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Eid being celebrated in the shadow of coronavirus

Eid being celebrated in the shadow of coronavirus

BSS 2020-05-25 15:02:02

The holy Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the greatest religious festivals of Muslim Ummah, is being celebrated on Monday amid COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation across the country. The Eid festival is being celebr...

Lawmakers stand beside vulnerable people: Information minister

Lawmakers stand beside vulnerable people: Information minister

-- 2020-05-24 17:53:48

Turning down a media report on lawmakers’ staying away from ongoing relief distribution, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said most of the lawmakers have stood beside the vulnerable peop...

Celebrate Eid following health guidelines: Obaidul Quader

Celebrate Eid following health guidelines: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-05-23 19:28:27

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged all to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr following health guidelines to contain coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission and check deaths from the disease. &nbs...

Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace for Bangabandhu: 47th anniversary today

Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace for Bangabandhu: 47th anniversary today

FE DESK REPORT 2020-05-23 09:34:52

Today (May 23) marks the 47 years of Bangabandhu's receipt of the Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace, the first ever international award for Bangladesh. The Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur R...

Eid-ul-Fitr 2020      

Eid-ul-Fitr 2020     

-- 2020-05-22 21:58:15

The Muslims in the country are set to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on May 24 or 25 subject to the sighting of Shawal moon on the previous evening. This is the largest of the two Muslim religious festivals in...

Health sector 'ignored' in ADP allocation: BNP

Health sector 'ignored' in ADP allocation: BNP

-- 2020-05-21 22:46:48

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday criticised the government for what he said not making adequate allocation for the health sector in the annual development programme&nbs...

Amphan rehabilitation concerns

Amphan rehabilitation concerns

-- 2020-05-21 22:35:31

As predicted by the Met office, the super cyclone, Amphan, has unleashed its destructive power both in Bangladesh and West Bengal after it made landfall at Digha coast of that part of India. Starting...

Bangabandhu’s grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq turns 40

Bangabandhu’s grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq turns 40

-- 2020-05-21 11:49:25

Radwan Mujib Siddiq, a grandson of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has turned 40. He is also a trustee of the Awami League’s Centre for Research and Information (CRI)), reports bdnews24.com....

Domestic violence during lockdown

Domestic violence during lockdown

-- 2020-05-20 21:43:20

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) came up with a grim prediction of 20 per cent rise in domestic violence during an average three-month lockdown in all 193 UN member countries. Published in the last week...

Crisis management and beyond

Crisis management and beyond

-- 2020-05-19 21:25:38

Mindful of the fact that life and livelihood are integral to each other and cannot be considered in isolation, Bangladesh is weighing options to recover from the pandemic shocks.  In this connect...

Khaleda is in relief but health has not improved: Fakhrul

Khaleda is in relief but health has not improved: Fakhrul

-- 2020-05-19 20:46:42

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has found mental peace in staying at home but her physical condition has seen no improvement, a senior party leader said.  “Without any doubt, she is in relief...

Coronavirus: Quader seeks cooperation from other parties

Coronavirus: Quader seeks cooperation from other parties

-- 2020-05-19 20:44:08

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday urged all parties to extend cooperation to government during the coronavirus situation for the sake of the country’s people. He also cal...

Tasks ahead before two mayors   

Tasks ahead before two mayors  

-- 2020-05-18 22:08:34

Dhaka City has formally got the elected mayors in office ----one on May 13 and the other on 16 respectively. For Atiqul Islam, this is his second term as he served for about a year on winning a by-ele...

Youths' preference for bicycles

Youths' preference for bicycles

-- 2020-05-17 21:15:21

The long coronavirus-triggered shutdown has prompted a number of changes to the lifestyle of people in the country. The urban areas dominate the scenario. Apart from learning to adapt to passing days...

Ruling party men 'plundering relief money': Rizvi

Ruling party men 'plundering relief money': Rizvi

-- 2020-05-16 23:14:56

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the ruling party leaders and activists are deceiving the poor by plundering money allocated for them by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasi...

‘Digital Bangladesh campaign facilitating fight against COVID-19’

‘Digital Bangladesh campaign facilitating fight against COVID-19’

-- 2020-05-16 22:59:58

The ‘Digital Bangladesh’ campaign of the ruling Awami League is playing important role during the time of crisis due to coronavirus pandemic, as millions of people are availing online serv...

Fresh tariff barrier to Bangladesh exports to India

Fresh tariff barrier to Bangladesh exports to India

-- 2020-05-16 21:02:59

As the authorities here have been dragging their feet on the issue of anti-dumping duty (ADD) imposed on Bangladesh jute goods by India, the latter, reportedly, is on the move to create yet another ba...

AL to celebrate Sheikh Hasina’s homecoming day Sunday

AL to celebrate Sheikh Hasina’s homecoming day Sunday

-- 2020-05-16 20:47:23

Ruling Awami League will celebrate the homecoming day of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday as she returned to the country on May 17, 1981 after a long exile. This year, the day will be observed...

Vested quarter manipulating data on COVID-19 deaths: Quader

Vested quarter manipulating data on COVID-19 deaths: Quader

-- 2020-05-15 21:52:43

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that a vested quarter is manipulating data on deaths from coronavirus infection on social media with clever disinformation in a propaganda cam...

Need to refit health sector

Need to refit health sector

-- 2020-05-15 21:25:01

As elsewhere in the world, Bangladesh's health sector has also been facing an unprecedented challenge from the covid-19 pandemic since March when the country's first death from the virus was reported....

When it is right time to open up economy

When it is right time to open up economy

Nilratan Halder   2020-05-14 21:32:49

With Covid-19 cases and deaths dropping substantially, many European countries have started easing lockdowns and opening up their economies -albeit on a limited scale. Even Germany and Russia have b...

The upcoming ADP

The upcoming ADP

-- 2020-05-14 21:29:34

Designing the Annual Development Plan (ADP) for the upcoming financial year (2020-21) is no doubt going to be a litmus test for the government in the wake of the covid-19 and its fallout on the entire...

Keeping Halda river  off-limit to pillagers

Keeping Halda river off-limit to pillagers

-- 2020-05-13 21:32:41

For years Halda river has been making news for all the wrong reasons. Illegal fishing and collection of eggs during the spawning season along with increasing pollution of the river's water by industri...

Relaxing restrictions is right decision at right time: Quader

Relaxing restrictions is right decision at right time: Quader

-- 2020-05-13 20:34:30

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took the right decision at the right time by relaxing restrictions on some sectors to save the lives and li...

Fakhrul meets Khaleda 48 days after her release

Fakhrul meets Khaleda 48 days after her release

-- 2020-05-13 20:31:53

Forty-eight days after her conditional release, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has talked to her party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and gave him some instructions to strengthen further t...

Harnessing nation's youth potential   

Harnessing nation's youth potential  

-- 2020-05-12 22:55:56

With about 30 per cent of the population being in the age group between 10 and 24 years, Bangladesh faces a humongous challenge of harnessing the potential of this enormous youth workforce. And the ch...

Workers of SOEs need attention   

Workers of SOEs need attention  

-- 2020-05-11 22:49:03

At a crunch time like the visitation of unprecedented coronavirus pandemic, low-income groups everywhere in the world, for reasons understandable, are at the receiving end of woes. Wage earners and fi...

Corona-time education sector   

Corona-time education sector  

-- 2020-05-10 22:16:54

From schools, colleges to universities --- both public and private, every institution stands affected by the prolonged closures and suspension of classes. It also leads to an unclear situation as to e...

BNP accuses govt of creating scope for coronavirus spread

BNP accuses govt of creating scope for coronavirus spread

-- 2020-05-10 20:51:45

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday alleged that the government has created a scope for the spread of the deadly coronavirus instead of containing it by easing the s...

‘Evaluate other countries’ corona picture before remarking on BD scenario’

‘Evaluate other countries’ corona picture before remarking on BD scenario’

-- 2020-05-10 20:30:21

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday urged the BNP leaders to look at the prevailing corona situation in Europe, the USA and even in neighbouring India and Pakistan before making any remark...