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Indian citizenship law: Modi defiant despite widespread protests

Indian citizenship law: Modi defiant despite widespread protests

-- 2019-12-18 10:49:12

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reacted with defiance to widespread protests against a new citizenship law. The law offers citizenship to non-Muslims from three nearby countries. The governm...

Turning to eco-friendly bricks   

Turning to eco-friendly bricks  

-- 2019-12-17 22:18:55

The government has in the recent years come down hard on the conventional brick kilns. These gaseous smoke-emitting kilns now dot the country, their venues ranging from otherwise clean-air rural areas...

India citizenship law protests spread across campuses

India citizenship law protests spread across campuses

-- 2019-12-17 10:49:33

Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday as critics said the Hindu nationalist government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with the co...

'No compromise with descendants of anti-liberation forces'

'No compromise with descendants of anti-liberation forces'

-- 2019-12-16 14:01:42

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that anti-liberation forces are obstructing the consolidation of Bangladesh’s victory in the Liberation War even after almost five decades...

Dr Kamal welcomes releasing collaborators' list

Dr Kamal welcomes releasing collaborators' list

-- 2019-12-16 13:58:07

Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain has thanked the government for releasing a first list of collaborators who worked with the Pakistani occupation army during the Liberation War. But he was critic...

Celebrating the Victory Day

Celebrating the Victory Day

-- 2019-12-15 21:10:04

On this day 48 years ago, a nation won its most cherished victory against a formidable foe. The tumultuous history of the Bangalee people is marked by many ups and downs. Ever since the defeat of Sira...

Lending at single-digit rate to manufacturing sector   

Lending at single-digit rate to manufacturing sector  

-- 2019-12-14 22:00:30

There has been a lot of hullabaloo over lowering of lending rate to single digit for quite some time. When the country's apex trade body had made a demand for a major cut in banks' lending rate, the t...

Facilitating fish farming   

Facilitating fish farming  

-- 2019-12-13 22:06:19

That the country's fish farming has grown substantially over the years earning it third position in global ranking is more than just soothing. The multiplier impact of fish farming on the economy in t...

The Airport's third terminal   

The Airport's third terminal  

-- 2019-12-12 22:01:57

The third terminal of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) has been coming in news for quite some time now since its first approval by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Cou...

‘Anti-Muslim’ citizenship bill challenged in India court

‘Anti-Muslim’ citizenship bill challenged in India court

-- 2019-12-12 13:56:00

A bill that grants Indian citizenship to non-Muslim illegal immigrants has been challenged in the Supreme Court. The Indian Union Muslim League, a political party, has petitioned the court to declare...

Riverside beautification

Riverside beautification

-- 2019-12-11 21:20:39

Never before did the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) launch a demolition drive on a scale it has embarked on this time. Now it has a plan to go about a sensitive business of reloca...

Dealing with onion thieves!   

Dealing with onion thieves!  

-- 2019-12-10 22:04:42

Onions came to the news for the umpteenth time. In Sunday's Financial Express, a new trait of thieves concerning the common spice has come to the focus, adding a new item to the crime statistics of th...

US Commission seeks sanctions against Amit Shah over citizenship bill

US Commission seeks sanctions against Amit Shah over citizenship bill

-- 2019-12-10 14:38:17

Describing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a "dangerous turn in the wrong direction", a federal US commission on international religious freedom has sought American sanctions against Indian Home M...

Highly qualified but unemployed!   

Highly qualified but unemployed!  

-- 2019-12-09 22:10:14

That a high percentage of the country's graduates and post-graduates are unemployed was common knowledge but the latest Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) research now comes up with a...

Freeing Dhaka of grabbing menace   

Freeing Dhaka of grabbing menace  

-- 2019-12-08 22:04:56

The blatant acts of encroachment of roads and walkways taking place in many areas in greater Dhaka do not at all bode well for the city dwellers. All the spaces in question are public places -- like a...

BNP to face Muslim League’s fate for leadership crisis: Obaidul Quader

BNP to face Muslim League’s fate for leadership crisis: Obaidul Quader

UNB 2019-12-08 18:48:20

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said BNP will face the same fate of Muslim League due to its leadership crisis. “The leadership of BNP is now facing the existential cris...

We will stage demonstrations again Tuesday: Rizvi

We will stage demonstrations again Tuesday: Rizvi

UNB 2019-12-08 18:47:43

Accusing the government of obstructing its today’s (Sunday’s) scheduled programme at different places, BNP again announced countrywide demonstrations for Tuesday demanding the release of i...

Negative sign on export horizon

Negative sign on export horizon

-- 2019-12-07 21:23:59

The numbers that have emerged lately about the country's exports are enough to trigger worries. For, those represent a worsening export scenario that unless rolled back in good time could destabilise...

'AL to choose leaders on merit'

'AL to choose leaders on merit'

-- 2019-12-07 17:41:19

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has warned party leaders and activists that the days of assuming leadership roles in the party by flexing political muscle are over. His warning came hou...

Q1 budget deficit soars

Q1 budget deficit soars

JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2019-12-07 10:12:15

The budget deficit during the July-September period last increased by nearly 200 per cent compared with the corresponding three months in 2018, as gains in tax receipts were offset by higher spendin...

Steering the vehicle of growth   

Steering the vehicle of growth  

-- 2019-12-06 22:14:35

The Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)-sponsored two day conference that ended in the capital city last Monday came up with a host of basic issues that may be considered pivotal to the...

Pro-BNP lawyers’ behaviour unpardonable: Obaidul Quader

Pro-BNP lawyers’ behaviour unpardonable: Obaidul Quader

UNB 2019-12-06 17:19:25

Terming the behaviour of pro-BNP lawyers at a courtroom of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court an unpardonable offence, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said they turned...

Vehicle parking in the capital

Vehicle parking in the capital

-- 2019-12-05 21:39:31

It is quite obvious that the decision to develop sufficient vehicle parking facilities in the capital came following the failure of the newly introduced transport law. In fact, it is primarily the abs...

Exploring merit of marine fish

Exploring merit of marine fish

-- 2019-12-04 21:24:20

To fish-loving Bangalees, the news that catches of different species of marine fish including Hilsha have gone up remarkably compared to the previous year is indeed an auspicious one. No less than 625...

Exploring potential of ceramic industry   

Exploring potential of ceramic industry  

-- 2019-12-03 22:07:06

Of the several objectives a host country has behind arranging an exposition of international order, the principal ones are expansion of business overseas and at the same time taking a measure of compe...

BNP plans to hit streets ahead of election anniversary

BNP plans to hit streets ahead of election anniversary

-- 2019-12-03 10:55:02

BNP is likely to come up with simultaneous action programmes across the country from December 5 in its efforts to mount pressure on the government to release its chairperson Khaleda Zia and register i...

Bolstering SME Foundation   

Bolstering SME Foundation  

-- 2019-12-02 22:10:39

The SME Foundation has been one of the noble efforts of the government in spreading employment and industrialisation around the country. Although a little behind China and India, but far ahead of Paki...

BNP likely to come up with simultaneous programmes this month

BNP likely to come up with simultaneous programmes this month

UNB 2019-12-02 17:58:02

BNP is likely to come up with simultaneous programmes across the country from December 5 in its efforts to mount pressure on the government to release its chairperson Khaleda Zia and register its prot...

GM Quader accuses BNP of repressing Jatiya Party

GM Quader accuses BNP of repressing Jatiya Party

-- 2019-12-02 17:53:57

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader has said though BNP is now talking much about political repression, it unleashed immense repression against Jatiya Party in the past.  “Those who now talk m...

The Buriganga plight

The Buriganga plight

-- 2019-12-01 21:26:55

The headlong plunge the reputation of the Buriganga has taken finally puts it in the category of one of the world's most polluted rivers. In the process, its notoriety has increased manifold in terms...