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Kuakata beach reopening  

-- 2020-07-05 22:44:19

Tourists, especially the domestic ones, can now visit the Kuakata beach without hesitation. It has been declared open to visitors from July 1 by the relevant government authorities. The resort remaine...

Public gathering during Eid must be avoided: Quader

-- 2020-07-05 16:44:26

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said public gathering during the upcoming Eid need to be avoided at any cost. People’s free movement and gathering during the last...

EC move on women’s representation in parties a plot: Speakers

FE Report 2020-07-05 10:04:55

Speakers at a meeting of Bangladesh Mahila Parisad (BMP) sharply reacted at a move of Election Commission (EC) to propose amendment of 33 per cent female representation in political parties terming it...

FY'20 ADP, pitfalls and bettering performance  

-- 2020-07-04 22:32:44

The rate of execution of the country's annual development programme (ADP) for the just concluded financial year (FY 2019-20) has been disappointingly  low. The rate of execution of development pr...

EC’s move to amend 33 per cent female participation in parties a ‘conspiracy’: Speakers

FE Online Report 2020-07-04 22:02:43

Speakers at a meeting of Bangladesh Mahila Parisad (BMP) sharply reacted at a move of Election Commission (EC) to propose amendment of 33 per cent female participation in political parties terming it...

Allow Eid holidays for RMG workers in phases: Quader

-- 2020-07-04 19:11:06

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged owners of readymade garment factories to ensure Eid-ul-Azha holidays to readymade garment workers in phases. The road, transport and bridges mi...

Sylhet BNP leader MA Haque dies from cold-related problems

-- 2020-07-04 19:03:39

MA Haque, a member of BNP Chairperson’s advisory council, died from pneumonia and other cold-related problems at a hospital in Sylhet city on Friday. He was 70. Haque, also a former president o...

In search of genuine PPP  

-- 2020-07-03 22:14:13

The latest news regarding 22 mills under the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) has created mixed reactions in various quarters. While economists and financial analysts have long been expressi...

Facilitating export of vegetables and perishable goods

-- 2020-07-02 21:43:53

Following months of total halt to exporting perishable goods such as fruits, vegetables and other horticulture products, the idea of restarting exports by a large number of export houses is fraught wi...

Launch accident

-- 2020-07-01 22:09:03

The frequency of launch accidents, for understandable reasons, is much lower compared to road accidents. But when a launch carrying hundreds of people sinks or capsizes, the chance of loss of lives ma...

Upgraded TIP status

-- 2020-06-30 22:36:40

Though Bangladesh has a long way to go before it can claim to have  attained the required  level of  management  towards erasing the  blot on humanity -- human trafficking-- s...

It’s a blueprint to revive West Bengal’s jute mills: Oikyafront

-- 2020-06-30 19:35:07

Jatiya Oikyafront on Tuesday urged the government to back off from its decision to shut down state-owned jute mills. In a statement, the top leaders of the alliance also said the government’s d...

Now floods on the rumble  

-- 2020-06-29 22:21:35

This country is no stranger to floods. But at a time coronavirus has wreaking havoc with human lives and livelihoods and the country's south-west is reeling from the cyclone Amphan's blow, floods of c...

Bailing out Covid-hit SMEs  

-- 2020-06-28 22:52:36

A recent meeting in Dhaka, timely in nature, has laid special emphasis on the imperative of easing the access of small enterprises to the Tk 200 billion bailout package reserved for them. Prime Minist...

Govt has no roadmap to tackle corona: Fakhrul

-- 2020-06-28 18:19:51

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the government neither has any roadmap nor effective plan to prevent coronavirus. “The Directorate General of Health Ser...

The vanishing of a DSE broker

-- 2020-06-27 22:06:48

The vanishing of the owners of a stock brokerage firm, allegedly, embezzling their clients' investments would only heighten the woes of an otherwise beleaguered prime bourse of the country. The incide...

Human rights concern for migrant workers  

-- 2020-06-26 22:39:40

With so many tales of disenchantment migrant workers seem fated to endure in quest of a better life for themselves and their families, has been added yet another ordeal. As told by those who had to re...

Exodus from cities  

-- 2020-06-25 22:41:27

To stretch the maxim, 'survival of the fittest' would be a gross injustice to the millions falling victim to the global pandemic and failing to make both ends meet. It is once-in-a-century, if not mor...

Chinese DFQF and things to ponder on

-- 2020-06-24 21:21:36

The news story of China awarding duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) market access to Bangladesh's exports covering 97 per cent of the tariff lines is no doubt heartening. The trade benefit, extended to a...

Alerting DWASA on water logging

-- 2020-06-23 21:12:38

With the coming of rainy season, the inhabitant of the capital city would be swamped by a fright of waterlogged roads and avenues. The governmental body that looks after draining of excess water from...

EPI score to help meet SDGs

-- 2020-06-22 22:02:23

Done every year to assess different countries' achievement in their effort to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on the environmental front, the study conducted by the Yale and Columbia...

AL to celebrate its 71st anniversary

-- 2020-06-22 16:47:04

Awami League, the oldest and largest political party of Bangladesh, will celebrate its 71st founding anniversary on June 23. The political party was established on this day in 1949 in Rose Garden, Dh...

Withdrawal of incentives for banks' good clients

-- 2020-06-21 21:25:10

The presence of a large volume of classified loans is seen as a major weakness of the country's banking system. In fact, the problem has pushed the sector into serious crisis and banks have been strug...

Fraudulent corona reports  

-- 2020-06-20 22:33:30

A number of systemic drawbacks and lacunae have already beset the novel coronavirus treatment process in the country. Lately, the detection of a highly troubling development portends worse times ahead...

Price hike of rice: Why?  

-- 2020-06-19 22:30:47

That rice market often gets fidgety in the country is nothing uncommon. What is unusual about the price hike of the staple now is that it happens right at a time when farmers have just completed a rec...

Easing digital path to growth   

-- 2020-06-18 22:21:48

With their mobility markedly reduced by the pandemic containment measures like lockdown, and the public thus made to stay within the four walls of their houses for weeks together, the only window of t...

Widening the tax net

-- 2020-06-17 21:38:01

One of the much talked about mechanisms for raising NBR revenue as well as bringing a sense of appropriateness in the country's Tax-GDP ratio is the expansion of tax net. No doubt, the low Tax-GDP rat...

Revitalising the health sector

-- 2020-06-16 21:25:20

Common sense dictates that the health sector should be a top priority one in the national budget, especially at a time when a lethal pandemic, the covid-19, has made the country's healthcare system go...

A budget in the time of Covid-19 pandemic  

-- 2020-06-15 22:59:24

Covid-19 pandemic has triggered once-in-a-century global crisis. It is more than a public health emergency; it has also disrupted international and domestic supply chains. Many believe this is not the...

Credibility of Corona-test certificates  

-- 2020-06-14 22:30:55

Japan's decision to suspend flights from Dhaka to that country sometime ago created a degree of disquiet. According to a recent FE report, what triggered the Japanese measure was this: Four Bangladesh...