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Tea workers must have a living wage
| Updated at 12:00am on June 16, 2021
THE proposal of the Minimum Wage Board to set the daily minimum wage for tea workers at Tk 117, an amount that the workers have...
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Police must find missing Islamic instructor, associates
| Updated at 12:00am on June 16, 2021
THE unwillingness of a police station in Dhaka to record a missing person report about an Islamic instructor by the name of Afsanul Haque Adnan...
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Government must address workers’ grievances
| Updated at 12:00am on June 15, 2021
POLICE high-handedness has for long become worryingly customary in quelling labour unrest, often resulting in deaths and injuries of workers. When labour rights organisations have...
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Political elite continue to represent patriarchal values
| Updated at 12:00am on June 15, 2021
IN A rather discriminatory move, the parliamentary standing committee on liberation war affairs recommended that woman upazila nirbahi officers and deputy commissioner be barred from...
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BIWTA lenience to influential encroachers deplorable
| Updated at 12:00am on June 14, 2021
THE Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority has yet again failed to act independently in reclaiming encroached land of the River Buriganga. The authorities have ignored...
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Wrongful arrest and false imprisonment must stop
| Updated at 12:00am on June 14, 2021
THE wrongful arrest and the false imprisonment of innocent people having been passed off as offenders by law enforcers investigating cases, acting in collusion with...
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Unabated corruption hinders railway development
| Updated at 12:00am on June 13, 2021
THE railway has for long suffered the lack of proper planning and investment as transport sector policies are largely focused on roads and highways. Even...
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Quite a few issues that education managers leave unattended
| Updated at 12:00am on June 13, 2021
ALLEGATIONS of corruption against some officials, headteachers and printers of making money by way of the publication of textbooks 8 per cent more than the...
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Govt failure in disciplining road regime unacceptable
| Updated at 12:00am on June 12, 2021
AN ALARMING increase in road accidents in the first quarter of 2021 brings to the fore the issues that contribute to the road regime chaos...
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City people left to walk tight rope in walking down the roads
| Updated at 12:00am on June 12, 2021
NOT having had enough time has become an excuse that city authorities of Dhaka appear to be readily giving when it comes to the sufferings...
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