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Plastic waste threatens environment and biodiversity

Md Zillur Rahaman

Plastic waste poses a serious risk to the country's environment, public health and biodiversity. Recently, on 20 December 2021, a research report prepared by the World Bank for the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, entitled 'Towards a Multisectoral Action Plan for Sustainable Plastic Management in Bangladesh', stated that its use in urban areas ...

Hundi and money laundering: Manmade cancer

Md Zillur Rahaman

Hundi (illegal money transfer or exchange) is the main and much discussed medium of money laundering. Hundi traders are spreading like a net across the globe. They have the ability to transfer hundi money illegally from one end of the world to the other. Traders are smuggling money under the guise of import-export, showing higher ...

On International Migrants Day

Md Zillur Rahaman

International Migrants Day is celebrated on December 18 every year in all the member countries of the United Nations. The UN General Assembly decided to observe the day on December 4, 2000 in worldwide. On 18 December, 1990, the UN General Assembly adopted an international agreement in the form of resolution 45/158 to provide adequate ...

Victory Day Special

Tale of red-green Bangladesh

Md Zillur Rahaman

The most glorious chapter in the thousand year history of Bengalis is the great Liberation War of 1971. The architect of this war was Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of Bangladesh. On the night of March 25, 1971, the unarmed Bengalis were attacked by the Pakistan Army and their allies. In the early hours ...

Time to rein in defaulting loan

Md Zillur Rahaman

At present, the banking sector of Bangladesh is going through a challenging time and is facing three major challenges. First, the large-scale dormant defaulting loans, second, the implementation of single-digit interest rates, and third, the challenge of the post COVID-19 economic downturn. Basically, based on the situation in the pre-COVID-19 banking sector, those concerned have ...

The success of road safety movement will remain elusive!

Md Zillur Rahaman

Students are again protesting, blocking roads and demanding road safety. It has started when a student of Notre Dame College named Naeem Hasan was killed in a collision with a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation at Gulistan in the capital. The tragic accident took place on November 24. Naeem was seriously injured and ...

Renewable energy: Next global driving force

Md Zillur Rahaman

A 13-day climate conference called 'COP-26' has started in Glasgow, Scotland organized by Britain. Now all eyes of the world are on this global climate summit of the United Nations. The focus of the discussion is on reducing fossil fuels to zero carbon emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy (RE) and there is ...

Impacts of climate change and challenges to sustainable development

Md Zillur Rahaman

A 13-day climate change conference called 'COP26' has started in Glasgow, Scotland organized by Britain and now all eye on the global climate conference of the United Nations. China, the USA, India, the European Union, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases and world leaders are ...

Spiraling hike of essentials

Md Zillur Rahaman

Lives of low-income people are in misery due to rising commodity prices. There is no commodity in the market, starting from rice, pulses, edible oil, cooking gas, onions, vegetables, prices of which are not skyrocketing. There is no denying that our standard of living has improved. Wages have risen. But uncontrolled and unbridled rise in ...

Golden days of the ‘Golden fibre’ coming back

Md Zillur Rahaman

Once jute was our main cash crop, known as golden fibre and jute has a golden past. It is one of the products that earns foreign currency. But glorious past of jute was lost because of the discovery and use of synthetic fibres. The durability of various synthetic products including polythene also reduces the use ...