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Electronic tendering may prove a huge boon   

Electronic tendering may prove a huge boon  

-- 2020-11-12 22:26:57

It is heartening to note that in spite of many difficulties and loopholes for quite a while, electronic tendering seems to be finally set to become a boon in the country's public procurement. Parting...

Mental healthcare facilities need care

Mental healthcare facilities need care

-- 2020-11-11 23:36:48

The death of a senior assistant superintendent of police in a private mental healthcare clinic located in the city's Adabor has raised more questions than can be answered. Reportedly, the clinic is on...

Hanif tests positive for COVID-19

Hanif tests positive for COVID-19

-- 2020-11-11 21:19:00

Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif has tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The politician has tested positive for the coronavirus when he gave sample fo...

Making cooperatives deliver the goods   

Making cooperatives deliver the goods  

-- 2020-11-10 22:35:27

Cooperative societies, when first introduced, were the only democratic entities in the colonial era rural Bengal. Constitutionally, those were farming people's voluntary associations owned collectivel...

Developing industrial backward linkage   

Developing industrial backward linkage  

-- 2020-11-09 22:25:16

A report carried in a Bangla contemporary on spare parts and accessories manufactured by the country's small and cottage industries presents a  disquieting  picture. Large government plants...

Post-shutdown tourism   

Post-shutdown tourism  

-- 2020-11-08 22:02:26

Upon reaching the Cox's Bazar sea beach, hundreds of domestic tourists have recently found the seaside chockablock with people. Not only the beach, the whole district headquarters seem to be now overt...

Skewed disbursement of Covid stimulus package

Skewed disbursement of Covid stimulus package

-- 2020-11-07 22:24:01

The progress made in the disbursement of the stimulus packages that the government had announced to provide relief to various Covid-hit sectors, barring a few exceptions, has been well below expectati...

BNP’s politics on life support now, Obaidul Quader says

BNP’s politics on life support now, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2020-11-07 21:12:54

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP’s politics is on life support now as the party is facing an existential crisis after failing in the national election. He came up with...

BNP observes November 7, vows to protect democracy

BNP observes November 7, vows to protect democracy

-- 2020-11-07 21:08:09

BNP has observed ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ on Saturday remembering ‘civil-military uprising’ on November 17 in 1975. Leaders and activists of the party and diff...

Exploiting e-commerce's full potential   

Exploiting e-commerce's full potential  

-- 2020-11-06 22:31:14

In the pre-pandemic days, all discussions about e-commerce were largely centred on promoting it as a way of doing business. With the physical movements severely curtailed during the pandemic-induced...

Fund for Covid-19 vaccine   

Fund for Covid-19 vaccine  

-- 2020-11-05 22:44:33

Reports say Covid-19 vaccines are soon likely to be announced as having successfully passed all trials and are set to hit the market. Leading pharmaceutical companies around the globe have been puttin...

Dealing with medical emergencies

Dealing with medical emergencies

-- 2020-11-04 21:10:00

In medical emergencies, minutes make a difference between life and death. If minutes extend to hours on account of refusal of admission to hospitals -- one after another, the time lapse for medical at...

Empowering local governments

Empowering local governments

-- 2020-11-03 21:17:15

Local governments (LGs), though elected public institutions, have few resources of their own to function independently. So, they have largely to depend on the central government for annual budgetary a...

Medical malpractice   

Medical malpractice  

-- 2020-11-02 22:42:10

Medical malpractices have ever remained a cause for serious concern. The infamous gang culture of persuading simple and unsuspecting patients and people accompanying them right from in front of the...

Canal reclamation in Ctg city

Canal reclamation in Ctg city

-- 2020-11-01 21:05:46

Even three decades ago, the aerial view of the port city of Chattogram could be made out distinctively. The green undulating city interspersed with hills and hillocks, its sparsely populated vast area...

Prospect of Aman rice procurement

Prospect of Aman rice procurement

-- 2020-10-31 21:59:22

The prospect of meeting the just-announced procurement target for Aman this year remains somewhat clouded because of several factors. Notable among them are high prices of rice in the market, possible...

Economy remains in better position, Obaidul Quader says

Economy remains in better position, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2020-10-31 20:21:54

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said Bangladesh’s economy remains in a better position compared to all other neighbouring countries as the country has made a turna...

Gayeshwar finds intra-party feud for BNP’s failure in movement

Gayeshwar finds intra-party feud for BNP’s failure in movement

-- 2020-10-31 20:14:14

BNP standing committee member has said BNP did not get success in the movement against the government over the last 12 years only because of mental distance among the party leaders and activists. "Af...

Fakhrul says govt lying about economy, GDP growth

Fakhrul says govt lying about economy, GDP growth

-- 2020-10-30 20:30:57

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday accused the government of "lying" about the country's economic condition and the GDP growth. “Even, India has admitted that their gro...

Justice delayed is justice denied

Justice delayed is justice denied

-- 2020-10-29 23:04:27

The above early nineteenth-century maxim has been doing the rounds ever since it was coined, supposedly by the celebrated British Prime Minister, William E. Gladstone. For all practical purposes, the...

Cruelty thy name is poaching

Cruelty thy name is poaching

-- 2020-10-28 21:40:24

The arrest of four bird poachers with 32 indigenous birds they killed in a tea garden during an anti-poaching drive under an assistant range officer of the Satchhari Wildlife Range in Chunarughat, Hab...

Reforming labour laws

Reforming labour laws

-- 2020-10-27 20:49:40

The government is going to amend its existing labour laws to accommodate some suggestions on labour right issues from the European Union (EU) and International Labour Organisation (ILO). The aim of th...

Counterfeit currency notes   

Counterfeit currency notes  

-- 2020-10-26 22:18:11

The busting of two counterfeiting dens in the capital's Mohammadpur area by the detective branch (DB) police within a week confirms increasing activities of counterfeiters, as observed by a member o...

Revving up airport facilities   

Revving up airport facilities  

-- 2020-10-25 22:18:55

Prior to the onslaught of Covid-19 and the 6-month shutdown, lots of people in the country would be seen opting for air travels domestically. The trend was apparently prompted by the inordinate delay...

AL’s door shut for rapists: Obaidul Quader

AL’s door shut for rapists: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-10-25 20:36:52

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the party’s door has forever been shut for rapists and abusers of women. He said this at a function on Durga Puja at Basurhat and Ka...

6.4 million people become poor during pandemic, BNP leader says

6.4 million people become poor during pandemic, BNP leader says

-- 2020-10-25 20:35:06

BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Sunday said around 6.4 million people have become poor during the coronavirus pandemic. “Bangladesh is the biggest factory for producing new m...

Rohingya crisis: Waning  concern, dwindling funds

Rohingya crisis: Waning concern, dwindling funds

-- 2020-10-24 21:37:44

With the international concern over the influx of Rohingya into Bangladesh and the thrust on their early repatriation to Myanmar ebbing, the volume of external humanitarian assistance necessary to sup...

Bangladesh records 19 deaths, 1,094 new virus cases

Bangladesh records 19 deaths, 1,094 new virus cases

-- 2020-10-24 16:34:09

Some 19 people died and 1,094 more were infected with Covid-19 in Bangladesh in the 24 hours till 8:00am on Saturday. The total number of infected people so far reached 397,507 while the death toll c...

Towards a sustainable recovery of economy   

Towards a sustainable recovery of economy  

-- 2020-10-23 22:09:51

The nation's ability to beat all odds and bounce back with renewed vigour is proverbial. And it has again been vindicated as the economy has been returning to normalcy by gradually overcoming the deva...

Jute diversification   

Jute diversification  

-- 2020-10-22 22:56:18

A news item published a few days back about the government's announcement of 282 jute products as diversified items to help expand the export basket and local sales seems to have struck a note of co...