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A ruse of transport owners on wings of government inaction
| Updated at 12:00am on December 02, 2019
ROAD transport owners standing back on their decision to arrange for drug testing for bus drivers in the capital city beginning on Saturday is worrying....
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Sustained action must to ward off dengue menace
| Updated at 12:00am on December 01, 2019
THE hospital admission of dengue patients has this year crossed 100,000, with 129 having officially reported dead from the disease. The number of dengue patients,...
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Tilt in policy focus makes power sector majorly lopsided
| Updated at 12:00am on December 01, 2019
THE wrongly-premised power policy of the government with its focus more on increase in generation capacity, now having far exceeded the demand, has already been...
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Government must shore up migration issues at home and abroad
| Updated at 12:00am on November 30, 2019
MIGRANT workers by way of their remittances hugely contribute to the national economy, which is evident in that Bangladesh has received more than $4.5 billion...
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People mustn’t pay for wrong power policy of government
| Updated at 12:00am on November 30, 2019
THE recommendations for an increase in bulk power prices by 20 per cent and in transmission charges by 7 per cent that the technical evaluation...
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Water management in coastal region must be prioritised
| Updated at 12:00am on November 29, 2019
BANGLADESH, as a low-lying country with a large coastal areas accounting for 20 per cent of the total land mass, is faced with growing adverse...
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Antibiotics must be saved from people, people from antibiotics
| Updated at 12:00am on November 29, 2019
AN ABUSIVELY high use of antibiotics, as a study that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has conducted on the consumption trend of 82 types of...
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Inefficiency of an institution of accountability
| Updated at 12:00am on November 28, 2019
THE Anti-Corruption Commission chair expressing disappointment at the poor performance of the commission officials in that they fail to apply to work the knowledge and...
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Momentary rage won’t resolve Dhaka’s air quality problem
| Updated at 12:00am on November 28, 2019
THE High Court’s order for the environment department to close errant brick-kilns around the capital city and in four surrounding districts in 15 days is...
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Not everything in fine fettle in Election Commission
| Updated at 12:00am on November 27, 2019
NOT everything appears to be in a fine fettle in the Election Commission as one commissioner has said, as New Age reported on Tuesday, that...