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AL to meet President for EC talks on Jan 17

AL to meet President for EC talks on Jan 17

-- 2022-01-09 17:04:00

The Bangabhaban has set Jan 17 for President Md Abdul Hamid’s talks with the ruling Awami League on the formation of a new Election Commission. The meeting will take place at 4 pm on that date,...

Shortage of workers in apparel factories

Shortage of workers in apparel factories

-- 2022-01-08 22:15:41

It is a surprising piece of news that the country's apparel industry is not finding enough workers to run their factories at optimum capacity and meet the surging work orders in recent months. Some ex...

Dialogue's focus on election 'manipulation', BNP leader Amir Khosru says

Dialogue's focus on election 'manipulation', BNP leader Amir Khosru says

-- 2022-01-08 22:03:55

BNP senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday alleged a political quarter is discussing how to manipulate the next election in the name of dialogue on the reconstitution of the Election C...

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to take preparations for next elections

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to take preparations for next elections

-- 2022-01-08 19:34:19

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged BNP to take preparations for the forthcoming parliamentary elections. “BNP should take preparations for the forthcoming parliamentary ele...

From analogue to digital taxation regime

From analogue to digital taxation regime

-- 2022-01-07 22:02:16

To switch from the existing analogue to digital taxation mode, the requirement for the government will be to invest substantially in the process When the middle-income people are increasingly becomin...

Section 144 imposed as BNP, BCL call rally at same venue

Section 144 imposed as BNP, BCL call rally at same venue

-- 2022-01-07 21:50:01

The district administration in Brahmanbaria has imposed Section 144 on Saturday to prevent any untoward incident after BNP and Chhatra League have announced to hold rallies at the same venue. It was...

JSD not to join president’s talks on EC formation

JSD not to join president’s talks on EC formation

-- 2022-01-07 20:54:29

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), led by ASM Abdur Rob, has decided not to take part in the ongoing dialogue on the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC) at Bangabhaban. JSD President ASM Abdur...

Periodic review of tax exemption necessary

Periodic review of tax exemption necessary

-- 2022-01-06 22:03:40

Fiscal relaxation by way of outright tax holiday or concessional taxation has been integral to the country's incentive structure ever since the term 'incentive' emerged as a means of facilitating busi...

Cheating in the name of the staple

Cheating in the name of the staple

-- 2022-01-05 22:13:11

Not even in the wildest imagination can one come closer to figuring out that the favourite variety of staple is not what everyone has known it to be. Now the agricultural scientists at the Bangladesh...

BNP announces series of rallies in 40 areas from January 8

BNP announces series of rallies in 40 areas from January 8

-- 2022-01-05 20:35:03

BNP has announced to hold rallies in its 40 more organisational districts from January 8 in the second phase to force the government to allow its chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for advanced medi...

PM urges Chhatra League leaders to get prepared for 4IR

PM urges Chhatra League leaders to get prepared for 4IR

-- 2022-01-05 18:37:12

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders and activists to prepare themselves as skilled manpower to utilise their innovative power and avail themselves of the adv...

Fakhrul urges govt to allow Khaleda Zia to receive treatment abroad

Fakhrul urges govt to allow Khaleda Zia to receive treatment abroad

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-05 15:21:36

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir warned on Wednesday that everyone in the government will be responsible for anything untoward happens to Khaleda Zia due to the lack of her advanced t...

Meeting emerging challenges to export

Meeting emerging challenges to export

-- 2022-01-04 22:07:56

Of the different sources of the country's foreign currency earning, the major one, export, has registered a robust growth all through the previous year. The contributing factors included the opening u...

Samyabadi Dal wants EC formation law, polls-time govt under PM

Samyabadi Dal wants EC formation law, polls-time govt under PM

-- 2022-01-04 21:02:06

Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal (M-L) placed a five-point proposal, including enacting a time-befitting law over the formation of an acceptable Election Commission (EC), in its dialogue with President M Ab...

BNP decides to hold talks with political parties

BNP decides to hold talks with political parties

-- 2022-01-04 17:42:55

As the party is determined to boycott the ongoing dialogue on the reconstitution of the Election Commission, BNP has now decided to hold talks with all political parties to discuss the country’s...

DITF takes off on a positive message

DITF takes off on a positive message

-- 2022-01-03 22:13:26

With the curtain raised on the Dhaka International Trade Fair on the New Year's Day, the 26th edition of this commercial and trade event has started a new journey. It is a new journey on several count...

Taimur loses post in BNP 'for participating in city polls'

Taimur loses post in BNP 'for participating in city polls'

-- 2022-01-03 17:02:41

The BNP has removed Taimur Alam Khandaker from the Advisory Council to the BNP Chairperson. A letter to the effect, signed by the party’s Senior Joint Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, has been sent...

Level-crossing conundrum

Level-crossing conundrum

-- 2022-01-02 22:05:30

Few countries except, perhaps, Bangladesh, find their level crossings turning into death traps. In few countries, are the level crossings left unmanned with a train about to speed or speeding past the...

Bikalpa Dhara, Gono Forum join president’s dialogue on EC formation

Bikalpa Dhara, Gono Forum join president’s dialogue on EC formation

-- 2022-01-02 20:50:53

Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh and Gono Forum on Sunday took part in a discussion with President Abdul Hamid on the formation of the Election Commission. President's press secretary Joynal Abedin said that...

BNP gets people’s enthusiastic participation in series of rallies, Fakhrul says

BNP gets people’s enthusiastic participation in series of rallies, Fakhrul says

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-02 16:34:27

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir termed on Monday their rallies held at 32 districts recently as 'successful' ones, saying people wanted the release of party chairperson Khaleda Zia a...

BNP terms dialogue on EC formation ‘meaningless’

BNP terms dialogue on EC formation ‘meaningless’

FE REPORT 2022-01-02 10:17:14

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir termed on Saturday 'meaningless' the President's ongoing dialogue with the political parties on the formation of the El...

Record SSC pass percentage during pandemic time

Record SSC pass percentage during pandemic time

-- 2022-01-01 22:34:15

The results of the 2021 secondary school certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations, published on Thursday last, are unprecedented. Over 93 per cent of the students who sat at the examinations have...

Islami Andolon not to join president’s dialogue on EC formation

Islami Andolon not to join president’s dialogue on EC formation

-- 2022-01-01 19:41:21

Terming the ongoing dialogue on the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC) meaningless, Ameer of Islami Andolon Bangladesh and Charmonai Pir Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim on Saturday said t...

Welcome 2022

Welcome 2022

-- 2021-12-31 22:13:21

Each New Year is unique but one thing is common among all the inaugural days marking the designated time in eternity. It is the hope eternal, that, peoples in different time zones and climes like to b...

Bright prospect of MPPE industry

Bright prospect of MPPE industry

-- 2021-12-30 21:36:18

No wonder with the lingering of the covid-19 and its multiple variants emerging and spreading across the continents, the demand for medical and personal protection equipment (MPPE) is on the rise th...

Rising cost of living

Rising cost of living

-- 2021-12-29 22:29:26

Last week's news survey conducted by the Financial Express among a cross-section of people has found how the increased cost of living in the outgoing year has adversely impacted the lower segments of...

BNF, IOJ place proposals to president for EC formation

BNF, IOJ place proposals to president for EC formation

-- 2021-12-29 21:04:38

The Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF) on Wednesday placed a three-point proposal while the Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) placed four proposals to President M Abdul Hamid on the fifth day of the ongoing dia...

BNP not to join president’s dialogue on EC formation

BNP not to join president’s dialogue on EC formation

-- 2021-12-29 19:47:27

Describing the ongoing dialogue on the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC) as ‘pointless’, the BNP standing committee has decided not to take part in the talks with President Ab...

BNP searches for clandestine alley to go to power, Hasan Mahmud says

BNP searches for clandestine alley to go to power, Hasan Mahmud says

-- 2021-12-28 22:40:37

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said BNP doesn’t believe in the power of mass people as it is searching for a clandestine alley to go to the power. “In fa...

Addressing post-pandemic rise in food insecurity

Addressing post-pandemic rise in food insecurity

-- 2021-12-28 22:12:14

There is no gainsaying the fact that the impact of the pandemic on the 'food insecurity situation' has been more pronounced among the low-income and vulnerable segments of society than before. This is...