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-- 2019-07-01 18:11:06
The Left Democratic Alliance has called a half-day nationwide general strike for July 7, protesting a gas price hike. The leftist alliance took the decision after an urgent meeting of the party in Dh...
-- 2019-06-30 21:28:33
Media reports on scrutiny of CCTV footage by the police for tracking down alleged criminals have long consolidated a common belief among Dhaka residents: the whole capital is now under surveillance of...
-- 2019-06-29 21:27:56
That the local government (LG) bodies are failing to draw proper attention of the government is evident from the low level of decision making and financial power they enjoy and the insufficient amount...
-- 2019-06-29 16:44:37
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday urged Colonel (retd) Oli Ahmed to clarify his stance before the nation in regard to his political leaning following the announcement of new alliance. &l...
-- 2019-06-28 21:21:32
After a brief spell of little over a week during the Eid holidays, the city roads are back to their original shapes, forms and looks-vehicle-chocked, dusty, noisy and accident-prone, to say the least....
-- 2019-06-27 20:12:31
The train accident at Kulaura, Moulvibazar has once again exposed the weakness of this mode of mass transportation in this country. Several causes have been cited for this major train accident in the...
-- 2019-06-26 21:13:45
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) last Sunday made public the results of a research that covered all aspects of good governance. One of the core findings of the research has been that de...
-- 2019-06-25 21:30:23
How air pollution has intensified is realised from the fact that about 0.2 million lives are lost each year on account of it. Of the 10 most potent reasons behind untimely human death, air pollution f...
-- 2019-06-25 13:13:29
BNP candidate Golam Mohammad Siraj was unofficially declared elected in the by-election to Bogura-6 constituency on Monday. Siraj begged 89,742 votes while his nearest rival T Zaman Niketa of Awami L...
-- 2019-06-24 21:25:56
The Supreme Court's ruling last week that drivers must be tested for drugs and their eye sights must be certified to be in order to make them eligible for sitting behind the driving wheel must be welc...
-- 2019-06-24 15:03:55
The disgruntled members of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal have been staging a sit-in protest in front of the BNP central office urging the party to reverse the expulsion order for 12 JCD leaders...
-- 2019-06-24 12:09:09
Voting in the by-election of Bogura-6 constituency is underway after it was declared vacant as BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir refused to take oath as a member of parliament. Poll...
-- 2019-06-23 22:08:24
It is not at all surprising that banks, specialised or otherwise, and financial institutions (FIs) are not making serious effort to recover the bad loans that they write off from time to time. The sit...
-- 2019-06-23 17:32:29
Amid a movement by some Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders, the schedule for the election to form Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal's new committee was announced on Sunday. Convenor of JCD Election Manage...
-- 2019-06-23 10:33:02
Bangladesh's oldest political party Awami League, which led the country to independence, is celebrating its 70th founding anniversary on Sunday. Since its founding on June 23, 1949 at the historic Ro...
-- 2019-06-22 22:03:14
When Dhaka had been a provincial capital between 1960s and 1970, it featured a few unauthorised swathes filled with shanty dwellings. The now-evicted Babupura-Nilkhet, Tejgaon and Agargaon slums were...
-- 2019-06-22 20:44:19
The Awami League, one of the oldest political parties in the country, will celebrate its 70th founding anniversary across the country on Sunday. The ruling party will begin its anniversary programme...
-- 2019-06-21 22:03:30
Prevalence of dengue fever in the capital and elsewhere appears to be a common feature at the advent of the monsoon but there is hardly any effort on the part of the authorities to fight its outbreak....
-- 2019-06-20 21:52:14
Good or bad, rain affects all human activities including cricket. As the whole country, and indeed the entire cricketing world, would like to pass days in excitement and thrill during these World Cup...
-- 2019-06-19 22:13:05
There is good news for prisoners in Bangladesh jails. They have at last been able to break free from a notorious prison legacy of eating a measly quantity of bread and molasses for breakfast prevailin...
-- 2019-06-19 15:14:04
After over three years of the party's national council, Selima Rahman and Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku have been made BNP's standing committee members. Party's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir R...
-- 2019-06-18 22:07:13
The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in financial matters came into renewed focus recently at a workshop in Dhaka. Top level representatives from the Bangladesh Bank, the Bangladesh International...
-- 2019-06-18 13:26:24
The High Court (HC) has granted six-month bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two defamation cases filed against her. Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz and Justice Kashefa Hussain passed the order on T...
-- 2019-06-17 22:08:39
The loss of 8,000 hectare farmland in this country each year, as revealed in a seminar in the capital, is a cause for concern. Its implications are two-fold: First, the already adverse man-land ratio...
-- 2019-06-17 20:05:23
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said the government must hold a fresh election under a caretaker government as the current parliament is not formed with ‘people's vot...
-- 2019-06-17 17:00:52
A group of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders and activists demonstrated in front of BNP's Nayapaltan central office for the second straight day on Monday demanding the removal of age limit to joi...
-- 2019-06-16 22:05:29
The very number -- 221 deaths in road accidents over a period of just 12 days across the country -- is terrifying. Those people died and nearly 700 more were injured in 185 road accidents happen...
-- 2019-06-16 15:16:53
A faction of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders demonstrated in front of BNP headquarters on Sunday demanding removal of age limit to join the new committee. Several hundred disgruntled leaders a...
-- 2019-06-15 22:15:43
The bleak fact that date expired medicines are found at 93 per cent of drug stores in Dhaka squares with the oft-published news reports on the malady. The latest revelation made by a senior government...
-- 2019-06-15 20:30:29
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged the leaders and activists of his party to go through the proposed budget for 2019-20 fiscal to give a befitting reply to the critics. “A...
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