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Deplorable deception in marketing fine variety of rice
| Updated at 12:00am on April 12, 2021
THE findings of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute that the many rice varieties sold as miniket and najirshail are in effect over-polished versions of coarse...
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Government must comply with Supreme Court verdicts fully, timely
| Updated at 12:00am on April 12, 2021
THE statement that the chief justice made, in an online discussion on Saturday on the launch of books written by two Supreme Court judges, is...
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Govt response to COVID-19 weakening by the day
| Updated at 12:00am on April 11, 2021
THE COVID-19 outbreak has taken a turn for worse since early March with a current positivity rate of 20.49 per cent. About 7,000 cases have...
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Govt must work on laws in sync with Law Commission
| Updated at 12:00am on April 11, 2021
THE government’s delay, if not unwillingness, to respond to the proposal of the Law Commission, which was permanently set up in 1996 to constantly review...
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Plastic pollution left dangerously unattended
| Updated at 12:00am on April 10, 2021
IT IS concerning that the government, despite repeated pledges to stop single-use plastics in coastal areas and put in place a proper plastic management system,...
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Early steps needed against public servants in private business
| Updated at 12:00am on April 10, 2021
THE detection of the Anti-Corruption Commission that a group of public servants and their dependants in the family having been engaged in private business in...
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Government must stop wage theft, plan migrant worker reintegration
| Updated at 12:00am on April 09, 2021
WAGE theft, the denial of wages or employment benefits, of migrant workers has come to be an issue of concern since the COVID-19 outbreak. Millions...
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Time for the government to look inward and stand corrected
| Updated at 12:00am on April 09, 2021
THE police having so far arrested 13 people in a case that the police filed on April 6 night against more than 4,000 people, including...
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Speedy disposal of rape cases must be ensured
| Updated at 12:00am on April 08, 2021
AN EARLY dispensation of justice is critical in preventing crimes, yet victims and survivors of violence are left in the lurch for years as is...
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Failure to address inequality, reduce poverty keeps millions homeless
| Updated at 12:00am on April 08, 2021
A LARGE number of people are said to have remained homeless even 50 years after independence, mainly because of the lack of political will of...
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