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AL leader Matia urges all to resist ‘communalism’ following Sunamganj violence

AL leader Matia urges all to resist ‘communalism’ following Sunamganj violence

-- 2021-03-20 21:37:51

Matia Chowdhury, a member of the Awami League presidium, has urged all to build resistance to “communalism” after attacks on Hindu homes in Sunamganj’s Shalla, reports bdnews24.com....

Obaidul Quader urges people to resist extreme radical forces

Obaidul Quader urges people to resist extreme radical forces

-- 2021-03-20 19:48:06

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged the people to remain united under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resist the extreme radical forces. The road transport and b...

Making one-stop services work   

Making one-stop services work  

-- 2021-03-19 22:05:29

Before making an investment decision, a foreign company would like to be sure that the environment of doing business in the country of choice is congenial. Does Bangladesh meet the criteria of a sough...

Moudud Ahmed laid to rest at family graveyard in Noakhali

Moudud Ahmed laid to rest at family graveyard in Noakhali

-- 2021-03-19 21:42:12

BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed was laid to eternal rest at his family graveyard in Noakhali’s Companyganj after several rounds of funeral prayers in Dhaka and Noakhali on Wednesday. The 81-y...

Lab test for boosting export of farm products   

Lab test for boosting export of farm products  

-- 2021-03-18 22:20:46

The proposed Action Plan to boost export of farm products appears to be no more than a routine exercise as it tends to see high yield as the main factor for increasing exports. What actually is equa...

Accidents at project sites

Accidents at project sites

-- 2021-03-17 22:01:40

The collapse of a girder and a pier cap in separate incidents at different Bus Rapid Transit (BRT-3) construction sites on the same day within six hours looks somewhat coincidental. But this is no coi...

Salvaging economy's backbone   

Salvaging economy's backbone  

-- 2021-03-16 22:00:18

The stimulus package amounting to Tk 20 billion that the government announced in mid-April last year to bail out the pandemic-hit Cottage, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CMSMEs) is yet to be ful...

Addressing causes behind child marriage   

Addressing causes behind child marriage  

-- 2021-03-15 22:22:04

As many as 13,886 underage girls of this land were married off in just seven months between April and October, 2020. The accelerated rate of child marriage is most likely to have continued in the next...

Economy suffered serious setback due to misdeeds of BNP, Quader alleges

Economy suffered serious setback due to misdeeds of BNP, Quader alleges

-- 2021-03-15 20:40:08

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said BNP’s affection on artificial spirit of the Liberation War is nothing but to gain interest. The road transport and bridges minister...

BNP demands withdrawal of restriction on political programmes

BNP demands withdrawal of restriction on political programmes

-- 2021-03-15 20:37:58

Expressing wonder over the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP’s) instruction on avoiding political programmes between March 17 and March 26 on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of Independe...

Bangla Academy Book Fair ’21   

Bangla Academy Book Fair ’21  

-- 2021-03-14 22:09:57

After nearly a month of debates, and views for and against, the Bangla Academy Ekushey Book Fair is set to begin on March 18. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the event virtually...

Rising fatalities from non-communicable diseases

Rising fatalities from non-communicable diseases

-- 2021-03-13 22:32:13

As elsewhere in the world, all attention is now focussed here in Bangladesh on taming a scourge called Covid-19, caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The factors such as the fast spread of the disease from...

Turning South Asia into global growth hub   

Turning South Asia into global growth hub  

-- 2021-03-12 22:26:00

Bangladesh and its other South Asian neighbours have not been able so far to exploit the full potential of the region's connectivity and thereby benefit from it. As a recent World Bank (WB) report has...

Rehman Sobhan suggests local representatives be held liable or voted out

Rehman Sobhan suggests local representatives be held liable or voted out

-- 2021-03-12 11:37:52

Eminent economist Prof Rehman Sobhan on Thursday said local public representatives should be held accountable, if they fail to deliver public services properly. Otherwise, they should be voted out th...

Parking spaces for vehicles in the capital   

Parking spaces for vehicles in the capital  

-- 2021-03-11 22:15:47

Well over a year ago the Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) approved a proposal to set up 64 parking places in the capital. The decision that came in a meeting chaired by the road transpo...

Women entrepreneurs prove their mettle

Women entrepreneurs prove their mettle

-- 2021-03-10 22:13:59

There are many inspiring stories of women successfully exploring their entrepreneurship by using digital platforms during the testing time of confinement to home on account of the coronavirus pandemic...

Plan to boost export of agricultural goods   

Plan to boost export of agricultural goods  

-- 2021-03-09 22:05:06

The fact that the government has included agriculture in its current export policy as a priority sector is undoubtedly a right step forward. Though various agricultural items produced by our farmers e...

Saving the Sunderbans   

Saving the Sunderbans  

-- 2021-03-08 21:37:29

If the year 2020 will go down in history as the darkest year marked by the coronavirus pandemic, some of the worst threats the humankind encountered at the same time were naturally overshadowed by i...

BD-India rail connectivity   

BD-India rail connectivity  

-- 2021-03-07 22:26:48

Bangladesh and India have in the recent years focused, with renewed zeal, on revving up railway connectivity between the two countries. It underscores the two governments' eagerness to enter a unique...

Passing of idle time by a special tribunal

Passing of idle time by a special tribunal

-- 2021-03-06 22:09:52

That the special tribunal formed to deal with stock market-related cases has been sitting idle for nearly three years would surely surprise many. With stories galore involving irregularities and mani...

Obaidul Quader describes BNP’s March 7 observance as hypocrisy

Obaidul Quader describes BNP’s March 7 observance as hypocrisy

-- 2021-03-06 19:47:08

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday termed BNP’s announcement to observe the historic March 7 “nothing but another political hypocrisy” and said that the party...

Awami League destroying nation with arrogance, Fakhrul alleges

Awami League destroying nation with arrogance, Fakhrul alleges

-- 2021-03-06 19:45:19

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the ruling Awami League is destroying the whole nation with their power, pride, arrogance and to create a circle of corruption. He a...

Benefit for consumers from import tax waivers

Benefit for consumers from import tax waivers

-- 2021-03-05 22:04:00

To the common consumers, price volatilities in the essential commodities market seem to be the only constant in life. As such, they often accept, grudgingly though, even any irrational price hike of t...

Quader slams BNP leader for hinting at recurrence of Aug 15 incident

Quader slams BNP leader for hinting at recurrence of Aug 15 incident

-- 2021-03-05 21:57:47

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said Friday said the people are angry at the provocative comment made at BNP’s Rajshahi divisional rally hinting at a recurrence of another August 1...

NBR automation still in the lurch   

NBR automation still in the lurch  

-- 2021-03-04 22:04:26

Despite the hype generated by digitisation in the country, it is still intriguing why some of the key areas where digitised automation is most needed are yet to see any visible outcome. The National...

From clinic to medical college

From clinic to medical college

-- 2021-03-03 22:01:18

Like the proverbial transformation from a molehill to a mountain, a clinic in Rangpur town became a medical college. It is one of several such specialised and highest seats of learning this country ha...

Research and industry-oriented education system   

Research and industry-oriented education system  

-- 2021-03-02 22:14:26

Admittedly, Research and Development (R&D) in Bangladesh is a much neglected sector of the economy. A look at the poor condition of research, especially, at the universities or at the different go...

High incidence of head-on traffic collision   

High incidence of head-on traffic collision  

-- 2021-03-01 22:15:48

If road accidents are an endemic problem in this country, at times their surge and fatalities become nightmarish. Right now roads and highways all across the country are experiencing one such abnormal...

Chhatra Dal used Jatiya Press Club as shield during clash, Hasan says

Chhatra Dal used Jatiya Press Club as shield during clash, Hasan says

-- 2021-03-01 21:19:17

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday said Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) recently carried out attack on police personnel using the Jatiya Press Club (JPC)  as their shield. “Jati...

ACC grills Amir Khosru over wealth

ACC grills Amir Khosru over wealth

-- 2021-03-01 18:08:30

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has quizzed Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, a member of the BNP’s Standing Committee, for two hours over allegations of accumulating “illegal wealth&rdqu...