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Tofail suffers stroke, flies to India for advanced medical care

Tofail suffers stroke, flies to India for advanced medical care

-- 2021-09-03 19:15:50

Veteran politician Tofail Ahmed, who recently suffered a stroke, has flown to India for advanced medical care. He left for Delhi in an air ambulance from Dhaka's Square Hospital, where he had been re...

Curbing e-commerce fraud   

Curbing e-commerce fraud  

-- 2021-09-02 21:51:34

There are names, in fact a number of them, that appear in the media these days as alleged fraudsters involved in cheating consumers while promising to deliver goods online. Thanks to the pandemic-indu...

BNP celebrates its 43rd founding anniversary

BNP celebrates its 43rd founding anniversary

-- 2021-09-01 18:44:07

BNP and its associate bodies celebrated the 43rd founding anniversary of the party across the country on Wednesday with various programmes. On September 1, 1978, late President Ziaur Rahman founded t...

Urgency of women's economic empowerment   

Urgency of women's economic empowerment  

-- 2021-08-31 21:48:13

Bangladesh's achievements on the social front, especially in the area of gender parity have earned appreciation from its international development partners. Especially, the higher enrolment rate of gi...

BNP’s 43rd founding anniversary Wednesday

BNP’s 43rd founding anniversary Wednesday

-- 2021-08-31 19:47:30

BNP is going to celebrate its 43rd founding anniversary across the country on Wednesday in a low-key manner due to the prevalence of Coronavirus. On September 1, 1978, late Ziaur Rahman founded the p...

Floods: Extensive or not?   

Floods: Extensive or not?  

-- 2021-08-30 21:22:09

In spate, the rivers Teesta and Dharla have inundated large areas in the country's north. Thousands have been left marooned and many of the affected had to leave their houses for shelter on highlands....

Battling dengue with awareness      

Battling dengue with awareness    

-- 2021-08-29 21:57:59

Against the backdrop of several depressing news regarding the ongoing dengue outbreak, the plain confession of the DSCC mayor is undoubtedly praiseworthy. Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said last We...

Dr Kamal vows to wage movement against ‘misrule’, ‘autocracy’

Dr Kamal vows to wage movement against ‘misrule’, ‘autocracy’

-- 2021-08-29 21:25:53

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Sunday expressed his determination to wage a united movement to oust the current government and to save people from ‘misrule’ and ‘autocracy&r...

Awami League’s income declined by 51pc in 2020

Awami League’s income declined by 51pc in 2020

-- 2021-08-29 18:49:55

The income of Awami League in 2020 was about Tk 103.3 million, 51 per cent down from that of 2019, according to its audited financial statement submitted to the election commission on Sunday. The exp...

Chhatra League ‘attacks’ Chhatra Dal procession at Dhaka University

Chhatra League ‘attacks’ Chhatra Dal procession at Dhaka University

-- 2021-08-29 16:13:56

The Chhatra Dal has claimed that the Chhatra League launched a motorcycle attack on a protest march calling for the release of the BNP student organisation’s leaders from jail. At least 10 Chha...

Revival of tourism industry

Revival of tourism industry

-- 2021-08-28 21:39:37

The tourism and hospitality industry people say they always remain at the top of the casualty list of any adverse situation and at the bottom of the recovery list. This statement appears to be true. A...

BNP continues anti-state conspiracy by appointing lobbyists, Obaidul Quader says

BNP continues anti-state conspiracy by appointing lobbyists, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-08-28 21:19:41

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP wants to create unrest in the country to fish in troubled water. “BNP has kept up its...

Govt keeps educational institutions shut to prevent movement, BNP alleges

Govt keeps educational institutions shut to prevent movement, BNP alleges

-- 2021-08-28 21:16:55

BNP on Saturday alleged that the government has kept educational institutions shut for a long time only to prevent a possible movement instead of protecting students from COVID-19. Speaking at a pres...

Distressed Bangladeshi  workers in Malaysia     

Distressed Bangladeshi  workers in Malaysia    

-- 2021-08-27 22:04:36

Reports that many Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are going hungry as they have lost jobs due to the pandemic are very disconcerting. As it is a serious humanitarian crisis affecting the count...

Is awarding AIP enough to boost agriculture sector?   

Is awarding AIP enough to boost agriculture sector?  

-- 2021-08-26 21:46:22

The decision of the agriculture ministry to recognise for the first time contributions of agricultural producers, entrepreneurs and scientists to the development of the farm sector by way of awarding...

Disused medical equipment

Disused medical equipment

-- 2021-08-25 22:10:55

Reports on highly sensitive and critical medical equipment, either unpacked or left to get disordered or discarded, were coming from medical college hospitals and health complexes of the country in is...

Bridging digital governance gap   

Bridging digital governance gap  

-- 2021-08-24 21:50:53

When information and communications technology (ICT) has made inroads into almost every sphere of human activity, governance cannot be an exception. However, unlike in the sphere of trade and commerce...

Ivy Rahman was declared dead shortly after Khaleda’s departure from CMH, PM says

Ivy Rahman was declared dead shortly after Khaleda’s departure from CMH, PM says

-- 2021-08-24 16:55:47

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Awami League leader Ivy Rahman was declared dead, on August 24 in 2004, immediately after the then prime minister Khaleda Zia’s departure from the Combined...

Ivy Rahman’s 17th death anniversary today

Ivy Rahman’s 17th death anniversary today

-- 2021-08-24 15:28:52

The 17th death anniversary of Ivy Rahman, former president of Bangladesh Mahila Awami League and wife of late President M Zillur Rahman, is being observed today in the country in a befitting manner, B...

BNP chalks out programmes to celebrate founding anniversary on Sept 1

BNP chalks out programmes to celebrate founding anniversary on Sept 1

-- 2021-08-24 15:24:30

BNP on Tuesday chalked out various programmes, including virtual discussions, to celebrate its 43rd founding anniversary on September 1. BNP organising secretary Syed Emran Saleh Prince announced the...

Moderna in private possession

Moderna in private possession

-- 2021-08-23 22:07:30

The arrest of a paramedic from Dhaka city's Dakkhin Khan for illegal possession of Moderna ampoules enough to inoculate 28 people has confounded both the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS...

DSCC's 30-year master plan   

DSCC's 30-year master plan  

-- 2021-08-22 21:57:18

Amid rising dengue cases, the ward councillors, naturally, are finding themselves under the spotlight. Whether the councillors of DSCC (Dhaka South City Corporation), numbering more than 70, are perfo...

Facilitating homegrown vaccine   

Facilitating homegrown vaccine  

-- 2021-08-21 21:24:01

To meet the government's target of vaccinating120 million people within no more than two years and a half will require some 240 million doses of the serum. As of August 17, 21.43 million shots could b...

Perpetrators of Aug 21 grenade attack wanted to make AL leaderless: Obaidul Quader

Perpetrators of Aug 21 grenade attack wanted to make AL leaderless: Obaidul Quader

-- 2021-08-21 20:25:47

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the deadly bullet of the 'August 15 carnage' in 1975 came back once again through the 'August 21 grenade attack' in 2004 to make the...

GM Quader wants reopening of educational institutions on experimental basis

GM Quader wants reopening of educational institutions on experimental basis

UNB 2021-08-21 19:05:27

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader has demanded the government to reopen all educational institutions right now on an experimental basis. "The nation is being pushed towards a dark future as educational...

Awami League to observe 17th anniversary of grenade attacks Saturday

Awami League to observe 17th anniversary of grenade attacks Saturday

BSS 2021-08-20 20:44:48

Awami League will observe the 17th anniversary of gruesome August 21 grenade attacks on Saturday. The attacks were carried out on an anti-terrorism rally of Awami League at Bangabandhu Avenue in the...

Cheated migrant workers in host countries   

Cheated migrant workers in host countries  

-- 2021-08-19 21:24:56

That the Bangladeshi workers are often subjected to maltreatment in their overseas workplaces is not at all a secret these days. Longer work hours, poor accommodation, lack of medicare, verbal and phy...

Co-production of vaccines

Co-production of vaccines

-- 2021-08-18 21:57:14

The much-awaited deal signed between the Bangladesh government, China's Sinopharm and Bangladesh's Incepta Vaccines Ltd for bottling and labelling Chinese company's vaccines at the local pharmaceutica...

Khaleda receives second dose of COVID-19 vaccine

Khaleda receives second dose of COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2021-08-18 17:02:01

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia received the second dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, 30 days after taking the first one. She took the vaccine shot at Sheikh Russel Gastroliver Institute and Hospital in...

Afghan emergency and world community   

Afghan emergency and world community  

-- 2021-08-17 22:58:49

With the Taliban being in full control of Afghanistan, the world's attention is now focused on transition of power in Kabul. Will it be a peaceful one resulting in an inclusive government? Or a replic...