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Record high growth of remittance   

Record high growth of remittance  

-- 2019-04-18 22:06:09

If remittances to low- and middle-income countries reached a record high in 2018, Bangladesh had also received its fair share. According to the latest report (April,8 last) prepared on the basis of th...

Have no info on Khaleda's release on parole: Momen

Have no info on Khaleda's release on parole: Momen

-- 2019-04-18 12:32:34

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said they have no information about BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's release on parole. The minister came up with the remark while replying to a reporter's query o...

High incidence of iodine deficiency

High incidence of iodine deficiency

-- 2019-04-17 21:23:26

The revelation made by a recent study that 60 million people, representing more than 38 per cent of the country's population, still do not get the recommended daily dose of iodine would surely prompt...

Politicians failed to build safe, beautiful Bangladesh: Fakhrul

Politicians failed to build safe, beautiful Bangladesh: Fakhrul

-- 2019-04-17 17:12:12

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday regretted that the incidents of killing, rape and reprisal growing as politicians have failed to build a safe and beautiful Bangladesh....

Increasing loan for women entrepreneurs   

Increasing loan for women entrepreneurs  

-- 2019-04-16 22:08:32

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) early this month floated the idea of greater access for the women entrepreneurs to collateral-free loan. In a pre-budget meeting with the Bangladesh Women Chamber o...

‘Decision on JaPa’s future leadership through council’

‘Decision on JaPa’s future leadership through council’

-- 2019-04-16 19:07:46

Jatiya Party (JaPa) senior co-chairman Raushon Ershad on Tuesday said their party's future leadership will be decided through nation council. "The date of the council will be fixed very soon through...

Several newspapers publishing 'baseless' reports on parole: Fakhrul

Several newspapers publishing 'baseless' reports on parole: Fakhrul

-- 2019-04-16 18:25:02

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday termed 'baseless' different media reports on their chairperson Khaleda Zia's release on parole saying that there has been no decision yet i...

Safeguarding the textile industry

Safeguarding the textile industry

-- 2019-04-15 22:08:10

Textile manufacturers losing domestic market has been a subject of worry for quite some time. Recent reports published in local dailies make it clear that the situation has assumed an alarming proport...

‘Seeking parole is Khaleda, family’s decision’

‘Seeking parole is Khaleda, family’s decision’

-- 2019-04-15 16:39:32

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said it is up to their chairperson Khaleda Zia and her family whether she will apply for parole or not, reports UNB. "We didn't have any co...

Khaleda’s health condition improved little: Fakhrul

Khaleda’s health condition improved little: Fakhrul

-- 2019-04-14 20:07:01

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that their Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition has not improved that much at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical Universit...

Welcome Pahela Baishakh   

Welcome Pahela Baishakh  

-- 2019-04-13 22:06:44

This Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year of 1426 BS, is coming against the backdrop of some good news about the economy of the country. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has taken th...

CPB calls for resistance against repression of women

CPB calls for resistance against repression of women

-- 2019-04-13 16:29:33

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) has formed human chains from Ganabhaban to Bangabhaban in Dhaka to protest the killing of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The party also called for res...

AL expels Feni leader over Nusrat murder

AL expels Feni leader over Nusrat murder

-- 2019-04-13 13:14:05

The Awami League (AL) has expelled a local leader in Feni for his alleged involvement in the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The ruling party’s Sonagazi upazila unit General Secret...

A balanced approach to tourism   

A balanced approach to tourism  

-- 2019-04-12 22:05:06

Much as domestic tourism has registered a rise in the country, arrivals of international tourists in Bangladesh keep well below even the regional average. India received 10.04 million foreign tourists...

Compliance—key to export growth   

Compliance—key to export growth  

-- 2019-04-11 22:19:33

With a couple of industrial product fairs held in the capital recently, the issue of market compliance got highlighted as integral to manufacturing products for export. Although fulfilling compliance...

Fighting diabetes

Fighting diabetes

-- 2019-04-10 21:31:57

Diabetes is a silent disease. In a country of 160 million people, 10 million suffer from this polygenic disease. This means one in every 16 people is diabetic. Moreover, another 0.1 million are develo...

Fast GDP growth and other targets   

Fast GDP growth and other targets  

-- 2019-04-09 22:09:45

These past few days have seen Bangladesh being the focus of a number of auspicious news items about its economy, especially about the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).These include being the...

Mirza Fakhrul’s brother hails PM for development works

Mirza Fakhrul’s brother hails PM for development works

-- 2019-04-09 20:28:44

Mirza Faisal Amin, younger brother of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Thakurgaon municipality mayor, has hailed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for implementing a development projec...

Indictment hearing in Barapukuria graft case deferred again

Indictment hearing in Barapukuria graft case deferred again

-- 2019-04-09 14:31:09

A Dhaka court on Tuesday deferred the date of hearing on charge-framing in Barapukuria coal mine graft case to May 2 as the prison authorities failed to produce prime accused Khaleda Zia before the co...

Not enough growth of wealth tax

Not enough growth of wealth tax

-- 2019-04-08 22:07:38

That the growth of wealth tax is not commensurate with the rise in the number of the super rich or the rich was subject of speculation. But now a report carried on wealth tax collected mainly from the...

Road digging and public suffering   

Road digging and public suffering  

-- 2019-04-07 22:03:06

Leaving work sites in a disorderly state upon completion of repair works on public thoroughfares is a common practice in Dhaka city. A similar picture is also seen in the aftermath of digging works fo...

Hanif rules out release of Khaleda on parole

Hanif rules out release of Khaleda on parole

-- 2019-04-07 17:47:33

Ruling out the possibility of releasing BNP chief Khaleda Zia's on parole, Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Sunday said she does not fall under any category to be allowed fo...

SC rejects plea, upholds Khaleda’s bail in Cumilla case

SC rejects plea, upholds Khaleda’s bail in Cumilla case

-- 2019-04-07 12:53:05

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that granted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia a six-month interim bail in a murder case filed over the death of eight people in an arso...

BNP starts token hunger strike demanding Khaleda’s release

BNP starts token hunger strike demanding Khaleda’s release

-- 2019-04-07 12:20:24

BNP has started a six-hour token hunger strike in the capital demanding its chairperson Khaleda Zia's release from jail and her proper treatment. The programme began at the auditorium of Institution...

Disciplining savings tool sale

Disciplining savings tool sale

-- 2019-04-06 21:16:43

The central bank's latest move to ensure digital disbursement of yields and principal amount of the national savings certificates (NSCs) has been long overdue. The facility that was basically designed...

GM Quader to lead Jatiya Party in absence of Ershad

GM Quader to lead Jatiya Party in absence of Ershad

-- 2019-04-06 18:17:17

In another dramatic move, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Saturday reinstated his younger brother GM Quader as party chairman in his absence. He took the decision just two days after Quader was al...

Kamal hints at considering Khaleda’s parole

Kamal hints at considering Khaleda’s parole

-- 2019-04-06 17:34:33

The government will consider releasing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on parole if she files an application and cites specific reasons, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Saturday. "We haven't received...

Making sugar mills viable

Making sugar mills viable

-- 2019-04-05 21:40:17

Rescuing the state-owned sugar mills from what many think inevitable collapse has, so far, remained a matter of discussion only. Loss making sugar mills have been a burden for the government for long....

‘BNP getting ready to wage movement for freeing Khaleda’

‘BNP getting ready to wage movement for freeing Khaleda’

-- 2019-04-05 18:34:21

BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday said their party is getting ready to wage a movement together with people to free their chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail, reports UNB. "We must free...

Quality food for those who feed the nation   

Quality food for those who feed the nation  

-- 2019-04-04 22:13:34

Farmers in Bangladesh today are better off than they were before. It is because they produce more cereals - paddy in particular - courtesy of the high-yielding variety and modern cultivation technolog...