Drugs that used to successfully fight diseases are gradually becoming ineffective due to decades of malpractice: intake of over-prescribed or self-prescribed medicines.
Statistics are intertwined with the reality they are supposed to capture; connectivity is the key to development and should be the order of the day for development, while it is crucial to look history from insider’s perspective.
Insurance stocks a double-edged sword for investors
Stocks of almost all non-life insurance companies have more than doubled over the past year while the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose 38 per cent.
At least two insurance companies saw their stock prices grow over five times the original value while it was three to four times for 17 others, shows the DSE data.
However, this rise in value is not supported by an increase in earnings.
For example, Provati Insurance surged eight times from its original value but declared only 17 per cent stock dividend for 2020. The company s earnings per share rose 85 per cent to Tk 1.26 in the first quarter of 2021.
The authorities have taken necessary measures to preserve the archaeological evidence, including a wall thought to be part of a fort, but study and excavation of the historic site remain halted, sources said.
A government technical committee formed in 2016 appointed an archaeologist to excavate the site but no report of the work has been published so far.
Historians and archaeologists think more archaeological evidence from the Mughal, Sultanate and Sen eras or before these can be found at the old central jail.
Chawkbazar itself is archaeologically significant among other places in Old Dhaka, researchers say.
For example, an ancient Basudev statue was recovered during an excavation on the Churihatta Mosque premises in the area in 1906.