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Now a days this sector is expanding thoughts and innovative ideas of the pharmacists for further development. Due to recent development of this sector we are exporting medicines to global market. This sector is also providing 95% of the total medicine requirement of the local market.

Leading Pharmaceutical companies are expanding their business with the aim to widen the market. Recently some new industries have been established to enhance the strength of this sector.

The rate of migration of the pharmacists is very high. Pharmacy graduates from Bangladesh are specially working in the USA, Canada, Middle East, Japan and some other European countries. A total number of Pharmacy graduates who have been registered by Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Council, Dhaka is about 2300, among which only 1000 is working in Bangladesh and the rest of them has gone abroad. Most of them, about 63% are working in USA.

The education in Pharmacy was first introduced in the country in 1964 with the establishment of the Department of the Pharmacy in the University of Dhaka. Recently the Department has been expanded to a faculty comprising of three new Departments.

For about 25 years the Dhaka University had been the only institution offering Pharmacy course until establishment of a 'Pharmacy Section' in Jahangirnagar University, Savar. Until now, there are four public universities and eleven private universities offering the undergraduate courses in pharmacy.

Dance To Save The World!

Sadman Khaled Monsur

ENVIRONMENTAL clubbing is the insanely fun, Eco-disco solution we've all been waiting for. Coined 'club4climate', the project was created in order to increase eco awareness and to start providing real, enjoyable and practical solutions that can improve our lifestyle, mind frame and most importantly, our environment as Sustainable Dance Club (SDC).

A multimillionaire entrepreneur who styles himself Dr Earth claims to have found the answer to the planet's environmental problems - to dance. As the clubbers in Britain's first-ever eco-nightclub raves their little hearts out in the coming months, they'll be doing their part to conserve energy. Well, their feet will be, because the energy that powers 60% of the club is going to be generated by the springy dance floor beneath them. The springs in the floor are connected to power generating blocks made of piezoelectric crystals. It's similar to what Enviu, a Netherlands-based research group, proposed for Holland-based clubs, but with a different accent. Like that system, the British club's crystals produce current when subjected to pressure created by the gyrating bodies above but millionaire founder Andrew Charalambous didn't stop with spring-filled floor she's taking the entire green thing very seriously.

Beyond the self-sufficient floor, the club will also sell organic spirits served in polycarbon cups; and the bathrooms will feature a recycled water system for flushing the toilets.

Entry to the club costs about $20, but clubbers who can prove they arrived on foot, bicycle or public transportation will get a free pass (so long as they sign a pledge promising to work towards curbing climate change too, that is).

Talk about making a change. This innovation triggers not only physical sensations and lots of party energies, but can alter our minds and souls so that we can begin doing what is right for the world we inhabit.

(Masters in Environment and DevelopmentStudies Independent University, Bangladesh.)