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CU Millennium Fellows with their impactful projects

CU Millennium Fellows with their impactful projects

FE Youth Desk 2021-10-19 13:01:35

United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and Millennium Campus Network (MCN) selected four campuses from Bangladesh for the Millennium Fellowship Class of 2021. It is the first time Bangladesh has achiev...

Ensuring food safety

Ensuring food safety

-- 2021-10-18 22:08:04

The Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute's (BARI's) latest study on eggplant, cauliflower, flat bean and long bean has only confirmed its earlier findings that pesticide residues in vegetables av...

68 people sued in connection with Magura clash over election

68 people sued in connection with Magura clash over election

-- 2021-10-18 18:21:03

Three days after the incident a case has been filed against 68 people in connection with the death of four people in a clash between supporters of two rival candidates in the upcoming Union Parishad e...

Saving the waterlogged cities

Saving the waterlogged cities

-- 2021-10-17 22:13:36

To speak without mincing words, far from becoming free of the ill repute of remaining waterlogged during monsoon, the infamy only gets deep-seated on capital Dhaka's image as a historic city. To many,...

Rickshaw Girl wins top award at an international film festival

Rickshaw Girl wins top award at an international film festival

FE Online Desk 2021-10-17 18:59:27

The film ‘Rickshaw Girl,’ directed by Amitabh Reza Chowdhury, earned the SLM Top Award at the 26th SCHLINGEL International Film Festival in Germany. This award is the highest honour award...

Welcoming a new feasibility study

Welcoming a new feasibility study

-- 2021-10-16 21:59:21

The proposed feasibility study for a Dhaka-Naryanganj-Lakhsham cord-line for Bangladesh Railway to lessen the distance of travel between the capital and the largest port city of the country by a hundr...

Govt ‘conspiring to kill’ Khaleda slowly, Mirza Abbas says

Govt ‘conspiring to kill’ Khaleda slowly, Mirza Abbas says

-- 2021-10-16 17:31:03

BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Saturday alleged that the government is not allowing their party chairperson Khaleda Zia to go aboard for advanced treatment as part of a plot to kill her slowly. "Do...

Rendering e-commerce safer, smoother

Rendering e-commerce safer, smoother

-- 2021-10-15 20:57:11

Transactional malpractice by a handful of online commercial operators has created an image crisis for the e-commerce sector. In consequence, as some online business operators deplored, even the bona f...

Incentive for new export products   

Incentive for new export products  

-- 2021-10-14 22:05:31

In a fresh move the government has expanded the basket of export products eligible for cash incentive. With four new products added to the already prevailing incentive scheme, the total number of pr...

The same old tricks behind onion price hike

The same old tricks behind onion price hike

-- 2021-10-13 21:42:37

An October explosion of onion price has now become a common phenomenon. Yet the skyrocketing of this item's price takes the consumers by surprise. After the record hike of the spice at Tk 250 a kilogr...

সাবেক মন্ত্রী খন্দকার মোশাররফের এপিএস ফুয়াদ গ্রেপ্তার

সাবেক মন্ত্রী খন্দকার মোশাররফের এপিএস ফুয়াদ গ্রেপ্তার

-- 2021-10-13 15:09:39

সাবেক স্থানীয় সরকারমন্ত্রী ইঞ্জিনিয়ার খন্দকার মোশাররফ হোসেনের এপিএস যুবলীগ নেতা এ এইচ এম ফুয়াদকে অর্থ পাচার মামলায় গ্রেপ্তার করেছে পুলিশ। , খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। সাবেক স্থানীয় সরকারমন্ত্র...

Achieving success in mass vaccination programme

Achieving success in mass vaccination programme

-- 2021-10-12 21:27:21

The plan to inoculate children aged 12 to 17 years, as the health minister informed at a briefing of medical professionals on Sunday, is a welcome move by the government. It is believed that the move...

Mentally depressed varsity students

Mentally depressed varsity students

-- 2021-10-11 21:58:09

That the worst pandemic in human history would negatively impact mental health of all age groups during the lockdown is quite understandable but few could have an idea of the devastating impact it has...

Mahbub Talukder giving statements in favour of a party, Obaidul Quader says

Mahbub Talukder giving statements in favour of a party, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-10-11 19:11:11

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that an election commissioner is giving political statements in favour of a political party. The road transport and bridges minister made the...

‘Govt-backed syndicate’ responsible for price hike of essentials, Rizvi says

‘Govt-backed syndicate’ responsible for price hike of essentials, Rizvi says

-- 2021-10-11 19:02:28

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday blamed a ‘government-backed syndicate’ for an unusual price hike of daily essentials. "The prices of daily essential...

App-based domestic tourism

App-based domestic tourism

-- 2021-10-10 21:38:35

Finding the intensity of the corona pandemic get lighter with every passing day, the sector of domestic tourism is gradually reverting back to the pre-pandemic buoyancy. A large number of venturesome...

'Autocratic' BNP destroys democratic values and ethics, Obaidul Quader says

'Autocratic' BNP destroys democratic values and ethics, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-10-10 20:07:49

Describing BNP as an autocratic party, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the party has destroyed democratic values and ethics in the country. "BNP alleges that democracy ha...

Another ‘mass uprising’ imminent, Fakhrul says

Another ‘mass uprising’ imminent, Fakhrul says

-- 2021-10-10 20:00:44

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday urged students and common people to get united as another ‘mass uprising’ like the one that happened in 1990 is imminent to ensu...

Findings of homegrown business climate index

Findings of homegrown business climate index

-- 2021-10-09 21:35:44

The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) and the Policy Exchange Bangladesh (PEB) deserve appreciation for producing the Bangladesh Business Climate Index (BBX). The home-grown index w...

Mujibul Haque Chunnu becomes secretary general of Jatiya Party

Mujibul Haque Chunnu becomes secretary general of Jatiya Party

-- 2021-10-09 20:05:46

The Jatiya Party has appointed Md Mujibul Haque Chunnu as its secretary general after the death of Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu. GM Quader, chairman of the party and deputy leader of the opposition in parlia...

Ensuring secure supply of cotton for industry   

Ensuring secure supply of cotton for industry  

-- 2021-10-08 22:09:21

Being a net importer of raw cotton, Bangladesh's robust textile and readymade garment (RMG) sector is obviously susceptible to any price change of this item in the international market. So, the recent...

Of fake and date expired drugs   

Of fake and date expired drugs  

-- 2021-10-07 21:37:32

Spurious drugs have reportedly started capturing an increasing chare in the pharmaceutical market. There are reasons to believe that in the pandemic time, due to increasing demand for some essential m...

International Blockchain Olympiad starts tomorrow in Bangladesh

International Blockchain Olympiad starts tomorrow in Bangladesh

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-10-07 17:49:42

The International Blockchain Olympiad (IBCOL) 2021, a three-day multidisciplinary design and building competition, will begin on October 8.  For the first time, the virtual event will be held in...

BRTC's profitable venture

BRTC's profitable venture

-- 2021-10-06 21:31:10

The news that the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has become a profitable entity after incurring losses for decades is worth celebrating. However, behind the celebration a feeling of unea...

Catching global technical textile market

Catching global technical textile market

-- 2021-10-05 21:57:44

Given its current reputation as the world's second largest apparel manufacturer and exporter, one wonders why Bangladesh is yet to make its presence felt on the global Technical Textile (TT) market. S...

How are the elderly in society?

How are the elderly in society?

-- 2021-10-04 21:54:55

At a time when the world is yet to recover from the worst pandemic of a highly communicable disease humankind has ever experienced, it is indeed challenging to shift the focus on the non-communicable...

BNP fails in elections for its corrupt leadership, PM says

BNP fails in elections for its corrupt leadership, PM says

-- 2021-10-04 17:28:18

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said BNP did not get success in recent elections as the leadership of the party was involved in crime and corruption.  “How can a party win if its leadersh...

Awami League issues show-cause notice to Gazipur city mayor

Awami League issues show-cause notice to Gazipur city mayor

-- 2021-10-03 22:35:40

Awami League has issued a show-cause notice to Gazipur City Corporation Mayor, also general secretary of the party’s Gazipur city unit, Jahangir Alam for allegedly making controversial comments...

Women and economic decisions

Women and economic decisions

-- 2021-10-03 22:05:22

The webinar on the appraisal of Bangladeshi women's place in the context of their wielding power in the social context was no extraordinary event. The country has been watching such brainstorming sinc...

Don’t make unnecessary chaos, polls will be held as per constitution: Obaidul Quader

Don’t make unnecessary chaos, polls will be held as per constitution: Obaidul Quader

-- 2021-10-02 22:19:47

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said parliamentary polls will be held in due time as per the constitution like in other democratic countries. “So, there is no need to make evi...