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Bablu new JaPa secretary general

Bablu new JaPa secretary general

-- 2020-07-26 16:48:27

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Sunday made party co-chairman Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu as its secretary general removing Moshiur Rahman Ranga from the post. GM Quader took the decision as per section...

CGS for salvaging micro and small enterprises   

CGS for salvaging micro and small enterprises  

-- 2020-07-25 22:50:14

Though belated the central bank has, for the first time, created a credit guarantee scheme (CGS) to encourage banks to expedite financial support to cottage, micro and small (CMS) enterprises in incre...

‘BNP leaders talking absurdly after failing in elections, movements’

‘BNP leaders talking absurdly after failing in elections, movements’

-- 2020-07-24 21:47:42

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP leaders are now talking ridiculously after being boycotted by the people in elections and movements. “BNP is continuing its ill...

RMG industry diversification

RMG industry diversification

-- 2020-07-24 21:43:32

If any well-meaning effort towards post-pandemic recovery and rebuilding of the embattled readymade garment industry is at issue, the first thing that comes to mind is the need for the latter's divers...

‘Emajuddin’s contribution will inspire in struggle for democracy’

‘Emajuddin’s contribution will inspire in struggle for democracy’

-- 2020-07-24 21:38:37

Recalling late Professor Emajuddin Ahmed’s contributions to nationalist politics, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said his works will inspire the nationalist forces in the...

Export target -- lofty or unachievable?   

Export target -- lofty or unachievable?  

-- 2020-07-23 22:38:30

The government's announcement of the export target for the fiscal 2020-21 is no exception to the legacy of setting very high goals as in most of its macro level planning exercises. With the Covid-19 t...

Getting rid of water-logging

Getting rid of water-logging

-- 2020-07-22 21:45:44

True, Dhaka is not the only city in the world to have found itself in an imbroglio over an endemic water-logging. However few cities -- least of all the capitals -- experience a deluge with just 65 mi...

Economic recovery options   

Economic recovery options  

-- 2020-07-21 22:52:09

Although the country is already over four and a half months into the Covid-19-inflicted crisis, those engaged in salvaging the lives and the livelihoods of the people badly impacted by the virus keep...

Ferry disruption   

Ferry disruption  

-- 2020-07-20 21:55:14

Severe disruption of ferries on Shimulia-Kathalbari route across the Padma leading to long queues of vehicles on both sides of the river is nothing new. Usually, lack of navigability has of late been...

BSEC's welcome actions   

BSEC's welcome actions  

-- 2020-07-19 22:12:31

It is a welcome development that the country's securities regulator that hitherto, to a large extent, has been docile and toothless, has started biting. Late last week, the regulator imposed a substan...

Tapping African job market

Tapping African job market

-- 2020-07-18 21:41:30

This time Bangladesh should not miss the opportunity to enter the African job market. It has been beckoning for two long years. Apparently now the authorities have turned their attention to the immens...

Quader seeks responsible role from hospital authorities

Quader seeks responsible role from hospital authorities

-- 2020-07-18 20:30:37

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has called upon the authorities concerned to regain patients’ confidence in hospitals ensuring proper health environment during the ongoing coronavi...

Combating calamities with advanced IT tools

Combating calamities with advanced IT tools

-- 2020-07-17 21:25:19

Though Bangladesh is no stranger to natural calamities, yet this year is perhaps unlike any other in the past if only because so many disasters such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the super cyclone Amphan...

Duty cut on rice import to hit next harvest

Duty cut on rice import to hit next harvest

-- 2020-07-16 22:00:39

The government's decision for a cut on import duty of rice appears to be a hastily taken one. The reason for the decision, according to the food ministry, is the shortfall in the ongoing procurement o...

‘July 16 not only imprisonment day, democracy confinement day too’

‘July 16 not only imprisonment day, democracy confinement day too’

-- 2020-07-16 20:28:28

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said the July 16 is not only the imprisonment day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, it is also the democracy confinement day....

Govt’s policy behind emergence of Shahed, Sabrina: Rizvi

Govt’s policy behind emergence of Shahed, Sabrina: Rizvi

-- 2020-07-16 20:10:07

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the ‘government’s policy’ is behind the rise of Regent Hospital chairman Mohammad Shahed and JKG Healthcare's ch...

Nabbing human traffickers   

Nabbing human traffickers  

-- 2020-07-15 22:32:00

The arrest of the ringleader of a human trafficking gang along with two of his accomplices has exposed yet another raw sore of social decadence. Here is a network spread reportedly over three countrie...

BNP leader Shahjahan Siraj dies

BNP leader Shahjahan Siraj dies

-- 2020-07-14 18:30:23

BNP leader and former minister Shahjahan Siraj died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer at the age of 77. Shahjahan Siraj, also a former leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, breathed his last ar...

Jatiya Party observes first death anniversary of Ershad

Jatiya Party observes first death anniversary of Ershad

-- 2020-07-14 17:19:57

Jatiya Party observed the first death anniversary of its founder Hussein Muhammad Ershad with through various programmes in Rangpur on Tuesday. The programmes included hoisting of the party flag at h...

Floods set to ravage second time   

Floods set to ravage second time  

-- 2020-07-13 22:20:34

Before the first leg of floods could have dissipated, comes the second spate with the prospect of its prolongation. The first visitation of floods had 14 districts under its furious spell and now many...

Ershad’s first death anniversary Tuesday

Ershad’s first death anniversary Tuesday

-- 2020-07-13 21:25:40

Jatiya Party will observe the first death anniversary of its founder HM Ershad on Tuesday. The party has worked out elaborate programmes to mark the death anniversary with due respect. However, all...

Decline in number of rail passengers   

Decline in number of rail passengers  

-- 2020-07-12 21:44:31

After the reopening of the railway routes following a 66-day corona-prompted shutdown, the passengers' initial rush for the apparently safe mode of transport was viewed as encouraging. The service re-...

Saving jobs in apparel sector

Saving jobs in apparel sector

-- 2020-07-11 22:38:37

It is difficult to say as to what extent the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is able to influence the decision of the global apparel buyers. Yet the request made by the Bangladesh authorities...

Projecting life in a positive light   

Projecting life in a positive light  

-- 2020-07-10 22:21:07

How deeply the covid-19 pandemic has impacted life and society is evidenced by the endless stream of debates, studies, discussions and writings pouring out regularly on the subject. Not surprisingly,...

BD now at risk of losing overseas labour market: Rizvi

BD now at risk of losing overseas labour market: Rizvi

-- 2020-07-10 18:59:01

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday alleged that Bangladesh is now at the risk of losing overseas labour market due to the ‘indifference and negligence’ of the g...

Jute mills under PPP arrangement

Jute mills under PPP arrangement

-- 2020-07-09 21:48:39

The decision of the government to close all the state-owned jute mills under the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) and run them under Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement did come as a...

Disposal of contagious waste

Disposal of contagious waste

-- 2020-07-08 22:16:59

Waste disposal is not a plus point for people in this part of the world. The tendency of littering home premises, dumping garbage hither and thither is mostly ingrained with the majority of the people...

Amu named coordinator of 14-party alliance

Amu named coordinator of 14-party alliance

-- 2020-07-08 16:33:01

Veteran politician Amir Hossain Amu has taken the charge of coordinator and spokesman for the Awami League-led 14-party Grand Alliance. He succeeds Awami League stalwart Mohammed Nasim who had been s...

Guarding against new  risk of trafficking

Guarding against new risk of trafficking

-- 2020-07-07 21:40:17

Amid the unsettling of oversees job markets, new concerns have arisen over the youths seeking employment abroad as well as those migrant workers who may lose or have already lost their jobs in their o...

Temporary cattle market

Temporary cattle market

-- 2020-07-06 21:42:23

With the Eid-ul Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslim ummah nearing fast, the arrangement of temporary markets for sacrificial animals is coming under scrutiny. Dhaka city, many ar...