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Although the circular bus service in Hatirjheel project area helps to diversify the traffic and makes daily commute of people of nearby areas a bit easier, passengers are generally unhappy about the charging of extra fares. The fixed fare in this route is more than twice the fare fixed by the g...
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Rights activists and legal experts had long been demanding removal of some controversial provisions, including the provision that allows questioning the character of rape victims in the court, from the Evidence Act. The 150-year-old law that was enacted during the British colonial period exists...
The judiciary of Bangladesh is fraught with massive pendency of cases. Pendency of cases across the country has increased in the last couple of years.The pendency is observed in all the levels of the judiciary, including higher courts, lower courts and special tribunals.About 38,000 cases were pendi...
Thousands of street food vendors sell ready-made food items, including snacks, fruits, cake, shingara, halim, fuchka and jhalmuri, throughout Dhaka and other cities as well as towns in the country. Street food vending is the main income source of many poor people in the country. However, most of the...
The prevalence of obesity and diabetes is increasing rapidly in Bangladesh. Obesity amongst the children is also increasing at an alarming rate in both rural and urban areas.However, the obesity and diabetes rate among the urban people is higher than the rural people. A study shows that the overweig...
A recent study shows that tobacco companies are depriving the government of huge amounts of revenue through selling cigarettes at prices higher than the maximum retail price. According to the study carried out by the Bureau of Economic Research (BER) of Dhaka University and the Bangladesh Network fo...
Lead pollution in food in Bangladesh has not yet received proper attention of the authorities concerned. The food chain in the country is now highly exposed to lead pollution.Different research papers reveal that almost 100 per cent of vegetables, on examining samples in recent years, are fou...
A separate policy for marine fishing has been introduced in Bangladesh for the first time aiming to ensure proper management in the sector and promote mariculture.The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock framed the policy. Alongside the policy, the ministry is also going to formulate ‘Mari...
Ozone pollution is becoming a major problem and may turn into a serious threat to Bangladesh in the near future. The ozone pollution poses a formidable risk to several countries, including Bangladesh, for some unique reasons. Experts said that the ozone may become a very dangerous pollutant for...
There are a large number of English medium schools in Dhaka where thousands of students are enrolled. Among them, the number of students in only four English medium schools is 4500. Almost all of the 4500 students come to school by private cars. Besides the four schools, hundreds to thousa...
At last the ‘Air Pollution (Control) Rules, 2022’ has been formulated in Bangladesh, keeping the provision of two years’ imprisonment and Tk 2 lakh fine for emitting harmful substances into the air.The Rules were formulated as per Section 20 of the ‘Bangladesh Environment Con...
Many fishermen and poachers use lethal poison in rivers, canals and other water bodies in the Sundarbans to catch shrimps, crabs and other fishes.Use of such poison puts fishes and biodiversity in the Sundarbans at risk. However, a section of fishermen is involved in poisoning canals in the Sundarba...
The authorities concerned of the government have given relaxation to thousands of students and their parents as the authorities scrapped the condition of parents’ birth certificates mandatory for registering the birth of those born after 2001.Now the parents are not required to provide birth r...
Although the journey of tea industry in Bangladesh started 168 years ago, the daily wage of labourers in the tea gardens of the country is not even Tk 168 at present. The wage for a tea garden worker is Tk 120 per day, which is the lowest amount than any other sector in the country. The amount ...
Many laws, particularly the tobacco control law and the wildlife preservation law, are still now being violated largely in making many films, telefilms, dramas, commercial advertisements and OTT platforms.The smoking scenes are displayed in many of the films and dramas which have been released recen...
It is now the rainy season, but such a dry and rainless rainy season has not been witnessed in the country in the last couple of decades. Bangladesh is now witnessing a different rainy season. Devout Muslims and devotees of other communities, including the Hindu and some ethnic groups, in seve...
The High Court (HC) Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court is likely to get some new judges soon. According to sources at the Supreme Court (SC) and the Ministry of Law, around 20 judges may be appointed to the HC within a few days in order to resolve the shortage of judges in the higher court and inc...
The northeastern region of Bangladesh has already faced three floods this year. The third spell of the heaviest flood devastated Sylhet region and lasted for several days last June. The record-breaking flood especially hit Sylhet and Sunamganj districts and it prevailed for about over two weeks...
The gazette on the National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC) has been published fixing the responsibilities and criteria for the NTCC after 15 years of its inception. The legal position of this body is now further strengthened through publication of the gazette, said anti-tobacco activists and expe...
At last, the much-awaited ‘Education Act’ is going to be formulated in Bangladesh in line with the ‘National Education Policy, 2010’. The Education Ministry has already prepared the draft of the country’s first education law with the provision of imposing ban on pr...
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