Fast-shrinking of farmlands threaten national food security
Unplanned use of agricultural lands for building homes, industries and urbanisation purposes are making a sharp shrinking of cropland and creating a massive threat to...
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Provisioning shortfall reduces loan write-off by banks
A media report says that the practice of loan write-off by banks has nosedived as the lenders’ ability to keep 100 per cent provisioning against...
Sheikh Moni: Pioneer of youth politics in Bangladesh
Mahbubur Rahman Palash Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni is the founder Chairman of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, the youth wing of Bangladesh Awami League. I am...
Addressing Health Impacts of Air Pollution
Dr Matiur Rahman & Shishir Reza : Nine out of every 10 people in the world take in polluted air. Researchers mention older people with...
Why 240 migrants coming from South Africa escaped unscanned
A total of 240 people, who returned to Bangladesh from South Africa at different phases last month, have gone underground without following mandatory health rules,...
80pc buildings in Dhaka City lack sewerage connectivity
As much as 80 per cent of residential and commercial buildings in Dhaka city do not have sewerage connectivity. RAJUK has a provision for all...
South Korea — from aid recipient to donor
Manuela V. Ferro & Akihiko Nishio :A document in the World Bank’s archives tells a story of modest beginnings: In 1962, representatives of South Korea...
What magic takes Bangladesh to a new height
Zunaid Ahmed Palak :Bangladesh is now at fifty. The then US Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, who had once compared Bangladesh to a bottomless basket and...
Challenge of freeing 42 per cent rural households from poverty
A NEWS report published in a national daily on Saturday said that 42 per cent of rural households have not succeeded to move out of...
Chronic malnutrition among 5.5 million under 5 children is a danger signal
DESPITE Bangladesh’s significant improvements in various nutrition indicators in the past, the direct interventions to improve nutritional status – such as ensuring maternal nutrition to...
Equality for Women in the Workplace
Neeti Katoch, Ketevan Chkheidze, David Urbaneja-Furelos :Fostering a culture of inclusion is a highly complex, long-term process. The corporate world and other players in private...
Not even WHO knows how lethal omicron is
Jehangir Hussain :None, not even the World Health Organisation knows how deadly might be omicron, the new corona virus strain detected by South Africa. The...