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Slow-paced administration leaves road transport sector behind
| Updated at 12:00am on December 27, 2020
THE most happening road transport sector continues to face countless problems as the road transport administration fails to adequately attend to major initiatives planned to...
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Corruption in climate change projects gravely worrying
| Updated at 12:00am on December 26, 2020
PERVASIVE corruption and irregularities in climate change mitigation projects, as a recent Transparency International Bangladesh report shows, stands as a huge barrier in actualising intended...
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Rental power plan burden that power sector fails to carry
| Updated at 12:00am on December 26, 2020
POWER generation overcapacity born out of a flawed projection of the power demand growth has caused losses of an estimated Tk 300 billion, paid in...
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Government must increase facilities to treat burn patients
| Updated at 12:00am on December 25, 2020
IT IS worrying that hospitals fail to adequately treat burn injuries, which have increased in the winter, as beds meant for such injuries with treatment...
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Antigen assays falter because of government unwillingness
| Updated at 12:00am on December 25, 2020
ANTIGEN assays, much faster and cheaper than the gold-standard reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, tests, appear to have failed to catch on in...
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Unauthorised level crossings continue as death traps
| Updated at 12:00am on December 24, 2020
THE death of at least 127 people and the injury of 31 in 125 train accidents in Bangladesh this year are worrying when railway is...
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A worrying delay in government primary school midday meal scheme
| Updated at 12:00am on December 24, 2020
THE nationwide primary school midday meal project, initiated on the cabinet’s approval of a draft policy in August 2019, is reported to be delayed by...
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Single certification body needed to facilitate food export
| Updated at 12:00am on December 23, 2020
THE recommendation of the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission for the formation of a single entity on health certification of agricultural and processed food to...
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Delhi’s Muhuri river demarcation proposal unacceptable
| Updated at 12:00am on December 23, 2020
A FULL resolution of land boundary disputes between Bangladesh and India — which were to have already been resolved with an adherence to the 1974...
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Silencing political dissent is a threat to democracy
| Updated at 12:00am on December 22, 2020
A LEADER of a district unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of ruling Awami League, coming to file a sedition case against...
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