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A harrowing reality of son preference
| Updated at 12:00am on February 17, 2020
A WOMAN killing her newborn girl shows the harrowing reality of gender inequality. In the face of unbearable torture and abuse from her husband and...
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Government must step up to the plate on Covid-19 preparedness
| Updated at 12:00am on February 17, 2020
THE Wuhan virus, now officially designated as Covid-19, which is reported to have caused at least 1,523 death in China and infected more than 66,000...
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Justice for Felani still elusive
| Updated at 12:00am on February 16, 2020
IT HAS been nine years since India’s Border Security Force killed Felani Khatun in the Kurigram frontiers when she was crossing the border. It is...
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Court order for drug testing of drivers still not complied with
| Updated at 12:00am on February 16, 2020
THE government’s non-compliance with a High Court order of June 20, 2019 for drug testing for and eyesight assessment of drivers has left two important...
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Chaotic city beautification efforts must stop
| Updated at 12:00am on February 15, 2020
IT IS worrying that Dhaka is burdened with chaotic beautification projects while many other structures remain unattended. Although the projects of sculptures, fountains and others...
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A well-meaning court order that has lied ignored for years
| Updated at 12:00am on February 15, 2020
THE continuance of arrest without warrants or on suspicion, interrogation and detention without adherence to the 19-point directives that the court earlier issued for the...
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Highway eateries with improper hygiene for passengers
| Updated at 12:00am on February 14, 2020
THE drives that the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority conducted against food contamination and adulteration in highway eateries on the Dhaka–Chattogram route in Tuesday–Wednesday bring to...
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Bangladesh public universities must stop offering evening courses
| Updated at 12:00am on February 14, 2020
THE continuation of evening courses in public universities with the University Grants Commission standing against it is worrying. The commission sent a 13-point instruction, seeking...
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No respite in sight from traffic accident death
| Updated at 12:00am on February 13, 2020
ROAD accident death, which has been a major public concern, has not decreased even after the road safety movement of 2018, with the government having...
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Govt must stop trafficking ring feared prowling Rohingyas
| Updated at 12:00am on February 13, 2020
THE capsize of an engine boat headed for Malaysia with 138 Rohingyas on board in the Bay of Bengal off the Southpara coast of St...
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