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Completing garment factory remediation   

Completing garment factory remediation  

-- 2018-03-22 22:53:21

It is unfortunate that the authorities concerned have not taken a good lesson from the Rana Plaza collapse that shook the world about five years ago. Reports have it that quite a number of factories h...

Children with mothers in jail

Children with mothers in jail

-- 2018-03-21 22:29:26

How children with their imprisoned mothers grow up in the inhospitable environment of jails calls for a closer look. Children aged up to four are allowed to live with their imprisoned mothers. The age...

Disconcerting employment scene   

Disconcerting employment scene  

-- 2018-03-20 22:05:38

The BBS (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics) finding on the number of unemployed people going up by 0.1 million in the last fiscal year (FY), 2016-17, over the previous one, is quite disconcerting. The d...

BNP appoints British legal expert to face Khaleda’s cases

BNP appoints British legal expert to face Khaleda’s cases

-- 2018-03-20 18:45:14

BNP has appointed a British legal exper, Lord Carlile, to help BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyers to face her cases properly. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with the ann...

AL observes Zillur Rahman’s death anniversary

AL observes Zillur Rahman’s death anniversary

-- 2018-03-20 14:04:19

The fifth death anniversary of former President Zillur Rahman, a veteran politician, a Language Movement hero, an organiser of the Liberation War and one of the close associates of Bangabandhu Sheikh...

Country will fall into darkness  if BNP regains power: Nasim

Country will fall into darkness if BNP regains power: Nasim

-- 2018-03-20 00:17:14

Awami League Presidium Member Mohammed Nasim expressed his apprehension on Monday that if anti-liberation communal forces like BNP-Jamaat come back to power, the country will fall into darkness and wi...

Phasing out auto-rickshaw   

Phasing out auto-rickshaw  

-- 2018-03-19 21:50:44

The longevity or useful life -- technical term is economic life -- of the 13,000 CNG-driven auto-rickshaws imported in the year 2000 is long over. Actually, they had to be disposed of two years ago bu...

Khaleda denied justice by SC:  Fakhrul

Khaleda denied justice by SC:  Fakhrul

-- 2018-03-19 18:52:51

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that its chairperson Khaleda Zia was denied justice by the Supreme Court (SC) as its order staying her bail until May 8 has reflecte...

BNP announces countrywide demo Tuesday

BNP announces countrywide demo Tuesday

-- 2018-03-19 15:20:29

Leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies will stage demonstrations across the country on Tuesday demanding the release of its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. BNP Secretary General Mir...

Plight of women in public transports

Plight of women in public transports

-- 2018-03-18 21:35:17

A study conducted by BRAC in collaboration with the BRAC University paints a grim picture of harassment women are subjected to in public transports. The very date of its release, two days before the I...

BNP to put up resistance against lopsided polls: Rizvi

BNP to put up resistance against lopsided polls: Rizvi

-- 2018-03-18 20:05:06

BNP will put up a strong resistance like the Great Wall of China if the government tries to play a game with the upcoming national election. Senior joint secretary general of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi ma...

Tax revenue data mismatch

Tax revenue data mismatch

-- 2018-03-17 21:20:30

The 'revelation' that tax collection data are often cooked up by a section of taxmen to show 'achievements' has surely come as an embarrassment to the National Board of Revenue (NBR). More importantly...

EC to conduct next election: Nasim

EC to conduct next election: Nasim

-- 2018-03-17 20:39:09

Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has said the Election Commission will conduct next national parliamentary election. "We have strong and independent Election Commission. The election will be held under...

Graduation from LDC and good governance   

Graduation from LDC and good governance  

-- 2018-03-16 20:42:57

The graduation for Bangladesh from the least developed countries' (LDCs) league to that of the developing nations, as the latest indicators show, is not far away. Its graduation will be contrary to wh...

Let Hawking's  legacy live on

Let Hawking's legacy live on

-- 2018-03-15 21:37:40

With the death of Stephen William Hawking, the greatest scientific and philosophical mind of the later part of the 20th century and the new millennium has taken leave of this world. He surely was the...

BNP’s demo Sunday over Milon’s custodial death

BNP’s demo Sunday over Milon’s custodial death

-- 2018-03-15 17:02:49

BNP leaders and activists will stage demonstrations carrying black badges across the country on Sunday protesting for what the party said the killing of Tejgaon thana Chhatra Dal leader Zakir Hossain...

Recurring tragedies of slum fire

Recurring tragedies of slum fire

-- 2018-03-14 21:37:27

A devastating fire that engulfed a sprawling slum near Pallabi Jheel in the city's Mirpur, section 12 in the small hours of Monday is the first of its kind at the beginning of this dry season. As it h...

Tragedy at Kathmandu airport

Tragedy at Kathmandu airport

-- 2018-03-13 21:38:12

Aviation experts have already started the grim task of combing wreckage to find out the actual cause of the crash of the US-Bangla passenger airliner at the Kathmandu Tribhuban airport Monday afternoo...

BNP leader Asaduzzaman Ripon gets bail

BNP leader Asaduzzaman Ripon gets bail

-- 2018-03-13 20:30:57

The High Court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail for eight weeks to BNP special secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon in four violence cases filed against him. An HC bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Just...

Govt trying to split BNP: Fakhrul

Govt trying to split BNP: Fakhrul

-- 2018-03-13 20:09:39

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government is conducting various 'false campaigns' to create a rift in their party. Speaking at a discussion, he also all...

Voting in Brahmanbaria-1 by-poll underway

Voting in Brahmanbaria-1 by-poll underway

-- 2018-03-13 12:04:28

Voting in the election to Brahmanbaria by-election began on Tuesday morning with over two lakh people expected to exercise their franchise. The voting started at 8am and will continue till 4pm. In e...

New national agriculture policy   

New national agriculture policy  

-- 2018-03-12 22:39:12

Bangladesh's much vaunted self-sufficiency in foods received a major shock when paddy production in Sylhet's haor areas of the country and also in its northern part was badly affected by floods last y...

Khaleda shown arrested in Comilla arson case

Khaleda shown arrested in Comilla arson case

-- 2018-03-12 21:39:12

Showing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia arrested in a case filed over the 2015 arson attack on a bus in Chouddagram upazila that left eight people dead, a Comilla court on Monday asked police to produce h...

BNP sets fresh date for rally

BNP sets fresh date for rally

-- 2018-03-12 13:46:17

BNP has announced a fresh date for holding its rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka city as police denied the party to hold it on Monday. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir came up with...

Cops arrest 10 Jamaat activists in Rajshahi

Cops arrest 10 Jamaat activists in Rajshahi

-- 2018-03-12 12:50:16

Police arrested 10 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami while they were allegedly holding a secret meeting in a building at Barnali intersection of Rajshahi on Monday morning. Witnesse...

AL running after foreigners to retain power: Rizvi  

AL running after foreigners to retain power: Rizvi  

-- 2018-03-11 21:28:27

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said Awami League is running after foreigners as it is desperate to hold another unilateral election with a 'master plan'. "Awami League...

Reviving jute industry

Reviving jute industry

-- 2018-03-11 21:25:03

Political leaders and economists are unanimous about the high potential of jute after a long moribund state it was in. The process of reviving the jute industry has already begun. It received a shot i...

People not responding to BNP's call: Obaidul Quader

People not responding to BNP's call: Obaidul Quader

-- 2018-03-11 18:57:08

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader alleged that people are not responding to BNP's call. "They do not have that much of strength now as people are not responding to their call," he said....

A bizarre bailout move

A bizarre bailout move

-- 2018-03-10 21:18:47

Finance Minister AMA Muhith's assurance that government would not let any of the country's banks 'die' would be highly appreciated by both bank management and depositors. But the method he suggested t...

BNP plans huge gathering at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday

BNP plans huge gathering at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday

-- 2018-03-10 18:53:01

BNP has taken all out measures to ensure a huge gathering at their rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday. The party’s Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said this to reporters on Saturday at a press conference at...