Saadat Husain | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
A lot of people prefer to describe Bangladesh as a country of infinite potential. It might help reflect their love for the country. High emotional attachment perches them to pulpit of high expectation. They disregard the need to deliberate on...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The loss in the legal battle for the opposition, seeking to nullify the February 02 controversial national elections in Thailand, has come as a relief for the government, but the crisis remains unresolved. The kingdom's constitutional court declined to consider...
Poly bags, banned in Bangladesh, have, according to a report published last Friday in this paper, reappeared in full force. Environmentalists have attributed flooding of such harmful bags to lax enforcement of the ban and absence of cheaper alternatives for...
Wasi Ahmed | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
It has been quite a while the country's readymade garment (RMG) industry is under the strictest of scanners following the incidents of factory tragedies. The scanning is no less strong at home than that of the overseas, and the interest...
Md. Rabiul Hoque | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
In 2008 and 2009, global economic crisis unfolded. After the crisis, a question was raised as to whether the kind of economics taught to students in economics departments was responsible for the widespread failure to predict the timing and magnitude...
It seems that Bangladesh National Cricket Team has been passing a bad patch as it has also squandered the golden opportunity to win against its illustrated opponent Sri Lanka. There is not much solace for the supporters of Bangladesh Cricket...
It will be a serious mistake if religion is solely blamed for making discriminatory approaches. But attention must be given to the point that our society is highly responsible for making such discrimination. Sometimes, it is claimed by some feminists...
The media often reports on domestic helps being brutally tortured by their employers. Only a few such incidents come out as the headlines of news and most of the incidents always remain in the dark. Most of the offenders are...
Md Zonaed Emran | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh and 10 other nations were branded as the 'next eleven' by the Goldman Sachs investment bank and economist Jim O'Neill in a research paper showed its high potential of becoming, along the BRICS, one of the world's largest economies...
S Iftkhar Murshed from Pakistan | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
Maulana Abdul Aziz, the chief cleric of the Lal Masjid in Islamabad, has never hesitated in projecting himself as a religious scholar. He was catapulted to fame in July 2007 when the government belatedly decided to cleanse the mosque complex...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said her newly elected government gives utmost importance to strengthen brotherly relations with Muslim countries and boost ties with them in the fields of trade and investment, reports BSS. The PM said this when newly...
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday alleged that the Election Commission is silent about attacks on pro-BNP candidates of the upazila elections, beginning today (Wednesday), reports UNB. "The houses of BNP-backed candidates are being attacked and looted...
FE Report | 2014-02-19 00:00:00
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) Tuesday quizzed Soumendra Lal Chandra Shailel, the former assistant personal secretary (APS) of ex-State Minister for Religious Affairs Advocate M Shahjahan Miah for alleged accumulation of illegal wealth. Deputy Director (DD) of the Commission Ahsan Ali...
Law Minister Anisul Haq Tuesday said the government favours dialogue with the political parties to boost the democratic process, reports UNB The possibility of a dialogue will increase after the on-going upazila polls, the minister told the Canadian High Commissioner...
A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) Tuesday challenging the legality of police firing on the students of Rajshahi University (RU) during their demonstration recently, reports UNB. Supreme Court (SC) lawyer Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua filed the writ...
The multi-phase upazila parishad elections beginning today (Wednesday) should not be seen as a referendum on the national political issues or popularity either of the government or the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), according to two prominent political scientists, reports...
Awami League (AL) joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif Tuesday said categorically that action would be taken against those who would be found involved in the audio message of militant outfit Al-Qaeda, reports BSS. He said this while speaking as the...
The nine-member Awami League Parliamentary Board (ALPB) will sit today (Wednesday) at 6.00 pm to finalise the party's nomination for Tangail-8 by-election, reports UNB. Awami League (AL) president and Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina will preside over the meeting that...
Six officials of the Prime Minister's Office appointed have got extension of their services on contractual basis, reports UNB. Public Administration Ministry issued separate notifications in this regard on Tuesday. The officials are Prime Minister's assistant personal secretary-2 Saifuzzaman, assistant...
Monthly connection fees for cable TV operators and subscribers have been re-fixed in line with the order of the High Court, said the Information Ministry in a circular Monday, reports BSS. According to the circular, cable operators cannot charge a...
The Supreme Court (SC) Tuesday turned down a petition seeking the cancellation of a defamation case filed against former army chief Moeen U Ahmed, clearing the way for continuation of the case, reports UNB. A 5-memeber Appellate Division bench headed...
A new witness in the trial of Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali Tuesday said Al-Badr cadres led by the accused had abducted his father for their camp in notorious Dalim Hotel during the War of Liberation, where he was subsequently...
SATKHIRA, Feb 18 (UNB): Unidentified miscreants early Tuesday set fire to the camp office of the ruling Awami League (AL)-supported chairman candidate in Ashashuni Upazila, which will go to polls on Wednesday. Zakir Hossain, chairman of Protapnagar Union Parishad, said...
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