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Gendered impact of COVID-19 must be addressed
| Updated at 12:00am on September 11, 2020
THE economic impact of COVID-19 on working women may jeopardise the progress made in bridging the gender gap unless the government takes immediate steps to...
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Govt must set up independent police complaint commission
| Updated at 12:00am on September 11, 2020
THE first-ever verdict in a case filed under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013 that the Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge’s court gave on...
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Govt must stop illegal gas connections to avoid fires
| Updated at 12:00am on September 10, 2020
IT IS worrying that gas line leaks, caused mostly by unsafe and illegal gas connections, poor maintenance and monitoring of pipelines, cause a fifth of...
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Myanmar as a state responsible for violence against Rohingyas
| Updated at 12:00am on September 10, 2020
TWO Myanmar soldiers are reported to have been taken to the Hague after they confessed to murdering minority Rohingya Muslims in the 2017 crackdown, which...
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Plastic waste management, pollution left unattended
| Updated at 12:00am on September 09, 2020
DELAY in the capital dredging of the River Karnaphuli in Chattogram, which was scheduled to be completed in a year after it had begun in...
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Illiteracy eradication must mean more than literacy achievement
| Updated at 12:00am on September 09, 2020
LITERACY rate in 1971, when Bangladesh emerged as an independent state, was 16.8. The rate increased to 35 in 1990 and further increased to 60...
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High default loans in SCBs worrying
| Updated at 12:00am on September 08, 2020
THE state-owned commercial banks having Tk 41,583 crore as loans in default, against the total default loans of Tk 96,116 crore in the country’s banking...
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Illegal gas connections are a death trap
| Updated at 12:00am on September 08, 2020
THE threat that illegal gas connection poses on public life became evident yet again after the tragic explosion at a mosque in Narayganj on Friday....
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Govt must shore up issues of trans fatty acid in food supply
| Updated at 12:00am on September 07, 2020
THE findings of a government study that partially hydrogenated oil, sold in Bangladesh under the brand names of Dalda or Vanaspati, or its variant Banaspati,...
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Time for govt to address costly negligence of utility agencies
| Updated at 12:00am on September 07, 2020
THE explosion in a mosque in Narayanganj that left 24 dead and 13 critically injured by Sunday evening is yet another example of the negligence...
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