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Grappling with noise pollution

Grappling with noise pollution

-- 2020-01-14 20:30:03

That Dhaka city dwellers are gripped by a severe degree of noise pollution did not need any study to tell them. However, a recent joint study by Stamford University (SU) and the Bangladesh Parisbesh A...

Transport-sector casualties   

Transport-sector casualties  

-- 2020-01-13 22:07:13

Of the total transport-sector casualties in 2019 -8,543 dead and 14,318 injured--the major share obviously goes to road accidents. In 5,516 road accidents, 7,855 people were killed and 13,330 injured....

Dealing with cold   

Dealing with cold  

-- 2020-01-12 22:11:38

Most of the people were taken off guard by the severity of this year's cold waves. In spite of being habituated with nearly annual cold spells, people in the country's northern region this year found...

Khokon made member of AL central committee

Khokon made member of AL central committee

bdnews24.com 2020-01-12 20:49:10

The Awami League (AL) has inducted outgoing Dhaka South Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon into its central working committee as a member. Sheikh Hasina made the move with the powers vested upon her in the...

Deportation of Bangladesh workers

Deportation of Bangladesh workers

-- 2020-01-11 22:19:03

That more than 100,000 Bangladeshi workers were deported from different countries in 2019 is a worrying piece of news. The number is equivalent to nearly one-sixth of the workers sent abroad during th...

Allow MPs to join city polls electioneering: 14-party

Allow MPs to join city polls electioneering: 14-party

UNB 2020-01-11 20:26:24

The Awami League-led 14-party alliance on Saturday demanded that the City Corporation (Election Code of Conduct) Rules 2016 be amended to pave the way for MPs to join electioneering for candidates in...

'Lawmakers can do all but campaigning in city polls'

'Lawmakers can do all but campaigning in city polls'

-- 2020-01-11 17:02:38

Senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed has said lawmakers can extend all kinds of support to their party-backed candidates other than asking for votes during their campaigns for the Dhaka city corpor...

Saving the consumer   

Saving the consumer  

-- 2020-01-10 22:10:47

The Consumers' Association of Bangladesh (CAB)'s proposal to set up a separate ministry, or a division under the Commerce Ministry, to safeguard the interest of the consumer is interesting and thought...

$10m fund to boost exports   

$10m fund to boost exports  

-- 2020-01-09 22:09:38

Setting up of the $10 million export fund, announced last week, for four prospective export products is a particularly laudable initiative because as a departure from fiscal benefits often dished out...

Banning single-use plastic products

Banning single-use plastic products

-- 2020-01-08 20:20:04

Banning single-use plastic products is highly challenging, no doubt but the challenge has to be accepted in the interest of survival of human beings and other creatures either on land or in waters. En...

Oikyafront extends support to BNP mayoral candidates

Oikyafront extends support to BNP mayoral candidates

UNB 2020-01-08 16:26:22

Jatiya Oikyafront on Wednesday extended its support to BNP’s two mayoral candidates in the upcoming elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations billed for January 30. The senior leader...

Greening the concrete jungle   

Greening the concrete jungle  

-- 2020-01-07 22:08:26

That Dhaka city has long turned into a veritable concrete jungle is a common complaint. But how grave the matter today stands has been brought to the fore by a study titled 'Air, Environment and Livea...

Migratory birds, a tourist asset           

Migratory birds, a tourist asset          

-- 2020-01-06 22:06:57

Lots of people in the South Asia used to eke out a living by hunting birds. Few objected to their profession. But after the faint start of wildlife protection movements across the globe, the region al...

If rumours take hold of the stock market   

If rumours take hold of the stock market  

-- 2020-01-05 21:58:59

When none other than the country's finance minister says nothing but rumours are now driving the capital market, there are genuine reasons to be worried. His assertion that rumours have been holding b...

‘Election win not possible without waging movement’

‘Election win not possible without waging movement’

-- 2020-01-05 20:35:36

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said those who failed to wage a movement will never be able to win any election, reports UNB. Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minis...

Hasan Mahmud describes BNP as main patron of dynastic politics

Hasan Mahmud describes BNP as main patron of dynastic politics

UNB 2020-01-05 17:25:53

Sharply reacting to BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s  remarks over ‘dynastic politics’ in Awami League, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP is the main...

Of single-digit lending rate   

Of single-digit lending rate  

-- 2020-01-04 22:06:53

Some suspicions notwithstanding, businesses will have reasons to cheer the private commercial banks' latest decision to bring down their all lending rates, barring that on credit card advances, to 9.0...

PM urges BCL leaders to dignify their organisation

PM urges BCL leaders to dignify their organisation

BSS 2020-01-04 20:43:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged leaders and activists of Chhatra League to dignify their organisation through gaining confidence and trust of the countrymen. Sheikh Hasina made the remarks whi...

PM removes “acting” tag from Nahean, Lekhak’s BCL posts

PM removes “acting” tag from Nahean, Lekhak’s BCL posts

-- 2020-01-04 18:38:15

Awami League chief and Prime Mnister Sheikh Hasina has named Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Lekhak Bhattacharjee as the president and the general secretary of its student affiliate Bangladesh Chhatra League (...

Rules candidates must obey

Rules candidates must obey

-- 2020-01-04 18:25:41

The Election Commission (EC) has chalked out a series of plans to ensure that the city corporation polls are conducted in an orderly manner and has urged the candidates to abide by its electoral code...

BCL’s 72nd founding anniv being celebrated

BCL’s 72nd founding anniv being celebrated

-- 2020-01-04 11:23:27

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is celebrating its 72nd founding anniversary today (Saturday). The ruling Awami League-affiliated student wing was founded by Bangladesh’s independence hero Bang...

Food safety -- too distant to come by?   

Food safety -- too distant to come by?  

-- 2020-01-03 22:04:35

Isn't it thoroughly incongruous that the country's regulating body in charge of food safety, the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA), considers hygiene instead of food safety their foremost priori...

Awami League pays tribute to Syed Ashraf

Awami League pays tribute to Syed Ashraf

BSS 2020-01-03 18:25:58

The first death anniversary of Awami League's former general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam observed on Friday. Marking the day, Awami League paid homage to Syed Ashraf by placing wreaths on his grave...

A 'happening year' for RMG   

A 'happening year' for RMG  

-- 2020-01-02 22:03:41

The Readymade Garments (RMG) sector has come to news with some mixed signals. A report in the Financial Express on the first day of the year told a lot about the sector's ups and downs in recent times...

People don’t want BNP in power, says Quader

People don’t want BNP in power, says Quader

-- 2020-01-02 14:03:50

Ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said 90 per cent people of Bangladesh do not want BNP to run the country again. “The percentage will increase,” he to...

Pressing issues of light engineering

Pressing issues of light engineering

-- 2020-01-01 21:18:55

The news that export earning from the light engineering sector (LES) has almost halved year-on-year in fiscal 2017-18 is a wakeup call for shoring up the sector. Carried by The Financial Express last...

Welcome the year 2020   

Welcome the year 2020  

-- 2019-12-31 22:02:05

Called Angel Number -- one that acts as a guardian angel, 2020 symbolises faith and trust in relationships. By extension the number is also significant for love and compassion. So the year 2020 should...

New platform ‘Ganotantra Uddhar Andolon’ introduced

New platform ‘Ganotantra Uddhar Andolon’ introduced

-- 2019-12-30 22:26:22

‘Ganotantra Uddhar Andolon’, a new platform of other parties, was launched on Monday in the city with an objective to ‘restore democracy’ in the country. Nagorik Oikya Convene...

Turning Dhaka into a modern city

Turning Dhaka into a modern city

-- 2019-12-30 20:42:52

Local government, rural development and cooperatives minister Tajul Islam candidly shared his frustration over Dhaka city's unplanned expansion, development works and their consequent sufferings for i...

Police foil leftists’ black flag march

Police foil leftists’ black flag march

-- 2019-12-30 16:50:41

Police have foiled the Left Democratic Alliance’s 'black flag' march towards the Prime Minister’s Office demanding the government’s resignation and a re-election under a caretaker go...