Instead of raising water tariff, cut production costs by curbing corruption
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has proposed to increase water tariff once again by five per cent amid the Covid-19 pandemic. According...
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Migrant Workers In Dire Condition According to a newspaper report almost 4, 00,000 expatriate workers have returned to the country last year as Covid-19 has...
Rebuilding Syria Arab Nations Must Come Forward
Christiane Waked :Lebanon can offer a platform for companies and labour. It is rather easy for Syrian refugees to return to their country from Lebanon...
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A nationalist leader indeed The Nation has been observing the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-a true nationalist leader and Architect of Bangladesh. There...
Restorative Justice More Effective To Control Crime
Robert T. Muller, PhD :The punitive justice system operates in a way that crime is punished while victims are compensated. The severity of the punishment...
Value Added Tax Rethinking The Theory
Dr. Md. Abdur Rouf :The concept of Value Added Tax (VAT) emerged in Europe in the 1920s in the backdrop of the need for eliminating...
Assess the arsenic situation afresh for mitigation
Twenty-eight years have passed since the country first detected arsenic in drinking water, but no comprehensive study to gauge the intensity of arsenic contamination has...
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Cruelty Against WomenA woman was denied shelter in her father in law’s house in Gaibandha for delivering female child. This is punishable offence and implies...
National Flag Dos & Don’ts
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :National flag is the highest and most recognizable symbol of pride of a country. Thus we see its use in numerous...
Forest not protected as national wealth
Worrying developments have been reported over the years in many forests of Bangladesh where trees are bring cut down indiscriminately to fuel brick kilns or...
Import growth would make lending from forex reserves difficult
The government’s plan to use foreign exchange reserves to bankroll infrastructure projects may face difficulty as rising imports will leave little scope for making such...
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Renovate State-Owned Sugar MillsThe permanent closure of six state-owned sugar mills will compel the country to rely on imported sugar products and thus the market...