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Access to public services for citizens with disabilities needed
| Updated at 01:05am on April 03, 2017
THE government lags behind in ensuring equal access to public services — housing, education, health care — for people with disabilities...
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Family case disposal warrants more government efforts
| Updated at 01:05am on April 03, 2017
WHILE more than 57,000 cases of the maintenance of former spouses remaining pending for years is an affront to justice concerning especially women and children,...
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Strict law enforcement to stop underage driving a must
| Updated at 01:05am on April 02, 2017
DESPITE drives to police unlicensed and underage driving, the city still witnesses adolescent drivers on the wheel...
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Dhaka shouldn’t agree to Delhi’s sea port space proposal
| Updated at 01:05am on April 02, 2017
NEW Delhi’s seeking to use dedicated spaces in Chittagong and Mongla ports for carrying goods from one part of India to another is something Dhaka...
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Not a worrisome decline as yet, but could be telling
| Updated at 10:31pm on March 31, 2017
A DECLINE in the number of students taking the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent technical examinations this year, as New Age reported on Friday quoting...
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Inclusive housing for Dhaka city
| Updated at 10:30pm on March 31, 2017
FIRE at slums is becoming a common occurrence in Dhaka. In the past years, the cases of fire at Kulshi, Boubazar and Kamrangir char in...
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Important court order on mobile tower radiation
| Updated at 01:05am on March 31, 2017
THE High Court directives of Tuesday for the Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission to report back on April 10 on steps taken to bring mobile...
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Govt must protect land of national minorities
| Updated at 01:05am on March 31, 2017
RIGHTS of ethnic minorities to their land are what make them what they are and make their living and livelihood...
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Early steps needed to streamline engine boats
| Updated at 01:05am on March 30, 2017
YET another engine boat capsize took place in Bagerhat on Tuesday. The engine boat, popularly known as a trawler carrying 50 to 60 people, capsized,...
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Environmental concerns must be addressed in earnest
| Updated at 01:05am on March 30, 2017
ENVIRONMENTAL degradation going apace in Chittagong by way of river pollution, encroachment on canals and the cutting of hills is concerning while a large number...