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DNCC polls: Officials reject JP’s Shafin’s nomination

DNCC polls: Officials reject JP’s Shafin’s nomination

-- 2019-02-02 13:11:25

Election officials have rejected the nomination of Jatiya Party mayoral candidate Shafin Ahmed for the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) polls. Returning Officer Abul Kashem said on Saturday that o...

EC plans to hold upazila polls Mar 10

EC plans to hold upazila polls Mar 10

-- 2019-02-02 11:31:35

The Election Commission (EC) is planning to hold Upazila Parishad Election in 101 upazilas in the first phase on Mar 10. The EC secretariat will present the names of 101 upazilas in Rangpur, Rajshahi...

Equipping food testing labs   

Equipping food testing labs  

-- 2019-02-01 22:19:36

One of the key factors impeding food safety operations by relevant authorities is evidently a dearth of skilled manpower coupled with inadequate and even imperfect testing procedures. Reports have it...

Oikyafront not attending Ganabhaban party

Oikyafront not attending Ganabhaban party

-- 2019-02-01 17:53:58

The Jatiya Oikyafront has decided not to attend Ganabhaban’s tea party. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited all political parties that took part in the general election at her official res...

Capital flight   

Capital flight  

-- 2019-01-31 22:06:47

Euphemistically called siphoning off unaccounted for -and perhaps unearned -money in hundreds of billions from weaker economies to the stronger ones, the criminal practice has left the global wealth d...

Gono Forum MPs-elect won't join parliament: Dr Kamal

Gono Forum MPs-elect won't join parliament: Dr Kamal

-- 2019-01-31 19:31:26

Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Thursday said they have asked their two MPs-elect not to join parliament as per their party decision their party’s decision. “We’ve clearly...

Rizvi says corruption runs deep in BD

Rizvi says corruption runs deep in BD

-- 2019-01-31 17:50:30

Corruption has grown into a severe problem in Bangladesh, said BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Rizvi spoke at a news conference on Thursday in response to the informatio...

‘BNP trying to make polls controversial to foreigners’

‘BNP trying to make polls controversial to foreigners’

-- 2019-01-31 17:28:55

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said BNP is now lobbying with European Union (EU) and the United States for making the recently held general election controversial, afte...

Push to project implementation

Push to project implementation

-- 2019-01-30 21:47:36

A new thrust is going to be given to implementation of development projects beginning with February, and   into the second half of the fiscal 2018-19. The idea of a roving high-powered task...

Fakhrul pushes for reelection under neutral admin

Fakhrul pushes for reelection under neutral admin

-- 2019-01-30 17:37:14

Reiterating that the current parliament has not been formed with people's mandate, BNP on Wednesday demanded reelection under a neutral administration to establish a 'pro-people' government. "Awami l...

New JS sits today: BNP forms human chain

New JS sits today: BNP forms human chain

-- 2019-01-30 12:18:12

BNP leaders and activists formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Wednesday protesting the start of the maiden session of the 11th parliament. Leaders and followers o...

RMG imbroglio   

RMG imbroglio  

-- 2019-01-29 22:03:26

A dialogue on 'Recent Wage Debates in the RMG Sector: What is it all about' held on Saturday in the city has tried to get into the bottom of the imbroglio the industry finds itself in. The Centre for...

BNP to form human chain in city Wednesday  

BNP to form human chain in city Wednesday  

-- 2019-01-29 17:59:32

Branding the 11th parliament as a 'fake and stigmatised' one, BNP announced that they will form a human chain in the city on Wednesday, protesting the start of its maiden session. The party will also...

AL infighting in Jhenidah leaves 10 injured

AL infighting in Jhenidah leaves 10 injured

-- 2019-01-29 17:19:10

At least 10 people were injured in a turf war between two factions of ruling Awami League (AL) at Bhatoi of Shailkupa Upazila in Jhenidah on Tuesday. Police said AL's Dudhswar Union unit General Secr...

Crucial phase in meeting SDGs   

Crucial phase in meeting SDGs  

-- 2019-01-28 22:08:18

On the back of successful attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and  completion of the first phase of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)  on June 30, 2018, Bang...

Two Gono Forum MPs-elect expect positive signal to join parliament

Two Gono Forum MPs-elect expect positive signal to join parliament

-- 2019-01-28 18:48:24

Gono Forum's two MPs-elect, Sultan Mohammad Mansur (Moulvibazar-2) and Mokabbir Khan (Sylhet-2), think their party will take a positive decision about joining parliament showing respect to people's ma...

JaPa picks Mustain Billah for Kishoreganj-1, Shafin Ahmed for DNCC by-polls

JaPa picks Mustain Billah for Kishoreganj-1, Shafin Ahmed for DNCC by-polls

-- 2019-01-28 17:41:47

Jatiya Party (JaPa) on Monday picked Mustain Billah to contest the by-election to Kishoreganj-1 seat with its ticket. Billah, senior vice president of Jatiya Matshyajibi Party, will contest the by-el...

Govt trying to control media: Rizvi

Govt trying to control media: Rizvi

-- 2019-01-28 17:11:54

BNP on Monday alleged that the government is trying to control the media to stop its criticisms and gag the voice of its opponents. "The media are being monitored and regulated regularly by a dark sh...

Making use of coal reserves   

Making use of coal reserves  

-- 2019-01-27 22:03:43

The relevant state minister's statement, made during an interview with this paper recently, to the effect that the government has a plan to develop the country's unexploited coalmines using the state...

Dr Kamal to return home early Monday

Dr Kamal to return home early Monday

-- 2019-01-27 17:46:30

Jatiya Oikyafront Convener and Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain is scheduled to return home from Thailand early Monday. Dr Kamal along with his wife Hameeda Hossain is scheduled to reach Hazrat...

Ctg North AL President Nurul Alam Chowdhury dies

Ctg North AL President Nurul Alam Chowdhury dies

-- 2019-01-27 11:42:09

President of North District Awami League unit of the port city Nurul Alam Chowdhury passed away in the early hours of Sunday. He was 74 years old. Nurul Alam, also a freedom fighter, was admitted to...

Jute sector warrants urgent bailout measures   

Jute sector warrants urgent bailout measures  

-- 2019-01-26 22:06:18

Few people can remain unconcerned at the news of the decline in the export earnings of the country's jute and jute products. This is what has happened in the first half of the current fiscal year, 201...

Tofail confident about BCL's victory in DUCSU polls

Tofail confident about BCL's victory in DUCSU polls

-- 2019-01-26 21:03:42

Awami League Advisory Council Member Tofail Ahmed has said he is confident about the victory of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) electio...

PM tried to justify AL's victory, Fakhrul says

PM tried to justify AL's victory, Fakhrul says

-- 2019-01-26 21:00:47

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tried to justify Awami League's victory through her address to the nation The BNP leader made the allegation wh...

Elephant tramples JaSoD leader to death

Elephant tramples JaSoD leader to death

-- 2019-01-26 15:24:23

A central leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JaSoD) was trampled to death by a wild elephant in India’s Darjeeling on Friday. The victim was Syed Saimun Kanak, media affairs secretary of JaSoD...

Railway: Addressing the crippling problems   

Railway: Addressing the crippling problems  

-- 2019-01-25 22:05:14

It is an expectation of many that the AL government in its present term will do something concrete and substantial for improvement of the railway. Some initiatives were taken in its last term. Those,...

Quader urges all parties to join upcoming polls

Quader urges all parties to join upcoming polls

-- 2019-01-25 14:49:47

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has urged the registered political parties to join all the upcoming elections including the upazila-level one. The Minister came up with the call wh...

Cinema industry in death throes   

Cinema industry in death throes  

-- 2019-01-24 22:08:36

Of the 1400 or so cinema halls in the country just 250 could survive till date, according a report carried in a Bangla contemporary. Most of the existing ones are also in their death throes because bu...

BNP to boycott DNCC, upazila polls

BNP to boycott DNCC, upazila polls

-- 2019-01-24 21:48:53

BNP has decided to stay away from the mayoral by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and elections to upazila councils. Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the decision a...

Internal feud will split BNP, says Quader

Internal feud will split BNP, says Quader

-- 2019-01-24 16:38:51

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said the government has no intention to spilt BNP as the party will face it due to its internal feud. "BNP is now in a fragile condition. Wh...