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Intensifying offshore drilling for hydrocarbon

Against the backdrop of no drilling activities in the Bay of Bengal by Bangladesh now, an Indian oil and gas company, ONGC Videsh Ltd, has been given go-ahead to start drilling an exploratory well at Kanchan later this month. The...

Changing world and small farms  

A research by the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of...

Economic growth and poverty reduction  

At a time when the economic growth the world over...

Light engineering can be a major driver of the economy  

The country's light engineering industry, despite its mostly informal and...

Achieving objectives of free school textbooks  

After days of an overcast sky and cold weather, the...

The bank interest rate puzzle  

The agreement reached between the finance minister and the banking...

Opportunities galore in ocean economy  

The ocean contributes more than $6.0 billion annually to the...

Discriminatory credit market  

The widely held view is that institutional credit is likely...

Not all is well on children's education front  

With pictures of little angelic faces -- mostly of girls...

Capital flight to continue unabated!  

Among the many financial crimes, common to financial regimes across...

Social enterprise and the poor  

It has long been argued by critics that social enterprises...

Where the nation has faltered ...  

Whatever may be the equation between time and space, one...

Low wage-driven competitiveness no match for skills  

How long can low labour cost guarantee competitiveness? For a...

Varying severity of winter in Bangladesh  

Unlike Delhi, Kathmandu and a few other cities in South...

The state and technological revolution  

The following account should sound familiar. Over the course of...

Keeping migration cost at reasonable level  

Addressing a programme in Dhaka marking the International Migrants' Day...

Twin trouble of obesity and malnutrition  

The Lancet is a world-renowned journal of medical science and...

Decline in poverty is not all

On the face of it, the 1.3 percentage point drop...

Tariffs shouldn't 'break the Internet'

Most people have never heard of the World Trade Organisation's...

SMEs need to stand strong and tall  

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), believed to be the main...

Malaysian B4G and 3D jobs

Thousands of 'illegal' foreign workers are now leaving Malaysia under...

Meeting challenges to reach SDGs targets  

While launching the Asia-Pacific Conference on financing inclusive and sustainable...

Ignoring manners is now a way of life  

Maintenance of manners has been declining, if not vanishing. It...

Whither syndicate in rice market  

"One should hardly have to tell academicians that information is...

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