The New Nation - Internet Edition

Thanks to Mr. O. H. Kabir for pointing to a very vital issue in his letter captioned 'Too many air-conditioners' published in your esteemed daily.

It is now a common experience that the heat level of the city has gone very high. And CFC emission from various uses is mainly responsible for this shooting heat. Air-conditioners are used from the street groceries to the high profile conference rooms. Other sources of heat generations are also in work in the city. Lead fuel consumption and metallic compounds used in the industrial furnaces are also responsible for this heat rise.

The tragedy is that there is official agency to monitor the city's environment degradation factors but their active presence is not felt in day to day life. Similarly, the so-called civil society is also equally unmindful to this issue. It seems we are more prone to live in a gas chamber than protesting it.

Kalpana Rani Das

Azimpur, Dhaka.

Finally the ICC has taken a welcome decision. ICC has decided to warn BCCI for its long drawn habit of making non-graded, flat and slow cricket pitches on its home grounds to twist test result(s) in its (India) favour. India did it last time at Kanpur Test with South Africa. The pitch was just a nobbing slow dead wicket. It had no life, no jerks or bounces. The wicket gave in on the mere third day of the game. Eventually, the game result was obvious. The spin loving Indians won the 3rd Test and forced SA to level the series.

By all standard that was not sporting. But India has, on record, the tradition of practising this dirty trick.

The welcoming thing is that this time the ICC has moved breaking its slumber. Congratulations, ICC!

Abu Musa Miah

Lalbagh, Dhaka.