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Vote margin disproves claims of rigging: Joy

Vote margin disproves claims of rigging: Joy

-- 2019-01-12 20:55:38

Prime Minister’s ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wajed Joy has said the opposition claims of vote rigging during 11th parliamentary election are mathematically impossible in view of the margin of vot...

AL to sit with leaders of Dhaka, nearby districts Sunday

AL to sit with leaders of Dhaka, nearby districts Sunday

-- 2019-01-12 20:12:37

Awami League will sit with its leaders and public representatives, nominated by the party, from Dhaka and its five nearby districts on Sunday. The joint meeting will begin at 11am at AL's central off...

Dr Kamal terms joining election ‘a mistake’ 

Dr Kamal terms joining election ‘a mistake’ 

-- 2019-01-12 18:03:34

Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday said it was a mistake to join the 11th parliamentary election with Jamaat-e-Islami under the banner of Jatiya Oikafront (JOF). "I've already publi...

Govt fears talks on ‘fake polls’: Rizvi

Govt fears talks on ‘fake polls’: Rizvi

-- 2019-01-12 16:21:44

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that the ruling party is unwilling to hold talks with the opposition as it cannot answer for the ‘fake’ votes cast in the gene...

Commercial wings in overseas missions   

Commercial wings in overseas missions  

-- 2019-01-11 22:11:56

The decision of the government to set up more commercial wings in Bangladesh embassies abroad to facilitate trade and investment may apparently strike the right chord because of the role such wings ar...

Dr Kamal wants BNP to cut ties with Jamaat

Dr Kamal wants BNP to cut ties with Jamaat

-- 2019-01-11 18:07:05

Dr Kamal Hossain's Gano Forum is now planning to pressurise BNP to cut ties with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to keep the Jatiya Oikyafront intact and launch a movement together, according to a UNB repo...

Bright economic outlook   

Bright economic outlook  

-- 2019-01-10 22:14:16

The economic outlook of the country is quite bright for the 15 years to 2033. If the prediction of the Centre for Economics and Business Research -- a UK-based research firm, does not mishit, Banglade...

Speaker approves Ershad as opposition chief

Speaker approves Ershad as opposition chief

-- 2019-01-10 14:31:10

Jatiya Paty Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad has been approved as leader of the opposition in parliament. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury also ratified Jatiya Party co-chairman GM Quader as deputy l...

BIDA needs to get its act together

BIDA needs to get its act together

-- 2019-01-09 22:13:52

When the Board of Investment (BOI) and the Privatisation Commission (PC) were merged on September 01, 2016 to create the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), it was regarded as a step i...

Jatiya Party nominates four for JS women seats

Jatiya Party nominates four for JS women seats

-- 2019-01-09 20:30:30

Jatiya Party has finalised four nominees for electing them to reserved women seats in the 11th parliament. Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad approved the nominations on Wednesday, said a party press re...

Those defeated have nothing to do: Quader

Those defeated have nothing to do: Quader

-- 2019-01-09 16:58:33

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said nobody believes that those who faced defeat both in their movement and in election have anything new to do. The minister came up...

Govt applying all ways to repress Khaleda: Rizvi

Govt applying all ways to repress Khaleda: Rizvi

-- 2019-01-09 16:51:41

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government is applying all ways to repress their chairperson Khaleda Zia. "Khaleda Zia is still sick. The government has snat...

Investment in dormitories   

Investment in dormitories  

-- 2019-01-08 22:19:23

If real estate business in the capital and other cities are somewhat dull, one particular branch of it -- dormitory construction that is -- is quite bullish. According to a report carried in this news...

Oikyafront to hold 'national dialogue'

Oikyafront to hold 'national dialogue'

-- 2019-01-08 19:19:34

The Jatiya Oikyafront has decided to hold a 'national dialogue' demanding fresh election cancelling the results of 11th parliamentary polls. The alliance will also file cases with electoral tribunals...

Tax-GDP ratio concerning

Tax-GDP ratio concerning

-- 2019-01-07 21:57:03

Country's declining tax-GDP ratio, practically since 2017, has been   paradoxical  and   concerning    but is  not   inexplicable, to be sure. On...

Doa Mahfil for Syed Ashraf Tuesday

Doa Mahfil for Syed Ashraf Tuesday

-- 2019-01-07 18:27:01

A doa and milad-mahfil seeking salvation of the departed soul of Awami League former general secretary and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam will be held at at Ashraf's official resid...

Helping shrimp exporters

Helping shrimp exporters

-- 2019-01-06 22:02:02

Downslide in shrimp export continues as exporters of the item are in a double whammy. Shrimp exporters, on the one hand, are fighting a losing battle against low-priced 'vannamei', one species of shri...

Ershad takes oath as MP

Ershad takes oath as MP

-- 2019-01-06 13:59:52

Jaitya Party Chairman HM Ershad took oath as a member of the 11th Parliament on Sunday. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath at Parliament Bhaban around 12:30pm, UNB reported cit...

Spectre of tsunami: Impact assessment   

Spectre of tsunami: Impact assessment  

-- 2019-01-05 22:03:07

That behaviours of nature, not yet explained, are responsible for killer calamities has amply been proved once again by the tsunami that battered some Indonesian island-towns and villages on December...

AL must take responsibility for Noakhali rape: CPB

AL must take responsibility for Noakhali rape: CPB

-- 2019-01-05 18:27:09

Awami League has to take responsibility for the rape of a woman in Noakhali's Subarnachar Upazila, said leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Women Cell on Saturday. "AL cannot deny its resp...

'Two Gono Forum MPs-elect may take oath'

'Two Gono Forum MPs-elect may take oath'

-- 2019-01-05 17:09:26

Two candidates from Gono Forum who won in the 11th parliamentary election may take oath as Members of Parliament (MPs). Dr Kamal Hossain, president of Gono Forum and chief of Jatiya Oikyafront, gave...

Fakhrul visits Noakhali rape victim

Fakhrul visits Noakhali rape victim

-- 2019-01-05 16:48:31

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visited the Subarnachar gang-rape victim, who is now undergoing treatment at Noakhali Sadar hospital, on Saturday. Fakhrul assured the victim that th...

Quader blasts BNP for complaining to foreigners

Quader blasts BNP for complaining to foreigners

-- 2019-01-05 16:08:24

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP has nothing other than complaining to foreigners after its failure in both the election and its movement. He also described the rema...

New technology for dredging   

New technology for dredging  

-- 2019-01-04 21:45:38

The shipping ministry's move to bring inland waterway dredging under real-time monitoring is possibly the first of its kind to keep track of dredging activities. As part of a government plan to develo...

AL’s grand rally in capital on January 19

AL’s grand rally in capital on January 19

-- 2019-01-04 19:29:34

Awami League will organise a grand rally marking its landslide victory in the 11th parliamentary election at 2.30pm on January 19 at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital. AL President and Prime Minister S...

Rizvi slams EC’s ‘Pitha Utsab’

Rizvi slams EC’s ‘Pitha Utsab’

-- 2019-01-04 19:25:15

BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday has slammed the Election Commission (EC)’s “Pitha Utsab”. His criticism came a day after the EC organised the festival at its headquarters in...

BNP is doing what defeated parties do: Quader

BNP is doing what defeated parties do: Quader

-- 2019-01-04 18:22:56

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is doing what the defeated opposition parties do and this trend will stop after a few days. “The people of the country gave thei...

Dr Kamal mourns Syed Ashraf's death

Dr Kamal mourns Syed Ashraf's death

-- 2019-01-04 17:47:53

Gano Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain and general secretary Mostafa Mohsin Montu on Friday expressed deep shock at the death of Awami League Presidium member and Public Administration Minister Syed As...

BNP informs US envoy about ‘election irregularities’

BNP informs US envoy about ‘election irregularities’

-- 2019-01-04 16:11:28

A three-member BNP delegation, led by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on Friday met US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller and discussed various issues relating to 11th national...

Ershad to lead opposition in parliament

Ershad to lead opposition in parliament

-- 2019-01-04 13:55:37

The Jatiya Party has decided to form the main opposition in parliament with Chairman HM Ershad as the leader of the group.  The party’s newly-elected MPs will not join the government&rsqu...