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Decline in education quality stems from flawed policy
| Updated at 12:00am on June 26, 2019
THE government’s efforts to put up a smokescreen by combining together the allocations for the education and the technology sector in national budgets, despite a...
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Changes in policy needed to reclaim lost waterways
| Updated at 12:00am on June 25, 2019
BANGLADESH coming to lose 16,400 kilometres of waterways, as the state minister for shipping said in the parliament on Sunday, for negligence and lack of...
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Public service good practice plan largely falls through
| Updated at 12:00am on June 25, 2019
AN ASSESSMENT of the National Integrity Strategy, drawn up in 2012 to effect good practices in public service governance, by the Transparency International, Bangladesh shows...
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All banned food products must be driven out of market
| Updated at 12:00am on June 24, 2019
MANY of the banned food items ordered to have been withdrawn 12 days ago from the market for being harmful to health are still sold...
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Issues not adequately shored up to stop trafficking in persons
| Updated at 12:00am on June 24, 2019
BANGLADESH coming to be named on Tier 2 Watchlist in the US state department’s Trafficking in Persons Report 2019, which was launched on Thursday, is...
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Credible inquiry into Payra power plant clash a must
| Updated at 12:00am on June 23, 2019
TWO cases were filed against about 600 people unnamed on Thursday in connection with Tuesday’s attack on the China-Bangladesh 1320MW thermal power plant project at...
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A worrying compromise on driver’s experience for licence
| Updated at 12:00am on June 23, 2019
THE road transport and bridges ministry’s extending the deadline for the relaxation of rules for the second time, as New Age reported on Saturday, in...
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Rights of marginalised people must be protected
| Updated at 12:00am on June 22, 2019
THE marginalised minority groups have been deprived of their rights and not been included in development activities of society for decades. Rights activists at a...
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A welcome court order for stopping impaired driving
| Updated at 12:00am on June 22, 2019
THE order of the High Court Division for assessing whether eyesight of drivers meets an accepted safety standard, at the time of licensing and while...
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Primary healthcare in shambles
| Updated at 12:00am on June 21, 2019
ESSENTIAL health service coverage in Bangladesh remains poor as its performance index is the worst in South East Asia and below the global average rate...
Monday, December 09, 2019
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