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Government must promote, oversee cadaveric organ donation
| Updated at 12:00am on February 11, 2020
THE death of about 54 kidney patients every day in the absence of donors and of a cadaveric organ donation culture is worrying. Health experts...
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A well-deserved success and some issues BCB must mind
| Updated at 12:00am on February 11, 2020
THE young Tigers outshone their best-ever performance of the eleventh edition of the Under-19 World Cup Cricket in 2016 in Bangladesh, when they played the...
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Recurring fire at slums worrying
| Updated at 12:00am on February 10, 2020
HOUSING facilities for working class people living in urban areas has been a neglected issue for decades. With goods prices soaring and frequent increases in...
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Government must improve RTI regime for good governance
| Updated at 12:00am on February 10, 2020
A GRADUAL decline in the government’s providing information for citizens under the Right to Information Act 2009, enacted in April that year as a means...
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Still no effective punitive, preventive steps against ragging
| Updated at 12:00am on February 09, 2020
UNIVERSITIES have largely announced a zero tolerance policy towards ragging and bullying on campuses after murder of a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and...
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Government must review power plant policy to retire fuel-guzzlers
| Updated at 12:00am on February 09, 2020
THE government’s use of public-sector power plants which needed to be retired long ago as they guzzle fuel makes electricity dearer. The government runs them...
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City parking problems trapped in government agency failures
| Updated at 12:00am on February 08, 2020
DHAKA has undergone a rapid urbanisation yet the city infrastructure has not developed keeping to the pace. City development planners appear to have failed to...
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Government must mind issues that spur heavy bank borrowing
| Updated at 12:00am on February 08, 2020
THE government is reported to have borrowed Tk 491.06 billion from the banking system in the first seven months of the current financial year, having...
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Government needs to shore up tuberculosis control issues
| Updated at 12:00am on February 07, 2020
A HIGH prevalence of tuberculosis, with 129 death a day on an average, as the national tuberculosis control programme says, is worrying. Such a situation...
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Foreign workers must come under full government oversight
| Updated at 12:00am on February 07, 2020
MORE than 2.5 lakh foreigners from 44 countries are reported to be working in Bangladesh. But what makes it worrying is that, as a Transparency...
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