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No let-up in river-saving drive   

No let-up in river-saving drive  

-- 2019-12-29 21:42:12

An unremitting drive to free the river banks of grabbers is underway across the country. Demolition of illegal structures and eviction go on. Given the brisk pace at which this is enforced, an upbea...

BNP fails to find any 'miracle' in 2019

BNP fails to find any 'miracle' in 2019

UNB 2019-12-29 17:30:26

BNP started 2019 with a bad note - a drubbing in the national election. Now Khaleda Zia’s party is going to step into the new year without showing any sign that it can make a turnaround anytime...

Hike in edible oil prices   

Hike in edible oil prices  

-- 2019-12-28 22:07:43

The essential commodity market continues to be somewhat unstable though the prices of onion have lately come down, to some extent, at the retail level. The import of substantial quantity coupled with...

Govt won’t interfere in Dhaka city polls

Govt won’t interfere in Dhaka city polls

-- 2019-12-28 20:00:51

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the upcoming elections to the two city corporations of Dhaka will be free, fair and acceptable. “The elections will be accept...

Khaleda’s release possible through judicial process only: Hasan

Khaleda’s release possible through judicial process only: Hasan

BSS 2019-12-28 19:26:19

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the release of detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is possible only through the judicial process. “Actually, they (BNP) are showing disrespect tow...

AL wants to fulfill election pledges: Obaidul Quader

AL wants to fulfill election pledges: Obaidul Quader

BSS 2019-12-28 16:20:36

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the main challenge of the party is to institutionalise democracy and fulfill the pledges made during the polls. “Now the main challenge of...

Raushon made JaPa's chief patron, chairman GM Quader

Raushon made JaPa's chief patron, chairman GM Quader

-- 2019-12-28 15:15:22

Raushon Ershad and GM Quader have been elected respectively chief patron and chairman of the Jatiya Party (JaPa), the main opposition in parliament, at the party's ninth council for the next three yea...

HC directive for foreign nationals' database   

HC directive for foreign nationals' database  

-- 2019-12-27 22:10:09

Strangely there is no reliable information on the number of foreign nationals residing and working in Bangladesh -- with or without work permit. The issue has surfaced time and again and the reason wh...

Raushon Ershad to become 'chief patron' of Jatiya Party

Raushon Ershad to become 'chief patron' of Jatiya Party

-- 2019-12-27 19:02:17

The Jatiya Party is set to appoint Raushon Ershad to a newly-created post, chief patron, in the party's first council after the death of its founder HM Ershad. Raushon, currently the senior co-chairm...

Improving Dhaka's air quality   

Improving Dhaka's air quality  

-- 2019-12-26 21:57:11

The Financial Express carried two items on environmental issues last Wednesday, one being the governmental move for ensuring clean air for Dhaka, albeit under court orders, and another on mitigating t...

Indian citizenship protests: Modi, BJP misread the mood

Indian citizenship protests: Modi, BJP misread the mood

Reuters 2019-12-26 12:28:34

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, mem...

Increased demand for warm wears

Increased demand for warm wears

-- 2019-12-25 20:15:09

After years - if not decades -- of absence of wintry bites, the entire country discovers suddenly in the grip of a severe cold wave. For long five days, the sun refused to show itself for once and onl...

0.1m Sri Lankan refugees missing from India’s citizenship law

0.1m Sri Lankan refugees missing from India’s citizenship law

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2019-12-25 11:52:42

Nearly 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees living in India are not eligible for citizenship under a new law, sparking concerns they may be forced to return to the island nation they fled during a decades-long...

Proper use of money for SDG   

Proper use of money for SDG  

-- 2019-12-24 22:08:30

If sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a matter of national priority at the moment, the call from a programme at the capital on Wednesday last for best use of project funds and greater coordinati...

HC questions Quader's leadership of Jatiya Party

HC questions Quader's leadership of Jatiya Party

-- 2019-12-24 18:07:53

The High Court (HC) has questioned the validity of GM Quader's position as chairman of Jatiya Party. The vacation bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam on Tuesday issued a rule aski...

Deficiencies in road building, maintenance    

Deficiencies in road building, maintenance   

-- 2019-12-23 21:41:00

The statements coming from a couple of ministers on the poor road conditions  at a function in Dhaka last Thursday otherwise represented the feeling of millions across the country. Taking part in...

BNP to hold protest rally across country on December 30

BNP to hold protest rally across country on December 30

UNB 2019-12-23 16:17:21

BNP has decided to hold protest rally across the country, including in the capital, on December 30 to observe what it says ‘democracy-killing day’, marking the first anniversary of the 11t...

NBR cuts AIT to 3.0pc on cement materials import

NBR cuts AIT to 3.0pc on cement materials import

Mohammad Mufazzal 2019-12-23 10:30:08

The government has reduced the rate of advance income tax (AIT) on import of cement raw materials to 3.0 per cent from 5.0 per cent. National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a SRO (statutory regulatory...

Homage to Sir Fazle Hasan Abed   

Homage to Sir Fazle Hasan Abed  

-- 2019-12-22 22:08:45

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed's sudden death leaves the nation and a host of people abroad both saddened and shocked, for he was not known to have suffered from many physical complications. Notwithstanding his...

Dhaka's noise pollution   

Dhaka's noise pollution  

-- 2019-12-21 21:51:11

An awareness campaign urging motor vehicles not to honk in an area of the capital has drawn attention of many. It was launched on last Wednesday involving Rover Scouts in the task, besides the law enf...

AL's new committee to fulfill expectations of countrymen

AL's new committee to fulfill expectations of countrymen

-- 2019-12-21 17:15:08

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, who was re-elected general secretary of ruling Awami League on Saturday, has said new committee of the ruling party will work to fulfill the expecta...

AL council frustrates nation, Fakhrul alleges

AL council frustrates nation, Fakhrul alleges

UNB 2019-12-21 17:14:05

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the nation has got frustrated over the 21st council of ruling Awami League as no direction came from it for the ‘restor...

AL set to elect new committee as council rolls into second day

AL set to elect new committee as council rolls into second day

-- 2019-12-21 10:19:58

Councillors of the ruling Awami League will gather at The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) on Saturday morning to elect the next committee of the party for three years. The second day of th...

Factory fire -- who to call the shots?   

Factory fire -- who to call the shots?  

-- 2019-12-20 22:10:29

Two factory fires in less than a week on the outskirts of the capital leave no doubt that defiance of rules and regulations with utter disregard for workplace safety is still pervasive in and around t...

PM describes Awami League as largest, strongest party

PM describes Awami League as largest, strongest party

-- 2019-12-20 19:51:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described Awami League as the largest and strongest political party of the country Sheikh Hasina, the president of Awami League, made the remarks while addressing the...

PM inaugurates Awami League’s national council

PM inaugurates Awami League’s national council

BSS 2019-12-20 17:34:13

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the 21st National Council of ruling Awami League at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Sheikh Hasina, also the AL president, opened the two-da...

Fighting trans fat   

Fighting trans fat  

-- 2019-12-19 21:51:38

The message that a 2010-study findings on trans fat intake leave for the nation is quite chilling. Of the findings, the most alarming is the death of 8,000 people on account of consumption of excessiv...

India police ban protests against citizenship law

India police ban protests against citizenship law

-- 2019-12-19 13:14:53

Police have banned protests against a controversial new citizenship law in several parts of India. The ban has been imposed in parts of the capital Delhi, Uttar Pradesh state, and some areas of Karna...

New initiative in energy sector

New initiative in energy sector

-- 2019-12-18 21:13:49

The news that Petrobangla's subsidiary, the Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) has come up with an `advanced and standard exploration procedure' is encouraging. The in...

32 BCL central leaders lose posts

32 BCL central leaders lose posts

-- 2019-12-18 10:50:01

As many as 32 leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have lost their posts in the central committee over allegations such as marriage, infiltration and drugs abuse. Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Lekhak...