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BNP hosts iftar for foreign diplomats

-- 2019-05-14 21:46:07

BNP, on behalf of its detained Chairperson Khaleda Zia, hosted an iftar party on Tuesday at a city hotel in honour of foreign diplomats working in Bangladesh. Ambassadors, high commissioners, mission...

BCL forms probe committee over Monday’s clash

-- 2019-05-14 14:27:05

A three-member committee has been formed to look into Monday's clash between factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) after announcement of a 301-member central body. New Vice-Present Al Nahian Kh...

BNP to contest by-polls to Fakhrul’s seat

-- 2019-05-14 11:39:59

BNP is going to participate in the by-election to Bogura-6 parliamentary seat, which fell vacant after party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir decided not to take oath of the office. At a...

Solving water crisis  

-- 2019-05-13 22:09:17

Water crisis persists in different areas of the capital city round the year but it becomes acuter in certain metropolitan areas in the summer season. The records of other cities and towns in the count...

BCL factional clash injures seven at DU

-- 2019-05-13 21:01:30

At least seven people were injured during a clash between two opposing factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Madhu's Canteen of Dhaka University on Monday evening. Earlier in the afternoon,...

Govt to shift Khaleda trials to central jail in Keraniganj

-- 2019-05-13 19:27:05

The trials of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a series of cases will be shifted to the central jail in Keraniganj from the old jailhouse on Nazimuddin Road. The former prime minister, sentenced to 17...

Bringing female docs to the foreground  

-- 2019-05-12 22:08:19

What has been a part of the general scenario prevailing in the medical profession in the country's rural areas has lately emerged with a new concern. When most male doctors begin lobbying to stay put...

VAT waiver for API producers

-- 2019-05-11 22:10:40

The list concerning tax exemptions granted by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has grown a bit longer in the first week of the current month. The Board has issued an order allowing the import of ra...

Release Khaleda before Eid, Zafrullah says

-- 2019-05-11 21:01:45

Gonoshasthya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury on Saturday demanded the release of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail before upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr for the sake of democracy and peace in the coun...

AL starts organisational tour to Khulna division

-- 2019-05-11 18:03:15

Awami League (AL) central leaders are taking care of the party in Khulna division on Saturday started their organisational tour to the division. During the organisational tour, the central leaders wi...

Facing the threat of extinction  

-- 2019-05-10 22:15:58

A United Nations-sponsored study published earlier this week in Paris by the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) revealed that one million species...

Stay alert against propaganda: Fakhrul to BNP followers

-- 2019-05-10 19:28:39

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday urged his party colleagues not to get confused with the government's 'propaganda' against their party. "The world is changing fast while ge...

Rein in food adulteration  

-- 2019-05-09 21:25:56

That 47 food processing firms are producing dozens of substandard food items, which came to light in a recent drive by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), is no shocker given the...

Kader Siddiqui threatens to quit Oikyafront

-- 2019-05-09 16:54:55

Abdul Kader Siddiqui, president of Krishak Sramik Janata League (KSJL), on Thursday  threatened to quit the Dr Kamal Hossain-led Jatiya Oikyafront by a month if inconsistencies are not removed fr...

SSC results deliver a powerful message  

-- 2019-05-08 22:12:07

The just-published results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations have marked a 3.40 per cent rise in pass figure over the past year's 82.80 per cent on an average. These ar...

Rare feat in project implementation

-- 2019-05-07 21:53:13

Project implementation is not a strong point with ministries and organisations -public or private in this country. Without revised additional allocation and rescheduled implementation period hardly an...

Disciplining Dhaka's motorbikes  

-- 2019-05-06 22:07:52

The devil-may-care manner in which motorbikes have lately started speeding along the Dhaka streets can be termed simply dreadful, if not menacing. Their dominance over the capital's critical roundabou...

Andaleeve quits BNP-led alliance

-- 2019-05-06 21:49:57

Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho on Monday announced that his party has left BNP-led 20-party alliance. Partho made the announcement in Dhaka on Monday evening in protes...

Decision is better than indecision, says Gayeshwar

-- 2019-05-06 19:10:03

Apparently contradicting Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday said time will say whether their party's decision to join parliament was right or wrong. "Our M...

‘Fani’ passes leaving lessons

-- 2019-05-05 22:23:38

The much-dreaded cyclone ‘Fani’ passed off relatively weakened through Bangladesh on   Saturday. As the whole country watched what had happened in the Indian state of Odisha earl...

Tarique, Fakhrul among six BNP leaders sued

-- 2019-05-05 20:07:50

A case was filed against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and four other top leaders of the party for assaulting Bangladesh Jononetri Parishad Presiden...

BNP patronising militants, Hasan Mahmud says

-- 2019-05-05 19:23:57

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said BNP is creating barrier in eliminating militancy from Bangladesh as they are patronising the militants. “Sheikh Hasina’s government is combat...

Montu loses GS post of Gono Forum

-- 2019-05-05 18:14:48

A 111-member new committee of Gono Forum was formed on Sunday dropping Mostafa Mohsin Montu from the post of party general secretary. Gono Forum's executive president Subrata Chowdhury announced the...

BNP’s decision to boycott parliament was wrong: Fakhrul

-- 2019-05-05 15:30:32

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the party's decision about not joining parliament immediately after the December-30 election was wrong. "We should keep it in mind that noth...

Ershad names Quader as acting chief of Jatiya Party

-- 2019-05-05 10:23:11

HM Ershad has named his brother GM Quader acting chairman of the Jatiya Party as the drama over the selection of his heir in the party continues. The 89-year-old ailing chief of the party made the an...

State of 'financial inclusion'

-- 2019-05-04 22:07:22

The government and the central bank have been vigorously pushing for greater 'financial inclusion' in recent years with a pious intent. But the opposite is happening on the ground, unfortunately. Agri...

AL to take part in rehabilitation works for Fani victims

-- 2019-05-04 18:47:29

Awami League acting general secretary Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif has said AL will take part in the rehabilitation works for the cyclone storm Fani victims side by side with the government efforts. “W...

Khaleda’s assistant Shimul Biswas released on bail

-- 2019-05-04 15:55:44

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas was released from jail on bail on Saturday, nearly 15 months after his arrest. Shimul walked out of Narsingdi Jail at arou...

Facilitating expat workers

-- 2019-05-03 22:24:50

The decision of the government to gradually bring all migrant workers under insurance cover appears to strike a positive note in as much as it aims to mitigate the difficulties faced by expatriate wor...

“Don’t do dirty politics with disaster”, Minister to BNP

-- 2019-05-03 18:33:15

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud Friday urged BNP to stand beside people during natural disasters and not to do dirty politics with the disasters. “BNP always do ill and dirty politics with...