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22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Rohingya genocide case to proceed
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Rohingya Influx
Need 1 week to assess situation
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Wasfia 1st Bangladeshi to conquer K2
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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CU sexual assault: Fingers pointed at BCL men
22 July 2022, 03:00 AM
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Noab hikes newspaper price by Tk 2 from Jul 25
21 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Yet-to-start mega projects: Consider putting them on hold
21 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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‘You cannot remain silent’
21 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Electricity crisis may worsen
20 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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EC’s dialogue hits a snag as BNP skips it
20 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Journos provide antidote to the ‘pandemic of misinformation’
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for greater protection of journalists who are providing the “antidote” to what he has characterised as a pandemic of misinformation surrounding the Covid-19 crisis.
2 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Stimulus all set to unfurl
Government agencies and banks have almost completed their preparations to implement 18 stimulus packages worth Tk 95,619 crore to tackle the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
2 May 2020, 18:00 PM
RMG units reopening haphazardly
Nearly a thousand garment factories outside the capital, which resumed operation haphazardly since April 26, didn’t follow the reopening schedule agreed upon at a high-profile meeting five days ago, spurring a huge influx of workers to Dhaka and elsewhere amid coronavirus risks.
30 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Urban Poor Hit By Outbreak: Tk 2k to each of 50 lakh families
The government will provide Tk 2,000 this month to each of 50 lakh urban families clobbered by the shutdown of the economy.
30 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Test seekers swamping BSMMU
Twenty-five-year old Farzana Aktar has been suffering from fever, cough, sore throat, and muscle pain for the last five days.
30 April 2020, 18:00 PM
May Day: Large number of children work in tea estates
After her mother passed away, her father remarried and moved elsewhere, and so attending school became a luxury for 12-year-old Sheuly Munda.
30 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Are these right masks?
The authorities were only able to provide an insignificant number of American N95 masks to healthcare professionals fighting Covid-19 in the country. Now they have supplies of imported masks “equivalent” to N95 respirators, mostly from China.
30 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Rapid Test Kit: Gonoshasthaya finally gets nod for validation
In a dramatic development, the Directorate General of Drug Administration has allowed Gonoshasthaya Kendra to submit its home-grown rapid test kits for Covid-19 to BSMMU or icddr,b for validation.
30 April 2020, 18:00 PM
It has spread to all districts but one
The deadly coronavirus has wormed its way into every part of the country, except Rangamati, on the 53rd day since the first case was reported, claiming 168 lives until yesterday.
30 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus claims first journo, cop in Bangladesh
A senior journalist and a policeman, who were infected with coronavirus, died in city hospitals on Tuesday night.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Procurement Delays: Boro farmers of Sylhet in trouble
Delay in government procurement is forcing desperate farmers to sell their paddy at lower prices to rice mill owners and hoarders in Sylhet region.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Dhaka, Delhi will work together to tackle food crisis
Bangladesh and India yesterday decided to work together to increase food production to face the possible food crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Mugda hospital now at capacity
Coronavirus patients seeking admission had to be sent back from the gate of Mugda General Hospital yesterday as the public hospital in the capital was bursting at the seams.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
3 upscale pvt hospitals get testing permits
More than one and a half months after the detection of first Covid-19 case in Bangladesh, the government on Tuesday gave nods to three private hospitals for conducting coronavirus diagnosis tests on a limited scale.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Ramp up the response now
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases passed the 7,000 mark with record 641 new infections reported yesterday, the National Technical Advisory Committee has recommended scaling up case detection, isolation and treatment measures to tackle the crisis.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Closed Factories: Pay workers 60pc of gross salary for April
In a bid to avert job cuts and temporary closures during Covid-19 outbreak, the government yesterday directed ready-made garment factory owners to pay their workers’ salary by 60 percent for April.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
RMG Workers: Thousands rush in, raise fear of spread
Thousands of garment workers yesterday returned to work in industrial belts in Dhaka and elsewhere amid the nationwide shutdown, raising fears of a rapid spread of the novel coronavirus.
29 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Nearly half of RMG factories reopen
More than a thousand garment factories reopened yesterday amid coronavirus fears with many workers finding it difficult to reach workplaces for a lack of transport.
28 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Litmus paper we have lost
The London 2012 Summer Olympics had just concluded. On meeting me, a beaming JRC disclosed with some gratification that he had seen the fantastic opening ceremony. When I said, “We saw it too, Sir,” he aced a return, “At the Olympic Stadium?!”
28 April 2020, 18:00 PM
A colossal loss for the nation
National Professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury will be remembered for his extraordinary service to the nation.
28 April 2020, 18:00 PM