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Classes on television

Classes on television

-- 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...

Fakhrul suggests national unity to contain coronavirus outbreak

Fakhrul suggests national unity to contain coronavirus outbreak

-- 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...

Govt aid for poor inadequate: GM Quader

Govt aid for poor inadequate: GM Quader

-- 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...

Bracing for economic downturn

Bracing for economic downturn

-- 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...

Covid-19 -- the case for awareness   

Covid-19 -- the case for awareness  

-- 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...

Govt fund for fighting coronavirus challenges   

Govt fund for fighting coronavirus challenges  

-- 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....

Meeting pandemic-caused emergencies   

Meeting pandemic-caused emergencies  

-- 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...

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to refrain from negative politics

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to refrain from negative politics

-- 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...

Corona battle: Testing kits not all!

Corona battle: Testing kits not all!

-- 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...

Rizvi urges BNP leaders not to crowd at BSMMU

Rizvi urges BNP leaders not to crowd at BSMMU

-- 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...

When access to water is not guaranteed   

When access to water is not guaranteed  

-- 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...

Doing office at home, digitally   

Doing office at home, digitally  

-- 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...

Coronavirus outbreak and concessions for businesses

Coronavirus outbreak and concessions for businesses

-- 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...

Rethinking protection of onion growers   

Rethinking protection of onion growers  

-- 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...

Tackling unemployment

Tackling unemployment

-- 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...

Post-Brexit Bangla-UK trade ties

Post-Brexit Bangla-UK trade ties

-- 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...

Integrated accounting system welcome   

Integrated accounting system welcome  

-- 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...

Celebration of Mujib centenary   

Celebration of Mujib centenary  

-- 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...

Banishing corporal punishment

Banishing corporal punishment

-- 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...

'Govt mulls shutting educational institutions'

'Govt mulls shutting educational institutions'

-- 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...

A decision raising questions   

A decision raising questions  

-- 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...

Virus dims growth hopes, globally   

Virus dims growth hopes, globally  

-- 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...

Information minister rejects US report on BD human rights situation

Information minister rejects US report on BD human rights situation

-- 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...

Scarcity of corona protective kits   

Scarcity of corona protective kits  

-- 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...

Helping poor people with disabilities

Helping poor people with disabilities

-- 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...

Don’t do politics over coronavirus, Quader urges BNP

Don’t do politics over coronavirus, Quader urges BNP

-- 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...

Plight of migrant women returnees

Plight of migrant women returnees

-- 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...

Welcome upturn in real estate business

Welcome upturn in real estate business

-- 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...

Foreign fruits, locally grown

Foreign fruits, locally grown

-- 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...

Reviewing AIT at import stage

Reviewing AIT at import stage

-- 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...