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Comprehensive policies a must for sustainable industrial growth
| Updated at 12:00am on April 07, 2021
INDUSTRIALISATION in Bangladesh has been worryingly marked by the absence of inclusive and consistent policies since independence. While Bangladesh has made some remarkable advancement...
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Government must ensure payment, allowances in private sector
| Updated at 12:00am on April 07, 2021
THE government’s decision, made at a meeting of the cabinet on Monday, to provide gallantry award-winning freedom fighters with two festival allowances, the gallantry award-winning...
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Recurring waterway accidents must be prevented
| Updated at 12:00am on April 06, 2021
IN YET another waterway accident on Sunday evening at least 19 people were killed when a Munshiganj-bound launch with over 50 passengers capsized near the...
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Inclusive economic policy must for poverty reduction
| Updated at 12:00am on April 06, 2021
INCONSISTENCY and mismanagement in poverty reduction initiatives and a discriminatory economic policy appear to have frustrated poverty reduction rate in Bangladesh. While the government has...
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Food security a precondition for COVID-19 prevention
| Updated at 12:00am on April 05, 2021
THE government decision to increase prices of food items in subsidised shops is rather inconsiderate at a time of a public health emergency. The Trading...
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Govt must focus more on internal resources, direct taxes
| Updated at 12:00am on April 05, 2021
THE gross domestic product has significantly increased in 50 years since independence, but tax collection has not been able to keep pace with the growing...
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Govt still lacks a cohesive COVID-19 response plan
| Updated at 12:00am on April 04, 2021
A YEAR since the detection of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, the government still lacks a cohesive response plan to tackle the protracted episode of a pandemic....
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Too much of rights violation, too little steps to curb it
| Updated at 12:00am on April 04, 2021
UNABATED human rights violation in the forms of extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, custodial torture and illegal detention appears to have overshadowed Bangladesh’s progress made in...
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The other side of transport restrictions left unconsidered
| Updated at 12:00am on April 03, 2021
THE fresh directives on the transport sector, in view of the recent surge in COVID-19 infection with 6,469 cases reported in 24 hours until Thursday...
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A lot left to do in health care despite advancement
| Updated at 12:00am on April 03, 2021
HIGH out-of-pocket expenditure, poor access to quality health care, poorly regulated growth of health care in the private sector, low public investments in health, coupled...
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