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Regulating organ transplantation

Adoption of a new law regulating human organ transplantation, as the latest developments indicate, is not far away. The parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare ministry, according to a news report, completed its scrutiny of a relevant bill and submitted it before the House Sunday last. The enactment...

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Will more authority help city corporations?

There is hardly any point harping on the dismal performance of the city corporations all over the country, especially in the capital where as a surprise departure from standard practices in most countries, two separate city corporations are now in operation-unfortunately with little or no trace of improvement. Following the...

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Closing gender gaps -- highs and lows

While assessing the country's performance on socio-economic parameters, people tend to take extreme approaches; either they are too critical of the failings or exult at positive trends as though going gaga about it! Hardly ever a balanced view is taken. In the process, it is not unusual to across an...

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Attack on minorities

THE recent attack on Hindu community in Rangpur is undoubtedly an unforgivable act of crime committed by a few miscreants. This heinous attack is not only a disgrace for the country but also a crime perpetrated against our fellow countrymen who were born and brought up in this country and...

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Skilled drivers essential for highways

MOST of the drivers in our country have no educational qualification and because of their poor educational status, they keep on violating traffic rules indiscriminately, as a result of which frequent accidents occur on our highways causing hundreds of deaths every year. We come across reports of regular accidents on...

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Pollution of rivers and its effects

THE other day I came across a news item on pollution of rivers in China despite the government's spending a whopping US$850 million over the last five years to reverse the damage caused by decades of random pollution and overuse. It was all intended for China's rapid economic growth. Unfortunately,...

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