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City authorities must save canals, wetland to save Dhaka
| Updated at 12:00am on January 15, 2021
THE encroachment on the 40-foot Jirani canal, now reduced to 17 feet, by government agencies and influential quarters speaks of a sorry state of most...
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An unlawful govt move that weakens ACC, harms rule of law
| Updated at 12:00am on January 15, 2021
THE High Court coming to have said that the withdrawal of a corruption case filed by the border guard agency, and later transferred to the...
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Government must soon attend to Bailey bridge replacement issues
| Updated at 12:00am on January 14, 2021
THE death of three people in a Bailey bridge collapse is shocking. The accident took place early Tuesday morning at Kutukchari on the Khagrachari–Rangamati Highway...
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Government’s expensive COVID-19 vaccine negotiation failure
| Updated at 12:00am on January 14, 2021
BANGLADESH pays 47 per cent more, as New Age reported on Tuesday, for the COVID-19 vaccine to the Serum Institute of India — a partner...
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Govt must not let rice market be volatile
| Updated at 12:00am on January 13, 2021
A LOW government stock of food grains, especially rice, and a syndicate of millers and wholesalers appear to have caused a worrying increase in rice...
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All still quiet about EC corruption complaint inquiry
| Updated at 12:00am on January 13, 2021
EXPECTED moves for the investigation of corruption allegations, including the ones involving financial corruption, that a group of eminent citizens and a group of lawyers...
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South city stand-off allegations must be investigated
| Updated at 12:00am on January 12, 2021
THE face-off between Dhaka south’s incumbent mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and the immediate past mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon has brought to the fore some...
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Widening income inequality amid pandemic worrying
| Updated at 12:00am on January 12, 2021
GROWING income inequality, that too during the COVID-19 outbreak, is a sign of uneven development. Central bank data show that the number of bank accounts...
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Govt must ensure transparent COVID-19 vaccination process
| Updated at 12:00am on January 11, 2021
A TRANSPARENT selection of COVID-19 vaccine recipients is what the government should now ensure, with 30 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the...
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Another compelling reason for govt to stop air pollution
| Updated at 12:00am on January 11, 2021
THE finding of a research published in the Lancet in January saying that air pollution has a huge bearing on pregnancy loss, which includes stillbirth...
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