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Govt’s austerity measures remain paper-bound
Although two weeks have gone by after the government announced a 16-point austerity programme to check the culture of unnecessary spending by government offices and neutralise the oil price hike’s effect on the economy, only one of the measures — the two day weekend — is happily being implemented...[ + ]
Playing on the track, dicing with death
When the train thunders past with a loud whistle rattling her portable earthen stove, Rokeya carefully moves to her shanty. She has no time to see where her two-year-old daughter is or to check whether she is safe as she is busy cooking for her family.
Little Smriti was engrossed in playing on the railway track when the train neared her, almost running over her.....[ + ]
‘Worst-ever’ power crisis likely during Ramadan
The country may experience about 1000MW of load shedding during the peak hours of Ramadan as a number of large power generation units have remained out of operation. According to officials of the Power Development Board, people are likely to face the worst-ever power crisis due to a huge shortfall in generation...[ + ]
E-GOVERNMENT
Empowering the powerful
The much-vaunted e-government initiatives have very little to do with providing on-line services to the citizens. They are now confined to such expensive businesses, literally speaking, as the replacement of the old hardware with the state-of-art technologies and equipment, the start up of new projects without even effectively putting the old ones to use, and above all, allocating the senior bureaucrats new toys for all play and no work...
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Lenders slammed for hostile jute policy
Speakers at a seminar on Saturday said that thoughtless adoption of policies prescribed by multilateral lenders had led the country’s jute sector towards destruction. They criticised the lending agencies for their double-standards – pressing Bangladesh to close jute mills and pledging funds for India to strengthen its jute industry...[ + ]
Chinese co to set up gas meter plant
A Chinese company has proposed for setting up a gas meter producing plant in the country. Officials of the Board of Investment said the Beijing Jinchuang Combined Gas Meter Company last week placed a proposal to the BoI expressing interest in setting up a gas meter plant in Bangladesh...[ + ]
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