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  Taking the fear out of English, mathematics at school

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 09, 2018

  COMBINED pass percentage in the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations came down to 77.77 per cent in 2018, a slide by 13.57 percentage points,...

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  Govt must look inside and sort out education problems

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 08, 2018

  THE number of educational institutions having less than 50 per cent of their students passing the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations, as the results...

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  Rise in violence against children alarming

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 08, 2018

  THAT at least 1,480 children were killed and 1,929 others were raped in the country in five years until 2017, according to a report prepared...

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  Train of murders in Chittgong Hill Tracts must be stopped

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 07, 2018

  THE gun attacks at Nannerchar in Rangamati which left dead five leaders and activists of breakaway factions of two Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political parties —...

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  Streamlining seating service bus is a must

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 07, 2018

  THAT the initiative to streamline fares of Dhaka city buses, running under the tag ‘seating service’, has seen almost nothing but a few meetings after...

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  Escalating incidence of diarrhoea

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 06, 2018

  IT IS alarming that diarrhoeal disease is spreading thick and fast in the capital....

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  Govt agencies running unfit vehicles deplorable

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 06, 2018

  A LARGE number of vehicles registered in the name of government agencies with their fitness certificates not being renewed in the past 10 years tell...

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  Drug lords need to be arrested

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 05, 2018

  THAT a Dhaka central jail deputy jailer was suspended on Thursday on charge of selling Yaba tablets is a pointer to the fact that powerful...

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  Discriminatory use of bail provision undermines rule of law

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 05, 2018

  THE rule of law comes to be seriously undermined as some suspects, or even convicts, in corruption cases are not remanded on bail, as New...

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  Retirement benefits a must for workers

  | Updated at 12:05am on May 04, 2018

  IT IS unthinkable that out of the total workforce estimated at 6.35 crore, only 4 per cent get pension or retirement benefits....