Archive for December, 2009

Enayet Rasul
14 November 2007
The development of Bangladesh has been hazarded for a long time from lack of construction materials. One of them is hard rock. The rocks have various uses. They are needed for breaking down into pebbles for use in road building and paving. They same are needed for laying in railway tracks between the sleepers. Hard rocks are specially needed to build and maintain strong embankments in a flood prone country like Bangladesh. But it was thought that the soft alluvial nature of Bangladesh meant that the possibility of finding hard rock in it was slim or none at all and that the country had no other option but to drain its precious resources year after year on importing the same paying higher and higher prices.

M. M. Haque
11/28/2005
Courtesy Financial Express

If one thinks prudently, a basic training programme on mining and environmental science should be adopted in the curriculum soon at Dinajpur Polytechnic and a tea industry-specific curriculum at Haji Danesh Agriculture University (HDAU), writes Mostagousul Haque

With the start of the much hyped election campaign all candidates offering everything possible if they are elected. This is while natural, we should also encourage them to be realistic and promise what they can really deliver once elected.

Voters, this scribe also considers, should bear a kind of responsibility to express and ask for what is mainly required for their area’s development.

M Azizur Rahman
Courtesy The Financial Express
April 5, 2009
International Oil Companies (IOCs) have made a mass exodus from the country’s hydrocarbon blocks, leaving them with only one more stretch to explore and raising serious questions over Bangladesh’s energy security.

The IOCs, which have rights to explore oil and gas in 10 out of the country’s leased-out 46 blocks, have abandoned their drilling drive in four stretches in the past five weeks as they found the areas “commercially not viable.”