2/10/2014 Toxic waste is poisoning water in Bangladesh Monday‚ 10 February 2014 Last updated at 10:13 pm Mobile E-paper Reader E-paper Login Subscribe Search Politics & Diplomacy South-east Asia Economy & Business East Asia South Asia Health & Environment Trends & Transitions Oceania Toxic waste is poisoning water in Bangladesh Pollutants from textile industry largely to blame for damage to environment Published on Jul 16‚ 2013 Op-Ed Multimedia
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harden by reaction with atmospheric carbon dioxide. The most important uses of cement are as an ingredient in the production of mortar in masonry‚ and of concrete‚ a combination of cement and an aggregate to form a strong building material.. Bangladesh cement industry is the 40th largest market in the world. Currently capacity of the industry is about 20 mn tones (MT). Top 13 players are alone controlling over 78% of the total industry capacity. However‚ the balance capacity still remains quite
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Child Labor in Bangladesh Child labor is a huge problem in today’s modern world. Starting around the 1700s and becoming big in the 1800s it has changed the lives of millions of children throughout history. Child labor first started taking hold in America where children would work 50-70 hours a week making peanut wages. Now many other countries allow child labor‚ which enslaves 168 million kids. In some of these countries like Bangladesh even adults are kidnapped and put into child labor-like conditions
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food consumer of Bangladesh like to take western food also after 1980s. As a result of global marketing this was not too hard for the consumers. Different foreign food companies were established in Bangladesh. Beverage industry is one of them. But more interestingly we don’t know beverage is also our cultural food because beverage doesn’t mean only carbonated drinks. Yoghurt‚ soup and lacchi are also beverage of our own tradition which consumed for the last 100 years in Bangladesh. But carbonated
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As I was travelling on a rickshaw on the 40th victory day of Bangladesh I looked at and admired the architecture and magnificence of the houses on the right of the new Gulshan bridge lake. I could not but feel proud of my country. I tried to imagine what our founding fathers would say if they could see this edifices and whether they would believe that their fellow countrymen had achieved such high standards of living. However as most darkness lies under the candle; as soon as my eyes went to the
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life should be spent in study and interaction with all in order to gain knowledge and groom oneself as an ideal human being. But at present the alarming fact is that student politics is considered as a powerful weapon for the political parties in Bangladesh. As a result‚ students in public universities become involved in atrocious party politics and indulge in illegal activities like killing‚ tender and admission businesses and so on in the name of student politics. Nowadays student politics is neither
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Consumer rights in Bangladesh Bangladesh is a small country with a huge population. Perhaps it is the country with largest consumer comparing its small area. Though in many sectors Bangladesh improves but it is matter of sorrow that after 40 year of independence consumer rights are yet been introduced in a significant manner in Bangladesh. Though there is lot of organization working for human rights in Bangladesh but no organization except Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) working for consumer
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Garments industry in Bangladesh Although Bangladesh is not developed in industry‚ it has been enriched in Garment industries in the recent past years. In the field of Industrialization garment industry is a promising step. It has given the opportunity of employment to millions of unemployed‚ specially innumerable uneducated women of the country. It is making significant contribution in the field of our export income. History of our cloth Industry: Once the cloth of Bangladesh achieved worldwide
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On 26 March‚ 1971 the independence of Bangladesh was declared and the Liberation War began. The people of then-East Pakistan took part in this war to liberate Bangladesh from the oppression of military leaders of Pakistan. Independence for Bangladesh was gained through a nine-month civil war against the Pakistani Army‚ which resulted in the loss of about 3 million lives.[2] The Mukti Bahini (Bengali "freedom fighters")‚ with military support from India‚ defeated the Pakistani Army on 16 December
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the course “Micro-Economics”. This report‚ on the present market scenario of the beverage industry‚ is to be submitted to the instructor of the course Mr. Sheikh Morshed Jahan‚ the instructor of the course. Background The soft drinks market in Bangladesh consists mainly of seven companies. 1. Abdul Monem Limited (Coca-Cola‚ Sprite‚ Fanta) 2. Agriculture Marketing Company Limited (Pran) 3. Akij Group (Mojo‚ Lemu‚ Frutika) 4. Global Beverage Limited (Virgin) 5. Globe Soft Drinks
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