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Government must stop unholy entente of officials behind financial scams
| Updated at 12:00am on March 03, 2021
THE gap of half an hour between the departure of PK Halder, a former NBR Global Bank managing director, through the Benapole land port on...
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BNP’s Rajshahi rally and the same old bus service suspension
| Updated at 12:00am on March 03, 2021
BUS services on all routes to and from Rajshahi were suspended as the mayoral candidates of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who lost city corporation elections...
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Polls mired in irregularities hurt democracy
| Updated at 12:00am on March 02, 2021
MARKED with violence and irregularities, the 5th phase municipal elections in 29 of the 30 designated municipalities was held on Sunday. While the Election Commission...
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Independent commission must to probe law enforcers’ crimes
| Updated at 12:00am on March 02, 2021
OVER a hundred Supreme Court lawyers coming to file a public interest litigation writ petition seeking a court directive to the government for establishing an...
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Educational institution reopening warrants health safety stringency
| Updated at 12:00am on March 01, 2021
THE government’s decision to reopen educational institutions, which have been closed since March 17, 2020 as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 infection, is welcome....
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Credible, independent probe into Mushtaq’s death imperative
| Updated at 12:00am on March 01, 2021
THE death of entrepreneur and writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail custody on Thursday sparked off protests. In May 2020, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested Mushtaq...
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More efforts needed to stop roadside market extortion
| Updated at 12:00am on February 28, 2021
SYNDICATES involving ruling party activists, law enforcers and city officials are reported to have allowed unauthorised kitchen markets by city roads in exchange for money...
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Government must stop high-handedness in opposition harassment
| Updated at 12:00am on February 28, 2021
The 24-hour transport strike in Khulna beginning on Friday morning — juxtaposed with the rally that mayoral candidates of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who lost...
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Waste management failure questions tannery relocation
| Updated at 12:00am on February 27, 2021
AN UNABATED environmental pollution in and around the BSCIC Leather Industrial Estate at Savar in the absence of adequate waste disposal measures is highly worrying....
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A death that starkly stares into Digital Security Act
| Updated at 12:00am on February 27, 2021
THE death of 54-year-old entrepreneur and writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail custody in Kashimpur, who had been there since August 2020 after his arrest in...
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