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Driving despite poor eyesight  

-- 2019-02-28 22:26:03

A survey on drivers' eyesight by a non-government organisation (NGO) has revealed alarming facts. As high as 70.4 per cent drivers of public transports have poor eyesight. What is still more alarming...

BNP slams move to hike gas tariff 

-- 2019-02-28 18:20:02

BNP on Thursday alleged that the government is going to take an "anti-people" move by raising gas tariffs and "creating a further scope for the ruling party men to plunder public money". Speaking at...

Shafin alleges irregularities in voting

-- 2019-02-28 16:41:42

Singer Shafin Ahmed, the mayoral candidate of Jatiya Party for Dhaka North City Corporation by-election, on Thursday brought the allegation of some irregularities in the voting. He, however, did not...

BNP expels four more leaders for contesting upazila polls

-- 2019-02-28 14:46:23

BNP has expelled another four of its grassroots leaders for contesting the upcoming upazila elections violating the party's decisions. They are Bogura Sadar upazila BNP President Maftun Ahmed Khan Ru...

Monetary policy and private sector thrust

-- 2019-02-27 21:33:21

The   monetary policy statement (MPS) recently issued  by  Bangladesh Bank has  evoked an interesting discourse  between the central bank  authority  and busine...

Failed hijack attempt leaves a lesson  

-- 2019-02-26 22:04:45

The Biman Bangladesh passenger aircraft BG-147 was minutes - maybe, seconds -- away from a disaster. Conflicting reports do not help form a clear picture of the incident that took place in the mid-air...

‘Govt conspiring to push Khaleda to death’

-- 2019-02-26 16:35:30

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government is conspiring to push its seriously sick chairperson Khaleda Zia to death by depriving her of medical treatment...

Contract farming and farm produce export

-- 2019-02-25 21:52:01

The   agriculture sector has registered an export growth of 61 per cent during the first seven months of the current fiscal year compared with that over the corresponding period of last fisc...

Those behind Pilkhana carnage not identified yet: BNP 

-- 2019-02-25 16:39:37

BNP on Monday alleged that those who were behind Pilkhana carnage have not yet been identified as people were kept in the dark on the investigation report of the mutiny. "No complete report of any o...

Any option for home textiles exporters?  

-- 2019-02-24 22:25:52

Export of home textiles from the country is facing difficulties and with the passage of time things are becoming increasingly difficult for the local manufacturers and exporters to ride out the crisis...

BNP worries about Khaleda’s security

-- 2019-02-24 17:15:28

Voicing deep concern over of the security of its chairperson Khaleda Zia in Old Dhaka central jail near Chawkbazar where a devastating fire has taken place, BNP on Sunday demanded her immediate releas...

AL selects three candidates for UZ polls in Narail

-- 2019-02-24 15:07:10

Awami League (AL) has nominated its three candidates for contesting chairmen posts in three upazilas of Narail district as part of participating in third phase of upazila polls scheduled to be held on...

Cutting secondary school dropout  

-- 2019-02-23 22:08:30

One year after the Banbeis (Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics) disclosure that dropout rate among the secondary school girls in 2017 was hovering around 42 per cent, a survey...

Allocate place for chemical trade: BNP leader

-- 2019-02-23 18:02:16

In the wake of devastating fire in the capital's Chawkbazar area, BNP has urged the government to allocate a specific place for chemical warehouses and its business. "Old Dhaka is a residential area....

The Chawkbazar fire tragedy  

-- 2019-02-22 22:12:14

Last Wednesday's devastating fire at Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar is a testimony to a disturbing fact that, the 2010 Nimtoli fire tragedy could not raise the level of awareness sufficiently among many of Ol...

JOF’s public hearing begins in city

-- 2019-02-22 13:07:22

Jatiya Oikyafront's public hearing on the 'irregularities' in the 11th parliamentary election began in the city on Friday morning. The programme, which began at the Supreme Court Bar Association audi...

BNP blames govt over Chawkbazar fire

-- 2019-02-21 15:54:28

BNP on Thursday blamed the government's mismanagement and irresponsibility for the loss of huge lives in fire at a chemical warehouse in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka. "The government has failed to de...

Not enough validation of Ekushey

-- 2019-02-20 22:11:47

Bangladesh has been on a long language journey since the 1952 movement in the Pakistani regime. The language movement earned for Bangla a unique place in the linguistic history of human civilisation....

Now BNP wants Jamaat to apologise for 1971 role

-- 2019-02-20 17:10:22

BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday said Jamaat-e-Islami should apologise to the nation for its anti-liberation war role in 1971. Talking to reporters after placing a wreath...

Thirty-three unopposed in upazila polls

-- 2019-02-20 10:46:49

As many as 33 candidates for chairman, vice-chairman and female vice-chairperson posts are set to win uncontested in the first two phases of the upazila elections. The staggered Upazila Parishad poll...

Disruption in gas supply  

-- 2019-02-19 22:08:48

Disruption of any utility service can upset the normal life of city people. On a tight schedule, urban people hardly have any alternative to such services. Natural gas may occupy the third position in...

Rizvi terms road committee formation headed by Shajahan mockery

-- 2019-02-19 16:51:31

Stating that former minister Shajahan Khan is mainly responsible for the growing road accidents in the country, BNP on Tuesday termed absurd and mockery the formation of a 15-member committee headed b...

Pushing pharmaceutical export frontier

-- 2019-02-18 22:14:09

The pharmaceutical sector faces a redefining and reinventing moment. Protected by the Drug Control Ordinance, 1982 which banned the sale of imported pharmaceutical products and aided by  an intel...

BGMEA's overseas thrust

-- 2019-02-17 22:08:22

The appeal by the BGMEA to different foreign mission officials to highlight the country's apparel products cannot be interpreted as a routine exercise. Odds are not in favour of Bangladesh at the mome...

BNP to take action if any leader joins UZ polls: Rizvi

-- 2019-02-17 18:57:54

BNP on Sunday warned of taking organisational action if any of its leaders and activists will take part in the upcoming Upazila Elections. Senior joint secretary general of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi issu...

Bogura AL President Momtaz Uddin dies

-- 2019-02-17 16:04:35

Awami league (AL) Central Working Committee Member and Bogura District AL President Alhaj Md Momtaz Uddin died of heart attack at the age of 78 at a hospital in Bogura in the early hours of Sunday. M...

BIWTA's eviction drive along Buriganga banks

-- 2019-02-16 22:08:40

The ongoing drive on the part of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) against illegal structures built on both banks of the river Buriganga appears to be a determined one. The agenc...

Waiting to see Jamaat’s plan: Quader

-- 2019-02-16 17:16:24

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says he is waiting to see if Abdur Razzaq’s resignation from Jamaat-e-Islami is part of some party strategy before taking any further steps on the m...

Land-record digitisation project

-- 2019-02-15 21:37:07

That the government's project to digitise land records has run into a serious snag is bad news. In fact, ever since the government began to flag digitisation as one of its foremost objectives -- way b...

Govt imposed autocracy in name of democracy: BNP

-- 2019-02-15 18:04:08

BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday alleged that the government has imposed an autocratic role in the country undercover of democracy. "The government has established an unwritten one-pa...