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Lax market regulation, price instability continues
| Updated at 12:00am on February 02, 2020
ABRUPT and arbitrary price increase seems to have become the norm. In 2019, the onion prices increased to an unprecedented level. The Conscious Consumers’ Society...
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A tardy BSEC that has failed to tidy issues of importance
| Updated at 12:00am on February 02, 2020
AN INCREASE in the number of companies listed on stock exchanges not meeting the director’s mandatory minimum joint shareholding of 30 per cent, as New...
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A worrying level of air pollution in Bangladesh capital warrants early action
| Updated at 12:00am on February 01, 2020
AN ALARMINGLY poor score in air quality index has for long been a matter of concern for Dhaka residents as the city has consistently been...
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A looming threat of enteric disease outbreak for Bangladesh capital
| Updated at 12:00am on February 01, 2020
A HIGH concentration of pathogens as studies have found in drinking water, vegetable and street food in the capital city does not only put people...
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Government must view cholera as threat and act accordingly
| Updated at 12:00am on January 31, 2020
THE findings of a study that Bangladesh is still at a high risk of cholera with the government being in denial are worrying. A John...
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Infestation of Rajuk with corruption that continues
| Updated at 12:00am on January 31, 2020
TRANSPARENCY International, Bangladesh coming to have found in its study, made public in Dhaka on Wednesday, that Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, the agency looking after the...
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A mismatch of electoral pledges and campaign matters
| Updated at 12:00am on January 30, 2020
AN ESTIMATED 2,500 tonnes of plastic waste that laminated posters used in campaigns for the forthcoming city authorities election of Dhaka would produce appear to...
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Adulteration of pasteurised milk under legal protection
| Updated at 12:00am on January 30, 2020
WHAT the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution has done in the formulation of pasteurised milk standards in 2002 — allowing producers to use other types...
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A repressive police handle that must be stopped
| Updated at 12:00am on January 29, 2020
THE police coming to have filed two cases — one for murder and the other for police obstruction and vandalism — against four to five...
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Bangladesh must remain ready, alert to fight Wuhan virus
| Updated at 12:00am on January 29, 2020
THE Wuhan novel coronavirus — which has so far been viewed by experts not to be as deadly as Sars or severe acute respiratory syndrome,...
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