Bangladesh's Corporate World

The shortage of medical supply in Khagrachhari district is escalating for the past couple of weeks due to extortion forces. Pharmaceutical companies are saying that UPDF activists have demanded one lakh taka from every pharmaceutical companies which is causing the shortage of supply in the region. UPDF is threatening to shut down the pharmaceutical companies unless they pay up the demanded money. It has been reported that UPDF gang members intercepted Square, Beximco and Reneta medicine carrying vans and hijacked the medicines during the first and third week of July. They have also beaten up the van drivers and the delivery people in Atharomile, Mohalchhari. Riko Chakma, organizer of UPDF in Khagrachhari has totally denied these allegations and claimed that all of their operations are funded by the people and they have never used any kind of forceful way to extract money from people. He added that some other group might be using UPDF name to extract the money. The lack of medical supp...

Two women chatting: Woman 1: I had a wonderful evening. How was yours? Woman 2: Oh! It was a disaster. My husband came home, ate his dinner in three minutes & fell asleep in two minutes. How was yours by the way? Woman 1: Oh mine was amazing! My husband came home and took me out for a romantic dinner. After dinner we walked for an hour. When we came home he lit the candles around the house. It was like a fairy tale! At the same time, their husbands are talking at work: Husband 1: How was your evening ? Husband 2 : Great. I came home, dinner was on the table, I ate & fell asleep. What about you? Husband 1: It was horrible. I came home, there's no dinner, they cut the electricity because I forgot to pay the bill. So I took her out for dinner which was so expensive that didn't have money left for a cab. We walked home which took an hour & when we got home, I remembered there was no electricity so I had to light candles all over the house! Moral: Perception varies per...