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Poverty
I was reading in newspaper the other day that in India a newborn baby was found in a field when a farmer was plowing the soil, the child was still alive as God saved it.
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Global warming
According to the campaigners, global warming will force out more than 1 billion people from their homes before 2050, as they warn in a new report. Climate change will create a world of many Darfurs.
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Biman PLC - some suggestions
It is interesting to note that Biman is now a Private Limited Company (PLC).
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Rainwater
We all know that water is one of the Earth's most essential resources and life depends on it. A proper management system should be developed to capture rainwater.
 
Power generation
Sabrina Rashid's letter on the matter (23 July) is fairly premature. Planning to generate "x" megawatt of power, and making it available in the grid are two separate matters.
 
Comments
"Command economy" failed in the long run, that is for sure, but it gave the USSR and others a boost that could not have been possible in any other way.
 
A coincidence?
Is it a mere coincidence that the governments of all the major countries of the Indian sub-continent are now being headed by former World Bank officials? Unless we can break free from the clutchesof
 
Dhaka University teachers
In several newspapers today (21 July), I find the report that some teachers of the Dhaka University are going to protest the arrest of Sheikh Hasina and the confinement of Khaleda.
 
Reform issue
This refers to the article 'Reforms and the Military' by Mr. Nurul Huda.
 
State of our education
The current state of education in Bangladesh is very deplorable. The maintenance of quality education is a challenging issue. The education in Bangladesh is mainly theoretical and memory based.
 
Teachers in distress
The present caretaker government is taking many effective steps in each and every sector for the greater interest of the nation, which have been appreciated highly at home and abroad.
 
Law and order slide
The caretaker government despite making serious efforts apparently could not make much headway in two sectors e.g. improvement of law and order and arrest of the price hike.
 

 
   
 
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