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Addressing pandemic-induced poverty

Addressing pandemic-induced poverty

-- 2021-01-26 22:26:58

The latest survey by a reputed local think tank on how the pandemic impacted people's livelihoods has come up with disquieting results. The study was conducted between November and December last year....

Home for the homeless

Home for the homeless

-- 2021-01-25 21:47:55

Handing over 66,189 newly built houses to homeless people on a single day under a government programme is unique and perhaps unprecedented in the chronicle of governance anywhere in the world. Homeles...

Dispelling bird flu fears

Dispelling bird flu fears

-- 2021-01-24 22:11:04

After a considerably long gap, a potential outbreak of bird flu appears to be casting shadows across. The virus is borne by poultry and poultry products. Following a January 13 FE report on the detect...

Getting out of the new normal

Getting out of the new normal

-- 2021-01-22 21:51:25

History is replete with pandemics and their dreadful consequences. But in recent memory, any other pandemic of the Covid-19's scale and deadliness is quite unheard of. Modern science, despite its adva...

Poor monitoring responsible for financial embezzlement

Poor monitoring responsible for financial embezzlement

-- 2021-01-21 21:37:11

It has become almost customary over the years that financial scams in the country get unearthed only after the misdeeds have been committed. In the banking sector, while  non-performing loans (NP...

45 BNP activists sued over Ctg BNP office attack

45 BNP activists sued over Ctg BNP office attack

-- 2021-01-21 16:36:12

A case has been filed against 45 BNP leaders and activists a day after an attack of BNP office in Chattogram city. Md Mosharaful Haque, Executive Member of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chattogram...

No ‘planning’ for proper distribution of vaccine, BNP says

No ‘planning’ for proper distribution of vaccine, BNP says

UNB 2021-01-20 20:45:16

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that the government has no ‘roadmap’ and ‘planning’ for the proper distribution of coronavirus vaccine....

Is election violence becoming neo normal?

Is election violence becoming neo normal?

-- 2021-01-20 20:35:26

Violence in municipality polls leading to death of at least two persons --- one of them a councillor-elect in Sirajganj --- has definitely mired the system of people's representative at the local gove...

Saving poultry and dairy industries

Saving poultry and dairy industries

-- 2021-01-19 21:43:38

Like other industries of Bangladesh, the livestock sector, which includes the poultry and the dairy industries, has also been adversely impacted by the shutdowns enforced to combat the pandemic. Unfor...

Former minister Inu tests positive for coronavirus

Former minister Inu tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2021-01-18 23:09:47

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JASOD) president and former information minister Hasanul Haq Inu has tested positive for the coronavirus after hospitalisation. Inu was taken to Bangladesh Specialised Hospit...

Making level crossings safer

Making level crossings safer

-- 2021-01-18 22:09:39

Can the country's unsafe level crossings be made reasonably safe for pedestrians and vehicles using those and the trains running on railway tracks? If the latest initiatives taken jointly by the Bangl...

Circular railway for Dhaka   

Circular railway for Dhaka  

-- 2021-01-17 22:35:02

With four mass rapid transit (MRT) projects in line, the fast-progressing being the metro rail-based MRT-6, Dhaka is preparing to embark on yet another massive project. Following many South Asian citi...

AL approves int'l affairs subcommittee for 2019-22 

AL approves int'l affairs subcommittee for 2019-22 

-- 2021-01-17 20:37:25

Bangladesh Awami League on Sunday named the members of its International Affairs Subcommittee for2019-2022. AL General Secretary and Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader approved the s...

Awami League turned Bangladesh into 'death valley', BNP alleges

Awami League turned Bangladesh into 'death valley', BNP alleges

UNB 2021-01-17 19:23:04

Denouncing the killing of its councillor-elect in Saturday’s Sirajganj municipal polls, BNP on Sunday alleged that the Awami League has turned Bangladesh into a "death valley" as justice has dis...

Fixing LPG price

Fixing LPG price

-- 2021-01-16 22:15:00

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has done what has been long overdue. It held the first-ever hearing on uniform LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) pricing on Thursday last in line with a...

People reply to BNP’s falsehood over polls, Obaidul Quader says

People reply to BNP’s falsehood over polls, Obaidul Quader says

-- 2021-01-16 20:50:52

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the people have replied to BNP’s falsehood centring the polls by exercising their franchise in a huge number amid festivity and ent...

BNP makes allegations of vote fraud in municipality polls

BNP makes allegations of vote fraud in municipality polls

-- 2021-01-16 20:44:06

BNP alleged that ruling party supporters captured most polling stations during municipality polls on Saturday as they did during national elections. "We’ve information that the ruling party did...

Surveying country's smaller bridges, culvers   

Surveying country's smaller bridges, culvers  

-- 2021-01-15 22:24:51

The repair and maintenance work for a large number of smaller physical infrastructures spread across the country is facing serious hurdles. The reason is the government body that looks after the work,...

Reintegration scheme for returnee migrant workers   

Reintegration scheme for returnee migrant workers  

-- 2021-01-14 22:27:15

Like many of the downsides of government policies aimed at calming the impact of the pandemic on life and livelihood, the reintegration plan for returnee migrant workers is far from adequate, and it i...

Saga of LPG cylinder tragedies

Saga of LPG cylinder tragedies

-- 2021-01-13 21:56:18

The latest leak of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) from cylinders causing fire in which an entire family of four perished in Gazipur has now become a dreaded saga. Such leaks and subsequent combustions of...

Fakhrul accuses AL of establishing ‘reign of robbery’

Fakhrul accuses AL of establishing ‘reign of robbery’

UNB 2021-01-13 17:01:35

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that the government has established a ‘reign of robbery’ in the country by indulging in widespread ‘plundering&...

Deadlock over container handling   

Deadlock over container handling  

-- 2021-01-12 22:07:21

The complications created over the apparel exporters' refusal to use the privately-operated Inland Container Depots (ICDs) warrant prompt addressing. It involves the interests of two important private...

Workplace fatalities

Workplace fatalities

-- 2021-01-11 22:42:37

In the 10 months of a year when Covid-19 claimed more than 700 lives a month on an average, 729 fatalities at workplaces do not, on paper, look frightening enough. But a closer look will definitely pr...

Demolition of illegal structures

Demolition of illegal structures

-- 2021-01-10 23:03:26

A demolition drive targeting illegal structures has been on for nearly a couple of weeks in the capital. Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation are conducting the campaigns. The...

Case filed against 40 BNP men for 'threatening to oust govt’

Case filed against 40 BNP men for 'threatening to oust govt’

-- 2021-01-10 12:31:48

A case was filed against 40 leaders and activists of BNP for threatening to oust government through an armed movement. AKM Shamsuzzaman Chowdhury, president of Patiya upazila unit Awami League filed...

Cooling off rice market      

Cooling off rice market    

-- 2021-01-09 22:20:20

The government late last week reduced the taxes on rice imports by a big margin--- from 62.5 per cent to 10 per cent--- amidst the prices of the item soaring to a record level. The decision is desig...

Maintaining health protocol even after vaccination begins

Maintaining health protocol even after vaccination begins

-- 2021-01-08 22:04:59

The brief uncertainty surrounding Bangladesh's receipt of Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine from India seems to be over. Also, as assured by Bangladesh government's top health officials, the vaccine should be...

Awami League’s workshop on career planning on Saturday

Awami League’s workshop on career planning on Saturday

-- 2021-01-08 19:18:51

The ruling Awami League will hold a workshop titled ‘Karmojiboner Karmoshala’ on Saturday with a view to providing guidelines to youth in making career planning and enhancing skills. Unde...

Rizvi describes Hasina’s speech as ‘black document of falsehood’

Rizvi describes Hasina’s speech as ‘black document of falsehood’

-- 2021-01-08 19:12:54

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has described Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent address to the nation as a ‘black document of falsehood’. "We want to make i...

Good news for light engineering   

Good news for light engineering  

-- 2021-01-07 22:28:20

Lately, it appears that the country's light engineering industry is going to get some encouragement from the government in terms of framing policies as well as taking moves to better utilise the pot...