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Obaidul Quader warns against abuse of digital security act

Obaidul Quader warns against abuse of digital security act

-- 2020-05-10 17:16:49

The government will take action against anyone abusing the Digital Security Act for political gains during the coronavirus crisis, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has warned. While...

An awe-inspiring achievement   

An awe-inspiring achievement  

-- 2020-05-09 22:27:22

That the country has started producing the generic version of an antiviral drug, remdesivir, is a piece of welcome news. One leading pharmaceutical company has already achieved this milestone and five...

Donate Eid shopping money to poor, Quader urges AL men

Donate Eid shopping money to poor, Quader urges AL men

-- 2020-05-09 20:47:34

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday urged his party leaders and activists to stand by the poor and destitute people with the money they are supposed to spend for shopping in the...

Interests of big businesspeople behind shutdown ease: Rizvi

Interests of big businesspeople behind shutdown ease: Rizvi

-- 2020-05-09 20:44:13

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government is easing the shutdown only to protect the interests of big businesspeople ignoring the threat to people&rs...

Taking a pragmatic course to fight pandemic

Taking a pragmatic course to fight pandemic

-- 2020-05-08 22:19:25

Alongside announcing another extension of the ongoing 'general holidays' until May 16, the government this time has allowed shops and shopping malls to start transactions 'on a limited scale' from May...

Shortage of nurses and medical technologists

Shortage of nurses and medical technologists

-- 2020-05-07 22:35:04

As the government is all set to enhance the testing capacity for coronavirus infection, the effort gets seriously handicapped by dearth of medical and laboratory technologists. The shortage of this pa...

Disbursing stimulus  money to MSMEs

Disbursing stimulus money to MSMEs

-- 2020-05-06 21:23:31

The central bank has reportedly issued a guideline for disbursing Tk 200 billion to micro, small, medium enterprises (MSMEs) including cottage industries, announced earlier by the government, to boost...

‘Journalists risking lives to perform duties during pandemic’

‘Journalists risking lives to perform duties during pandemic’

-- 2020-05-06 19:45:28

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said journalists are risking their lives to perform their duties during the coronavirus pandemic.  “So far, 60 journalists were infected with coron...

BNP is infected with virus of criticism: Obaidul Quader

BNP is infected with virus of criticism: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-05-05 23:32:11

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the BNP’s politics is infected with the ‘virus of criticism against the government’. “The BNP’s politics is...

Protect returnee migrant workers in distress

Protect returnee migrant workers in distress

-- 2020-05-05 21:23:20

Many of the migrant workers whose hard-earned money had contributed to the country's foreign exchange reserve in a big way have in a cruel twist of fate lost everything in the fallout of the Covid-19...

Corona-hit rural farm sectors      

Corona-hit rural farm sectors    

-- 2020-05-04 22:22:15

Although mired in the thick of Covid-19 pandemic, the country's rural economy is dominated by paddy in the main. But the villages have expanded their farming activity to scores of other fields. It has...

Prevalence of virus among health workers

Prevalence of virus among health workers

-- 2020-05-03 22:08:31

That an increased number of front-line health workers, including doctors and nurses, are being infected with deadly coronavirus is a matter of grave concern. The fear is that this might affect even th...

Boro crop needs more priority than Aush   

Boro crop needs more priority than Aush  

-- 2020-05-02 23:06:37

With the Boro cultivation at its fag end, helping the farmers in the final phase of farming as well as ensuring fair price of the produce have assumed critical importance. At this time of countrywide...

Govt 'mocking' with hunger of people, Rizvi alleges

Govt 'mocking' with hunger of people, Rizvi alleges

-- 2020-05-01 20:48:17

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday alleged that the government is 'mocking with the hunger of people at this time of dangerous coronavirus pandemic. “Ministers and l...

No alternative to unity to tackle COVID-19: Obaidul Quader

No alternative to unity to tackle COVID-19: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-05-01 19:22:54

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said there is no alternative to unity in tackling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “There is no alternative to unity in tackling this disaster...

Commemoration of the May Day   

Commemoration of the May Day  

-- 2020-04-30 22:35:14

Since its inception in 1886, the May Day has hardly come at a more crucial timefor workers the world over. Factories, industries and businesses in most industrial and commercial hubs of the world have...

No alternative to online classes

No alternative to online classes

-- 2020-04-29 21:09:53

The prime minister's indication that the country's educational institutions may remain closed up to September next does not bode well for the education calendar. Her projection is, however, based on t...

Post-Covid-19 youth employment

Post-Covid-19 youth employment

-- 2020-04-28 21:45:28

Now that the primary concern for every human being on this planet is to survive the coronavirus pandemic, not many dare look far beyond today or the next day, let alone perhaps  plan for the futu...

Patrons of Bangabandhu’s killers are still active in politics: Hasan

Patrons of Bangabandhu’s killers are still active in politics: Hasan

-- 2020-04-28 20:37:11

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the patrons of the killers of Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are still active in the country’s politics. “Being benefitte...

Need more for harvesters

Need more for harvesters

-- 2020-04-27 21:18:39

The Financial Express last Wednesday front-paged an item on the inadequacy of agricultural mechanisation that is affecting the total yield. It must be engaging attention of   the policymaker...

Hostility towards docs, nurses   

Hostility towards docs, nurses  

-- 2020-04-26 22:17:04

Currently, the city of Dhaka is witnessing things which were unthinkable even a month ago. With the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic gaining increased ferocity by the day, troubling spectacles continu...

Labour shortage and farm mechanisation 

Labour shortage and farm mechanisation 

-- 2020-04-25 22:11:16

The crisis emanating from the ongoing pandemic has been all-engulfing.  Bangladesh's farm sector is also in the midst of a very difficult situation as far as the harvesting of its main rice crop...

People at great risk for govt’s ‘go-alone’ policy: Fakhrul

People at great risk for govt’s ‘go-alone’ policy: Fakhrul

-- 2020-04-25 18:56:25

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the government has put the country’s people in a serious risk of coronavirus by adopting a go-alone policy.  &ldq...

Towards better organised rice procurement drive   

Towards better organised rice procurement drive  

-- 2020-04-24 22:04:20

In a welcome and timely move the government, as it does every year to build its stockpile of food grains, has decided to double the procurement of boro paddy directly from farmers.  To start from...

‘BNP misleading people in name of taskforce on COVID-19’

‘BNP misleading people in name of taskforce on COVID-19’

-- 2020-04-24 20:22:29

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is spreading misleading information among people over COVID-19, demanding formation of a national taskforce to this end. “There...

Khaleda to observe fasting in quarantine

Khaleda to observe fasting in quarantine

-- 2020-04-24 17:56:42

Despite having various ailments, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will observe fasting and receive treatment in the holy month of Ramadan staying in quarantine.  “Madam (Khaleda) has been in qu...

Ration cards for 5.0 million distressed people   

Ration cards for 5.0 million distressed people  

-- 2020-04-23 22:39:24

Amid allegations over mismanagement including thefts and malpractices among a section of those involved in the operation of Open Market Sale (OMS), the government while postponing the operation has in...

Price hike on the eve of Ramadan

Price hike on the eve of Ramadan

-- 2020-04-22 22:45:59

On the eve of the fasting month of Ramadan, prices of some essentials like lentil, sugar and ginger have registered yet another round of hike. This is on top of the price increase of rice. Both the st...

Information minister calls for political unity to protect people

Information minister calls for political unity to protect people

-- 2020-04-22 21:06:02

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday urged all political parties to work together for protecting the people. Hasan Mahmud, a joint general secretary of ruling Awami League, came up with...

BNP receives 10,000 masks from China

BNP receives 10,000 masks from China

-- 2020-04-22 20:11:40

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has provided BNP with 10,000 masks to strengthen the party’s efforts to fight against deadly coronavirus. BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kab...