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-- 2021-01-26 22:26:58
The latest survey by a reputed local think tank on how the pandemic impacted people's livelihoods has come up with disquieting results. The study was conducted between November and December last year....
-- 2021-01-25 21:47:55
Handing over 66,189 newly built houses to homeless people on a single day under a government programme is unique and perhaps unprecedented in the chronicle of governance anywhere in the world. Homeles...
-- 2021-01-24 22:11:04
After a considerably long gap, a potential outbreak of bird flu appears to be casting shadows across. The virus is borne by poultry and poultry products. Following a January 13 FE report on the detect...
-- 2021-01-22 21:51:25
History is replete with pandemics and their dreadful consequences. But in recent memory, any other pandemic of the Covid-19's scale and deadliness is quite unheard of. Modern science, despite its adva...
-- 2021-01-21 21:37:11
It has become almost customary over the years that financial scams in the country get unearthed only after the misdeeds have been committed. In the banking sector, while non-performing loans (NP...
-- 2021-01-21 16:36:12
A case has been filed against 45 BNP leaders and activists a day after an attack of BNP office in Chattogram city. Md Mosharaful Haque, Executive Member of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chattogram...
UNB 2021-01-20 20:45:16
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that the government has no ‘roadmap’ and ‘planning’ for the proper distribution of coronavirus vaccine....
-- 2021-01-20 20:35:26
Violence in municipality polls leading to death of at least two persons --- one of them a councillor-elect in Sirajganj --- has definitely mired the system of people's representative at the local gove...
-- 2021-01-19 21:43:38
Like other industries of Bangladesh, the livestock sector, which includes the poultry and the dairy industries, has also been adversely impacted by the shutdowns enforced to combat the pandemic. Unfor...
-- 2021-01-18 23:09:47
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JASOD) president and former information minister Hasanul Haq Inu has tested positive for the coronavirus after hospitalisation. Inu was taken to Bangladesh Specialised Hospit...
-- 2021-01-18 22:09:39
Can the country's unsafe level crossings be made reasonably safe for pedestrians and vehicles using those and the trains running on railway tracks? If the latest initiatives taken jointly by the Bangl...
-- 2021-01-17 22:35:02
With four mass rapid transit (MRT) projects in line, the fast-progressing being the metro rail-based MRT-6, Dhaka is preparing to embark on yet another massive project. Following many South Asian citi...
-- 2021-01-17 20:37:25
Bangladesh Awami League on Sunday named the members of its International Affairs Subcommittee for2019-2022. AL General Secretary and Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader approved the s...
UNB 2021-01-17 19:23:04
Denouncing the killing of its councillor-elect in Saturday’s Sirajganj municipal polls, BNP on Sunday alleged that the Awami League has turned Bangladesh into a "death valley" as justice has dis...
-- 2021-01-16 22:15:00
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has done what has been long overdue. It held the first-ever hearing on uniform LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) pricing on Thursday last in line with a...
-- 2021-01-16 20:50:52
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the people have replied to BNP’s falsehood centring the polls by exercising their franchise in a huge number amid festivity and ent...
-- 2021-01-16 20:44:06
BNP alleged that ruling party supporters captured most polling stations during municipality polls on Saturday as they did during national elections. "We’ve information that the ruling party did...
-- 2021-01-15 22:24:51
The repair and maintenance work for a large number of smaller physical infrastructures spread across the country is facing serious hurdles. The reason is the government body that looks after the work,...
-- 2021-01-14 22:27:15
Like many of the downsides of government policies aimed at calming the impact of the pandemic on life and livelihood, the reintegration plan for returnee migrant workers is far from adequate, and it i...
-- 2021-01-13 21:56:18
The latest leak of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) from cylinders causing fire in which an entire family of four perished in Gazipur has now become a dreaded saga. Such leaks and subsequent combustions of...
UNB 2021-01-13 17:01:35
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that the government has established a ‘reign of robbery’ in the country by indulging in widespread ‘plundering&...
-- 2021-01-12 22:07:21
The complications created over the apparel exporters' refusal to use the privately-operated Inland Container Depots (ICDs) warrant prompt addressing. It involves the interests of two important private...
-- 2021-01-11 22:42:37
In the 10 months of a year when Covid-19 claimed more than 700 lives a month on an average, 729 fatalities at workplaces do not, on paper, look frightening enough. But a closer look will definitely pr...
-- 2021-01-10 23:03:26
A demolition drive targeting illegal structures has been on for nearly a couple of weeks in the capital. Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation are conducting the campaigns. The...
-- 2021-01-10 12:31:48
A case was filed against 40 leaders and activists of BNP for threatening to oust government through an armed movement. AKM Shamsuzzaman Chowdhury, president of Patiya upazila unit Awami League filed...
-- 2021-01-09 22:20:20
The government late last week reduced the taxes on rice imports by a big margin--- from 62.5 per cent to 10 per cent--- amidst the prices of the item soaring to a record level. The decision is desig...
-- 2021-01-08 22:04:59
The brief uncertainty surrounding Bangladesh's receipt of Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine from India seems to be over. Also, as assured by Bangladesh government's top health officials, the vaccine should be...
-- 2021-01-08 19:18:51
The ruling Awami League will hold a workshop titled ‘Karmojiboner Karmoshala’ on Saturday with a view to providing guidelines to youth in making career planning and enhancing skills. Unde...
-- 2021-01-08 19:12:54
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has described Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent address to the nation as a ‘black document of falsehood’. "We want to make i...
-- 2021-01-07 22:28:20
Lately, it appears that the country's light engineering industry is going to get some encouragement from the government in terms of framing policies as well as taking moves to better utilise the pot...
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