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Jatiya Party backs AL’s Kamran in Sylhet

Jatiya Party backs AL’s Kamran in Sylhet

-- 2018-07-28 15:42:20

Just two days before the balloting, Jatiya Party on Saturday extended its support for Awami League mayoral candidate Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran in Sylhet city election. The party came up with the annou...

BGB deployed in three cities ahead of city elections

BGB deployed in three cities ahead of city elections

-- 2018-07-28 12:24:54

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have been deployed in Rajshahi, Barishal and Sylhet cities ahead of the city corporation elections. A total 19 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members...

Improving e-Governance status

Improving e-Governance status

-- 2018-07-27 22:02:38

It is heartening to note that Bangladesh has improved its ranking by nine steps -- from 124th to 115th -- in the United Nations E-Government Survey 2018. The country also ranked top amongst the least...

Firearms, vehicular movement to be restricted during RCC election

Firearms, vehicular movement to be restricted during RCC election

-- 2018-07-27 15:53:43

Restriction has been imposed on carrying firearms including the licensed ones and traffic movement in Rajshahi for the forthcoming election of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) scheduled to be held on J...

Kader, Quader meet in person as election nears

Kader, Quader meet in person as election nears

-- 2018-07-27 11:50:43

Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique has met Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader with the general election months away. They held the meeting at the Secretariat for a...

Revving up development project execution   

Revving up development project execution  

-- 2018-07-26 22:09:23

The allegation that failure to conduct proper feasibility study of projects prior to their execution remains one of the major weaknesses of the public sector development programme has never been conte...

New GCC mayor takes oath

New GCC mayor takes oath

-- 2018-07-26 12:51:17

Newly elected mayor of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Jahangir Alam took oath of office on Thursday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath at a ceremony held at Shapla Hall of her office...

Barapukuria coal scam

Barapukuria coal scam

-- 2018-07-25 22:19:33

To say strange things happen in this country would be a gross understatement. How can coal amounting to as large a quantity as 142,000 tonnes vanish from a coal yard? Unbelievable it is but now that i...

Voting in Kurigram-3 by-election begins

Voting in Kurigram-3 by-election begins

-- 2018-07-25 11:53:11

Voting in the by-polls to Kurigram-3 constituency began on Wednesday morning in a peaceful manner. The polling that started around 8 am will continue till 4 pm without any break, said returning offic...

Arresting process of port city's decline   

Arresting process of port city's decline  

-- 2018-07-24 22:05:41

With the 4-lane Dhaka-Chattogram Highway put in place in 2016, prospects of the country's commercial capital looked rosy. By that time unrelenting highway tailbacks turned communication between Chatto...

Moudud demands Law, Home ministers to resign over Kushtia attack

Moudud demands Law, Home ministers to resign over Kushtia attack

-- 2018-07-24 18:09:12

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Law Minister Anisul Huq and Home Minister Asaduzzan Khan over the attack on Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on Kushtia cou...

Superstores passing bad time   

Superstores passing bad time  

-- 2018-07-23 22:02:18

Superstores or retail chain shops still concentrated mostly in the capital with a few of them maintaining outlets in other cities are not in a good health now. On their tentative opening, these depart...

Urgent steps needed to avert possible fertiliser crisis   

Urgent steps needed to avert possible fertiliser crisis  

-- 2018-07-22 21:59:12

It is a matter of great surprise that the authorities concerned are sitting cosy while a crisis is brewing up in the supply of urea fertiliser in the country. As reported in this paper, this may have...

AL central committee to meet Monday

AL central committee to meet Monday

-- 2018-07-22 18:56:29

Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) sits in a meeting on Monday with AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The meeting will be held at 6pm at the Prime Minister's off...

Dreadful situation prevails in Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barishal: BNP

Dreadful situation prevails in Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barishal: BNP

-- 2018-07-22 18:06:43

BNP on Sunday alleged that a dreadful situation has been created in Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barishal cities ahead of July 30 polls due to the 'wholesale' arrest of the polling agents of its mayoral candi...

Quader dismisses BNP’s election conditions

Quader dismisses BNP’s election conditions

-- 2018-07-22 16:32:51

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has dismissed the conditions the BNP announced for its participation in the upcoming general election. Bangladesh will not agree to any provisions before...

Police arrest BNP leader over bombing on Bulbul rally

Police arrest BNP leader over bombing on Bulbul rally

-- 2018-07-22 13:28:57

Police have arrested Rajshahi BNP General Secretary Motiur Rahman Montu in a case filed over the crude bomb attack on a rally of the party's mayoral candidate Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul. A joint team of...

Abnormal cost of a road project   

Abnormal cost of a road project  

-- 2018-07-21 22:10:22

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD), a key public sector development agency, is found to be unusually extravagant in fixing costs of its development projects, particularly that of major road upgra...

BNP demands BB Governor’s resignation amid gold scam

BNP demands BB Governor’s resignation amid gold scam

-- 2018-07-21 15:59:34

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed demanded the resignation of Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir for the sake of a fair investigation into the reported gold scam in the central bank's vault. "The...

Erratic power supply causing Bogura industries to bleed   

Erratic power supply causing Bogura industries to bleed  

-- 2018-07-20 22:06:14

If regular power supply remains one of the key conditions for industries to run smoothly, Bogura, the major industrial hub in the entire northern part of the country, is being deprived of it. Most ind...

At risk of rising temperature   

At risk of rising temperature  

-- 2018-07-19 22:11:21

There is hardly any disagreement over the fact that Bangladesh is at the highest risk of global warming. The risks are many-fold but usually those refer to the consequences or after-effects such as lo...

EC plans to procure huge EVMs to ‘manipulate’ next polls: Rizvi

EC plans to procure huge EVMs to ‘manipulate’ next polls: Rizvi

-- 2018-07-19 17:13:38

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is planning to procure Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) spending Tk 26 billion (Tk 2,600 cro...

BNP gets verbal permission to hold Friday’s rally

BNP gets verbal permission to hold Friday’s rally

-- 2018-07-19 16:20:20

BNP Thursday said it got permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police DMP) to hold a rally in the capital on Friday demanding the release its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. "We've got verbal per...

Trinamool BNP, eight other parties ‘joining’ AL bloc

Trinamool BNP, eight other parties ‘joining’ AL bloc

-- 2018-07-19 14:11:01

Nazmul Huda’s Trinamool BNP and eight other parties want to join the ruling coalition led by the Awami League to establish a secular Bangladesh. The leaders of the nine parties and the 14-Party...

RMG workers' proposed wages

RMG workers' proposed wages

-- 2018-07-18 22:03:56

The issue of fixing wages for the workers engaged in the country's all-important readymade garment (RMG) sector has predictably become a contentious one. The proposals submitted on wage structure by t...

Eight left parties launch alliance

Eight left parties launch alliance

-- 2018-07-18 20:18:25

Eight left parties have launched a new platform styled 'Left Democratic Alliance' to strengthen the alternative political force against bad politics. The parties formally announced the journey of the...

Return of encroachers   

Return of encroachers  

-- 2018-07-17 22:06:07

The gradual re-occupation of the Tejgaon-Satrasta Road by truck and covered van owners is set to foil a noble venture. Although viewed as an initiative by the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), it f...

EC plans to use EVMs in upazila election

EC plans to use EVMs in upazila election

-- 2018-07-17 15:55:24

The Election Commission plans to use a limited number of newly introduced electronic voting machines or EVMs in the upazila election to be held in February. The plan for the use of EVMs in the electi...

Miscreants hurl crude bomb at Rajshahi BNP rally, five hurt

Miscreants hurl crude bomb at Rajshahi BNP rally, five hurt

-- 2018-07-17 13:40:00

At least five people including a journalist were injured in a crude bomb attack at an election rally of BNP candidate of Rajshahi City Corporation election in Sagorpara area on Tuesday morning. The i...

Spurious medicines   

Spurious medicines  

-- 2018-07-16 22:10:17

The seizure of spurious and contraband medicines from two separate individuals at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in separate drives on the same day (Friday) is an indication of illegal product...