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Support for fish farmers   

Support for fish farmers  

-- 2020-08-27 22:40:31

First it was, and still is, the covid-19 since mid-March, then cyclone Amphan in May, and now the flooding of vast swathes of fish farming regions across the country. At the beginning, due to unoffici...

BNP slams move to enact law over party registration 

BNP slams move to enact law over party registration 

-- 2020-08-27 19:58:57

BNP on Thursday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is going to enact the ‘Political Party Registration Act’ to transfer its power to the government for controlling the registration...

Daredevil muggers on the prowl 

Daredevil muggers on the prowl 

-- 2020-08-26 22:04:34

The arrest of 11 members of a gang of muggers in disguise of DB (detective branch) police is an indication of the rising incidence of this particular type of crime. Nabbed from different areas of Dhak...

Revving up Mongla port   

Revving up Mongla port  

-- 2020-08-25 22:32:00

There are reports that users of the country's second major seaport, Mongla, are not happy with the alleged delays in clearing of the consignments lying at the port. What is worrying is that the busine...

BNP submits audit report to election commission

BNP submits audit report to election commission

-- 2020-08-25 18:24:05

BNP on Tuesday submitted its annual financial statement to the election commission (EC) for the 2019 calendar year, showing that the party spent Tk 18.0 million more than its income. A BNP delegation...

Waste-based power plant   

Waste-based power plant  

-- 2020-08-24 22:37:45

The indication given by Local Government, Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperative Minister Md Tajul Islam during his visit last Saturday to the Amin Bazar waste dumping ground is that negotiation is...

MA Razzak Khan Raj file nominations for Dhaka-18 by-election

MA Razzak Khan Raj file nominations for Dhaka-18 by-election

FE Online Desk 2020-08-24 01:29:34

Mr. MA Razzak Khan Raj, a candidate of the ruling Awami League in the Dhaka-18 by-election, has collected and submitted nominations. He is a former BCL leader, chairman of the Minister-MyOne Group, an...

Corona-time job-losing youths   

Corona-time job-losing youths  

-- 2020-08-23 23:02:28

A note of gloom underlies the recently published ILO-ADB report on the present youth job situation in the Asia and Pacific region. While dwelling on Bangladesh, along with 12 other countries, the join...

16th death anniversary of Ivy Rahman Monday

16th death anniversary of Ivy Rahman Monday

-- 2020-08-23 21:09:20

The 16th death anniversary of Ivy Rahman, former women affairs secretary of Awami League and wife of late President M Zillur Rahman, will be observed tomorrow (Monday) in a befitting manner. Ivy was...

Behind the land acquisition bonanza   

Behind the land acquisition bonanza  

-- 2020-08-22 23:00:45

Land acquisition, traditionally, has been a money-spinning component for the dishonest section of the officials and relevant others involved in the execution of development projects. The size of the c...

Aug 21 attack was 'planned state terrorism': Obaidul Quader

Aug 21 attack was 'planned state terrorism': Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-08-22 22:30:44

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said the grenade attack on August 21 was not an accident, but rather planned state terrorism. He said this while addressing a memorial meeting on the...

Some cops turned monsters: Dr Kamal

Some cops turned monsters: Dr Kamal

-- 2020-08-22 21:56:11

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday alleged that the law-and-order situation in the country has completely ‘collapsed’ as some police personnel have turned monsters for being...

Aug 15 carnage: BNP dismisses PM’s remarks on Khaleda

Aug 15 carnage: BNP dismisses PM’s remarks on Khaleda

-- 2020-08-22 20:33:10

BNP on Saturday termed 'irresponsible, fabricated and politically motivated' Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's comment that Khaleda Zia tried to kill her through the August-21 grenade attack. In a state...

Meeting BB's deadline on stimulus loans

Meeting BB's deadline on stimulus loans

-- 2020-08-21 20:51:36

The Bangladesh Bank's (BB's) emphasis as laid recently on completing disbursement of stimulus loans within the next two months giving highest priority to the Cottage, Micro, Small and Medium Enterpris...

‘Govt to bring back fugitive killers of August 21’

‘Govt to bring back fugitive killers of August 21’

-- 2020-08-21 19:54:09

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the perpetrators of August 21, 2004 grenade attack, including Tarique Rahman, would be brought back home...

BNP planted “poisonous tree of graft” in Bangladesh: PM

BNP planted “poisonous tree of graft” in Bangladesh: PM

-- 2020-08-21 19:20:43

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the past BNP government planted the “poisonous tree of corruption” and Bangladesh is now bearing its brunt. “The meaning of power to the...

Investigate ‘US-Zia connection’ behind Bangabandhu killing: Lifschultz

Investigate ‘US-Zia connection’ behind Bangabandhu killing: Lifschultz

-- 2020-08-21 16:41:09

American journalist Lawrence Lifschultz has said the ‘connection’ between Ziaur Rahman and the United States behind the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman should be investi...

Recovery of export sector   

Recovery of export sector  

-- 2020-08-20 23:32:17

Export proceeds received till the end of the last fiscal year (2019-20) offers a sense of 'feel-good'. Due to the pandemic-induced difficulties from March onwards, one of the likely areas of the econo...

It's a ‘hybrid govt', says Fakhrul

It's a ‘hybrid govt', says Fakhrul

-- 2020-08-20 21:37:04

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday described the current government as a ‘hybrid’ one since it has ‘usurped’ power through a ‘controlled’...

Safe disposal of PPE

Safe disposal of PPE

-- 2020-08-19 21:12:21

Disposal of waste including the medical in a proper or hygienic manner is not a plus point of people in this part of the world. In case of the used protective gears of coronavirus, this deplorable leg...

‘Disclose purpose of Indian FS Shringla’s visit’

‘Disclose purpose of Indian FS Shringla’s visit’

-- 2020-08-19 19:05:20

BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday urged the government to inform people about whether Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla came here for ‘mending friendship or for any...

Zia ‘footnote’ of history, not a hero: Quader

Zia ‘footnote’ of history, not a hero: Quader

-- 2020-08-19 18:53:59

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wedbesday said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was “just a footnote of history” and a footnote can never be a hero of the history, reports BSS....

Mainstreaming jobless urban youths   

Mainstreaming jobless urban youths  

-- 2020-08-18 22:41:54

With rapid urbanisation, the pace of city-bound migration of rural people in search of work has seen a surge in recent times. Small wonder that the city slums which have been growing in size over the...

‘Stay alert against recurrence of Aug 15, 21-like incidents’

‘Stay alert against recurrence of Aug 15, 21-like incidents’

-- 2020-08-18 20:10:17

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday called upon all to remain alert so that the country never witnesses the recurrence of incidents like August 15, 1975 carnage and the August 21,...

Govt distorting history, alleges BNP

Govt distorting history, alleges BNP

-- 2020-08-18 20:07:35

Accusing the government of indulging in ‘bad politics by distorting history’, BNP on Tuesday urged it to come to the path of national unity to tackle coronavirus and its fallouts instead o...

Reforming correction centres

Reforming correction centres

-- 2020-08-17 21:38:43

The death of three boys allegedly due to torture at a correction centre in Jashore only exposes glaringly both systemic weakness and placement of wrong people in charge of such facilities. By definiti...

Sorry state of diagnostics

Sorry state of diagnostics

-- 2020-08-16 21:18:41

Fake diagnostic centres appear to have joined a mad race to demonstrate the level of their unassailability in the country. The educated and conscious sections of people have long been aware of this sc...

Staying competitive in global apparel market         

Staying competitive in global apparel market      

-- 2020-08-15 22:35:04

Vietnam's overtaking of Bangladesh to become the second-largest exporter in the global apparel market is nothing surprising. The two countries had been running neck and neck since 2015. The Southeast...

BNP marks Khaleda’s birthday unceremoniously

BNP marks Khaleda’s birthday unceremoniously

-- 2020-08-15 16:29:48

BNP on Saturday arranged a doa and milad mahfil seeking early recovery and long life of its chairperson Khaleda Zia on her 76th birthday. Several hundred BNP leaders and activists gathered at their N...

Digital challenges in financial sector

Digital challenges in financial sector

-- 2020-08-14 21:59:14

Ever since the fearsome pandemic had begun to rage through one country after another, any reference to the term covid-19 wouldbeinvariably accompanied with some narratives on the many ways in which it...