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Govt must up allocation for people with physical disabilities
| Updated at 12:05am on June 19, 2019
THE budgetary allocation for people with physical disabilities, as laid out in the budget proposal for the 2019–2020 financial year that was placed in the...
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Sunderbans needs to be saved at any cost
| Updated at 12:00am on June 18, 2019
A HARD time has befallen the Sunderbans as it continues to face a rapid pace of environmental degradation because of government negligence towards its biodiversity....
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War on drug substances mustn’t trample rule of law
| Updated at 12:00am on June 18, 2019
THE death toll from the continued drive against drug substances, which began on May 4, 2018 and was stepped up in the middle of that...
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Corruption, mismanagement menace SoEs
| Updated at 12:05am on June 17, 2019
THE Bangladesh Economic Review, released as part of budget documents on Thursday, paints a deplorable picture of the affairs in state-owned enterprises, with many experiencing...
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BSF’s deplorable definition of killing in the frontiers
| Updated at 12:05am on June 17, 2019
INDIA has come up with a ludicrous argument having termed the deaths of Bangladeshi civilians in the frontiers at the hands of its border guards...
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Kalshi murder perpetrators must be brought to justice
| Updated at 12:00am on June 16, 2019
IT IS not surprising that the investigation of the arson attack on the camp of the Urdu-speaking people at Kalshi, Mirpur in the capital on...
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Proposed budget, not its criticism, is sickening
| Updated at 12:00am on June 16, 2019
THE ‘national budget’ for the 2019–2020 financial year, proposed on Thursday by the controversially ‘elected’ government of the Awami League, has been exposed to multidimensional...
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Proper enforcement of road safety directives must
| Updated at 12:05am on June 15, 2019
Road accidents have taken a heavy toll on human lives at and around Eid-ul-Fitr, with at least 221 people dying and 652 being injured in...
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A budget not in sync with promises of liberation war
| Updated at 12:05am on June 15, 2019
A NATIONAL budget does not merely mean the annual financial accounts of a country; it rather provides for a political and philosophical sense of direction...
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ACC must steer clear of public perception of corruption
| Updated at 12:10am on June 14, 2019
THE statement that the prime minister made in the parliament on Wednesday that the public perception about many of the Anti-Corruption Commission employees being involved...