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Call from the SME fair

Call from the SME fair

-- 2020-03-06 21:04:46

The Prime Minister's call to the youth of the country to be entrepreneurs rather than job-seekers after obtaining a degree couldn't have been timelier. The call came when she was opening the eighth fa...

'Mujib Year celebrations not a platform for self-promotion'

'Mujib Year celebrations not a platform for self-promotion'

-- 2020-03-06 17:31:15

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has warned ruling party leaders and activists not to turn Mujib Year celebrations into a platform for self-promotion. The road transport minister highlig...

Release of fund for farm mechanization

Release of fund for farm mechanization

-- 2020-03-05 21:03:12

The much lauded Farm Mechanisation Policy 2019 which promised to cause considerable improvement in the country's agro cultivation has reportedly run into a snag in implementing its incentive provision...

Concern over harmful beauty product

Concern over harmful beauty product

-- 2020-03-04 22:02:33

Although belated, the suspension of eight foreign brands of skin-whitening cream by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute (BSTI) is a highly positive move. The reason why the fairness product...

Fakhrul raises question about independence of judiciary

Fakhrul raises question about independence of judiciary

-- 2020-03-04 18:07:46

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday raised a question about the independence of the judiciary since a former ruling party MP and his wife was granted bail on Tuesday hours a...

Dr Kamal dissolves Gono Forum central committee

Dr Kamal dissolves Gono Forum central committee

-- 2020-03-04 18:05:44

Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain has dissolved the central committee of the party amid a deepening conflict among party leaders. Dr Kamal and took the decision exercising the power he was given...

Freeing environment of polythene

Freeing environment of polythene

-- 2020-03-03 20:05:50

By an ironic twist of fortune, Bangladesh the first country in the world to have banned polythene two decades ago, happens now to be grappling with a defiant comeback of poly bags. An amendment in 200...

Mugging on comeback trail?

Mugging on comeback trail?

-- 2020-03-02 21:02:05

Yet another woman falls from rickshaw and dies following snatching of her vanity bag. In another such highly tragic incident, a woman caught in the straps of her bag was dragged several hundred yards...

The state of labour rights

The state of labour rights

-- 2020-03-01 21:12:44

The grim state of labour safety in Bangladesh must have been recalled with uncase in the recent years. Different countries and rights groups have kept trying to reach solutions to impasses in the labo...

Impact of water and power tariff hike   

Impact of water and power tariff hike  

-- 2020-02-29 22:12:08

Consumers, this time, have been exposed to double-trouble; they will have to pay more for their power and water bills, almost simultaneously. The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has rai...

BNP announces nationwide protest over power, water tariff hike

BNP announces nationwide protest over power, water tariff hike

-- 2020-02-29 15:20:38

Describing the government’s move to increase the tariffs of power and water as an ‘anti-people move’, BNP has decided to organise human chain programmes across the country, including...

Stimulus for the dairy industry   

Stimulus for the dairy industry  

-- 2020-02-28 22:05:05

In the ancient past, this region of which Bangladesh is a part, could impart knowledge about the art of livestock-raising and producing milk and its various derivatives to the rest of the world. In re...

The question of height of the metro rail   

The question of height of the metro rail  

-- 2020-02-27 22:07:41

As the capital city finds itself amid a plethora of development projects, problems compound to deter the good sides of many. The latest issue centres around the Uttara-Motijheel Mass Rapid Transit (MR...

'Indian PM gets Mujib Year invitation as Liberation War ally'

'Indian PM gets Mujib Year invitation as Liberation War ally'

-- 2020-02-27 18:00:37

The government has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the ‘Mujib Year’ celebration as India was the main ally of Bangladesh in the Liberation War of 1971. Awami League Ge...

Improved child nutrition

Improved child nutrition

-- 2020-02-26 21:42:37

Reports on child nutrition until recently were exasperating, to say the least. The litany that malnutrition and stunting held back a large segment of children's physical and mental development marked...

Tourism's potential   

Tourism's potential  

-- 2020-02-25 22:05:37

The tourism sector, though looking up given the rising trend in its contribution to the GDP, which was 4.4 per cent in 2018, is yet to grow into a full-fledged service industry. While travel and touri...

Price hike of rice, again   

Price hike of rice, again  

-- 2020-02-24 22:05:44

The rice market, particularly in the city, is getting jittery. A primary commodity such as rice always maintains price difference between rural and urban settings in the context when its cultivation i...

Playing with gas-fire   

Playing with gas-fire  

-- 2020-02-23 22:05:22

The tendency to belittle the imperative of making people aware of the possible hazards in the day-to-day life often invites calamitous consequences. Over the last couple of decades, this scourge has b...

Economic toll of Coronavirus   

Economic toll of Coronavirus  

-- 2020-02-22 22:04:46

That Coronavirus outbreak, in addition to taking a human toll, would affect the global trade to a notable extent is now almost certain since it is deeply hurting the world's second largest economy, Ch...

First Italian dies of coronavirus as outbreak flares in north

First Italian dies of coronavirus as outbreak flares in north

-- 2020-02-22 11:16:44

An elderly man in the northern Italian city of Padua has died after being infected with the coronavirus, becoming the first Italian victim of the disease, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Frid...

Working to make Bangla UN’s official language: Info Minister   

Working to make Bangla UN’s official language: Info Minister  

-- 2020-02-21 18:53:09

The government is working to register Bangla as one of the official languages of the United Nations (UN), Information Minister Hasan Mahmud said Friday, reports UNB. He made the remark while paying h...

BD envoy discusses Modi’s Dhaka visit with Jaishankar

BD envoy discusses Modi’s Dhaka visit with Jaishankar

-- 2020-02-21 18:47:12

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran on Friday met Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at the latter’s office in New Delhi, reports UNB. During the meeting, the envoy...

The essence of Ekushey spirit   

The essence of Ekushey spirit  

-- 2020-02-20 22:04:55

The Bangalees have a unique record of sacrificing lives for the love of their mother tongue. Immortalised as language movement of 1952, the occasion's spirit still runs deep in the stream of Bangalee...

Saving Dhaka's greenery

Saving Dhaka's greenery

-- 2020-02-19 21:50:35

Added to poor air quality and lack of civic amenities, the question of greenery in Dhaka has now come to figure in the pages of newspapers. A study by the World Bank has mentioned that green areas in...

Khaleda’s bail totally a matter of court: Quader

Khaleda’s bail totally a matter of court: Quader

-- 2020-02-19 19:21:05

Reiterating that the court will decide about the bail of Khaleda Zia, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said the bail issue of graft-convicted BNP chairperson is totally a mat...

Five collect BNP nomination forms to contest CCC mayoral polls

Five collect BNP nomination forms to contest CCC mayoral polls

-- 2020-02-19 19:16:54

Five BNP leaders have collected their party’s nomination forms to contest the upcoming elections to Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) as a mayoral candidate of ‘Sheaf of Paddy’. The...

Taking care of the Sundarbans   

Taking care of the Sundarbans  

-- 2020-02-18 22:19:36

A veritable natural green wall, or what environmentalists would like to call 'natural shell,' sheltering the coastal belt settlements of Bangladesh from the cyclones and storm surges, the Sundarbans i...

Fakhrul denies discussing parole, Quader has 'evidence of conversation'

Fakhrul denies discussing parole, Quader has 'evidence of conversation'

-- 2020-02-18 18:37:05

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said he did not discuss about Khaleda Zia’s parole with Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader during their recent telephonic...

Staying competitive in processed food export   

Staying competitive in processed food export  

-- 2020-02-17 22:06:56

Export of processed foods was an uncharted territory about a couple of decades ago. But once entrepreneurs started venturing into it, there opened the prospect of a healthy turnout from such businesse...

Private helicopter service    

Private helicopter service   

-- 2020-02-16 22:12:42

A number of legal interventions in the offing as identified lately by the private helicopter services may give reason for the sector to feel a little unease. According to officials concerned, the area...