Many roads and lanes in Dhaka city remain in awful shape

The rainfall over the last fortnight or so have led to disintegration of the surfaces of such roads creating hollows in too many places. Apart…

Improving standards and testing to increase exports

It would not be any overstatement to say that one of the vital areas to aid stepped up economic activities, specially in the area of exports, remains undeveloped in Bangladesh. This is the in the sphere of correctly evaluating standards of goods and testing to determine their quality…

Arrest of MP signals towards good governance

With the arrest of the Awami League MP from Gaibandha-1, Manjurul Islam Liton, peace-loving people have heaved sighs of relief …

VAT on English medium schools

The 7.5 per cent VAT on the country’s English medium schools now also needs to be withdrawn for the same two strong reasons for which recently imposed VAT on private universities was withdrawn. First, in principle education must not be recognized as a commodity in Bangladesh and second when…

Furniture industry

Sir, The prospective furniture industry in the country is failing to expand due to shortage of trained and skilled manpower. This…

Preventive health care and nutrition

Sir The preventive sides to health care deserve far greater emphasis in our country. The best strategy for a developing country with limited resources is spreading vital health maintenance related information among all sections of people . Thus, regular and intense official publicities…

Pursuing the two objectives

Sir The 94 million or so above the poverty line in the population of Bangladesh form a vast market of consumers of varying purchasing power . …

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