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-- 2020-09-30 21:32:00
The prediction about the country's urban population is grim. Currently, 35.70 per cent (about 45 million) of Bangladesh population lives in cities and towns and this population size is likely to doubl...
-- 2020-09-30 14:34:08
The ruling Awami League has picked its candidates for the by-elections to the Dhaka-18 and Sirajganj-1 constituencies which are unrepresented in parliament following the deaths of the previous incumbe...
-- 2020-09-29 22:27:28
Attracting a significant amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the country's rapid economic growth has been one of the government's priority considerations for long. All concerned including ex...
-- 2020-09-29 19:44:35
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said BNP’s politics is in deep crisis now as the party is getting isolated from the people day by day after failing in elections, by-elec...
-- 2020-09-29 19:41:54
Stating that the government has ‘got infected with various viruses’, BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Tuesday suggested the ruling party leaders to ‘hide their faces behind mas...
-- 2020-09-28 22:49:56
The title of a webinar, 'Financial Reporting Act 2015: Its Implications on the Business Houses' organised by the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday highlights the important role the...
DU CORRESPONDENT 2020-09-28 09:43:19
Leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) demanded on Sunday immediate arrest of rapists of the recent incidents across the country including the rape in Murari Chand (MC) College in Sylhet. The Dha...
-- 2020-09-27 22:54:06
Two print media news items about the country's forest resources must have attracted the readers' attention. One shows the pace of the disappearance of coastal trees on the Kuakata beach; the other c...
-- 2020-09-27 17:49:17
Taking serious note of the rape incident in Sylhet MC College, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the culprits involved in such a heinous crime would not be spared. The gove...
-- 2020-09-27 17:05:11
The Left Democratic Alliance (LDA), a coalition of eight leftist parties, has announced plans to besiege the prime minister’s office on October 5 in protest against the shutdown of state-owned j...
-- 2020-09-26 22:21:15
When a major plan covering the system's operation of a vital sector such as power requires revision only two years after its adoption, a few questions about the farsightedness and efficiency level of...
-- 2020-09-26 17:56:59
Ousting party general secretary Dr Reza Kibria, a faction of Gonoforum leaders on Saturday decided to hold the party’s national council on December 26. In an apparent move to hasten the split i...
-- 2020-09-25 22:45:22
If Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is the measure, then Bangladesh economy has been doing rather well so far. Going by the 5.24 per cent GDP growth rate for FY 2019-20 as claimed by the government...
-- 2020-09-24 22:57:12
The Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) established around a decade back to help expatriate workers in difficult times has failed to rise up to their needs when it could have been of great support in time o...
-- 2020-09-23 21:43:53
The Department of Explosives (DE) under the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has come up with a laudable public service almost at no cost. It has issued a warning in advance to remind the peop...
-- 2020-09-22 22:39:31
Many Bangladeshi women mostly from rural background go abroad as migrant workers, but they often return home traumatised and empty-handed. Recent reports of migrant women workers sent mainly to Gulf...
-- 2020-09-21 21:15:40
If the country goes for car manufacture locally, the number one casualty is likely to be the importers of reconditioned cars. So the importers of reconditioned cars may have reasons to be wary of the...
-- 2020-09-20 20:33:37
Although the so-called battery-run rickshaws have long been singled out as culprits behind recurring accidents, some fatal, they continue to ply the Dhaka streets with their typical defiance. They hav...
-- 2020-09-20 19:27:19
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the BNP leaders stay in air-conditioned (AC) rooms after announcing movement, reports UNB. “BNP can o...
-- 2020-09-19 23:09:35
It is no secret that taxpayers, both individual and corporate, are prone to evading payment of tax. The bad habit on the part of a section of the corporate taxpayers causes more harm to the state co...
-- 2020-09-19 19:23:30
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the time-tested leaders and activists of the party will get priority at all levels of committees. “The tested leaders and workers...
-- 2020-09-19 19:19:21
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said media freedom and democracy in Bangladesh ‘cannot be protected’ without a united movement. “A message should be gi...
-- 2020-09-18 23:19:40
Capacity-wise, the existing power plants of the country can produce and supply more electricity than there is a demand for. The surplus power thus created, according to an estimate, is 37 per cent, wh...
-- 2020-09-17 23:11:46
It is clear that things are not well on the jute front. While the recent privatisation of the remaining state-owned jute mills has brought a sudden change on the jute scenario, the prospect of Public...
-- 2020-09-16 21:03:16
Volatility of market is a common phenomenon in this country. At times there may be unavoidable genuine reasons behind market jitteriness but in most cases over the past decades, barring a few years af...
-- 2020-09-15 22:41:48
Rapid urbanisation over the past decades saw an unrestrained growth of cities and their populations in Bangladesh. And with it came its accompanying evil, garbage. As expected, being the nation's ca...
-- 2020-09-15 21:20:13
BNP on Tuesday termed the reported proposal of the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) to send 1,000 government officials abroad to learn how to cook 'khichuri' a unique joke under the rule of Prim...
-- 2020-09-14 23:19:05
That Bangladesh languishes in 116 position out of 131 countries in the Global Innovation Index (GII), 2020 is depressing, only more so to know that the ranking has remained the same for three years in...
-- 2020-09-13 22:00:53
Amid the worries about safe travels to and from places, the news of pressing into service 60 per cent of the country's trains provides a great relief to many. The most critical aspect of countrywide j...
-- 2020-09-13 19:18:06
BNP has nominated Salahuddin Ahmed and Sheikh Mohammad Rezaul Islam to contest the Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 by-elections respectively billed for October 17. A day after BNP’s nomination board or p...
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