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Letters to Editor
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Holding tax self-assessment
The DCC has engaged a 4,500 strong force of NCC boys for door-to-door delivery of holding tax self-assessment forms and collection of the same after completion by the house owners.
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Human trafficking
Trafficking is a global problem. No country is free from its claws. According to US officials' estimate, about 600,000 to 800,000 people are being trafficked in the whole world every year.
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Parks and gardens
Dhaka is short of adequate parks and gardens. It is an irony that the military ruler Ershad built a few of the beautiful parks in the city. But successive elected governments failed to build any newpark.
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Bill Clinton's book
While passing along the road near Hotel Sheraton, I found a boy shouting Bill Clinton for Tk 300. In fact, he was selling the book "My Life" written by the former president of the US.
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Death of a domestic help
I read the compelling editorial "Death of Domestic Help" and I must admit I was emotionally moved and felt very angry and deeply frustrated.
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Progress of happiness
In this age of fast and vast changes, the global focus is on development; in the broadcast meaning of this saleable term: regardless of its polarity, and the means employed to achieve the goals, sometimes
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Friday issue
If the quality of all English dailies is examined, I believe The Daily Star will get star marks for covering all sorts of news in excellent English of international standard.
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Stepmothers and godfathers
The Dhaka metropolis planners are bogged down with the inflated (self-created) problems of the city, mainly in the day to day management and administration, and in the implementation of the approved schemes.
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Flood victims
Almost every year our country is hit by floods. Disastrous floods occurred in 1988 and 1998. Many people had died and lost their property during those floods.
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Woes of a student
Today our main problem is flood. Bangladesh is sinking under water. According to weather forecasts, the floods will further worsen. Most of the districts in North Bengal are under water.
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Relief operations and helicopters
Most parts of the country are under water. People are struggling to survive. They are dying due to snake bites and diarrhoea. It is very difficult to find a dry land to bury the dead bodies.
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Unjust
It is hypocritical of the chief of the AL to leave for India when millions are suffering due to floods in Bangladesh. She left a trite advice to the GoB, to increase the number of flood relief centres.
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History of independence
Independence is such an entity of a nation that must not be shaken in any way, under no circumstances.
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