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Factional clash leaves BCL leader dead in Jashore

Factional clash leaves BCL leader dead in Jashore

-- 2021-05-13 22:27:07

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Sarafat Hossain Sohan, 25, died Wednesday night while undergoing treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital. He was severely injured in a clash between two BC...

Celebrating Eid under pandemic conditions   

Celebrating Eid under pandemic conditions  

-- 2021-05-11 21:33:55

After a month's fasting and prayers seeking forgiveness, protection and divine blessings from the Almighty Allah during the Ramadan has come the festival of Eid. It is an occasion for the Muslims in...

Khaleda Zia still in ‘critical’ condition, Fakhrul says

Khaleda Zia still in ‘critical’ condition, Fakhrul says

-- 2021-05-11 18:28:45

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s health is still in ‘critical condition’. The BNP chief, however, is now able to breathe without re...

Call for self-sufficiency in state-owned companies   

Call for self-sufficiency in state-owned companies  

-- 2021-05-10 22:22:32

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's clarion call to the state-owned public limited companies to 'earn and spend' on their own comes at a time when care and scrutiny are needed most for the national economy...

For safe river journeys   

For safe river journeys  

-- 2021-05-09 21:50:06

Ensuring safety for people during river journeys still remains largely elusive. The terrible collision involving an unregistered speedboat and a sand-carrying vessel last week has proved this once aga...

Negligence may cause danger as Indian variant is deadlier, Quader says

Negligence may cause danger as Indian variant is deadlier, Quader says

-- 2021-05-09 21:05:13

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sundya termed the Indian variant of coronavirus (Covid-19) as more dangerous and urged all to remain conscious...

Fakhrul urges ministers to maintain decency while commenting on Khaleda

Fakhrul urges ministers to maintain decency while commenting on Khaleda

-- 2021-05-09 19:29:17

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday urged ministers to make comments on former prime minister Khaleda Zia maintaining decency and political etiquette. "Khaleda Zia is a three-...

Covid vaccine production: Assessing local capacity

Covid vaccine production: Assessing local capacity

-- 2021-05-08 21:35:45

The inter-ministerial consultative committee on Covid-19 vaccine procurement and distribution has rightly decided to evaluate the capability of local pharmaceutical companies in producing the same vac...

Khaleda’s condition slightly improves

Khaleda’s condition slightly improves

-- 2021-05-08 21:33:28

The health condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia improved slightly on Saturday, but she still needs the oxygen support as her saturation level still fluctuates due to post-Covid complications, said...

Govt to beautify historic March 7 venue, Obaidul Quader says

Govt to beautify historic March 7 venue, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-05-08 18:02:12

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the government has taken a project to make attractive the venue where Bangabandhu had delivered his landmark March 7 speech and Paki...

Securing a niche in cloud computing market   

Securing a niche in cloud computing market  

-- 2021-05-07 22:02:51

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is growingly becoming the driving force of modern life, not to mention industry and commerce. Ironically, the pandemic situation has been inst...

Contract farming for farm produce export   

Contract farming for farm produce export  

-- 2021-05-06 21:51:50

A recent media report on export of a few consignments of potatoes produced by contract growers of Bangladesh Agricultural Corporation (BADC) is only a tiny flicker of the potential of export of hort...

No exodus during Eid holiday

No exodus during Eid holiday

-- 2021-05-05 22:02:38

The government decision to keep inter-district bus, train and launch services suspended till May 16 is prudent enough. By the time the Eid-ul-Fitr festival will be over and the lockdown will still rem...

Need for a social safety net

Need for a social safety net

-- 2021-05-04 22:02:05

The country seems to be in a difficult position at the moment because of a number of reasons, namely, a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic with a fiercer damage than the first, mixed forecasts for g...

GM Quader for mega projects to improve healthcare

GM Quader for mega projects to improve healthcare

UNB 2021-05-04 20:44:38

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Tuesday urged the government to make adequate allocations in the upcoming budget for taking mega projects to improve the country's healthcare system. "Mega projects...

Workers' welfare overlooked   

Workers' welfare overlooked  

-- 2021-05-03 21:42:52

Death of a large number of workers at their workplaces is a clear evidence of underdevelopment. Coalmine accidents may not be preventable but those at factories and manufacturing plants or even at ass...

E-trading for middle class   

E-trading for middle class  

-- 2021-05-02 21:30:18

The Commerce Ministry's recent step to sell online TCB's fair-price commodities to the middle class consumers is a practical measure. It is undeniable that the country's urban middle class is also not...

It is very difficult to understand character of corona, Obaidul Quader says

It is very difficult to understand character of corona, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-05-02 20:20:24

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has urged countrymen to pay more attention to strict hygiene as it is very difficult to understand the character of coronavirus. "It is very difficu...

For garnering more FDI   

For garnering more FDI  

-- 2021-04-30 22:28:26

The webinar titled 'Current reforms in the Ease of Doing Business in Bangladesh and Preparedness for the Future' arranged in Dhaka last Tuesday, as reported in the Financial Express the following day,...

BNP accuses govt of doing business in the name of  Covid

BNP accuses govt of doing business in the name of Covid

-- 2021-04-30 19:18:27

Taking a swipe at the government for the current crisis over the Covid vaccine, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday accused it of indulging in business in the name of coronavir...

Easing businesses through grant and fiscal incentives   

Easing businesses through grant and fiscal incentives  

-- 2021-04-29 21:27:37

A trade off by means of striking a balance between revenue collection and reducing taxes in some business sectors has apparently become a necessity in the wake of the upsurge of the pandemic and its f...

10-member medical board formed for Khaleda's treatment

10-member medical board formed for Khaleda's treatment

-- 2021-04-28 23:21:37

A 10-member medical board was formed on Wednesday for the treatment of BNP Chairperson Khaleda at Evercare Hospital in the capital. She was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday night. “A 10-mem...

How effective extended  lockdown will be

How effective extended lockdown will be

-- 2021-04-28 22:51:12

Yet another week's extension of 'hard lockdown' is more likely to be symbolic than substantial. When shops and shopping malls are kept open, it is worse than a partial lockdown. Conceptually, this is...

Outbreak of diarrhoea in Barishal Division   

Outbreak of diarrhoea in Barishal Division  

-- 2021-04-27 21:47:31

The country's southern districts have been making screaming headlines for breaking out of diarrhoea over the past few weeks. Diarrhoea's prevalence in that region, particularly in the lean season, has...

Seize the hour on the vaccine front   

Seize the hour on the vaccine front  

-- 2021-04-26 21:40:21

The decision that the core committee of the government on Covid-19 vaccine has shortlisted three vaccines out of five suggested from the Drug Administration comes as an encouraging piece of news in th...

Hefazat-e-Islam forms convening committee

Hefazat-e-Islam forms convening committee

-- 2021-04-26 11:52:14

Hefazat-e-Islam has formed a five-member convening committee within two hours of the dissolution of its central committee. The committee was formed early Monday after the embattled Hefazat-e-Islam...

Water-logging in pandemic time   

Water-logging in pandemic time  

-- 2021-04-25 22:15:16

Two recent photographs published in the print media speak, apparently, of the worries of the two city corporations about the dreaded water-logging, which may cripple Dhaka once again in less than two...

People want to know initiatives about vaccine, says GM Quader  

People want to know initiatives about vaccine, says GM Quader  

-- 2021-04-25 18:20:23

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Sunday said the people want to know what initiative the government has taken to remove uncertainty created over getting Covid-19 vaccine in time. "Those who have re...

Yet another chemical warehouse fire

Yet another chemical warehouse fire

-- 2021-04-24 21:24:29

Friday's fire incident in Armanitola, which has so far claimed four lives and left 17 more people battling for survival at the city's Sheikh Hasina Burn Institute, has again brought to the fore the fa...

BNP urges govt to shut borders with India

BNP urges govt to shut borders with India

BNP urges govt to shut borders with India to stop Covid variant spread 2021-04-24 20:42:38

BNP on Saturday urged the government to close the country's land borders with India as the neighbouring country is witnessing a serious outbreak of coronavirus. “The coronavirus infection has s...