-- 2020-02-15 22:00:24
Amidst growing concern over the culture of tax exemptions, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) late last week issued yet another regulatory order waiving advanced income tax (AIT) on chemical compound...
BSS 2020-02-15 16:47:03
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia could apply for parole only after accepting her crimes. “The government only can consider her parole, if she (Kha...
UNB 2020-02-15 16:42:28
BNP leaders and activists are staging demonstrations in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office on Saturday afternoon demanding release of their chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. Howeve...
-- 2020-02-14 21:41:23
When there is already quite a good number of hospitals in the country and more are being built both in the public and private sectors, we are witnessing the contrasting sight of an increasing number o...
-- 2020-02-14 19:53:38
Outgoing Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon has set his sights on winning Awami League's nomination to contest the by-elections to the Dhaka-10 parliamentary seat vacated by hi...
BSS 2020-02-14 19:07:29
A total of 78 aspirants collected application forms to get Awami League (AL) tickets to contest in the by-election to five parliamentary seats. The polls will be held in Dhaka-10, Gaibandha-3 and Bag...
UNB 2020-02-14 18:09:37
Seven aspirants have bought BNP’s nomination forms to contest the upcoming by-polls to three parliamentary seats in Dhaka, Bagerhat and Gaibandha. They collected the nomination forms from BNP&r...
BSS 2020-02-14 17:51:31
Urging the BNP to shun negative politics, Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the court is the legal authority to grant the bail plea o...
-- 2020-02-13 22:11:23
That the stock market is not in sync with the country's overall economic performance is an undisputable fact. Even the men in authority do not deny it in public. The finance minister himself some time...
-- 2020-02-12 22:13:40
Where the celebrated senior cricketers fell short, the under-19 unsung boys made the dream come true. They are the world champions in the 50-over version of cricket. Their achievement is the first of...
-- 2020-02-12 17:42:13
BNP's Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said at this moment their main goal is to save BNP chief Khaleda Zia's life. “We want to free her and save her life and then bring her be...
-- 2020-02-12 17:40:02
Business leader Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin is seeking to run with the Awami League ticket for Dhaka-10 in the by-election to the parliamentary seat vacated by mayor-elect Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh. The r...
-- 2020-02-11 21:19:52
Skill development has of late come under intense focus. The reasons are obvious: migrant workers are returning home in droves from some of the popular destinations and foreign consultants and skilled...
-- 2020-02-11 19:02:10
The family members of detained BNP chief Khaleda Zia have urged the government to release her on humanitarian grounds for her advanced medical treatment. After visiting her at the BSMMU hospital in D...
-- 2020-02-10 22:18:20
The trend of letters sent and received through postal service has long been on decline in the country. For exchanging mails, people now find the digital medium more convenient. Emails are replacing le...
-- 2020-02-09 22:00:34
Persistent shortage of lighter vessels has come to slow down the operational capacity at the premier port of Chattogram, something calling for priority attention. The problem has left a knock-on effec...
-- 2020-02-09 18:09:05
A Dhaka court on Sunday granted bail to 35 BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in two cases of violence filed with Shahbagh Police Station last year. Judge of th...
-- 2020-02-08 22:05:19
All the numbers that the latest study report of the Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) mentioned about foreign nationals working in Bangladesh, legally or illegally, are worrying. The presen...
-- 2020-02-08 19:59:14
BNP will stage demonstrations across the country on February 15, demanding its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the progr...
-- 2020-02-07 22:16:12
A strong case was made out last Monday as part of the SANEM annual economists' conference (SAEC) 2020 for widening access to bonded warehouse facility and modernising it for all export-oriented sector...
-- 2020-02-06 21:12:00
The cabinet's approval of the draft for the "Designated Reference Institute for Chemical Measurements, Bangladesh Act, 2020 is a move forward towards turning the reference institute into a world-class...
-- 2020-02-05 20:46:54
The Cabinet's approval of the National Farm Mechanisation Policy 2019 recently is certainly a laudable move that many believe should have been taken much earlier. As per the policy, farmers would be a...
-- 2020-02-04 22:06:08
The under-construction Metro Rail and Dhaka Elevated Expressway, eagerly awaited for their potential to ease Dhaka's proverbial traffic congestion, are going through birth pangs, so to speak, and seve...
-- 2020-02-03 22:13:07
Bangladesh has the unique distinction of turning the sacrifice made by language martyrs into a cultural commemoration where the pre-eminent focus is on language and traditional culture. The uniqueness...
-- 2020-02-02 20:22:24
With the river grabbing continuing unabated across the country, the lists of the persons and syndicates behind the abominable act are often prepared, though follow-up action would have been lacking. T...
-- 2020-02-02 19:31:29
BNP is set to stage protests against the alleged irregularities in the Dhaka city elections after observing a daylong general strike. Flanked by its defeated mayoral candidates Tabith Awal and Ishraq...
-- 2020-02-01 21:31:43
Gone are the days when the country's finance ministers, accompanied by a large delegation of officials, would make their annual pilgrimage to Paris to attend the 'Aid Consortium' meetings and seek fun...
-- 2020-02-01 20:16:27
Gono Forum President Kamal Hossain arrived at Baily Road’s Viqarunnisa Noon School & College to cast his vote in the city elections on Saturday. However, the experience was not a pleasant o...
-- 2020-02-01 19:46:26
Awami League and BNP activists were locked into a clash in front of BNP central office at Nayapaltan in the capital on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses said when some AL activists were crossing the BNP...
-- 2020-02-01 12:09:36
Awami League’s mayoral candidates for Dhaka north and south city corporations have expressed optimism about victory while BNP’s aspirants alleged that their agents were obstructed from ent...
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