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Disinclination to renewable energy for power worrying
| Updated at 12:00am on September 17, 2020
THE power, energy and mineral resources ministry’s proposal to move from coal to liquefied natural gas for power generation appears to be a shift from...
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Govt must run midday meal and do away with project trinkets
| Updated at 12:00am on September 17, 2020
THE primary education ministry has sent a project proposal involving Tk 192.96 billion for free midday meals for about 14.78 million students of 65,620 government...
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Early, adequate steps needed to curb increasing job loss
| Updated at 12:00am on September 16, 2020
THE COVID-19 outbreak and the consequent slowdown in economic activities have created an alarming unemployment situation amidst inadequate government response. A report that the International...
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Govt must head off onion crisis, check against market ploys
| Updated at 12:00am on September 16, 2020
INDIA’S ban on onion export to Bangladesh, as Indian authorities notified on September 13, has come to be a reason for concern as onion prices...
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Policies must reflect people’s demands, not business interests
| Updated at 12:00am on September 15, 2020
THE growing dominance of the business elite in the country’s politics and the influence of the business bodies over state organs and policy-making are what...
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Independent commission must to probe custodial torture
| Updated at 12:00am on September 15, 2020
IN THE context of unchecked custodial torture, extrajudicial killings and hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances, the demand made by the jurists, lawyers, human rights...
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Integrated traffic system must include rickshaw
| Updated at 12:00am on September 14, 2020
A CONTROLLED movement of rickshaw has been a long-standing concern for a better management of the traffic of the capital city. Many initiatives have been...
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Dhaka must boldly take up border death issue with New Delhi
| Updated at 12:00am on September 14, 2020
THE killing of Bangladeshi civilians in the frontiers, which has increased this year, at the hands of India’s Border Security Force and a continued use...
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COVID-19 response plan for migrant workers a must
| Updated at 12:00am on September 13, 2020
COVID-19 has made the lives of already struggling migrant workers in destination countries even harder and the news of more than 14,000 Bangladeshis in Iraq,...
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Govt must get down to city bus service franchise plan
| Updated at 12:00am on September 13, 2020
A PERIOD of more than two decades is long enough for authorities to work out and execute plans for city service bus route franchise, but...
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