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Waste management failure questions tannery relocation
| Updated at 12:00am on February 27, 2021
AN UNABATED environmental pollution in and around the BSCIC Leather Industrial Estate at Savar in the absence of adequate waste disposal measures is highly worrying....
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A death that starkly stares into Digital Security Act
| Updated at 12:00am on February 27, 2021
THE death of 54-year-old entrepreneur and writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail custody in Kashimpur, who had been there since August 2020 after his arrest in...
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No further delay in city bus route scheme, franchise
| Updated at 12:00am on February 26, 2021
THE city bus route rationalisation and franchise project appears to have faltered yet again as the introduction of the franchise system on a pilot basis...
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Govt must address grievances of univ, college students
| Updated at 12:00am on February 26, 2021
THE decision of the education ministry and the University of Dhaka to hold ongoing and scheduled examinations, which were postponed on February 22, of the...
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Death of migrant workers abroad must be investigated
| Updated at 12:00am on February 25, 2021
THE untimely death of migrant workers abroad has been a public concern and it continues to remain so as a recent international media report claims...
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Govt must make central bank behave to stop financial scams
| Updated at 12:00am on February 25, 2021
THE proposition, as it came up in the observation of the High Court when it heard statements of 53 loan defaulters of People’s Leasing and...
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Culture of impunity begets violence against journalists
| Updated at 12:00am on February 24, 2021
A DELAYED filing of the murder case in connection with the killing of journalist Borhan Uddin Mujakkir, a reporter of Bangla Samachar and Bartabazar.com news...
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No mincing words about apparel sector capital flight allegations
| Updated at 12:00am on February 24, 2021
ALLEGATIONS that apparel factory owners have laundered about Tk 640 billion a year through over-invoicing are of grave concern and it is a welcome piece...
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Migrant workers representation in decision making needed
| Updated at 12:00am on February 23, 2021
MIGRANT workers, with little to no legal protection, contribute to the national economy making remittance as the second-largest source of foreign earnings for Bangladesh. It...
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Chemical industry relocation left dangerously unimplemented
| Updated at 12:00am on February 23, 2021
IT IS worrying that the government has not yet been able to compensate the families of the victims of the Chawkbazar fire that killed 70...