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Getting clean financials from listed companies   

Getting clean financials from listed companies  

-- 2019-11-30 22:18:37

It is quite evident from the lacklustre performance of the country's stock market for more than two decades that investors do not have much faith in many factors that influence the market operations....

Mannafi new president, Sentu gen secy of Dhaka South AL

Mannafi new president, Sentu gen secy of Dhaka South AL

-- 2019-11-30 17:47:33

Abu Ahmed Mannafi was picked as the new president of Awami League Dhaka South City unit and Sharfuddin Ahmed Sentu as the general secretary of the unit on Saturday. Sheikh Bazlur Rahman and SM Mannan...

Bar Council elections held in Bogura, Jashore

Bar Council elections held in Bogura, Jashore

-- 2019-11-30 11:08:26

The annual election of Bogura and Jashore district bar associations were held on Friday. In Bogura, Md Golam Faruk was elected president of the District Bar Association from Bangabandhu Awami Ainjibi...

Shiny path for business ahead   

Shiny path for business ahead  

-- 2019-11-29 22:13:00

The two-day conference of the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) jointly organised by the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and th...

12 injured in infighting during Sitakunda AL triennial conference

12 injured in infighting during Sitakunda AL triennial conference

-- 2019-11-29 20:15:09

At least 12 members of Sitakunda Upazila Awami League unit were injured in a clash during its triennial conference on Friday. Firoz Alam Molla, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda Police Station, said th...

Three more BNP leaders held in city

Three more BNP leaders held in city

-- 2019-11-29 14:09:46

Police arrested three leaders of BNP including its Training Affairs Secretary ABM Mosharraf Hossain, from the Jatiya Press Club premises in the city on Friday. They were shown arrested in a case file...

Reforms first to enforce transport law in phases   

Reforms first to enforce transport law in phases  

-- 2019-11-28 22:05:59

It does not take a transport specialist's insight to find out why the newly introduced transport law failed to see the least success after more than three weeks of its coming into force. The much trum...

Toll of environmental pollution

Toll of environmental pollution

-- 2019-11-27 21:10:42

Indian capital Delhi hogged for long the headline for the notorious merit of heaviest air pollution among all cities in the world. Now Bangladesh capital Dhaka - ninth largest megacity in the world -...

500 BNP men sued over attack on police

500 BNP men sued over attack on police

-- 2019-11-27 12:44:29

A case was filed against 500 people in connection with Tuesday’s clash between police and a group of BNP leaders and activists in front of the High Court. Matiur Rahman, sub-inspector of Shahba...

For a market oversight body   

For a market oversight body  

-- 2019-11-26 22:16:34

The Consumer Association of Bangladesh's (CAB'S) call to create a new body to monitor demand, supply and prices could not have been better timed. The Financial Express in its last Friday issue focused...

Creating environment for child rights   

Creating environment for child rights  

-- 2019-11-25 22:09:39

On its long journey since 1946, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has contributed more to the well-being of global children than any other organisation. Yet it took long 44 years to recognis...

Pro-AL panel wins Khulna Bar election

Pro-AL panel wins Khulna Bar election

-- 2019-11-25 13:40:17

The ruling Awami League-backed Bangabandhu Ainjibi Parishad has won the annual election to the executive committee of Khulna District Bar Association. It bagged 10 out of 14 posts, including that o...

Future of migratory birds   

Future of migratory birds  

-- 2019-11-24 22:05:45

There has been a highly noticeable drop in the number of migratory birds flying into the country every winter. They take shelter in this land of moderate cold to flee the severe winter back in their c...

Worries over transport sector situation   

Worries over transport sector situation  

-- 2019-11-23 22:05:55

The stalemate over enforcement of the new road transport act, it seems, will be over soon. However, the relief is likely to be temporary one. In fact, the transport owners and workers on the one side...

Parash, Nikhil to lead Jubo League

Parash, Nikhil to lead Jubo League

-- 2019-11-23 17:01:24

Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash and Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil will lead the Awami Jubo League as chairman and general secretary respectively for next three years. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Qu...

PM inaugurates Jubo League’s 7th national congress

PM inaugurates Jubo League’s 7th national congress

-- 2019-11-23 13:10:09

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the 7th national council of the Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, an associate body of the ruling Awami League (AL) amid festivity and fanfare. The pr...

Arresting salt price machination   

Arresting salt price machination  

-- 2019-11-22 22:17:05

Last Tuesday was marked by people lining in front of retail shops and squabbling for a grain of salt with the essential item selling at double its normal price without any rhyme or reason. In the city...

Working to 'restore democracy: Fakhrul

Working to 'restore democracy: Fakhrul

-- 2019-11-22 17:19:32

Stating that the current government is worse than previous autocratic regimes, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said they are working to unite people to ‘restore democ...

Reining in criminalities of drug vendors   

Reining in criminalities of drug vendors  

-- 2019-11-21 22:13:46

Selling date-expired drugs that too by renowned drug stores in the capital did cause a stir some days ago. While spurious drugs are already a cause of worry in the country's healthcare sector, the lat...

BNP slams govt over price hike of essentials

BNP slams govt over price hike of essentials

-- 2019-11-21 15:23:27

Criticising the government for the soaring prices of essentials, including that of onion, BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Thursday said a socioeconomic situation like that of 1974 has been prevailin...

Danger from gas line and cylinders

Danger from gas line and cylinders

-- 2019-11-20 20:28:50

The tragic death of seven people and injury to a dozen more in an explosion of the gas line of a house on Brick Field Road at Patharghata, Chattogram are a grim reminder of an outsize hidden danger fr...

More focus needed on Cox's Bazar airport   

More focus needed on Cox's Bazar airport  

-- 2019-11-19 22:07:31

A recent report relating to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism reveals a scam in the land acquisition for Cox's Bazar airport expansion. It cannot but worry people interested in development of...

Automobile policy   

Automobile policy  

-- 2019-11-18 22:17:59

That the country's first automobile policy is in its final stage and is likely to see the light of the day by next month augurs well for a very important sector. In fact, automobile manufacture deserv...

Oikyafront seeks permission to meet Khaleda

Oikyafront seeks permission to meet Khaleda

UNB 2019-11-18 19:46:29

Jatiya Oikyafront has sent a letter to prison authorities seeking permission for its five leaders to meet ailing BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at Bangabandhu Sheik Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). Oik...

Hasan Mahmud describes BNP's letter as hollow

Hasan Mahmud describes BNP's letter as hollow

BSS 2019-11-18 19:44:07

Information minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has described a BNP letter, which was sent to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over her recent India tour, as hollow. The Awami League leader said the letter reflecte...

Listing of Bangla Bond on LSE: A good omen   

Listing of Bangla Bond on LSE: A good omen  

-- 2019-11-17 22:18:24

As all attention remained focused on the category-2 tropical cyclone 'Bulbul' and the trail of devastations it had left behind in some of the country's south and south-western districts in the second...

US, S Korea postpone joint exercise criticised by N Korea

US, S Korea postpone joint exercise criticised by N Korea

-- 2019-11-17 13:52:06

The United States and South Korea on Sunday said they were postponing a joint military air exercise that North Korea has criticised as provocative. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper and his South Korea...

Saving the deviant teenagers   

Saving the deviant teenagers  

-- 2019-11-16 22:07:26

Not long ago street urchins used to be seen roaming the Dhaka streets aimlessly. Some were seen with jute sacks slung over their shoulders. They belonged to the groups of rag pickers. They would keep...

Nirmal named president, Babu general secretary of Swechchhasebak League

Nirmal named president, Babu general secretary of Swechchhasebak League

-- 2019-11-16 17:51:09

The Awami League has announced the names of the two top leaders of its associate volunteers' body, Bangladesh Swechchhasebak League. Nirmal Ranjan Guha will lead the organisation as president while A...

Improving Bangladesh's competitiveness   

Improving Bangladesh's competitiveness  

-- 2019-11-15 22:20:36

A  World Bank report titled 'Moving Forward: Connectivity and Logistics to Sustain Bangladesh's Success' released last Wednesday underlined some factors standing in the way of accelerating the pa...