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Addressing unemployment in time of Covid

Addressing unemployment in time of Covid

-- 2022-01-19 22:10:19

Of the 207 million people projected to remain out of work globally, Bangladesh's share, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), is likely to be 3.6 million. While the global unemploy...

Balanced approach to ground water use imperative   

Balanced approach to ground water use imperative  

-- 2022-01-18 21:48:49

New studies conducted to see how the extraction of groundwater to irrigate rice fields is affecting water table in the Barind region in the northwest of Bangladesh have come up with surprising results...

BNP to celebrate Zia’s 86th birth anniversary Wednesday

BNP to celebrate Zia’s 86th birth anniversary Wednesday

-- 2022-01-18 21:14:19

BNP will celebrate the 86th birth anniversary of its founder Ziaur Rahman on Wednesday. Born on January 19, 1936 at Bagbari in Bogura, Ziaur Rahman founded BNP in 1978 and became the country’s...

Brain drain vs. brain gain   

Brain drain vs. brain gain  

-- 2022-01-17 21:19:06

On the basis of a survey carried out by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in mid-January 2020, the non-profit international organisation claimed that 82 per cent of young people aged between 15 and 29...

Awami League proposes increased use of EVMs in elections

Awami League proposes increased use of EVMs in elections

-- 2022-01-17 20:29:33

Awami League (AL) placed some proposals – including enacting new law for the formation of an election commission and increased use of technologies in elections – during its talks with Pres...

Filing fictitious cases now a regular matter, says Fakhrul

Filing fictitious cases now a regular matter, says Fakhrul

-- 2022-01-17 19:06:28

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the filing of 'fictitious' cases against their party leaders and activists and arresting them by the government has now become...

AL joins EC formation talks

AL joins EC formation talks

-- 2022-01-17 18:11:16

A 10-member Awami League delegation, led by party President Sheikh Hasina, has gone to the Bangabhaban to discuss the formation of an Election Commission with President Md Abdul Hamid. Prime Minister...

Taimur urges all not to contest any election under AL govt

Taimur urges all not to contest any election under AL govt

-- 2022-01-17 17:05:27

Taimur Alam Khandaker, who lost the Narayanganj mayoral race, has alleged ‘election engineering’ by the government and ‘election fraud through Electronic Voting Machines’, urgi...

Walton Hi-Tech is looking for an Engineer

Walton Hi-Tech is looking for an Engineer

-- 2022-01-17 16:03:01

Walton Hi-Tech Industries Ltd is the country’s leading company in the field of consumer electronic appliances. It has pioneered the use of state-of-the-art design and modern technology in its pr...

Allaying domestic helps' woes   

Allaying domestic helps' woes  

-- 2022-01-16 21:53:44

Life of the domestic helps is filled with uncertainties. It is unfortunate to note that these rural migrant women or girls settling in cities do not enjoy any legal measures to keep them protected fro...

Reddit: Misinformation or genuine knowledge?

Reddit: Misinformation or genuine knowledge?

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-01-16 16:33:22

Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion website which was established in 2005 and has slowly transformed to become one of the largest sources of news, information, content rating and discus...

Safety measures for non-RMG industries

Safety measures for non-RMG industries

-- 2022-01-15 22:06:22

Safety measures, be it for apparel units or other industrial and commercial entities, should get equal attention from all the relevant parties. Unfortunately, that has not been the case. The apparel i...

Digitising bonded warehouse facility in time

Digitising bonded warehouse facility in time

-- 2022-01-14 22:09:31

Though digitisation is now all the rage in every sector of the economy, it does not seem to be the case with the management of the 'bonded warehouse' facility. In fact, the effort to automate the syst...

HRW’s statement unacceptable, politically-motivated, says Hasan Mahmud

HRW’s statement unacceptable, politically-motivated, says Hasan Mahmud

-- 2022-01-14 21:50:27

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has described the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s latest statement on Bangladesh as “one-sided, unacceptable and politically motiv...

Rivals ‘uniting’ to defeat AL in Narayanganj mayoral polls, says Ivy

Rivals ‘uniting’ to defeat AL in Narayanganj mayoral polls, says Ivy

-- 2022-01-14 17:17:54

Salina Hayat Ivy, who is contesting the Narayanganj city mayoral election with the Awami League ticket, says factions within and outside the ruling party are working in unison to defeat her in the upc...

Value-added workers' migration

Value-added workers' migration

-- 2022-01-13 22:04:15

It feels good -- and so it should -- to see that overseas workers' migration has taken a momentous leap following a lull for around two years now. Reports say labour migration to overseas destinations...

BNP skips President's dialogue on Election Commission formation

BNP skips President's dialogue on Election Commission formation

FE REPORT 2022-01-13 08:54:04

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has skipped the ongoing dialogue with President Md Abdul Hamid over the formation of the Election Commission (EC). The party, which remains out of power for mor...

BR should get its priority right

BR should get its priority right

-- 2022-01-12 22:07:23

The much-hyped Dhaka-Chattogram high-speed railway project has been declared non-feasible, if not forever, at least for now in consideration of the current state of the Bangladesh Railway (BR). Given...

Stage collapses at BNP rally in Chattogram, several injured

Stage collapses at BNP rally in Chattogram, several injured

-- 2022-01-12 17:12:45

A stage where BNP leaders were delivering speeches calling for the government to allow party Chairperson Khaleda Zia to seek medical treatment abroad has collapsed in Chattogram. The incident occurre...

Making external trade viable

Making external trade viable

-- 2022-01-11 22:05:08

That business is staging a comeback with renewed vigour after easing of pandemic-induced restrictions has been amply demonstrated by the energetic performance of the Inland Container Depots (ICDs) of...

Restriction on public meetings illogical, BNP says

Restriction on public meetings illogical, BNP says

-- 2022-01-11 21:51:15

Terming illogical the restriction on public meetings and rallies in open space in the name of containing Covid transmission, the BNP standing committee has said it is an ‘evil’ attempt of...

Islamic Front, Bangladesh NAP propose enactment of electoral law

Islamic Front, Bangladesh NAP propose enactment of electoral law

-- 2022-01-11 21:24:40

Islamic Front Bangladesh and Bangladesh National Awami Party (Bangladesh NAP) on Tuesday separately took part in the discussion with President Abdul Hamid on the formation of the Election Commission....

Hasan Mahmud backs participation of MPs in local election campaigns

Hasan Mahmud backs participation of MPs in local election campaigns

-- 2022-01-11 19:16:41

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has said the provision regarding MPs' non-participation in the campaign of local government elections is discriminatory. “Lawmaker Shamim Osma...

Ivy questions Shamim Osman’s involvement in Narayanganj election campaign

Ivy questions Shamim Osman’s involvement in Narayanganj election campaign

-- 2022-01-11 19:13:44

Salina Hayat Ivy, who is contesting the Narayanganj City Corporation mayoral poll as the Awami League candidate, has raised questions about the validity of Shamim Osman’s involvement in the camp...

Narayanganj mayoral candidate Taimur complains of harassment, seeks PM’s help

Narayanganj mayoral candidate Taimur complains of harassment, seeks PM’s help

-- 2022-01-11 16:37:27

Taimur Alam Khandaker, whom the BNP removed from its advisory council for contesting the Narayanganj city polls, has urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step in and save his supporters from harassme...

A different perspective of road accidents

A different perspective of road accidents

-- 2022-01-10 22:02:49

An alarming rise in road accidents in 2021 has become a cause for serious concern ---only more so, because the undesirable momentum has led to unmitigated road tragedies in the first quarter of the in...

JP wants EC formation law for acceptable polls

JP wants EC formation law for acceptable polls

-- 2022-01-10 21:45:40

Jatiya Party (JP) led by Anwar Hossain Manju MP on Monday told President Abdul Hamid that the party wanted the next Election Commission to be formed under a law provided by the constitution. A seven-...

Electoral system collapses in Bangladesh, GM Quader claims

Electoral system collapses in Bangladesh, GM Quader claims

-- 2022-01-10 20:56:44

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Monday alleged that the incidents of killing in the name of election have become a regular feature in Bangladesh as the electoral system here has just collapsed. &l...

Metro rail in Chattogram

Metro rail in Chattogram

-- 2022-01-09 22:07:37

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's vision of a metro rail network in the port city of Chattogram comes as no surprise. Given her government's development spree, especially in the communication and connect...

DSA being used against opposition, says BNP

DSA being used against opposition, says BNP

-- 2022-01-09 17:11:24

BNP on Sunday alleged that the Digital Security Act (DSA) is being used against opposition leaders and activists and dissidents as a tool of repression. "The Digital Security Act is a repressive law....