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Quader urges vigilance against vested interests

Quader urges vigilance against vested interests

UNB 2021-07-08 18:49:32

Obaidul Quader, general secretary of Awami League, on Thursday said that some elements are overplaying the defects found in the construction of only 24 out of thousands of houses gifted to the homeles...

Approving manufacture of OxyJet

Approving manufacture of OxyJet

-- 2021-07-07 22:23:22

At a time when Covid-19 critical patients requiring high flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) treatment at hospitals are dying because they cannot be provided with the same, a Supreme Court lawyer brought the wra...

Challenge of online cattle marketing   

Challenge of online cattle marketing  

-- 2021-07-06 21:42:36

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), has, as it did last year, launched the country's sole digital cattle market virtually on Sunday to facilitate pre-Eid-ul-Azha sale and purchase of sacrificial...

PM greets Raushan, GM Quader on Eid-ul-Azha

PM greets Raushan, GM Quader on Eid-ul-Azha

-- 2021-07-06 21:02:44

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday greeted Leader of the Opposition Begum Raushan Ershad and Jatiya Party Chairman, also the deputy opposition leader, GM Quader on the occasion of the forthcoming...

Helping the poor and vulnerable   

Helping the poor and vulnerable  

-- 2021-07-05 22:06:18

Newspapers in their Sunday issues carried in a number of stories concerning food aid for the poor in different parts of the country. In Lalpur of Natore, a telephone call to 333 brought succour for 26...

Buy vaccines urgently with money from mega projects, says BNP

Buy vaccines urgently with money from mega projects, says BNP

UNB 2021-07-05 19:05:26

BNP on Monday called upon the government to procure Covid vaccines on an emergency basis by diverting money allocated for mega projects as the pandemic has turned critical in the country. "Our specif...

BNP, NGO men cannot be found beside people, Hasan Mahmud says

BNP, NGO men cannot be found beside people, Hasan Mahmud says

BSS 2021-07-04 22:27:10

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP and NGO personalities, who are always busy criticising the government, cannot be found beside the countrymen during the COVID-1...

Fakhrul describes PM’s statement as unexpected, indecent

Fakhrul describes PM’s statement as unexpected, indecent

-- 2021-07-04 22:17:19

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday termed ‘unexpected, indecent and devoid of political etiquettes’ the Prime Minister's statements in parliament about Ziaur Rahma...

Schools under lockdown   

Schools under lockdown  

-- 2021-07-04 21:56:58

Schools and colleges which were scheduled to resume classes from June 30 cannot open before July 31. It is the latest extension of the countrywide school closure. Now that a fresh Covid-19 shutdown ha...

Capital Market Stabilisation Fund

Capital Market Stabilisation Fund

-- 2021-07-03 21:30:37

The formal launch of the Capital Market Stabilisation Fund (CMSF), it seems, is not far away as the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has published a gazette notification detailing...

Best way to reward migrant workers   

Best way to reward migrant workers  

-- 2021-07-02 21:43:45

The amount of unreserved appreciation that migrant wage-earners often receive from relevant quarters does hardly match the attention they get when in need. Consider, for example, the condition of the...

Wholesale ban on battery-run vehicles!   

Wholesale ban on battery-run vehicles!  

-- 2021-07-01 22:31:19

The decision of the government to impose fresh ban on battery-run vehicles all over the country has caused a mixed reaction. People concerned over road safety would no doubt appreciate the move. Howev...

Building explosion at Maghbazar

Building explosion at Maghbazar

-- 2021-06-30 22:36:53

The powerful blast that ripped through a four-storey building at Maghbazar is the latest of a series of such deadly incidents that has occurred over the years in Bangladesh. All such accidents have ta...

Khaleda has to seek mercy from President to go abroad, says law minister

Khaleda has to seek mercy from President to go abroad, says law minister

-- 2021-06-30 19:58:27

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has to first confess her corruption offence and seek pardon from the president before she can be allowed to go abroad for medical treatment, Law Minister Anisul Haq said on...

Projecting robust export growth   

Projecting robust export growth  

-- 2021-06-29 21:48:47

The overall performance of the export sector so far has defied pessimistic predictions made both by the local and international experts. So has that of the remittance sector. Obviously, such predict...

Two BNP central leaders quit

Two BNP central leaders quit

-- 2021-06-29 20:55:08

Two military-officer-turned BNP leaders have resigned from the party on personal and health grounds. BNP’s ex-forest and environment affairs secretary Col (retd) Shahjahan Mia and the party&rsq...

Desperate migration   

Desperate migration  

-- 2021-06-28 21:50:37

The Mediterranean Sea route used by illegal migrants from various nations to reach Italy and Greece has by now become infamous for breakdown or capsize of boats and consequent sufferings including sta...

Dhaka city's waterlogging   

Dhaka city's waterlogging  

-- 2021-06-27 21:34:16

This year witnesses a cat-and-mouse game of the rainy and sunny days. The season is one of pure monsoon though. This points to the capricious trends of Nature. Having gone through the pre-monsoon spel...

Moving towards cleaner energy

Moving towards cleaner energy

-- 2021-06-26 21:40:43

It is always important for everybody, be he or she an individual or a government policymaker, to keep in mind the adage, 'look before you leap'. Failure to do so very often leads to the wastage of bot...

Obaidul Quader describes BNP as party of repressors, looters

Obaidul Quader describes BNP as party of repressors, looters

-- 2021-06-26 20:30:16

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has described BNP as a political party of branded repressors and looters of people’s property. The road transport and bridges minister came up with...

1,557 journalists urge government to show sympathy towards Khaleda

1,557 journalists urge government to show sympathy towards Khaleda

-- 2021-06-26 20:25:08

A group of journalists have urged the government to show sympathy towards former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia by allowing her to take advanced treatment abroad considering her overall contributions to t...

Micro-finance bodies' entry to capital market   

Micro-finance bodies' entry to capital market  

-- 2021-06-25 22:17:24

It is indeed a notable turn of events that some non-government micro-finance institutions (MFIs) have been for the first time looking to the capital market to raise their funds. No doubt, in a culture...

Easing procurement of mechanised farm implements   

Easing procurement of mechanised farm implements  

-- 2021-06-24 21:46:02

The government's agricultural mechanisation policy providing for, among others, subsidies and loan facilities for procuring farm machines and tools by farmers is no doubt admirable.  Clearly, thi...

Can cut-off Dhaka contain Covid-19 spread?

Can cut-off Dhaka contain Covid-19 spread?

-- 2021-06-23 22:02:33

The much neglected, if not maligned, lockdown has got off to a reverse course. Earlier, the concern was to stop coronavirus's spread from the centre to the country's periphery. Now the attempt is to s...

Removing barriers to green growth   

Removing barriers to green growth  

-- 2021-06-22 21:53:53

Going green is nowadays the byword of most development circles including governments. And it is already common knowledge that the green option for a country's development is about reducing first its...

AL plans to celebrate its 72nd foundation anniversary Sunday on limited scale

AL plans to celebrate its 72nd foundation anniversary Sunday on limited scale

-- 2021-06-22 12:10:52

The Awami League, the oldest and largest political party in Bangladesh, will celebrate its 72nd foundation day in a restricted manner on Sunday, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The anniversary program...

Raising hilsha production

Raising hilsha production

-- 2021-06-21 22:19:31

The return of hilsha from the species' precarious existence is a highly successful story of science-based conservation. Right now the ongoing 65 days' ban on fishing in the sea is part of the conserva...

Saga of unprotected workers   

Saga of unprotected workers  

-- 2021-06-20 22:08:34

It's only in the recent years that day labourers in the construction and many hazardous works in Bangladesh cities are seen being protected by modern safety gears. The scenes are fleeting, and few and...

Once debt-ridden Bangladesh becomes loan-providing country, Obaidul Quader says

Once debt-ridden Bangladesh becomes loan-providing country, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-06-20 20:52:34

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Bangladesh, a debt-ridden nation 12 years ago, has now become a loan-providing country by making un...

The rising cost of living in Dhaka

The rising cost of living in Dhaka

-- 2021-06-19 21:57:41

Consumers do not need the help of statistics to know that their cost of living has gone up. They feel the pinch when their everyday spending on essentials, healthcare, education, transportation etc.,...