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Libya murder shows safe labour migration still a far cry
| Updated at 12:00am on May 31, 2020
THE murder of Bangladeshi migrant workers on May 25 in the Libyan city of Mizdah yet again brought forward the violent and unfair context in...
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Govt must investigate Sikder Group duo emergency flight
| Updated at 12:00am on May 31, 2020
THE police investigating the case that Export-Import Bank filed on May 19 against the Sikder Group managing director and his brother accusing them of murder...
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United Hospital fire negligence must be investigated
| Updated at 12:00am on May 30, 2020
THE death of five patients being cared for in the COVID-19 isolation unit at United Hospital in Dhaka in a fire on Wednesday night points...
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Govt must investigate wealth growth, attend to inequality
| Updated at 12:00am on May 30, 2020
BANGLADESH coming to have led the top 10 fastest-growing wealth markets — Asia being home to six of them — in 2010–2019, as the latest...
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Govt must address plight of migrant workers in distress
| Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2020
THERE have been talks and promises of reintegration plans for migrant Bangladeshi workers who have returned home, many empty-handed, but no visible progress has so...
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Further easing of restrictions entails more tasks on platter
| Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2020
THE number of COVID-19 patients since May 17, when the daily detection has crossed a thousand and has never fallen below the mark, has now,...
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No strong ground to use remdesivir to treat COVID-19
| Updated at 12:00am on May 23, 2020
THE government’s procurement of Bemsivir, a remdesivir brand produced by Beximco Pharmaceuticals and the health minister’s statement that the drug would be included in COVID-19...
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The accident that betrays lax road restriction enforcement
| Updated at 12:00am on May 23, 2020
THE accident in which a truck carrying iron rods and 13 people headed off the road into a ditch upside down at Palashbari in Gaibandha...
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Scope for COVID-19 tests must be widened
| Updated at 12:00am on May 22, 2020
THE admission of an additional health secretary that 43 laboratories now used to test novel coronavirus infection are not enough, as New Age reported on...
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Govt must soon start work on Amphan damage mitigation
| Updated at 12:00am on May 22, 2020
SUPER cyclone Amphan, said to be the first to form over the Bay of Bengal since 1999 and to have packed winds gusting up to...
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