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Govt must not give short shrift to SME loan issues
| Updated at 12:00am on April 11, 2019
THE decline in loan disbursement by banks and non-bank financial institutions to small and medium enterprises in 2018 by 1.42 per cent, or Tk 23.01...
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A case of unethical practice and an issue that can go awry
| Updated at 12:00am on April 10, 2019
A FEW fires in about a month and a half in city buildings — between the second week of February and the first week of...
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Feni girl attackers must be held to account without delay
| Updated at 12:00am on April 10, 2019
THE rhetoric of women’s empowerment used as tool to garner support for the political party in power for the third consecutive terms seems to have...
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Minister’s road safety remark doesn’t reflect reality
| Updated at 12:00am on April 09, 2019
A RICKSHAW-PULLER was killed in a traffic accident in Dhaka on Sunday. In a single day, on March 28, media report 25 people to have...
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Worrying is the dilemma in coal theft probe as the reason is
| Updated at 12:00am on April 09, 2019
THE dilemma that Anti-Corruption Commission investigators are reported to have been faced with about the completion of the case of the disappearance of 1,48,000 tonnes...
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Vulnerability of women with disabilities in Bangladesh must be addressed
| Updated at 12:00am on April 08, 2019
SUCCESSIVE governments have in their polices prioritised rights and needs of people with disabilities. But the programmes are, however, focused more on economic support and...
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Without early steps, DNCC market buildings can wreak havoc
| Updated at 12:00am on April 08, 2019
THE indolence of the Dhaka North City Corporation about the vulnerability of at least 12 buildings of seven markets owned by the city authorities is...
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Arsenic mitigation programmes needs to be strengthened
| Updated at 12:00am on April 07, 2019
ARSENIC contamination in ground water has been a public health concern for Bangladesh since 1990s....
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Dhaka must ride with Myanmar neighbours on Rohingya issue
| Updated at 12:00am on April 07, 2019
NO PROGRESS in the repatriation of the Rohingyas, about 11,16,000 sheltered in Bangladesh — 7,00,000 who have fled oppression and torture of a genocidal proportion...
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Air pollution needs to be contained before it is too late
| Updated at 12:00am on April 06, 2019
AIR pollution is responsible for more deaths worldwide than many better-known risk factors such as malnutrition, alcohol use, and physical inactivity....
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