that “Africa is on the move”, praising the spirit of entrepreneurship at a business summit in Kenya as he kicked off a landmark visit. Obama arrived in Kenya late on Friday, making his first visit to the country of his father’s…

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Dhakalive

�Raarang� to be staged at BSA July 31

Aranyak Natyadal is organizing a three-day theatre festival titled ‘Raarang Utsab’ to celebrate the 150th show of its highly acclaimed production ‘Raarang’, with the slogan ‘Shuni Duragota Madoler Dhwani’, at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA). The festival will…

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Sports

Bangladesh on right track: Mushfiq

Bangladesh’s rain-hit first Test against South Africa that ended in a tame draw is considered as the country’s giant stride towards a high point in the longer version cricket, a format in which they often found them in wanting. The Chittagong Test was delicately poised before the rain washed…

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Nationwide

Good yield of black lentil expected

Farmers in shoal (char) areas are expecting to get a good yield of black lentil in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali this year. As the weather is much favourable and the department of the district agriculture has supplied high yielding varieties of gram seeds the farmers are hopeful of harvesting plenty…

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Allow normal political activities, BNP urges govt

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday demanded a guarantee from the government that it will be allowed to carry out normal political activities in the country. “The people in the government are saying that the BNP would be able to carry out normal political activities. But we want a…

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