Ariful Islam Mithu

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Govt eyes infrastructure Sukuk to curb budget deficit

To create an alternative financing source, the government will issue bonds under the banner of infrastructure projects.

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Khulna is my heart

I was born in Ishwardi but I was raised in Khulna Railway Loco Colony. My father was a locomotive master and he had been transferred to Khulna when I was a fifth-grade student at a primary school in Ishwardi, a small town in Pabna. In the beginning, my father was living there alone. But at one stage, my mother decided to go to Khulna to live there. Her primary purpose was to bring up us in a town so that we become educated.

My mother has always been very smart. In 1993, my mother decided to take us all to Khulna where my father was living. We all went there and keep on living there for the next 10 years. I spent my best time in Khulna. I got admitted in the 6th grade at a railway school. I left Khulna after my intermediate education.

All my school and college friends were there. Many of them still live there.

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Tanneries: First they killed Buriganga, then Dhaleswari and now Kaliganga

It is noon and the sun is beating down. Bidhu Halder, a 55-year-old fisherman, and his 24-year-old son Aradhon Halder are busy cutting steel

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writing crisis

I have long been trying to write something and want to write on a regular basis but the problem is that I cannot do it. I think the first problem is I cannot figure out what to write about. I find it tough to sit for writing and I cannot get the inspiration to carry on writing.

I still do not know why it happens? But every single day I feel remorse for not writing anything at all. In my college-going day, I dreamt of becoming a writer. But it never happened.

Can someone please help me to get out of it?

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How a snake-bite turned a boy into a snake rescuer

Farhadul Islam is one of the founding members of a volunteer organisation in Chattogram, Snake Rescue Team Bangladesh, which believes in the

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The government’s fuel price hike justifications ring hollow

No one got a chance to critique the price hike decision. If BPC is incurring a loss, they are supposed to forward the price hike proposal to the BERC

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As a climate change victim, should we invest in coal-based power plants?

With the COP26 underway, now there is more reason to re-evaluate the country’s coal-based power plant projects

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Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed Park: An example of an ideal city park

A highly secured green public space in Dhaka’s diplomatic area spells hope for improvement of standard of living

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It was early morning. The sun did not yet rise. Richard lay in his small room browsing internet. He did not sleep the whole night. He was just waiting for the night to end. His only wish was to meet the woman, Dorothy.

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A road with a view: Story of how it was made different

While smaller flowering plants like radhachura, togor, sonalu, etc. burst into colours, to gorgeously bedeck the highway, mid-sized trees like kodom and jarul are also sheltering birds and smaller wildlife

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Mijanur Rahman: From trainee merchandiser to owner of multiple RMG factories

A once-struggling employee at a garment factory, Mijanur Rahman transformed himself into a successful RMG exporter who became one of the 20 Dhaka directors at the latest BGMEA elections

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“Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share.”

— Riley Sager, from Home Before Dark

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The good fortune of fortune-tellers

Despite being a pseudoscience and often subject to ridicule, fortune-tellers - palmists, astrologers, face readers, parrot keepers etc - draw a huge number of people everyday. Some sit on footpaths, while a few have found so much success that they run lucrative practices from ‘chambers’ at upmarket shopping centres in the city

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What will happen to Dhaka’s Trump Café now?

With Trump’s tenure as the 45th US president coming to an end, will the entrepreneurs of Trump Café change its name? Will they rename it as Biden Café? Perhaps Joe Café?

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Where have all the Doel laptops gone?

There is a demand for 10 lakh laptops in the country annually. The company has produced only 80 thousand laptops since 2011

The main purpose of Doel was to provide students with low-cost laptops. State-run Telephone Shilpa Sangstha assembled the laptops in collaboration with Dhaka-based 2M Corporation and Malaysian TFT Technology.

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Once I was a king: The rise and fall of Azad Products

How the company behind the development of the country’s printed product industry became a losing concern

Modern communication technologies like computers and smartphones forced Azad Products as well as the whole printed product industry into a tight corner over the last two decades.