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Mobile courts mustn’t violate rules, abuse power
| Updated at 12:00am on September 04, 2021
THE warning of the High Court coming for executive magistrates not to operate mobile courts sitting in the office is welcome. The court has also...
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Central bank must have effective capital shortfall oversight
| Updated at 12:00am on September 04, 2021
THE failure of 11 banks to maintain adequate capital against their risk-weighted assets, keeping to Basel III capital requirements for banks, riding on the wings...
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Skills training, ethical employment must for migrants
| Updated at 12:00am on September 03, 2021
BANGLADESH, one of the top countries in migrant labour with about 12 million working in about 170 countries, worryingly fails to protect the interests of...
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Govt must make reforms to keep law enforcers off crimes
| Updated at 12:00am on September 03, 2021
THE involvement of law enforcement personnel in crimes such as extortion, abduction, bribery, framing people in false cases of narcotic substances, the detention of people...
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Negligent authority must be made legally accountable
| Updated at 12:00am on September 02, 2021
THE citizens’ committee, formed to independently investigate the July 8 fire at Hashem Foods Limited, has termed the fire as a case of ‘structural killing’...
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Govt inability at dengue data collection deplorable
| Updated at 12:00am on September 02, 2021
THE inability of national health authorities at collecting data on dengue cases from admission records of all public and private hospitals, a failure officially attributed...
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Covid test complacence may spell disaster
| Updated at 12:00am on September 01, 2021
AN UNEQUAL Covid testing opportunity, with more tests having been conducted in Dhaka and Chattogram and fewer tests in the rest of the country, is...
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Govt must register all vehicles, train all masters
| Updated at 12:00am on September 01, 2021
A CHAOS in the river transport regime appears to have been consequent on the government’s failure to ensure that all vessels are registered and all...
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Independent probe must to end enforced disappearances
| Updated at 12:00am on August 31, 2021
IT COMES as gravely concerning that when enforced disappearances continue to tarnish the image of the country, the government continues to hold to cancel culture....
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Intolerance for opposition demonstrated yet again
| Updated at 12:00am on August 31, 2021
IT APPEARS that the space for political opposition of any ideological orientations has been progressively declining in Bangladesh while the attack on a procession of...
