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-- 2020-03-31 20:56:26
The start of televised classes for school students from Sunday last makes quite a sense. At a time when schools are closed and people in most parts of the country are confined to their homes in order...
-- 2020-03-31 16:47:11
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday suggested the government to form a national committee to contain the coronavirus outbreak and its fallout. “We’re not criticis...
-- 2020-03-31 16:43:50
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Tuesday said the government’s aid programmes for the poor and destitute badly affected by the coronavirus-induced shutdown are inadequate. In a statement, he...
-- 2020-03-30 21:34:13
The overall state of dislocation created in society as a result of the impact of Covid-19 has caused a large section of the population to lose their livelihoods in the big and small cities as well as...
-- 2020-03-29 22:39:31
Besides not being among the countries experiencing the impacts of a full-blown COVID-19 attack, the case of Bangladesh remains on the whole moderate. It has not yet enforced stringent measures like...
-- 2020-03-28 22:07:39
As the world is now reeling under the deadly coronavirus pandemic, nations one after another have been announcing stimulus packages worth billions of dollars, depending on their fiscal ability....
-- 2020-03-27 22:10:20
In its war against the global pandemic Covid-19, the government's announcement of 10-point instruction and 10 days' holiday from March 26 to April 04 as part of a containment strategy could not have c...
-- 2020-03-25 17:08:01
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged BNP to avoid all negative politics considering the global crisis caused by coronavirus outbreak. “I expect BNP to help the gover...
-- 2020-03-24 21:11:24
The innovation of low-cost corona detection kits by a team of scientists of Gonoshasthya Kendra is heartening enough to bolster the morale of all conscious citizens across the country. At a time when...
-- 2020-03-24 19:07:30
BNP’ senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has urged the his party leaders and activists not to crowd at the BSMMU hospital, from where their chief Khaleda Zia is set to be freed from...
-- 2020-03-23 22:01:20
This year's World Water Day theme, 'Water and Climate Change' could not be more appropriate because the two are inextricably linked. Roughly two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water, ye...
-- 2020-03-22 21:48:48
As part of a new development in response to the impact of corona virus, a number of large global and private offices in the capital have recently asked its officials to work at home, and send their fi...
-- 2020-03-21 21:09:17
A few concessions that have been offered by the central bank last week for the coronavirus-hit businesses through relaxation of relevant rules are appropriate and timely. Those are, obviously, intende...
-- 2020-03-20 22:14:41
The sudden skyrocketing of onion price months back will remain a grim reminder of how lack of readiness can overwhelm the entire nation to the point of triggering panic. True, onion at that time was i...
-- 2020-03-19 21:06:52
Considering the country's laudable performance on the economic front as evidenced by its steady GDP growth -- 8.1 per cent in FY 18-19 and 7.9 per cent in FY 17-18 -- one would have expected that the...
-- 2020-03-18 21:17:37
Bangladesh has reasons to be concerned about the shape and range of post-Brexit economic ties with the United Kingdom (UK). Britain is formulating a new tariff policy which, to the credit of the UK go...
-- 2020-03-17 22:29:16
As elsewhere the government is taking to digitalization wherever possible. It was only expected that payments to over two million public servants would take the digital route. And it has. The Integrat...
-- 2020-03-16 21:57:51
Had he been alive today, he would be a centenarian. He is none other than Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. On the occasion of celebration of his centenary birthday, the declarat...
-- 2020-03-15 21:43:05
After the government directive banning corporal punishment in all Bangladesh educational institutions, the practice had declined remarkably. It followed a landmark High Court order in 2010. The decade...
-- 2020-03-15 17:46:12
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the government is mulling over closing the educational institutions in view of the outbreak of coronavirus. “Closing the school...
-- 2020-03-14 22:05:03
Independent economists and financial sector experts almost a decade back had given their unanimous opinion: the number of banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) operating at that time...
-- 2020-03-13 22:12:23
With an already fragile global economy weakened by slowed-down growth traceable to trade war and low productivity in the rich as well as developing economies in 2019, the fear was widespread that the...
-- 2020-03-13 21:33:29
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has described US state department report, released on March 11, on the human rights situation in Bangladesh as one-sided and unacceptable. “The report (on h...
-- 2020-03-12 22:16:43
Call it panic buying or what you will, commonly used protective kits of coronavirus are becoming increasingly scarce across the country. Face masks, hand wash liquids and sanitisers, believed to be ha...
-- 2020-03-11 22:14:40
Japan's grant of Tk 6.6 million for rehabilitation of poor people with disabilities may not be a huge sum but in terms of humanitarian service its value surpasses the financial consideration. The reci...
-- 2020-03-11 13:21:32
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged BNP to refrain from doing politics over any sensitive and human issue like coronavirus. He made the call while addressing a joint meet...
-- 2020-03-10 21:45:35
The pitiable conditions a host of migrant women workers found themselves in primarily in Saudi Arabia and other Middle-east countries have intermittently made screaming headlines. Following incidence...
-- 2020-03-09 21:19:49
Since its slump in 2011, the real estate market had been passing through difficult times until 2016 when it started to gradually pick up, thanks to the economy's growing strength, a surge in the pace...
-- 2020-03-08 21:20:55
Continuous increase in the production of foreign fruits and vegetables in the last two decades deserves particular appreciation. Prior to the unexpected rise in these yields, the fruit and vegetable p...
-- 2020-03-07 22:22:24
Realisation of advance income tax (AIT) on profit calculated notionally, not on the basis of audited financials, is bound to raise scepticism. And those who are made to pay that tax have genuine reaso...
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