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Mistakes can occur in anti-narcotics drive: Obaidul Quader

Mistakes can occur in anti-narcotics drive: Obaidul Quader

-- 2018-06-02 17:08:30

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said that one or two mistakes may occur during the ongoing anti-narcotics drive. "It's a huge drive, one or two mistake can occur during it" the...

Women's resort to motorbikes

Women's resort to motorbikes

-- 2018-06-01 22:27:48

Young women riding motorbikes are set to emerge soon as a regular sight in Dhaka. Females straddled to speeding motorcycles have lately been fleeting glimpses on the Dhaka streets. The spectacle is on...

Youth dies in B’baria pre-voting violence

Youth dies in B’baria pre-voting violence

-- 2018-06-01 11:29:34

A young man was killed in a clash over domination ahead of Union Parishad election between two rival groups at Doulatpur village in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria on Thursday. The deceased was id...

Lacunae in Discipline & Appeal Rules

Lacunae in Discipline & Appeal Rules

-- 2018-05-31 22:41:19

There has been publicity galore since 2008 regarding the enactment of a Civil Service Act for the country's public servants. A considerable amount of tax-payers' money has been spent over the years fo...

Giasuddin Quader Chy faces arrest warrant

Giasuddin Quader Chy faces arrest warrant

-- 2018-05-31 16:36:30

BNP leader Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, younger brother of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, has got an arrest warrant in a defamation case. A court in Chattogram on Thursday issued an...

70 BNP men face defamation case in Chattogram

70 BNP men face defamation case in Chattogram

-- 2018-05-31 10:39:11

Defamation suit filed against 70 activists and leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) over defamation speech on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday evening. Md Jamal Uddin, Chhatra Leagu...

Prioritising treatment of noncommunicable diseases

Prioritising treatment of noncommunicable diseases

-- 2018-05-30 21:34:29

Setting up the NCD (non-communicable diseases) units in the upazila health complexes of the country some years ago was a praiseworthy move. It did promise to ease suffering of the rural people from va...

AL secretariat meeting Thursday

AL secretariat meeting Thursday

-- 2018-05-30 18:26:13

A meeting of Awami League (AL) secretariat will be held at 3:00pm on Thursday at the party president’s political office at Dhanmondi in the city. AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bri...

Making Eid-journey trouble-free   

Making Eid-journey trouble-free  

-- 2018-05-29 22:03:48

Millions, who would soon start departing for home on the occasion of Eid-ul-fitr, would have loved to put faith in the assurances of the roads and transport minister about supportive measures for maki...

Mashrafe, Shakib could contest in upcoming election: Planning Minister

Mashrafe, Shakib could contest in upcoming election: Planning Minister

FE Online Report 2018-05-29 19:23:24

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Tuesday in Dhaka hinted that Bangladesh’s one-day national cricket team skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and the test and T20 captain Shakib Al Hasan could contes...

Micro-businesses' Eid performance   

Micro-businesses' Eid performance  

-- 2018-05-28 22:08:22

As Eid-ul-Fitr festival draws near, the sectors producing items associated with its celebration begin humming with hectic activities. They bring to the Eid market myriad types of consumer goods. Sar...

Rohingya crisis: AL seeks role of Russia, China, India

Rohingya crisis: AL seeks role of Russia, China, India

-- 2018-05-28 19:56:32

The Awami League has requested Russia, China and India to play an even more robust role in ensuring a swift solution to the Rohingya crisis. The ruling party also sought cooperation to ensure safe an...

HC grants bail for Khaleda in two cases, denies in one

HC grants bail for Khaleda in two cases, denies in one

-- 2018-05-28 12:24:43

The High Court has granted bail for six months to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases of Cumilla and rejected the bail petition in a defamation case of Narail. A bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman...

A glut of private universities   

A glut of private universities  

-- 2018-05-27 22:08:52

With the recent approval of two more private universities by the government, their number is now one short of reaching the magical figure of one hundred. In addition, eight more are in the queue for g...

No innocent person killed in anti-drug drive: Obaidul

No innocent person killed in anti-drug drive: Obaidul

-- 2018-05-27 21:54:44

Road Transport and Bridges Minister and general secretary of ruling Awami LeagueObaidul Quader on Sunday said no innocent people has been killed in the recent incidents of gunfight so far. The minist...

AL secretariat meeting Wednesday

AL secretariat meeting Wednesday

-- 2018-05-27 18:19:06

A meeting of Awami League (AL) secretariat will be held at 10:30am on Wednesday at the party president's political office in Dhanmondi. AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Ob...

Worrying development in manpower export   

Worrying development in manpower export  

-- 2018-05-26 22:08:08

The negative development, as reported last Friday in this paper, on the country's manpower export front during the first four months of the current calendar year would only revive the worries of the r...

Why so many India tours, BNP asks PM

Why so many India tours, BNP asks PM

-- 2018-05-26 18:22:23

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday questioned the motive behind Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ‘repeated’ India tours when she could not even discuss the Teest...

Deterrent to adulteration   

Deterrent to adulteration  

-- 2018-05-25 22:30:40

A vital measure of a people is the quality of food it eats. On that count, the peoples in the underdeveloped parts of the world certainly do not fare well. Endemic poverty has forced many to compromis...

Qamrul describes BNP as a curse in politics

Qamrul describes BNP as a curse in politics

-- 2018-05-25 19:43:20

Describing the BNP as a curse in Bangladesh politics, Food Minister Qamrul Islam has said the party should be removed from the country. The Awami League leader made the remark at a meeting marking th...

Moudud hints at street movement after Eid

Moudud hints at street movement after Eid

-- 2018-05-25 15:40:59

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed has said that their party will begin harsher programmes after Eid-ul-Fitr as it is the only way to realise their demands and free their chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail...

Expanding port warehousing facility

Expanding port warehousing facility

-- 2018-05-24 22:29:39

Warehousing facility, even though temporarily, has been found to be critically inadequate, seriously affecting the country's port activities. The delay is often attributed to lack of sufficient equipm...

Govt’s ties with India one-sided: BNP

Govt’s ties with India one-sided: BNP

-- 2018-05-24 17:13:41

BNP on Thursday alleged that the government has failed to make any progress on the much-sought Teesta water-sharing deal over the last eight years as its relations with India are unilateral ones. "Aw...

Making up for production shortfall of salt

Making up for production shortfall of salt

-- 2018-05-23 22:30:43

If the news that salt production in the country this year has fallen short of target is disquieting, subsequent development surrounding marketing of the item may be even more disquieting in the months...

Fakhrul suggests 'non-political drive' to eradicate drug menace

Fakhrul suggests 'non-political drive' to eradicate drug menace

-- 2018-05-23 19:27:32

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has claimed the eradication of drug abuse is possible with a 'non-political' drive and enforcement of law. "Killing people in crossfires in the name...

Eliminating wastage of resources on dev projects

Eliminating wastage of resources on dev projects

-- 2018-05-22 22:07:04

It is a welcome piece of news that the Planning Commission (PC) has decided to revise the existing Development Project Proposal (DPP) format to help check 'misappropriation and wastage' of taxpayers'...

Khaleda files two more bail pleas with HC

Khaleda files two more bail pleas with HC

-- 2018-05-22 14:04:00

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday filed two more petitions with the High Court seeking bail in two separate cases. One of the cases was a defamation suit filed by Bangladesh Jananetri Parisad Pr...

Chemically tainted summer fruits   

Chemically tainted summer fruits  

-- 2018-05-21 22:05:42

The recent seizure of mangoes in bulk, artificially ripened with chemicals, in the capital's different markets, is depressing. The mango season is in officially. It's around this time of summer that t...

No national election under Hasina: Rizvi

No national election under Hasina: Rizvi

-- 2018-05-21 17:03:58

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged that it will be suicidal for the opposition to join any national election under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "The Prime Minister has expo...

Blood and tears in Palestine

Blood and tears in Palestine

-- 2018-05-20 22:10:43

The recent shifting of the US embassy to Jerusalem by the Trump administration has demonstrated an utter disregard for the accepted world order and rule of law. It is yet another shameful example of h...