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Court order for anti-bullying committee welcome
| Updated at 12:00am on January 14, 2020
AN ENABLING environment at institutions of higher education has become a far cry. In October 2019, the brutal murder of a second-year student of Bangladesh...
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Holistic approach must for protection of rivers
| Updated at 12:00am on January 14, 2020
THE government appears to have done very little about the protection of rivers from encroachment and pollution, letting the rivers die slowly. The illegal grabbing...
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Health services for women keep falling short
| Updated at 12:00am on January 13, 2020
WOMEN’S health programmes are generally reduced to family planning, pre- and post-natal services. Consequently, concerns regarding the sexual and reproductive health of women remain...
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Flaws that stop gas from reaching domestic users
| Updated at 12:00am on January 13, 2020
LOW or no pressure in the supply gas throughout the day in a few areas and for a few hours in most of the areas...
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Noise pollution warrants early govt attention
| Updated at 12:00am on January 12, 2020
SOUND pollution in big cities has become a major public health concern. A study that Stamford University Bangladesh and Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan conducted shows that...
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One flaw is too like failure for govt to smother education
| Updated at 12:00am on January 12, 2020
NEWER of the 46 public universities that are now in operation having been mired in the shortage of the required number of qualified teachers by...
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An effective train freight system can benefit all
| Updated at 12:00am on January 11, 2020
The state-owned Container Company of Bangladesh not coming into operation even four years after its formation is worrying. A fully-functional container company could substantially ease...
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A decline in stocks that speaks only of government’s indifference
| Updated at 12:00am on January 11, 2020
A DECLINE in stocks has become almost typical of the share market, more since 2018 when share prices started falling by large leap and continued...
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Train fare increase without better services unacceptable
| Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020
THE Bangladesh Railway’s move for an increase passenger and freight fares, which has been in conversation since March 2019, without improving the services is unacceptable....
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All pay, no work makes it a bad practice, injustice too
| Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020
THE High Court’s order that on Wednesday declared illegal keeping civil servants as officers on special duty, who do get paid but do not have...
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