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Now, it is lockdown   

Now, it is lockdown  

-- 2021-04-05 21:52:02

By all means enforcement of lockdown is a tricky issue. A complete lockdown is simply impossible for understandable reasons. So during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, it was euphemisticall...

Mobiles and adolescent girls   

Mobiles and adolescent girls  

-- 2021-04-04 21:41:08

The percentage of mobile phone users among the country's adolescents has long been a matter of guesswork. Till now few extensive surveys have been carried out to identify the number of these mobile us...

Health ministry's performance concerning

Health ministry's performance concerning

-- 2021-04-03 22:03:24

The country's health services came under massive public scrutiny last year when the deadly SARS-CoV-2 pathogen started taking a heavy toll on life and livelihood at an unprecedented pace. Certain weak...

Startups with novel ideas to grow   

Startups with novel ideas to grow  

-- 2021-04-02 22:01:50

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has taken yet another initiative to support startups with low-interest, collateral-free loans. With this end in view, a TK 5.0 billion refinance scheme has been created from w...

Obaidul Quader urges affluent people to stand by poor during pandemic

Obaidul Quader urges affluent people to stand by poor during pandemic

-- 2021-04-02 21:36:37

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday called upon the affluent section of society to stand by insolvent and distressed people during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The road trans...

Govt-backed syndicate behind price hike of essentials, Fakhrul alleges

Govt-backed syndicate behind price hike of essentials, Fakhrul alleges

-- 2021-04-02 21:31:14

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday voiced deep worries over the growing price hike of essentials and alleged that a government-backed syndicate is behind it. "We’re ver...

Anti-arsenic programmes on the backburner!   

Anti-arsenic programmes on the backburner!  

-- 2021-04-01 22:00:19

The uproar over arsenic menace more than two decades ago has, for strange reasons, died down. A silent but sure killer, arsenic was first detected in the country's ground waters in the mid nineties,...

Rizvi shifted to ICU

Rizvi shifted to ICU

-- 2021-04-01 19:20:52

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, who has been undergoing treatment at Square Hospitals for the past two weeks with Covid-19 infections l, was shifted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU)...

Extending South Asian land connectivity

Extending South Asian land connectivity

-- 2021-03-31 22:14:49

The golden jubilee of the country's independence has brought the world, more particularly most of the South Asian countries, closer. While the leaders of the leading nations the world over had words o...

Obaidul Quader receives first dose of Covid-19 vaccine

Obaidul Quader receives first dose of Covid-19 vaccine

-- 2021-03-31 17:35:39

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. After getting vaccinated, the Awami League general secretary posted some photos on his ver...

Rajshahi court issues arrest warrant against four BNP leaders

Rajshahi court issues arrest warrant against four BNP leaders

-- 2021-03-31 17:22:20

A Rajshahi court on Wednesday issued warrants for the arrest of four BNP leaders including BNP chairperson’s adviser and former city mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu in a sedition case. Rajshahi Metro...

Utilising potential of vegetable export   

Utilising potential of vegetable export  

-- 2021-03-30 22:14:18

With Bangladesh's export trade practically dominated by a single item, its diversification is now a top priority for the government. Considering that only 2.63 per cent (around 1.25 million hectares...

BNP finds no visible steps against coronavirus outbreak, Fakhrul says

BNP finds no visible steps against coronavirus outbreak, Fakhrul says

-- 2021-03-30 20:51:57

Though the coronavirus transmission has been surging alarmingly in the country, the government has no visible steps to contain the pace of outbreak of the deadly virus, BNP alleged on Tuesday. &ldquo...

Awami League scales down programmes amid virus case upsurge

Awami League scales down programmes amid virus case upsurge

-- 2021-03-30 20:23:43

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has asked supporters to scale down its programmes and adhere to health protocols after the government curbed assembly due to a fresh surge in coronavirus...

Police, BNP supporters clash in Chattogram

Police, BNP supporters clash in Chattogram

-- 2021-03-29 21:38:11

At least 20 people have been injured in clashes with the police during the BNP’s demonstration in Chattogram. The police detained Monwara Begum Moni, president of Chattogram Mohila Dal and form...

Jamaat, Shibir activists join Hefajat’s programmes, Islamic Gonotantrik Party says

Jamaat, Shibir activists join Hefajat’s programmes, Islamic Gonotantrik Party says

-- 2021-03-29 17:55:39

Islamic Gonotantrik Party Chairman MA Awal has said extremists from the anti-liberation and defeated forces like Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir have joined the ongoing programmes...

BNP leader Nipun Roy put on three-day remand in subversion case

BNP leader Nipun Roy put on three-day remand in subversion case

-- 2021-03-29 17:48:40

A Dhaka court on Monday placed BNP central executive committee member Advocate Nipun Roy Chowdhury on a three-day remand for allegedly plotting subversion activities including torching passenger buses...

BNP's Fakhrul accused government of destabilising country

BNP's Fakhrul accused government of destabilising country

-- 2021-03-29 09:05:34

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the government has destabilised the country with its ‘imprudent’ decision like killing of people. In a statement,...

Essentials' prices on the eve of Ramadan

Essentials' prices on the eve of Ramadan

-- 2021-03-27 22:03:40

With the holy month of Ramadan remaining a little more than a couple of weeks away, consumers are now bracing for yet another spell of hike in the prices of essential kitchen items. The poor, low and...

Boosting agro-processed food export

Boosting agro-processed food export

-- 2021-03-26 21:43:08

Despite limitations, the country's food processing industry has over the years been able to prove both its potential and success in meeting the growing domestic needs while also catering for overseas...

BNP says Dhaka sees undeclared curfew

BNP says Dhaka sees undeclared curfew

-- 2021-03-26 21:12:46

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the government is celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Independence without people by imposing an undeclared "curfew" in Dhaka. "...

Our pledge on 50th anniversary of independence   

Our pledge on 50th anniversary of independence  

-- 2021-03-25 22:31:25

Having reached the 50th year of our emergence as an independent nation, this March 26 bears a special significance. The significance is that Bangladesh as a nation has come of age and as such should a...

Fire at hospital ICU

Fire at hospital ICU

-- 2021-03-24 21:56:01

Investigation into the fire that broke out into the Dhaka Medical College Hospital's newly built intensive care unit (ICU) is yet to be completed. So there is no knowing about the exact cause of the f...

Challenges of sustainable and inclusive growth   

Challenges of sustainable and inclusive growth  

-- 2021-03-23 22:25:05

Industrialisation is the universally accepted path to economic development or growth. Bangladesh is no exception to this norm. But it is also true that environmental degradation caused by economic a...

Obaidul Quader urges all not to incite chaos over Modi’s visit

Obaidul Quader urges all not to incite chaos over Modi’s visit

-- 2021-03-23 18:46:45

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday urged all concerned not to incite any chaos centring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s forthcoming visit to Bangladesh. The road tra...

Fakhrul questions purpose of Modi’s upcoming visit

Fakhrul questions purpose of Modi’s upcoming visit

-- 2021-03-23 18:32:07

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has raised a question about the purpose of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Bangladesh. “Is the Indian Prime Minister co...

Does happiness index reflect true happiness?   

Does happiness index reflect true happiness?  

-- 2021-03-22 22:12:26

Happiness is a concept relative to various contexts and changes in situations. When it comes to measuring the extent of happiness of the peoples across the world, it proves to be a stupendous challeng...

Bracing for Covid-19 resurgence   

Bracing for Covid-19 resurgence  

-- 2021-03-21 22:06:51

With news making the rounds that a number of new overseas Covid-19 variants have already entered Bangladesh, lots of people have started feeling edgy. The strains allegedly include the pandemic virus...

BNP urges govt to identify ‘real offenders’ involved in Sunamganj attack

BNP urges govt to identify ‘real offenders’ involved in Sunamganj attack

-- 2021-03-21 21:34:00

BNP standing committee has demanded the government identify the real offenders involved in the attack, vandalising and looting Hindu houses in Noagaon village of Sunamganj's Shalla upazila through a f...

Covid resurgence: No time for foot-dragging

Covid resurgence: No time for foot-dragging

-- 2021-03-20 22:05:27

The worrying days are seemingly back. Both Covid-19-related infection and death have been on the rise from the first day of the current month. The number of people infected by the deadly pathogen last...