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Taking heart and moving ahead   

Taking heart and moving ahead  

-- 2021-04-23 22:39:42

As positive and negative news splash newspaper pages, one would like to pick up the upbeat ones as the nation passes through a hard lockdown regime. On the gloomy side, the country's rating in interne...

GM Quader demands withdrawal of lockdown immediately

GM Quader demands withdrawal of lockdown immediately

-- 2021-04-23 20:50:25

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Friday said the ongoing lockdown should be withdrawn immediately as it is not possible to achieve anything from such restrictions without ensuring people’s foo...

Obaidul Quader describes BNP as ‘visible patron’ of evil forces

Obaidul Quader describes BNP as ‘visible patron’ of evil forces

-- 2021-04-23 20:28:24

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is the ‘visible patron’ of anti-liberation and extreme communal evil forces. &ldqu...

Making the most of Export Development Fund   

Making the most of Export Development Fund  

-- 2021-04-22 21:35:54

The move to raise an Export Development Fund (EDF)--- one of the key export facilitating schemes of the government came at a time when the export sector needed it most. It has been learnt from reports...

Crop loss from heat shock

Crop loss from heat shock

-- 2021-04-21 22:13:43

That heat shock or heat injury has adversely affected standing paddy on 28,123 hectares of cropland in 36 districts, completely destroying the crop on 10,298 hectares is alarming news. It is concernin...

Making implementation effective   

Making implementation effective  

-- 2021-04-20 21:40:19

The quarter-three execution figures of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) came up in the Financial Express with a comprehensive and comparative analysis over the last decade in the lead item on Fr...

Hifazat leader Mamunul incited riots to grab power, say police

Hifazat leader Mamunul incited riots to grab power, say police

-- 2021-04-20 21:05:53

Hifazat-e Islam's Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque incited Kawmi madrasa students to riot by exploiting the opposition to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka in a bid to overthro...

Swelling rank of the poor   

Swelling rank of the poor  

-- 2021-04-19 21:40:33

Loss of jobs and income erosion combined together to push 16.38 million people below the poverty line during the first wave of the pandemic between March and September last year. During the same perio...

BNP demands release of arrested religious leaders 

BNP demands release of arrested religious leaders 

-- 2021-04-19 19:16:34

Voicing concern over the recent arrest of the religious leaders and alem-ulema in ‘false’ cases, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday demanded their immediate releas...

Lockdown-hit petty traders   

Lockdown-hit petty traders  

-- 2021-04-18 21:52:17

Any lengthy suspension of normal economic activities first hits the petty businesses. It has been seen in this country during non-stop hartals and other similar political programmes. Few seem to have...

Mirza Abbas accuses media of distorting his comments about Ilias

Mirza Abbas accuses media of distorting his comments about Ilias

-- 2021-04-18 21:25:17

BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas on Sunday claimed that some media distorted his remarks about the disappearance of their party leader M Ilias Ali. "It’s been published in a newspaper...

Some BNP leaders involved in Ilias Ali’s disappearance, Mirza Abbas says

Some BNP leaders involved in Ilias Ali’s disappearance, Mirza Abbas says

-- 2021-04-17 21:25:25

BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas on Saturday blamed several leaders of BNP, without taking any specific name, for the disappearance of BNP leader Ilias Ali. However, he did not mention any s...

Helping the poor during lockdown

Helping the poor during lockdown

-- 2021-04-17 20:56:10

The latest government move to distribute cash and food assistance to more than 16 million poor families across the country deserves strong appreciation. More than 3.6 million families, according to me...

Welcome step of direct purchase   

Welcome step of direct purchase  

-- 2021-04-16 22:08:35

The government's decision to buy Boro rice directly from farmers must have come as good news for those who toil the hardest to keep the nation's food supply in order. In what was dubbed a 'major polic...

BNP spreading propaganda over lockdown, Obaidul Quader says

BNP spreading propaganda over lockdown, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-04-16 21:30:56

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday accused BNP of spreading propaganda centring lockdown after their failure ‘evil politics’ ov...

Khaleda in ‘stable’ condition, doctors prescribe additional medicine

Khaleda in ‘stable’ condition, doctors prescribe additional medicine

-- 2021-04-16 16:54:01

A medical team has prescribed an additional drug for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia after reviewing the final report of her chest CT scan. Khaleda’s daughter-in-law Dr Zubaida Rahman, the wife of...

Exploring halal food markets overseas   

Exploring halal food markets overseas  

-- 2021-04-15 21:30:22

A move reportedly initiated by the government to facilitate export of halal food should be welcome given the high potential and the dire need of export diversification. It has been learnt from a FE re...

Ramadan: Its increased significance   

Ramadan: Its increased significance  

-- 2021-04-13 22:03:35

In a rare historic coincidence the beginnings of the month of Ramadan on the Islamic calendar and Baishakh on the Bangla calendar coalesce together on the same day. But this remarkable coincidence of...

Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru on life support

Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru on life support

-- 2021-04-13 16:42:33

Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru, who has tested positive for coronavirus, has been put on life support at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka. Khasru, the newly-elected president of the Su...

Unused allocation for the poor   

Unused allocation for the poor  

-- 2021-04-12 22:20:56

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's kind and timely initiative to help the poor and needy has sadly been undermined by the administration assigned to carry out the programme. Carried in a Bangla contempora...

Covid-19: Still no ray of hope   

Covid-19: Still no ray of hope  

-- 2021-04-11 21:46:48

As reports quoting the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) say more than half the country's 64 districts have already become high-risk due to the alarming rise in Covid-19...

Solar Home System and rural transformation

Solar Home System and rural transformation

-- 2021-04-10 22:16:58

The net benefit the country has received from the Solar Home System (SHS) is about US$1.7 billion, the World Bank (WB) has estimated. The SHS that started as a pilot scheme in 2003 with help from the...

GM Quader greets PM on Bangla New Year

GM Quader greets PM on Bangla New Year

-- 2021-04-10 21:13:07

Jatiya Party Chairman and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Ghulam Muhammed Quader on Saturday greeted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of the upcoming Bangla New Year-1428 by...

Coronavirus situation alarming, Fakhrul says

Coronavirus situation alarming, Fakhrul says

-- 2021-04-10 21:09:21

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said the coronavirus situation has reached an alarming level in Bangladesh due to the government’s “indifference and incapabil...

Keeping prices stable during Ramzan

Keeping prices stable during Ramzan

-- 2021-04-09 22:03:41

The Cabinet Division's recent letter to the Commerce ministry instructing it to take necessary steps towards keeping prices of key essentials stable during the coming Ramzan and informing the governme...

Addressing potato growers' storage problem 

Addressing potato growers' storage problem 

-- 2021-04-08 22:29:57

For some years now, contrary to reasons, good harvest of potatoes has turned out to be a cause of the growers' misery. While concerned quarters put it on a lack of planning, which among others include...

Salinity of Kirtonkhola water

Salinity of Kirtonkhola water

-- 2021-04-07 21:39:58

The river Kirtonkhola that once brought Barishal town - now city - the enviable sobriquet 'the Venice of Bengal' is in bad health. Intrusion of saline water from the sea has long been a serious proble...

Obaidul Quader urges party men to deal with Hefajat politically

Obaidul Quader urges party men to deal with Hefajat politically

-- 2021-04-07 17:25:00

Urging the party activists to prepare a list of the instigators of terrorism, anarchy and communal acts, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday asked them to deal with Hefajat-e-Is...

Lockdown unproductive due to mismanagement, BNP alleges

Lockdown unproductive due to mismanagement, BNP alleges

-- 2021-04-07 17:20:38

BNP on Wednesday alleged that the weeklong lockdown, enforced by the government, is only causing public sufferings instead of yielding any positive outcome to contain Covid transmission due to mismana...

Facilitation measures to speed up business   

Facilitation measures to speed up business  

-- 2021-04-06 22:04:10

The challenges facing Bangladesh in its transition to a middle-income economy are manifold. One of them relates to upgrading regulatory mechanisms. Many of our rules and regulations pertaining busines...