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-- 2019-12-29 21:42:12
An unremitting drive to free the river banks of grabbers is underway across the country. Demolition of illegal structures and eviction go on. Given the brisk pace at which this is enforced, an upbea...
UNB 2019-12-29 17:30:26
BNP started 2019 with a bad note - a drubbing in the national election. Now Khaleda Zia’s party is going to step into the new year without showing any sign that it can make a turnaround anytime...
-- 2019-12-28 22:07:43
The essential commodity market continues to be somewhat unstable though the prices of onion have lately come down, to some extent, at the retail level. The import of substantial quantity coupled with...
-- 2019-12-28 20:00:51
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the upcoming elections to the two city corporations of Dhaka will be free, fair and acceptable. “The elections will be accept...
BSS 2019-12-28 19:26:19
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the release of detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is possible only through the judicial process. “Actually, they (BNP) are showing disrespect tow...
BSS 2019-12-28 16:20:36
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the main challenge of the party is to institutionalise democracy and fulfill the pledges made during the polls. “Now the main challenge of...
-- 2019-12-28 15:15:22
Raushon Ershad and GM Quader have been elected respectively chief patron and chairman of the Jatiya Party (JaPa), the main opposition in parliament, at the party's ninth council for the next three yea...
-- 2019-12-27 22:10:09
Strangely there is no reliable information on the number of foreign nationals residing and working in Bangladesh -- with or without work permit. The issue has surfaced time and again and the reason wh...
-- 2019-12-27 19:02:17
The Jatiya Party is set to appoint Raushon Ershad to a newly-created post, chief patron, in the party's first council after the death of its founder HM Ershad. Raushon, currently the senior co-chairm...
-- 2019-12-26 21:57:11
The Financial Express carried two items on environmental issues last Wednesday, one being the governmental move for ensuring clean air for Dhaka, albeit under court orders, and another on mitigating t...
Reuters 2019-12-26 12:28:34
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, mem...
-- 2019-12-25 20:15:09
After years - if not decades -- of absence of wintry bites, the entire country discovers suddenly in the grip of a severe cold wave. For long five days, the sun refused to show itself for once and onl...
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2019-12-25 11:52:42
Nearly 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees living in India are not eligible for citizenship under a new law, sparking concerns they may be forced to return to the island nation they fled during a decades-long...
-- 2019-12-24 22:08:30
If sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a matter of national priority at the moment, the call from a programme at the capital on Wednesday last for best use of project funds and greater coordinati...
-- 2019-12-24 18:07:53
The High Court (HC) has questioned the validity of GM Quader's position as chairman of Jatiya Party. The vacation bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam on Tuesday issued a rule aski...
-- 2019-12-23 21:41:00
The statements coming from a couple of ministers on the poor road conditions at a function in Dhaka last Thursday otherwise represented the feeling of millions across the country. Taking part in...
UNB 2019-12-23 16:17:21
BNP has decided to hold protest rally across the country, including in the capital, on December 30 to observe what it says ‘democracy-killing day’, marking the first anniversary of the 11t...
Mohammad Mufazzal 2019-12-23 10:30:08
The government has reduced the rate of advance income tax (AIT) on import of cement raw materials to 3.0 per cent from 5.0 per cent. National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a SRO (statutory regulatory...
-- 2019-12-22 22:08:45
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed's sudden death leaves the nation and a host of people abroad both saddened and shocked, for he was not known to have suffered from many physical complications. Notwithstanding his...
-- 2019-12-21 21:51:11
An awareness campaign urging motor vehicles not to honk in an area of the capital has drawn attention of many. It was launched on last Wednesday involving Rover Scouts in the task, besides the law enf...
-- 2019-12-21 17:15:08
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, who was re-elected general secretary of ruling Awami League on Saturday, has said new committee of the ruling party will work to fulfill the expecta...
UNB 2019-12-21 17:14:05
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the nation has got frustrated over the 21st council of ruling Awami League as no direction came from it for the ‘restor...
-- 2019-12-21 10:19:58
Councillors of the ruling Awami League will gather at The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) on Saturday morning to elect the next committee of the party for three years. The second day of th...
-- 2019-12-20 22:10:29
Two factory fires in less than a week on the outskirts of the capital leave no doubt that defiance of rules and regulations with utter disregard for workplace safety is still pervasive in and around t...
-- 2019-12-20 19:51:07
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described Awami League as the largest and strongest political party of the country Sheikh Hasina, the president of Awami League, made the remarks while addressing the...
BSS 2019-12-20 17:34:13
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the 21st National Council of ruling Awami League at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Sheikh Hasina, also the AL president, opened the two-da...
-- 2019-12-19 21:51:38
The message that a 2010-study findings on trans fat intake leave for the nation is quite chilling. Of the findings, the most alarming is the death of 8,000 people on account of consumption of excessiv...
-- 2019-12-19 13:14:53
Police have banned protests against a controversial new citizenship law in several parts of India. The ban has been imposed in parts of the capital Delhi, Uttar Pradesh state, and some areas of Karna...
-- 2019-12-18 21:13:49
The news that Petrobangla's subsidiary, the Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) has come up with an `advanced and standard exploration procedure' is encouraging. The in...
-- 2019-12-18 10:50:01
As many as 32 leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have lost their posts in the central committee over allegations such as marriage, infiltration and drugs abuse. Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Lekhak...
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