It is appreciated that RAB’s action recently led to sentencing of the owner of an unauthorised diagnostic centre, United Health Care and Diagnostic Centre, in the capital with one year imprisonment. The centre was also sealed off. Not only the centre was unauthorised, it was using date-expired…

Traditional agriculture--centering mainly on the production of food grains--has served a purpose, no doubt, in feeding the growing population of Bangladesh. But this singular emphasis on food grain production is also costing the country dear in different ways. It has created the necessity or urgency…

Better population control activities are needed Sir, The present population of Bangladesh is estimated to be over 160 million. However, as a consequence of the current officially estimated annual growth rate of the population at 1.48 per cent, the population could be an enormous one at 320 million people…