The Bangladesh Government has proceeded to conclude production sharing contracts (psc) of offshore drilling with two international oil companies (IOC) after a transparent approval process. A portion of civil society are against this government initiative for exploring and exploiting national resources. They are protesting on the streets which is creating barrier for further offshore...
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Education agenda is one of the main schemas for every political party in Bangladesh as well as many countries across the world. This agenda is always politicized by the politicians and the party. It is good news for Bangladesh that recently the Chairman of the National Education Policy- 2009 Formulation Committee Prof. Kabir Chowdhury...
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Baul Shomrat (king) Shah Abdul Karim passed away on the September 11th, 2009. I had the privilege of listening to him singing many years ago and I still remember how it felt he was immersed in the song that was pouring out of his heart.
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News: A three-month-old infant died of Swine Flu last Thursday, pushing the official death count from the H1N1 virus to two in Bangladesh. Total 311 swine flu cases were detected so far. Some 46 children drown everyday in Bangladesh and 17,000 annually as the drowning death toll peaks during the floods. Approximately 20,000 Bangladeshi...
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By 2025 one-thirds of Bangladesh is set to disappear under water. Tropical cyclones formed in the Bay of Bengal and accompanied storm surges take the highest human toll in the country. Between the melting Himalayas and the Khasi-Jaintia Hills in the north and the rising Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean in the south,...
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Bangladesh needs massive investments in almost all sectors and the sad fact is that the country is now experiencing serious investment crunch. 35 Thousand crore taka in country’s commercial banks is lying idle. potential investors are not feeling confident to infuse money in business mainly due to lack of proper infrastructure for gas and...
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You are not Ershad’s home minister. You are not the head of some thuggish student movement. You are not the caretaker government that sent the Army to Dhaka University and faught with the students. You are the home minister of a democratically elected government. You have personally faced the business end of a police...
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