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Electricity from waste

Electricity from waste

-- 2021-12-17 22:30:59

The news of electricity generation from municipal waste has been in the air for sometime now. There were reported moves for undertaking projects to achieve the dual objectives of raising the country's...

Joy urges countrymen to make Vision 2041 a reality

Joy urges countrymen to make Vision 2041 a reality

-- 2021-12-16 20:14:03

Praising the nation for realising Vision 2021, Prime Minister's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed has urged the countrymen to channel all their efforts to make Vision 2041 a reality. In a victory-day post fro...

Awami League eliminating opposition to establish a one-party rule, Fakhrul says

Awami League eliminating opposition to establish a one-party rule, Fakhrul says

-- 2021-12-16 19:59:26

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the goal of the country’s independence has not been materialised yet. “The spirit of independence was to establi...

Obaidul Quader’s health condition improves, his physicians confirm

Obaidul Quader’s health condition improves, his physicians confirm

-- 2021-12-15 23:37:16

The health condition of General Secretary of the ruling Awami League and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader improved on Wednesday, confirmed his physicians. Professor Dr Sharfuddin, V...

Khaleda’s treatment abroad: BNP announces series of rallies from December 22

Khaleda’s treatment abroad: BNP announces series of rallies from December 22

-- 2021-12-15 23:28:35

BNP has announced to hold rallies in 32 districts from December 22 to force the government to allow its chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for advanced medical treatment. BNP Secretary General Mirz...

Nation's victory made sweetest

Nation's victory made sweetest

-- 2021-12-15 21:44:14

Few nations on this planet have experienced annus mirabilis and annus horribilis at thesame time as did the Bangalees in 1971. The culmination of one of the modern history's imposed wars on an unarmed...

Lifting the marginalised out of poverty

Lifting the marginalised out of poverty

-- 2021-12-14 22:01:58

Little by little, the extent of the pandemic's real impact on the lives of the people in the low-income bracket of the economy is becoming evident. Though the pandemic control measures have affected t...

Preparing for the 4IR

Preparing for the 4IR

-- 2021-12-13 21:57:37

In her virtual address at the closing session of an international conference on the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) arranged by the University Grants Commission (UGC) at the Bangabandhu International...

US sanctions will not affect next election, Obaidul Quader says

US sanctions will not affect next election, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-12-13 18:06:15

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the recent US sanction on seven former and incumbent officers of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) will not put any impact on the next general elect...

Case for young entrepreneurs

Case for young entrepreneurs

-- 2021-12-12 22:09:57

The Prime Minister has recently touched upon a vital point related to the youths' career on completion of their education. She called upon them to take to entrepreneurship instead of traditional offic...

BNP must wait for govt decision on Khaleda, law minister says

BNP must wait for govt decision on Khaleda, law minister says

-- 2021-12-12 16:38:14

Law Minister Anisul Huq says the BNP will have to wait for the government’s decision on whether it will allow party chief Khaleda Zia to go abroad for medical treatment. The law minister made t...

US itself is an extreme violator of human rights, says Hasan Mahmud

US itself is an extreme violator of human rights, says Hasan Mahmud

-- 2021-12-11 22:24:38

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Saturday stated the sanctions of the US on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) are one-sided and invalid, saying, “Human rights is extremely violat...

Regulating ridesharing and food delivery companies

Regulating ridesharing and food delivery companies

-- 2021-12-11 22:09:00

Business has been picking up for ridesharing and online food-delivery companies with the pandemic subsiding and economy making a turnaround. But unfortunately the workers who toil at the field level d...

BNP terms US sanctions inevitable consequence, not a surprise

BNP terms US sanctions inevitable consequence, not a surprise

-- 2021-12-11 18:51:51

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday described the US sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and its seven current and former top officials as an inevitable consequence of...

Urgency of institutional reform measures

Urgency of institutional reform measures

-- 2021-12-10 22:34:39

There is no denying the fact that Bangladesh has to its credit some impressive accomplishments on the social and economic fronts in the last 50 years. Seeing the odds stacked up against it in the begi...

Law will move at its own pace, says Anisul on Khaleda's treatment abroad

Law will move at its own pace, says Anisul on Khaleda's treatment abroad

-- 2021-12-10 17:25:30

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Friday said that law will move at its own pace and humanity cannot be earned through movements. The minister made the remark on BNP's demand to send its chairperson Khaleda...

Road Transport Act shelved?

Road Transport Act shelved?

-- 2021-12-09 22:35:43

Years ago when students, even minor school kids, took to the streets protesting traffic indiscipline, it did not look like a ripple to be lost soon in oblivion. Many considered the unprecedented event...

Khaleda suffers from internal bleeding again, Fakhrul says

Khaleda suffers from internal bleeding again, Fakhrul says

-- 2021-12-08 22:31:33

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said their party Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s condition worsened as she suffered from internal bleeding again on Tuesday. Speaking at...

RMG workers' database

RMG workers' database

-- 2021-12-08 22:19:22

That Readymade Garment (RMG), the country's largest foreign currency-earning sector, has so far been running without a precise and dependable set of data on its workforce and other relevant informatio...

Supporting women in their self-employment efforts

Supporting women in their self-employment efforts

-- 2021-12-07 21:59:24

Though the number of youths graduating from the higher educational institutions is increasing every year, the existing job market is finding it harder to keep pace with it. Needless to say, the situat...

Murad makes mistake in resignation letter

Murad makes mistake in resignation letter

-- 2021-12-07 20:45:45

Murad Hassan, a disgraced state minister who stepped down from his post after a scandalous audio leak went viral on social media, has made a mistake in the resignation letter he submitted. The state...

BNP policymakers decide to take legal action against Murad

BNP policymakers decide to take legal action against Murad

-- 2021-12-07 20:07:39

The standing committee of BNP has decided to take legal action against disgraced State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Murad Hassan for his indecent comments against family members of the...

Sacked state minister Murad Hassan loses Jamalpur AL post too

Sacked state minister Murad Hassan loses Jamalpur AL post too

-- 2021-12-07 19:17:16

The Awami League’s Jamalpur District Unit has removed Murad Hassan as its health and population affairs secretary after he was ousted as a state minister over a scandalous audio leak of expletiv...

Bridging the skills gap

Bridging the skills gap

-- 2021-12-06 21:59:33

That there is incompatibility in education and skills of candidates on the one hand and employers' demands on the other was known but how wide the gap is has never been assessed precisely. Of late, th...

Fakhrul urges PM to clarify her stance on Murad’s offensive comments

Fakhrul urges PM to clarify her stance on Murad’s offensive comments

-- 2021-12-06 20:25:54

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to clarify her stance on offensive comments made by State Minister for Information Dr Murad Hassan against the Zia...

DU centennial celebrations

DU centennial celebrations

-- 2021-12-05 22:04:51

The 16-day centenary celebrations of Dhaka University began on its campus on December 1 amid much fanfare. The observance of the festivity will conclude on December 16, the Victory Day, coinciding wit...

Economic, social costs of a problem city

Economic, social costs of a problem city

-- 2021-12-04 22:11:48

That Dhaka is an overburdened city in all respects does not need any elaboration. The consequent bad effect on city residents is, thus, understandable. Even the impression the outsiders get while on t...

Mounting strict health checks at all points of entry   

Mounting strict health checks at all points of entry  

-- 2021-12-03 22:04:08

The report that the government has lost contact of the 240 people who recently returned from South Africa (SA) has been a cause for serious public health concern. If some of those returnees from SA we...

Awami League nominates Salina Hayat Ivy for Narayanganj city polls

Awami League nominates Salina Hayat Ivy for Narayanganj city polls

-- 2021-12-03 21:22:31

Awami League has nominated Salina Hayat Ivy, the mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation, as its mayoral candidate for upcoming election in the city corporation. The party took the decision at a joint...

Value-added agro-product export

Value-added agro-product export

-- 2021-12-02 21:40:09

It is indeed heartening that with the re-opening of exports of agro-products following the Covid-induced languor for around a year or so, exports have picked up significantly. The July-October export...