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Chemical units' shifting: No dilly-dallying   

Chemical units' shifting: No dilly-dallying  

-- 2019-03-09 22:05:58

More than a fortnight has elapsed since a devastating fire took 71 lives in the older part of Dhaka. Upon taking an in-depth look at the calamity's aftermath, people come across a bedlam. It comprises...

‘Democracy buried on Dec 30’

‘Democracy buried on Dec 30’

-- 2019-03-09 20:33:11

Gono Forum president Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday alleged that democracy was buried in the country by holding a 'tainted and so-called' national election on December 30.  Speaking at a meeting o...

Information minister urges BNP to join local polls

Information minister urges BNP to join local polls

-- 2019-03-09 19:40:39

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has urged BNP to join the local government elections without making the Election Commission (EC) and the elections questionable. “I think that the countryme...

CEC’s comments prove election was rigged: BNP  

CEC’s comments prove election was rigged: BNP  

-- 2019-03-09 18:20:58

BNP said the recent comments made by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda prove the vote rigging allegations raised by the Jatiya Okayfront is true, according to bdnews24.com. “The C...

No impunity for human trafficking   

No impunity for human trafficking  

-- 2019-03-08 22:06:02

The fact that the country is far from taking serious actions against human trafficking is not only upsetting, but it also triggers a warning signal for the country. A recent report by an international...

Saving Hilsha

Saving Hilsha

-- 2019-03-07 22:17:17

Gone are the days when Hilsha population gave all the indications that the national and most favourite fish was on the verge of extinction. Pragmatic planning with the natural breeding of the fish pur...

Gono Forum expels Sultan Mansur for taking oath

Gono Forum expels Sultan Mansur for taking oath

-- 2019-03-07 18:06:52

The Gono Forum has expelled MP Sultan Md Mansur after he defied the opposition alliance Jayiya Oikyafront and took the oath of office in parliament on Thursday, reports bdnews24.com. Mansur was also...

Rizvi slams Sultan Mansur’s oath taking

Rizvi slams Sultan Mansur’s oath taking

-- 2019-03-07 16:50:03

BNP on Thursday described Gono Forum MP-elect Sultan Mohammad Mansur's oath taking violating the Jatiya Oikyafront's decision as an act of fraudulence in politics. "His party (Gono Forum) has said it...

Gono Forum's Sultan Mansur takes oath as MP

Gono Forum's Sultan Mansur takes oath as MP

-- 2019-03-07 12:37:29

Gono Forum's MP-elect Sultan Mohammad Mansur (Moulvibazar-2) took his oath as a member of the 11th Parliament on Thursday morning. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the swearing-in aro...

Healthy diet dimensions

Healthy diet dimensions

-- 2019-03-06 21:56:22

So far the food-related priorities have been focused  on  self-sufficiency in  cereal production and combating food adulteration. The first is a production issue, and the second a matte...

BNP forms human chain in city

BNP forms human chain in city

-- 2019-03-06 19:34:57

BNP leaders and activists on Wednesday formed a human chain in the city demanding the release of their Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail and her proper treatment. Several hundred leaders and follower...

Gono Forum's Mokabbir not taking take oath Thursday

Gono Forum's Mokabbir not taking take oath Thursday

-- 2019-03-06 19:00:18

Gono Forum's MP-elect Mokabbir Khan (Sylhet-2) is not going to take oath on Thursday to join the 11th parliament due to an 'avoidable reason'. However, the party's another MP-elect, Sultan Mohammad M...

15 hurt in Jhenidah AL factional clash

15 hurt in Jhenidah AL factional clash

-- 2019-03-06 17:48:57

At least 15 people were injured in a turf war two groups of Awami League at Devtola village under Shailkupa Upazila in Jhenidah on Wednesday morning. Locals said supports of Shailkupa's Vice-Chairman...

Khaleda gets six-month interim bail in Cumilla case

Khaleda gets six-month interim bail in Cumilla case

-- 2019-03-06 12:05:10

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has secured a six-month interim bail in a case filed over the deaths of people in an arson attack in Cumilla. Eight people were killed and 20 others injured when a petrol...

Reversal in potato export

Reversal in potato export

-- 2019-03-05 22:13:04

The country's transition from a deficit agricultural output to a surplus one has not necessarily been happy all the time. In case of potato cultivation, a gross anomaly has been created over the years...

Gono Forum MPs-elects to take oath Thursday

Gono Forum MPs-elects to take oath Thursday

-- 2019-03-05 17:56:54

The Jatiya Oikya Front MPs-elect Sultan Muhammed Mansur and Mukabbir Khan are set to defy the coalition decision and take their oaths of office in parliament on Thursday. Their swearing-in ceremony...

Home minister promises to ensure Khaleda’s proper treatment: Fakhrul

Home minister promises to ensure Khaleda’s proper treatment: Fakhrul

-- 2019-03-05 16:13:37

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan assured them of taking all necessary steps for ensuring proper treatment to their ailing chairperson Khaleda Z...

Making use of trade deals 

Making use of trade deals 

-- 2019-03-04 22:12:44

The contradiction is obvious and the irony reads like a comedy of errors! On one hand, government functionaries had signed up to bilateral or multilateral trade deals aplenty, even went to town with t...

BNP team to meet home minister Tuesday

BNP team to meet home minister Tuesday

-- 2019-03-04 20:06:28

A BNP delegation is going to meet Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday afternoon to discuss party chairperson Khaleda Zia's health condition and her treatment. BNP standing committee members, le...

Hasan Mahmud thanks BNP leaders for showing courtesy

Hasan Mahmud thanks BNP leaders for showing courtesy

-- 2019-03-04 20:03:41

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday thanked BNP leaders for the courtesy and sympathy as they visited ailing Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medica...

BNP to form human chain Wednesday demanding Khaleda’s release

BNP to form human chain Wednesday demanding Khaleda’s release

-- 2019-03-04 15:23:34

BNP will form a human chain in the city on Wednesday demanding the unconditional release of its ailing chairperson Khaleda Zia and her proper treatment. The programme will be held from 11am to 12pm i...

DIFE: A colossal failure   

DIFE: A colossal failure  

-- 2019-03-03 22:07:26

That the majority of the factories and establishments, barring shops, located in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) area are operating without necessary approval from the Department of Inspection...

BNP expels 82 more leaders for contesting UZ polls

BNP expels 82 more leaders for contesting UZ polls

-- 2019-03-03 21:02:32

BNP has expelled 82 more of its grassroots leaders for contesting the upcoming upazila elections violating the party's decision. A BNP press release signed by its assistant office secretary Belal Ahm...

Ershad on four-day visit to Rangpur

Ershad on four-day visit to Rangpur

-- 2019-03-03 15:09:48

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Sunday went to Rangpur on a four-day visit. He left Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Rangpur cantonment on a helicopter at around 11:00am. Ershad...

Spectre of fire lurks everywhere in city   

Spectre of fire lurks everywhere in city  

-- 2019-03-02 22:05:21

While lots of survivors of the 2010 Nimtoli fire still feel haunted by the nightmare, the charred Chawkbazar neighbourhoods reek of human flesh burnt out in the February 20 chemical-induced blaze. Giv...

Opposition alliance isolated from people: Obaidul Quader

Opposition alliance isolated from people: Obaidul Quader

-- 2019-03-02 21:09:51

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the opposition alliance has become isolated from the people as they have begun to boycott the elections. “This is an indication of their i...

UZ polls: AL reveals names of chairman candidates for fourth phase

UZ polls: AL reveals names of chairman candidates for fourth phase

-- 2019-03-02 13:51:00

The ruling Awami League has announced the names of chairman candidates for the 4th phase of upazila parishad elections in 122 upazilas scheduled to be held on March 31. The name of candidates were fi...

Savar leather park: CETP conundrum   

Savar leather park: CETP conundrum  

-- 2019-03-01 22:24:01

The country's leather export encounters environmental concerns. Quite sometime ago, the signals were very much there. The major importing bloc, the European Union had made it known a few years ago tha...

JANIPOP observes DNCC Mayoral by-election

JANIPOP observes DNCC Mayoral by-election

FE Online Desk 2019-03-01 21:52:10

JANIPOP-Jatiya Nirbachon Parjobekkhon Parishad observed the voting of by-election to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and polls to councillor posts in its 18 new wards on Thursd...

Some form of election better than no election: Obaidul Quader

Some form of election better than no election: Obaidul Quader

-- 2019-03-01 18:56:04

A dull turnout is better than not having an election, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said after the mayoral polls for North Dhaka. The road transport and bridges minister made the...