-- 2021-04-23 22:39:42
As positive and negative news splash newspaper pages, one would like to pick up the upbeat ones as the nation passes through a hard lockdown regime. On the gloomy side, the country's rating in interne...
-- 2021-04-23 20:50:25
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Friday said the ongoing lockdown should be withdrawn immediately as it is not possible to achieve anything from such restrictions without ensuring people’s foo...
-- 2021-04-23 20:28:24
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is the ‘visible patron’ of anti-liberation and extreme communal evil forces. &ldqu...
-- 2021-04-22 21:35:54
The move to raise an Export Development Fund (EDF)--- one of the key export facilitating schemes of the government came at a time when the export sector needed it most. It has been learnt from reports...
-- 2021-04-21 22:13:43
That heat shock or heat injury has adversely affected standing paddy on 28,123 hectares of cropland in 36 districts, completely destroying the crop on 10,298 hectares is alarming news. It is concernin...
-- 2021-04-20 21:40:19
The quarter-three execution figures of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) came up in the Financial Express with a comprehensive and comparative analysis over the last decade in the lead item on Fr...
-- 2021-04-20 21:05:53
Hifazat-e Islam's Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque incited Kawmi madrasa students to riot by exploiting the opposition to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka in a bid to overthro...
-- 2021-04-19 21:40:33
Loss of jobs and income erosion combined together to push 16.38 million people below the poverty line during the first wave of the pandemic between March and September last year. During the same perio...
-- 2021-04-19 19:16:34
Voicing concern over the recent arrest of the religious leaders and alem-ulema in ‘false’ cases, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday demanded their immediate releas...
-- 2021-04-18 21:52:17
Any lengthy suspension of normal economic activities first hits the petty businesses. It has been seen in this country during non-stop hartals and other similar political programmes. Few seem to have...
-- 2021-04-18 21:25:17
BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas on Sunday claimed that some media distorted his remarks about the disappearance of their party leader M Ilias Ali. "It’s been published in a newspaper...
-- 2021-04-17 21:25:25
BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas on Saturday blamed several leaders of BNP, without taking any specific name, for the disappearance of BNP leader Ilias Ali. However, he did not mention any s...
-- 2021-04-17 20:56:10
The latest government move to distribute cash and food assistance to more than 16 million poor families across the country deserves strong appreciation. More than 3.6 million families, according to me...
-- 2021-04-16 22:08:35
The government's decision to buy Boro rice directly from farmers must have come as good news for those who toil the hardest to keep the nation's food supply in order. In what was dubbed a 'major polic...
-- 2021-04-16 21:30:56
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday accused BNP of spreading propaganda centring lockdown after their failure ‘evil politics’ ov...
-- 2021-04-16 16:54:01
A medical team has prescribed an additional drug for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia after reviewing the final report of her chest CT scan. Khaleda’s daughter-in-law Dr Zubaida Rahman, the wife of...
-- 2021-04-15 21:30:22
A move reportedly initiated by the government to facilitate export of halal food should be welcome given the high potential and the dire need of export diversification. It has been learnt from a FE re...
-- 2021-04-13 22:03:35
In a rare historic coincidence the beginnings of the month of Ramadan on the Islamic calendar and Baishakh on the Bangla calendar coalesce together on the same day. But this remarkable coincidence of...
-- 2021-04-13 16:42:33
Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru, who has tested positive for coronavirus, has been put on life support at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka. Khasru, the newly-elected president of the Su...
-- 2021-04-12 22:20:56
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's kind and timely initiative to help the poor and needy has sadly been undermined by the administration assigned to carry out the programme. Carried in a Bangla contempora...
-- 2021-04-11 21:46:48
As reports quoting the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) say more than half the country's 64 districts have already become high-risk due to the alarming rise in Covid-19...
-- 2021-04-10 22:16:58
The net benefit the country has received from the Solar Home System (SHS) is about US$1.7 billion, the World Bank (WB) has estimated. The SHS that started as a pilot scheme in 2003 with help from the...
-- 2021-04-10 21:13:07
Jatiya Party Chairman and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Ghulam Muhammed Quader on Saturday greeted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of the upcoming Bangla New Year-1428 by...
-- 2021-04-10 21:09:21
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said the coronavirus situation has reached an alarming level in Bangladesh due to the government’s “indifference and incapabil...
-- 2021-04-09 22:03:41
The Cabinet Division's recent letter to the Commerce ministry instructing it to take necessary steps towards keeping prices of key essentials stable during the coming Ramzan and informing the governme...
-- 2021-04-08 22:29:57
For some years now, contrary to reasons, good harvest of potatoes has turned out to be a cause of the growers' misery. While concerned quarters put it on a lack of planning, which among others include...
-- 2021-04-07 21:39:58
The river Kirtonkhola that once brought Barishal town - now city - the enviable sobriquet 'the Venice of Bengal' is in bad health. Intrusion of saline water from the sea has long been a serious proble...
-- 2021-04-07 17:25:00
Urging the party activists to prepare a list of the instigators of terrorism, anarchy and communal acts, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday asked them to deal with Hefajat-e-Is...
-- 2021-04-07 17:20:38
BNP on Wednesday alleged that the weeklong lockdown, enforced by the government, is only causing public sufferings instead of yielding any positive outcome to contain Covid transmission due to mismana...
-- 2021-04-06 22:04:10
The challenges facing Bangladesh in its transition to a middle-income economy are manifold. One of them relates to upgrading regulatory mechanisms. Many of our rules and regulations pertaining busines...
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