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-- 2020-10-21 20:46:02
At a meeting of the standing committee on the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MEFCC), the Department of Forest informs that 287,452 acres of the country's total 4,646,700 acresof f...
-- 2020-10-21 00:25:08
The revelation that Bangladesh spends the lowest share in a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on social protection among the South and South-western Asian nations is certainly uncomfortable. If v...
-- 2020-10-19 21:55:41
Bangladesh has moved 13 notches up from last year's 88th position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) ranking, says the 2020 GHI report. Which means among the 107 qualifying nations Bangladesh has now be...
-- 2020-10-19 12:11:16
Some 3,000 acres of agricultural land are set to face an irrigation crisis in Cumilla and Noakhali as a century-old canal is being filled up to construct the Cumilla-Noakhali four-lane highway. Exten...
-- 2020-10-18 21:55:57
Since the ban on catching hilsa was enforced over one and a half decades ago, this year has perhaps witnessed the highest yield of the delicious fish. The statistics, however, are subject to verific...
-- 2020-10-18 19:43:58
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday described BNP's participation and boycott in the elections a joke. "The purpose of their participation in the elections was only to question th...
-- 2020-10-18 19:36:35
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said their party chief Khaleda Zia is not free enough to receive advanced treatment as she has been released from jail only to stay in her h...
-- 2020-10-17 22:56:50
Bangladesh's per capita GDP (gross domestic product) has been on the rise with its economy growing almost uninterruptedly in recent years. Many at home and abroad have found the pace of growth barring...
-- 2020-10-16 22:22:26
Corruption in various forms particularly in foreign trade has long been in vogue. Reassuringly, of late, awareness against it has grown, thanks to the efforts of global graft watchdogs like Transparen...
-- 2020-10-15 22:57:46
The launch of an online readymade garment (RMG) platform called 'Merchant Bay' last week is no doubt a remarkable event that may have escaped many people's notice. In fact, such a digital platform is...
-- 2020-10-14 22:00:07
Developing antibody to Covid-19 primarily gives the impression of immunity to the deadly disease. A survey conducted in Dhaka City jointly by the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research...
-- 2020-10-13 22:26:02
The government is learnt to have drafted the long-awaited guideline to provide jobless workers of export-oriented industries with cash support through its social safety net programme. According to the...
-- 2020-10-13 16:45:08
A Dhaka court today (Tuesday) set October 27 to hold hearing on charge framing in a case lodged over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat, against 10 people includin...
-- 2020-10-12 22:12:33
To cancel or not the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations was a most critical decision. Finally, the decision came in favour of cancellation. No such decision can please everyone, particula...
-- 2020-10-11 21:14:08
Honouring three medical scientists with the Nobel Medicine Prize 2020 for their homing in on the Hepatitis C has been widely acclaimed as a landmark achievement on the part of the Nobel Assembly at Ka...
-- 2020-10-10 20:55:26
There could not be any worse time than the current one for the prices of essentials going through the roof. Most daily essentials have recorded an unabated rise in recent months. Lately, the pace of i...
-- 2020-10-09 22:26:36
As the pandemic struck Bangladesh in March, gloomy predictions were being made about its possible negative impacts on the economy and the employment situation. The situation was no doubt dicey, especi...
-- 2020-10-09 20:16:34
BNP on Friday picked SM Jahangir and Selim Reza as its candidates to contest the upcoming Dhaka-18 and Sirajganj-1 by-elections. BNP Secretary General slam Alamgir announced the names of the ca...
-- 2020-10-08 20:55:47
The launch of $10 million fund by the government to offer matching grant facility under Export Readiness Fund (ERF) aimed at selecting export sectors should be considered a welcome move, especially in...
-- 2020-10-08 19:54:30
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that criminals will not be allowed to use their political identities as shields. The road transport and bridges minister made the remarks while...
-- 2020-10-08 19:53:48
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that ruling ‘party men’ are badly tarnishing the country’s image in the international arena by indulging in rape...
-- 2020-10-07 20:59:23
At a time when the majority of the people's hardship has increased manifold under the influence of coronavirus regime, the utility services are playing the proverbial Sword of Democles. First, it was...
-- 2020-10-06 21:36:24
Bangladesh has so far proved many downbeat forecasts about the performance of its pandemic-affected economy wrong. For instance, the two chief sources of the country's hard currency income, the readym...
-- 2020-10-05 22:15:27
The government initiative to develop eight 'Shanti Nibas' (peace abode) for elderly people under a modest project costing Tk 800 million is highly appreciated. What is novel about the project is that...
-- 2020-10-04 22:37:56
In her article published in The Financial Times, London, on September 28, 2020, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has identified 'green recovery' as a panacea for the world's present afflictions. The publi...
-- 2020-10-04 18:50:36
Gono Forum, led by its president Dr Kamal Hossain, has served show cause notices on its four senior leaders, including former general secretary Mostafa Mohsin Montu, for ‘creating chaos in the p...
-- 2020-10-03 21:08:45
Belying predictions of some local as well as multilateral entities, the remittance inflow during the first quarter (July-September) of the current financial year (FY) has recorded a robust growth---48...
-- 2020-10-03 19:26:14
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday alleged that people are getting scared of politics due to 'wrongdoings' and 'spiting venom' by the government in the name of politics, reports UNB. "Fo...
-- 2020-10-02 22:28:17
About 25 to 35 per cent of the foodstuffs produced globally get lost, so goes a report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Such wastage is unfortunate when one in nine persons in the wor...
-- 2020-10-01 23:09:50
Recent media reports say that agro and jute units located within the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) are not the beneficiaries of the government's cash incentive scheme that are available to similar un...
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