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BWP calls for enactment of law to form EC

BWP calls for enactment of law to form EC

-- 2021-12-28 19:13:04

Bangladesh Worker's Party (BWP) on Tuesday proposed to President Abdul Hamid enactment of a law early next year to guide the formation of an independent Election Commission (EC) for conduct of the nex...

Best wishes for Dhaka Nagar Paribahan

Best wishes for Dhaka Nagar Paribahan

-- 2021-12-27 21:49:38

The inauguration of the much-hyped Dhaka Nagar Paribahan (Dhaka City transport) Service marks the journey of what is called a bus franchise system. If the rationalisation of this particular bus route...

Tariqat Federation demands participation of civil society in EC formation

Tariqat Federation demands participation of civil society in EC formation

-- 2021-12-27 20:39:43

The Bangladesh Tariqat Federation (BTF) has urged President Md. Abdul Hamid to ensure participation of civil society representatives in addition to political parties to form the Election Commission....

Joynal Hazari dies

Joynal Hazari dies

-- 2021-12-27 19:04:31

Former member of parliament and Awami League Advisory Council member Joynal Hazari has died at the age of 76. He breathed his last in hospital care in Dhaka around 5:15 pm on Tuesday, according to th...

Improving the AQI status

Improving the AQI status

-- 2021-12-26 21:52:03

The Bangladesh capital has the dubious reputation of recording the highest level of hazardous air quality for nearly a decade. This infamy has been perennial with one or another city of the country. T...

President's dialogue: NAP proposes law to form Election Commission

President's dialogue: NAP proposes law to form Election Commission

-- 2021-12-26 21:02:46

Bangladesh National Awami Party (NAP) has placed a seven-point proposal, including enactment of permanent law in line with article 118 of the Constitution to form an acceptable Election Commission (EC...

BNP leader Manju loses post after criticising party’s top leaders

BNP leader Manju loses post after criticising party’s top leaders

-- 2021-12-25 22:20:27

BNP’s central organising secretary Nazrul Islam Manju has lost his post in the party for reportedly violating the party discipline. Party’s assistant organising secretary Aninda Islam Ami...

Launch disaster with a difference

Launch disaster with a difference

-- 2021-12-25 21:59:50

This is a launch disaster with a difference. The fire engulfed the Dhaka-Barguna bound three-storey launch in the wee hour on the river Sugandha when most of the passengers were asleep. They were caug...

Fakhrul insults war heroes by calling Khaleda a freedom fighter, Quader says

Fakhrul insults war heroes by calling Khaleda a freedom fighter, Quader says

-- 2021-12-25 20:51:28

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir actually insulted the glory of valiant women freedom fighters and sacrifice of all war heroes b...

Dialogue on EC reconstitution nothing but farce, says BNP

Dialogue on EC reconstitution nothing but farce, says BNP

-- 2021-12-25 18:22:06

BNP on Saturday termed a farce the ongoing dialogue on the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC) as the party thinks it will not pave the way for holding a credible national election in the c...

Overcoming the condition of data deficit

Overcoming the condition of data deficit

-- 2021-12-24 22:55:43

The question of free flow of or the right to information is not a convenient catchphrase with political overtone. Quite to the contrary! In truth, it is crucial to the country's economic growth. Soone...

Barkatullah Bulu infected with Covid-19

Barkatullah Bulu infected with Covid-19

-- 2021-12-24 16:02:11

BNP Vice Chairman Barkatullah Bulu has been infected with coronavirus. Bulu said he underwent the coronavirus test on Thursday and his report came out positive. The BNP leader said he has been suffe...

Draft guideline for three wheelers

Draft guideline for three wheelers

-- 2021-12-23 21:58:53

The recently framed draft guideline to regulate battery-run three wheelers and locally developed improvised vehicles is no doubt a move in the right direction. The earlier decision to ban these transp...

Charges pressed against BNP leader Khasru for allegedly Instigating road safety protests

Charges pressed against BNP leader Khasru for allegedly Instigating road safety protests

-- 2021-12-23 17:51:52

Chattogram police have submitted charge sheet against BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in a case filed under the Special Powers Act for instigating violence and destabilising...

BNP holds rally in six districts demanding Khaleda Zia’s treatment abroad

BNP holds rally in six districts demanding Khaleda Zia’s treatment abroad

-- 2021-12-22 22:57:01

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said there is no point in holding talks on the formation of the Election Commission since it is not possible to hold a credible election...

Countering threat from plastic

Countering threat from plastic

-- 2021-12-22 22:06:50

With the growing use of plastic, the threat to the natural environment and human existence too is increasing ominously. So ubiquitous has become the plastic waste that it can be an unmistakeable mark...

Jasod backs EC formation through search committee

Jasod backs EC formation through search committee

-- 2021-12-22 21:50:24

Taking party in talks with President Abdul Hamid, Hasanul Haq Inu-led Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Jasod) on Wednesday said the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC) through a search committee is...

Dealing with pandemic-time druggists

Dealing with pandemic-time druggists

-- 2021-12-21 22:17:31

Mushrooming of medicine shops passing for pharmacies across the country may appear to some as a quantitative improvement in related service to the public. But as most of the pharmacies lack the requir...

‘BNP neither gets invitation nor makes any decision at EC dialogue’

‘BNP neither gets invitation nor makes any decision at EC dialogue’

-- 2021-12-21 21:17:43

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said their party still neither received an invitation letter from the President to join the dialogue on reconstitution of the Election Comm...

Irrational airfare hike

Irrational airfare hike

-- 2021-12-20 22:04:57

Unusual hikes in airfare for routes to Middle-East (ME) destinations have been making screaming headlines for no less than a week but there is no sign prices of air tickets will revert to their previo...

EC formation dialogue nothing but a mockery, claim BNP leaders

EC formation dialogue nothing but a mockery, claim BNP leaders

-- 2021-12-20 21:39:08

BNP senior leaders on Monday called the President’s dialogue with political parties on reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC) as nothing but a ‘drama’ to hold another ‘...

Jatiya Party presents three-point proposal to president on EC formation

Jatiya Party presents three-point proposal to president on EC formation

-- 2021-12-20 19:33:37

Jatiya Party, the main opposition party in the parliament, has presented a three-point proposal to President Abdul Hamid on the formation of the next election commission. An eight-member delegation o...

Dewanganj mayor expelled from Jamalpur unit AL for assaulting education officer

Dewanganj mayor expelled from Jamalpur unit AL for assaulting education officer

-- 2021-12-20 19:00:05

Dewanganj Municipality mayor Shahnewaz Shahan Shah was expelled from the local unit of Awami League on Monday for assaulting the secondary education officer of Dewanganj upazila in Jamalpur district o...

Writ filed seeking HC directive for Khaleda’s treatment abroad

Writ filed seeking HC directive for Khaleda’s treatment abroad

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-20 15:11:49

A writ petition was filed on Monday with the High Court seeking its directive to allow Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Begum Khaleda Zia to go abroad for medical treatment. Talking to The Fi...

Tourism's upbeat prospects

Tourism's upbeat prospects

-- 2021-12-19 22:12:14

Cox's Bazar beach, one of the greatest tourist attractions in Bangladesh and the longest unbroken beach in the world, has started getting back its usual bustle. Tourists are coming back in large numbe...

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to return to a healthy track of politics

Obaidul Quader urges BNP to return to a healthy track of politics

-- 2021-12-19 20:11:22

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged BNP to return to the proper and healthy track of politics upholding the spirit of the Liberation War.  “The whole nation simultaneou...

BNP brings out victory day rally, vows afresh to awaken people

BNP brings out victory day rally, vows afresh to awaken people

-- 2021-12-19 19:35:47

Vowing afresh to “awaken people for the restoration of democracy”, BNP leaders and activists on Sunday took out a colourful rally in Dhaka city, marking the 51st Victory Day. Thousands of...

Awami League leaders vow to build ‘Sonar Bangla’ thwarting conspiracies

Awami League leaders vow to build ‘Sonar Bangla’ thwarting conspiracies

-- 2021-12-18 22:32:02

Awami League leaders have expressed their firm optimism to build a ‘Sonar Bangla’ under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by thwarting all conspiracies. They made the pledge...

Meeting challenges of post-pandemic economic recovery

Meeting challenges of post-pandemic economic recovery

-- 2021-12-18 22:08:56

In line with the post-pandemic global trend in economic recovery with its attendant issues including energy price hike pushing up inflation, Bangladesh is no exception. Understandably, domestically, t...

Awami League provides wrong information about liberation war, BNP leader alleges

Awami League provides wrong information about liberation war, BNP leader alleges

-- 2021-12-18 18:19:21

BNP Senior Leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday alleged that Awami League has been providing wrong information to the country’s people about the Liberation War as part of its move to hide facts....