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Raising public health safety awareness   

Raising public health safety awareness  

-- 2020-12-01 22:11:34

Experts are not willing to relate any change in the Covid-19 infection rate to seasonal variations. However, compared to last month's situation when the infection rate saw a relative decline, the tr...

BNP demands involvement of armed forces in vaccine management

BNP demands involvement of armed forces in vaccine management

-- 2020-11-30 22:31:03

Members of the BNP’s standing committee have demanded to involve the Armed Forces and other relevant organisations in procurement, preservation and distribution of Covid-19 vaccine. The highest...

Job creation for youths

Job creation for youths

-- 2020-11-30 22:03:19

The Bangladesh Public Service Commission's reported decision to come up with two job circulars for appointment to the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) ---one of them especially concerning only medical g...

Extremist communal group trying to spread hatred: Obaidul Quader

Extremist communal group trying to spread hatred: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-11-30 19:55:56

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said an extremist communal group is trying to spread hatred among the pious people of the country by misinterpreting Islam. The road transport...

Mobile courts in full gear   

Mobile courts in full gear  

-- 2020-11-29 22:17:38

Although the scenes are not pleasant, the insouciant behaviour of a section of urban residents has invited them. It is their aversion to wearing Covid-19 prevention face masks which has prompted the...

Financing infrastructure projects

Financing infrastructure projects

-- 2020-11-28 22:43:24

It is nothing unnatural for the banks for not being interested in financing the infrastructure projects in the private sector. The banks are also found reluctant to lend money to big projects. The mai...

GM Quader says no visible preparation taken to tackle Covid second wave

GM Quader says no visible preparation taken to tackle Covid second wave

-- 2020-11-28 19:02:46

Though the coronavirus cases and deaths are surging with the beginning of winter, there is no visible preparation by the government to ensure proper treatment of patients in hospitals, said Jatiya Par...

CMSMEs in formal banking sector   

CMSMEs in formal banking sector  

-- 2020-11-27 22:47:11

There is no denying that the cottage, micro, small and medium scale enterprises (CMSMEs) have a robust presence in the economy.  The government and experts are keen on facilitating the sector's g...

Govt taking preparations for easier access to vaccine: Obaidul Quader

Govt taking preparations for easier access to vaccine: Obaidul Quader

-- 2020-11-27 17:26:37

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the government has taken all-out preparations to take coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines at the doorsteps of the people after the arrival of the vac...

Green climate fund   

Green climate fund  

-- 2020-11-26 23:00:25

Ever since the Green Climate Fund (GCF) was set up by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010, there have been talks on how to access the fund and the priorities for...

Zero tolerance to law-enforcers' drug abuse

Zero tolerance to law-enforcers' drug abuse

-- 2020-11-25 22:15:22

Notwithstanding the police headquarters' announcement of zero tolerance to drug abuse or involvement in drug peddling in any way by members of the police, such abuses are reported time and again. The...

Combating corporate tax abusing nexus   

Combating corporate tax abusing nexus  

-- 2020-11-24 22:42:22

Tax evasion by private individuals and multinational corporations is a bane of nations worldwide. Such tax abusers get away with their dishonest practice through legal loopholes as well as with the co...

Govt officials outnumber politicians in laundering money

Govt officials outnumber politicians in laundering money

-- 2020-11-23 22:07:01

If the involvement of more government officials than politicians in siphoning off money out of the country has surprised Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, it also testifies to a saga of corruption in g...

Case for dengue awareness   

Case for dengue awareness  

-- 2020-11-22 22:51:55

Following last year's trend, dengue cases have made their presence announced this year also from many parts of the country. The prevalence, as seen in the past, is highest in Dhaka. With the nation br...

The decline of mutual fund industry

The decline of mutual fund industry

-- 2020-11-21 22:14:47

It is natural for the mutual fund (MF) industry to show results in line with the overall health of the country's capital market. The performance of the market, barring occasional flare-ups, has been d...

Removing barriers to FDI inflow   

Removing barriers to FDI inflow  

-- 2020-11-20 22:17:08

Bangladesh's performance in the export and foreign remittance sectors has been impressive over the years. Excepting the early few weeks since the end of March when the pandemic-induced shutdowns wer...

Hasan urges BNP to find out reason behind Fakhrul’s contradictory statement

Hasan urges BNP to find out reason behind Fakhrul’s contradictory statement

-- 2020-11-20 20:03:08

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday urged BNP leaders to find out the reason behind inconsistent statements of their BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. “Mirza Fakhrul...

Govt introduces culture of enforced disappearance, Fakhrul alleges

Govt introduces culture of enforced disappearance, Fakhrul alleges

-- 2020-11-20 19:56:01

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that opposition leaders and activists are being made disappeared to stop the criticisms of the government for its 'misdeeds'. "The...

Bailout for dairy sector   

Bailout for dairy sector  

-- 2020-11-19 22:24:45

One of the key farm sectors hit hard by the pandemic, particularly at the initial months of unofficial lockdown, is the dairy sector. Although there are attempts lately to get back to business as usua...

Mirza Fakhrul goes into quarantine after his relative found Covid positive

Mirza Fakhrul goes into quarantine after his relative found Covid positive

-- 2020-11-19 14:25:31

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has gone into quarantine as one of his relatives who stays in his Uttara residence in Dhaka tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19). Fakhrul said...

Trade in bones and kidneys

Trade in bones and kidneys

-- 2020-11-18 22:04:31

A haul of a large number of human skulls and bones by the police from a house on Mymensingh's Ramkrishna Mission Road and unearthing by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) of a kidney-smuggling r...

Berthing constraints at Ctg port   

Berthing constraints at Ctg port  

-- 2020-11-17 22:27:26

Though it is not a peak season, the Chittagong port is still experiencing a heavy pressure from vessels waiting to be cleared. The reasons include congestions at the transhipments ports of Colombo and...

International Children's Peace Prize winner   

International Children's Peace Prize winner  

-- 2020-11-16 21:39:28

Bangladesh has got a recipient of a globally famed award considered children's Nobel Prize. The award is the International Children's Peace Prize and this year's winner is Sadat Rahman, a 17-year-old...

Tapping dry fish potential   

Tapping dry fish potential  

-- 2020-11-15 22:33:09

Media footage and photographs of sea-based fishing communities spreading their netted catch in the sun are common spectacles these days. The sights this year began appearing in early November and are...

Junayed Babunagari made new Ameer of Hefazat-e-Islam

Junayed Babunagari made new Ameer of Hefazat-e-Islam

FE Online Report 2020-11-15 16:19:35

Hifazat-e-Islam, a Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist party in the country, has elected its new ameer and secretary general on Sunday. A council meeting of the party has made Juanyed Babunagari its new Ame...

NBR-ICAB database for financial reports

NBR-ICAB database for financial reports

-- 2020-11-14 22:22:04

The Document Verification System (DVS) software, developed jointly by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB), is expected to be a handy too...

Huda’s vote counting ‘faster than America’s’ as results predetermined, alleges BNP’s Fakhrul   

Huda’s vote counting ‘faster than America’s’ as results predetermined, alleges BNP’s Fakhrul  

FE ONLINE REPORT   2020-11-14 20:25:16

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday blasted Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda for, what the opposition leader said as, making his office an ineffective institut...

Need for nations to fight  pandemic together

Need for nations to fight pandemic together

-- 2020-11-13 21:00:57

With the entire humanity faced with a common mortal enemy, the covid-19 pandemic, the expectation was that the world would fight it as one. It turns out that things have not happened exactly that way....

Fakhrul describes bus torching as act of sabotage

Fakhrul describes bus torching as act of sabotage

-- 2020-11-13 19:35:40

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday described recent incidents of bus torching in Dhaka as an act of “sabotage by government agents”. “Our experience says th...

Awami League names candidates for 27 local body polls

Awami League names candidates for 27 local body polls

-- 2020-11-13 19:22:23

The Awami League on Friday released its list of candidates for the upcoming polls to 27 local bodies -- seven upazila parishads, five pourashavas and 15 union parishads. The names of the candidates w...