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Pandemic situation turns terrible for wrong policy: BNP

Pandemic situation turns terrible for wrong policy: BNP

-- 2021-07-27 21:29:23

BNP has alleged that the Covid-19 situation in the country has taken a terrible turn due to the government's indifference, failure and wrong policies. In a statement, party secretary general Mirza Fa...

Inspirational Tokyo Olympics   

Inspirational Tokyo Olympics  

-- 2021-07-26 21:46:59

No, not all roads led to Tokyo on Friday. But all eyes literally followed the inauguration of the greatest show on Earth, as the Olympics is dubbed. Why all roads could not lead to the Tokyo Olympic S...

Quader dismisses allegations of political harassment

Quader dismisses allegations of political harassment

UNB 2021-07-26 20:20:54

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that no one is subjected to any political case and harassment in the country. In a statement on Monday, Quader said that law enforcers make arre...

Stepped-up inoculation drive   

Stepped-up inoculation drive  

-- 2021-07-25 21:45:20

It makes one feel upbeat to learn that almost immediately after fixing the minimum age eligible to receiving Covid-19 vaccines at 30 years of age the government is mulling lowering the threshold furth...

The decline in workers' wage growth

The decline in workers' wage growth

-- 2021-07-24 21:30:27

That the wage growth of both low-paid skilled and unskilled workers dropped to a six-year low in the immediate past financial year (FY 2020-21), as measured by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS...

Need for vigorous post-Eid anti-pandemic drive   

Need for vigorous post-Eid anti-pandemic drive  

-- 2021-07-23 22:03:00

The eight days' pre-Eid-ul-Adha relaxation of the lockdown from July 15 has witnessed cattle markets packed with people buying or selling sacrificial animals. But few of the people in those markets, b...

Obaidul Quader expresses sorrow to holidaymakers for their sufferings

Obaidul Quader expresses sorrow to holidaymakers for their sufferings

-- 2021-07-20 17:16:30

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has expressed his sorrow to the homebound passengers for sufferings during their journey on the highways ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. Obaidul Quader admitt...

Celebrating Eid-ul-Azha in time of pandemic

Celebrating Eid-ul-Azha in time of pandemic

-- 2021-07-19 21:43:48

Amid a most difficult time, this year's Eid-ul-Azha like the previous year's, is going to be celebrated on a subdued note. This time the pandemic has turned more ferocious than it was last year. Many...

Khaleda takes first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

Khaleda takes first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2021-07-19 16:27:59

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has taken the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Khaleda Zia took the shot at Sheikh Russel Gastro Liver Institute and Hospital in the city’s Mohakhali area...

Dealing with dengue   

Dealing with dengue  

-- 2021-07-18 22:17:15

Bangladesh continues to be ravaged by Covid-19 and hard on its heels, the bewildered country witnesses a degree of emergence of the once-dreaded mosquito-borne fever dengue. The Dhaka City corporation...

Pandemic situation out of control in country, BNP says

Pandemic situation out of control in country, BNP says

-- 2021-07-18 20:20:48

BNP has alleged the coronavirus situation in the country has gone 'out of control of the government' due to its failure to contain the virus transmission effectively. The standing committee of the pa...

A welcome reform initiative   

A welcome reform initiative  

-- 2021-07-17 21:43:01

As advised by the ADB, the government plans to introduce an integrated registry system for all beneficiaries of the SNPs under the reform initiatives by June 2023 to avert 'mis-targeting and duplicati...

Awami League to observe month of mourning by helping distressed people

Awami League to observe month of mourning by helping distressed people

-- 2021-07-17 21:26:19

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the main programme of the upcoming month of mourning (August) is to stand by the distressed, working-class and poor people amid the coron...

GM Quader demands probe into vaccine, Covid test costs

GM Quader demands probe into vaccine, Covid test costs

UNB 2021-07-17 19:09:23

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Saturday demanded an investigation into the allegation of 'unusual expenditures' in coronavirus vaccine procurement, inoculation, and the Covid testing processes. "...

Saving tourism sector   

Saving tourism sector  

-- 2021-07-16 21:59:43

As it has happened globally, tourism in Bangladesh has taken the worst body blow. The loss sustained by the sector so far is to the tune of Tk 214 billion, according to an estimate. As the pandemic si...

Lifting ban on export of wet blue leather   

Lifting ban on export of wet blue leather  

-- 2021-07-15 22:12:50

The lifting of restrictions on export of wet blue leather has produced mixed reactions. In view of the drastic slump in prices of raw leather in the last couple of years causing colossal wastage, it s...

Quader urges BNP to stop spreading ‘lies’ about Covid vaccine

Quader urges BNP to stop spreading ‘lies’ about Covid vaccine

UNB 2021-07-15 17:24:31

Awami League Secretary General Obaidul Quader has dismissed BNP's allegation that the government is not doing anything for the marginalised and low-income groups hit hard by coronavirus-induced lockdo...

Ashrayan Prokolpo scam

Ashrayan Prokolpo scam

-- 2021-07-14 21:47:13

Under the title "Sheikh Hasina's Model for Inclusive Development", the AshrayanProkolpo (project) is a unique initiative for providing homeless and landless people with homes and land. It has been dub...

80 to 90pc people will be vaccinated by December, AL leader Hanif says

80 to 90pc people will be vaccinated by December, AL leader Hanif says

-- 2021-07-14 20:13:35

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahabubul Alam Hanif on Wednesday said about 80 to 90 per cent of the country's population will be inoculated by next December. “COVID-19 vaccines are being...

Democracy and development should get equal importance, Moyeen Khan says

Democracy and development should get equal importance, Moyeen Khan says

-- 2021-07-13 21:57:33

BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Tuesday said Bangladesh should prioritise democracy and development equally as freedom fighters sacrificed their lives to achieve these two objectives. The B...

Need for gender-centric fair play in job market   

Need for gender-centric fair play in job market  

-- 2021-07-13 21:51:27

The Covid-19 pandemic's manifold impacts on the livelihood of different segments of the population are becoming more and more evident with the passage of time. What percentage of the young female empl...

Violation of health rules to invite severe disaster, Obaidul Quader says

Violation of health rules to invite severe disaster, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-07-13 21:39:07

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has urged all to remain careful about the spread of coronavirus and not to make any mad rush at ferry ghats, bus-launch terminals and cattle markets...

Time is short for reaping demographic dividend   

Time is short for reaping demographic dividend  

-- 2021-07-12 21:50:38

The catchword demographic dividend for Bangladesh has long obtained a firm footing in the parlance of economists, development theorists, policy formulators, politicians and journalists. In a country w...

Preparing for flash floods   

Preparing for flash floods  

-- 2021-07-11 21:43:06

When the Covid-19 outbreak has almost started wreaking havoc on the country, with a lockdown in force, any distant allusion to floods makes people feel worried. When bad times hit a nation, they often...

BNP questions fire service's role in dousing Narayanganj fire

BNP questions fire service's role in dousing Narayanganj fire

-- 2021-07-11 18:40:24

Describing the horrific fire at the Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Narayanganj as an incident of murder, BNP on Sunday questioned the role of the Fire Service and Civil Defence as it took huge ti...

Obaidul Quader urges all to stand by distressed people

Obaidul Quader urges all to stand by distressed people

BSS 2021-07-11 18:34:44

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday called upon all irrespective of opinions and party affiliations to stand by the distressed and working-c...

Deaths in Rupganj factory fire

Deaths in Rupganj factory fire

-- 2021-07-10 21:35:26

Another deadly factory fire at Rupganj in Narayanganj district claimed at least 52 lives and injured many others. The fire that started at a food processing factory Thursday evening was truly devastat...

BNP sees ‘massive corruption’ in Ashrayan Project

BNP sees ‘massive corruption’ in Ashrayan Project

-- 2021-07-10 19:29:38

BNP on Saturday alleged that there has been ‘massive corruption’ in the construction of houses meant for landless people as the Prime Minister’s gift under the Ashrayan Project as ma...

Best motivation for people to pay tax   

Best motivation for people to pay tax  

-- 2021-07-09 22:00:47

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is learnt have got, what it said, history's highest amount of undisclosed money legalised by the end of last fiscal, FY2020-21. This has been possible, thanks to th...

State-owned jute mills -- from PPP to leasing out   

State-owned jute mills -- from PPP to leasing out  

-- 2021-07-08 21:39:19

Less than a year ago the government's decision to shut down the state-owned jute mills came with an assurance from the jute and textile minister-of reopening the mills soon under the Public Private...