People in the wrong with compunction
The death of a retired government official from the beating he received at the hands of secretary of the flat owners' association and his henchmen in old Dhaka comes as a great shock. A protest overnight by the deceased to the loud noise of a pre-marital (gaye halud) celebration after...
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Slide in stock prices
Stock prices go up and down in their own ways. Nobody can stop their slide, nor can anybody push them up. Price of a particular stock can be caused to go up by creating more demand for it and in the same way, can be made to go down by...
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Modernising management of the savings tools
The government has, indeed, taken a good decision by creating a central database of the investors of the savings tools under the Directorate of National Savings (DNS). This has been done in order to bring some reforms in the system which is expected to modernise the management of the savings...
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Demanding justice for Joy
POLICE recovered body of a university student from Boralu area of the Shitalakhya river in Rupganj upazila, Narayanganj on Monday, January 22, 2018. The ill fated deceased, Parvez Ahmed Joy, 25, was a second year student of Social Welfare Department at Dhaka University who went missing since Sunday night. Local...
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Concerns for Rohingya repatriation
RECENTLY, a repatriation deal for Rohingya refugees who took shelter in Bangladesh, was signed between governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar. It is already well known that the Rohingya community of the Rakhine state of Myanmar was subjected to brutal torture of the Myanmar army and their associates and had to...
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Repair and renovation of footpaths
WORKS for repair and renovation of footpaths are a continuous process undertaken and implemented throughout the year. All such activities are intended to reduce the sufferings of the pedestrians. The ground reality in Dhaka city speaks otherwise. We see roads are being dug for indefinite periods of time and progress...
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