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Govt must deliver on chemical business relocation plans
| Updated at 12:00am on June 04, 2021
THE operation of chemical businesses in densely populated Old Town of Dhaka continues to threaten lives. Several thousand fire incidents, as official records say, have...
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Govt had better have independent authority for NID services
| Updated at 12:00am on June 04, 2021
A GOVERNMENT decision of May 17 for the placement of the national identity card services, so far run by the Election Commission, under the home...
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It’s time for city authorities to get down to work, not to learn
| Updated at 12:00am on June 03, 2021
AN 85-MILLIMETRE rainfall just before the monsoon season on Tuesday inundated many areas of the capital city, straining public life and harming trade, in cases,...
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The snatching of minister’s mobile and the govt’s failures
| Updated at 12:00am on June 03, 2021
MUGGING and extortion in Dhaka are not uncommon, but the fact that the planning minister’s mobile was snatched away sounds ominous. A snatcher took away...
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Pro-people pledges left worryingly unattended
| Updated at 12:00am on June 02, 2021
THE government’s failure to properly implement a number of pledges such as a universal pension scheme, crop insurance, an increase in the tax-GDP ratio and...
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Government indecision about frontier district lockdown worrying
| Updated at 12:00am on June 02, 2021
THE government’s indecision about placing on lockdown seven districts bordering with India that have showed a high prevalence of Covid infection, and a high number...
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Government must have plans to reduce case backlog
| Updated at 12:00am on June 01, 2021
THE country’s judiciary has for long been facing a huge backlog of pending cases in the courts and the prolonged closure of regular courts due...
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Inclusive growth, not jobless growth, is warranted
| Updated at 12:00am on June 01, 2021
JOBLESS growth has been a topic of concern for Bangladesh for years now. Even though the country has recorded a remarkable growth in its gross...
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Dhaka must take up cross-border river issues boldly with Delhi
| Updated at 12:00am on May 31, 2021
MORE than 50,000 people became stranded in river islands in the north and their cropfields went under water as the River Teesta swelled after India...
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Government must have contact tracing to stave off India variant
| Updated at 12:00am on May 31, 2021
THE Covid situation in frontier districts of Bangladesh is declining to the extent that the average positivity rate there has been more than 30 per...
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