Special police unit for metro rail service
The Prime Minister's emphasis on ensuring security of the whole metro rail project, now under way, could not have been timelier. The would-be travellers of the elevated railway can now look forward to a fast completion of this rail infrastructure. They must be feeling upbeat as the premier said a...
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Spike in prices of pungent tuber
The onion prices have gone through the roof. The pungent tuber has become 40 per cent costlier in past seven days and nearly 70 per cent over a period of one month. The consumers are hard hit as the consumption level of onion either as spice or as vegetable has...
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Purging party of criminal elements
The ongoing raids on sporting clubs illegally operating casinos, dens of extortionists and tender manipulators are likely to produce a mixed feeling of surprise and nausea among most people. Surprise, because those who are getting caught red-handed were powerful players of sister organisations of the ruling party only the day...
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Returning 'lost' money
Mossan Rasal, 23, a Bangladeshi national living in Italy, found €2,000 on the pavement in Rome on September 13. He then deposited it to the local police station and the owner later collected the wallet. Mr. Rasal was offered a prize for his honesty, but he refused to take it,...
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Transport workers' environment
More than 30,000 people were killed in road crashes in Bangladesh in the past four and a half years. There is no sign of reduction in accidents. The number of people who were injured in such incidents is much higher. When we saw lack of holistic approach to addressing the...
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