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Eviction drives must not be fruitless, inconsequential
| Updated at 12:00am on May 11, 2021
TRADERS coming to rebuild several dozens of illegal shops at Sundarban Square Super Market at Gulistan in the capital that were demolished by the Dhaka...
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Govt response to Covid-19 leaves the poor behind
| Updated at 12:00am on May 11, 2021
THE working class people have been hit hard by the economic slowdown induced by the Covid pandemic, yet they are the ones most neglected in...
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Modi protesters in detention should be released
| Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2021
A GROUP of eminent citizens has written to the chief justice urging him to consider an early release of more than 50 students kept in...
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Stimulus fund use in apparel sector must be audited
| Updated at 12:00am on May 10, 2021
THE stimulus package aimed at helping export-oriented industries to pay the workers their due wages and prevent any large-scale retrenchment proved ineffective to some extent...
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All private educational institutions must go by the same laws
| Updated at 12:00am on May 09, 2021
THE University Grants Commission and the education ministry are at loggerheads over permission for the operation of study centres of foreign universities in Bangladesh. The...
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Strict border control needed to avoid a third wave
| Updated at 12:00am on May 09, 2021
THE government response to the second wave of Covid-19, which has proved to deadlier than the first wave of the outbreak in the highest number...
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RU appointment chaos points to partisan state of public univs
| Updated at 12:00am on May 08, 2021
THE education ministry’s announcement terming the recruitment of 141 people in different positions in Rajshahi University in breach of the ministry’s earlier embargo on recruitment...
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Crimes against nature and historicity in Suhrawardy Udyan
| Updated at 12:00am on May 08, 2021
IT IS shocking and environmentally unwise that the authorities keep cutting down trees in the historic part of Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka to make room...
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Novel, impractical education plan in times of novel coronavirus
| Updated at 12:00am on May 07, 2021
MANAGERS of national education appear to be floundering as they come up with novel education plans, one after another, after the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2,...
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Growing income inequality is an ominous sign
| Updated at 12:00am on May 07, 2021
THE Covid outbreak has caused a worrying increase in income inequality. The share in household income of the bottom half of the population and the...
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