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Expendable lives | The Daily Star

Expendable lives How many more have to die in road accidents in Bangladesh before we act? Only four days ago, four people were killed in Bogura when a bus from Dhaka crushed a CNG-run autorickshaw. Photo: Star When we look at newspaper reports, what is the most common cause of mortality among Bangladeshis that we find? According to reports published in The Daily Star, road accidents killed at least 4,284 people and injured 9,112 others in 2017, while the figures were 3,412 and 8,572 respectively in 2016. The numbers of accidents and deaths increased by 15.82 percent and 25.56 percent respectively in 2017 compared to 2016. A recent addition to these casualties is my paternal uncle, who lost his life while trying to cross a busy highway in the middle of the night. There are three worrisome aspects that have surfaced after his demise that are directly relatable to this whole affair of road accidents. The first one is that he did not use an over-bridge, which was available exactly

Stocks bull run fails to bring cheer to insurers

Stocks’ bull run fails to bring cheer to insurers Their premium income fell for first time in at least 12 years Insurance stocks surged throughout the 2020. But now figures show that insurance companies did not have good business as their premium income fell for the first time in at least 12 years. The stock prices of non-life insurance companies that usually help hedge the risk of losses from damage and accidents of goods and assets rose over 95 per cent on average throughout 2020. However, data released by the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) showed that premium incomes of non-life insurers decreased 7.46 per cent year-on-year to Tk 4,366 crore last year.

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