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Govt steps against corruption appear to be rhetorical
| Updated at 12:00am on September 24, 2020
THE arrest of a driver of the Directorate General of Health Services for illegal wealth accumulation and a possible interrogation of dozens of more staff...
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Factors that gnaw at central bank in arresting loans in default
| Updated at 12:00am on September 24, 2020
THE amount of loans in default in the banking sector is reported to have increased by 417 per cent from 2009, when it amounted to...
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Govt must make roads friendly to walkers, bicyclists
| Updated at 12:00am on September 23, 2020
THE government’s not living up to its repeated pledges to make city roads friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists is worrying. About 60 government agencies and...
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Govt must ready plans to fight any second wave of COVID-19
| Updated at 12:00am on September 23, 2020
FEARS that a second wave of COVID-19 infection could begin in October–November, as the winter would set in, ring an alarm bell for all authorities...
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Illegal power connection sign of weak governance
| Updated at 12:00am on September 22, 2020
DESPITE repeated actions on part of the power development board, illegal power connections have remained an imminent danger to the people living in Bangladesh, particularly...
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Govt must walk the talk to save the road regime
| Updated at 12:00am on September 22, 2020
VIOLATION of traffic rules on Dhaka roads has seen a worrying rise since the government allowed the public transports to go back to normal services...
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English-medium schools must register with relevant authorities
| Updated at 12:00am on September 21, 2020
MOST of the English-medium schools running unlicensed is worrying. Only 118 English-medium schools in Dhaka and two others in Chattogram are, as New Age reported...
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BSF pledges to end border death in the wake of repeated failures
| Updated at 12:00am on September 21, 2020
INDIA’S Border Security Force at a conference with the Border Guard Bangladesh, which took place in Dhaka in September 16–19, has iterated its pledge once...
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Govt must stop waste of public money
| Updated at 12:00am on September 20, 2020
AN ABNORMALLY high spending, as proposed in the development project proposal of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, in the Population and Housing Census 2021 brings...
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A good initiative rendered ineffective by systemic flaws
| Updated at 12:00am on September 20, 2020
MANY of the families given shelter in villages built under housing project Ashrayan Prakalpa, one of the prime minister’s priority projects, are reported to have...
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