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Digital Security Act govt's weapon to cling to power: BNP

Digital Security Act govt's weapon to cling to power: BNP

-- 2020-08-14 17:58:11

Accusing the government of using the Digital Security Act as a weapon to hang onto power, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday demanded the withdrawal of all the cases filed und...

Railways in shambles   

Railways in shambles  

-- 2020-08-13 22:55:55

How does one explain the dismal performance of the Bangladesh Railways in the ADP (Annual Development Plan) implementation of its high priority projects in the last fiscal? News on the issue has come...

Snapping overhead cables

Snapping overhead cables

-- 2020-08-12 21:02:05

No one in his right sense will dispute the fact that overhead wires and cables, those too jumbled together at some points, of various service providers - both public and private - are an eyesore. Hang...

A new dimension to air-quality health index

A new dimension to air-quality health index

-- 2020-08-11 21:00:00

While the covid-19 pandemic now occupies the centre stage when it comes to the issue of global health concern, fresh light has been shed on an old health issue, the air quality of a place. The health...

BD shining example of communal harmony: Quader

BD shining example of communal harmony: Quader

-- 2020-08-11 17:44:09

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said Bangladesh is a shining example of communal harmony in the contemporary world, reports BSS. “For thousands of years, followers of...

Meeting post-flood challenges   

Meeting post-flood challenges  

-- 2020-08-10 22:39:39

Now that the flood waters are receding from the northern and central regions of the country, the ravages wrought by three successive deluges within a month or so are getting exposed. The initial swell...

Building on the positives

Building on the positives

-- 2020-08-09 22:06:54

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the economy hard. Although there are some positive signs here and there, the overall situation remains not too encouraging. Officially over a quarter of a million people...

Political identity can’t be shield of any wrongdoer: Obaidul Quader

Political identity can’t be shield of any wrongdoer: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-08-09 19:25:52

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the government has a very strong stance against those involved in irregularities and corruption as it believes that political identity canno...

BNP worried over ‘growing incidents of killing in police firing’

BNP worried over ‘growing incidents of killing in police firing’

-- 2020-08-09 19:21:25

BNP standing committee has voiced deep concern over the growing incidents of killing in police firing in the country. In a virtual meeting on Saturday night, members of the BNP’s policymaking b...

Behind the collapse of rawhide and skin prices                 

Behind the collapse of rawhide and skin prices                

-- 2020-08-08 23:07:39

The developments involving the prices of rawhide and skins of sacrificial animals this year have been unprecedented and beyond any logic. It was more or less everybody's guess that during the Eid-ul-A...

Suspension of Khaleda’s sentences expires next month

Suspension of Khaleda’s sentences expires next month

-- 2020-08-08 21:45:58

As the six-month suspension of their party chief Khaleda Zia's sentences in two graft cases expires next month, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said her family may apply...

Easing business to face odds

Easing business to face odds

-- 2020-08-07 21:10:50

There is no denying that official procedures, if those are complex, tardy and burdened with too much paper shuffling, tend to slow down business. Aware of these long-standing difficulties, the governm...

No benefit in spreading rumours against govt: Obaidul Quader

No benefit in spreading rumours against govt: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-08-07 18:18:29

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said an evil force is spreading rumours and propaganda on various issues against the government but there would have no benefit in doing so...

Reopening of govt offices to intensify pandemic: Rizvi

Reopening of govt offices to intensify pandemic: Rizvi

-- 2020-08-07 18:13:28

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said the decision to fully reopen government offices will only contribute in worsening the coronavirus situation of the country. “All ha...

Collateral-free loan for small enterprises                         

Collateral-free loan for small enterprises                        

-- 2020-08-06 22:49:11

The launching of the credit guarantee scheme by the central bank for  cottage, micro and small (CMS) enterprises allowing banks to issue up to Tk 5.0 million in collateral-free loans from the sti...

Updating laws to garner post-pandemic FDIs

Updating laws to garner post-pandemic FDIs

-- 2020-08-05 21:24:35

In the present-day context, it is a truism that an economy's capacity for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) determines how early it would take the path to growth through industrialisation. Th...

Resuming special OMS   

Resuming special OMS  

-- 2020-08-04 22:26:59

The ministry of food is reportedly awaiting government's nod on resumption of the special open market sale (OMS)-- a programme that got started following the Prime Minister's declaration in late March...

BNP condemns killing of retired army officer

BNP condemns killing of retired army officer

-- 2020-08-03 20:56:08

Condemning the killing of a retired major of Bangladesh Army on Marine Drive road in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf, BNP on Monday demanded that the real culprits be identified through a credible pr...

Be alert against anti-development conspirators: Quader

Be alert against anti-development conspirators: Quader

-- 2020-08-03 20:07:31

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged all to remain alert against the anti-development force saying the conspirators of August 15 and August 21 are still continuing their evil effort...

Vested quarter out to tarnish govt’s image: Quader

Vested quarter out to tarnish govt’s image: Quader

-- 2020-08-02 20:14:42

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said a vested quarter is out to tarnish the government’s image when it is taking up different effective measures in facing disasters. &nb...

Hasan Mahmud urges BNP to shun politics of tussle

Hasan Mahmud urges BNP to shun politics of tussle

-- 2020-08-01 19:42:31

Urging BNP to shun the politics of brawl, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday said the government wants to develop the country with cooperation of all in unison as he offered Eid prayers...

Take steps to help flood victims: Fakhrul

Take steps to help flood victims: Fakhrul

-- 2020-08-01 19:40:08

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday called upon the government to take immediate steps to tackle the floods shunning its "attitude of negligence" towards the miseries of vict...

Celebrating Eid-ul-Azha in its real spirit   

Celebrating Eid-ul-Azha in its real spirit  

-- 2020-07-30 22:58:20

The Muslims' second most important religious festival, the Eid-ul-Azha, is taking place on August 01 (Saturday). Since the pandemic situation is still raging, the devotees will be required to celebrat...

Floods cause manifold sufferings

Floods cause manifold sufferings

-- 2020-07-29 21:35:18

Ever since the monsoon began this year, there was a clear sign that it would be much wetter a season than the country experienced at least over the past couple of decades. It is not Bangladesh alone b...

New set of rural priorities

New set of rural priorities

-- 2020-07-28 21:43:31

Of the manifold fallouts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise in poverty, especially rural poverty, is particularly an unfortunate development. More so in the backdrop of success in the reduction of pov...

Swechchasebak Dal president Shafiul Bari Babu dies of cancer

Swechchasebak Dal president Shafiul Bari Babu dies of cancer

-- 2020-07-28 11:00:37

Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebak Dal President Shafiul Bari Babu died of cancer at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka early Tuesday. He was 49. “He breathed his last at 4:00 am at the hospital,” said B...

Paltry allocation for varsity research   

Paltry allocation for varsity research  

-- 2020-07-27 22:45:46

The just approved annual budget for the University of Dhaka for the year 2020-21 has once again seen a slash in the percentage of allocation on education and research. This is for the second consecuti...

BNP forms relief committee to assist flood victims

BNP forms relief committee to assist flood victims

FE REPORT 2020-07-27 09:40:52

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) formed on Saturday a relief committee to assist the flood-affected people of the country. Standing committee member of the party Iqbal Hassan Mahmud Tuku was ma...

Eid travel countdown

Eid travel countdown

-- 2020-07-26 21:18:33

The Eid-ul-Azha is only days away. Keeping the corona pandemic-caused fraught situation aside for now, many people began taking preparations to celebrate the festival. Health experts have warned again...

Joy is architect of Digital Bangladesh, Obaidul Quader says

Joy is architect of Digital Bangladesh, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2020-07-26 17:47:01

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser and Bangabandhu’s grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy is making his all-out strides from behind...