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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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22 July 2022, 03:00 AM
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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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Coronavirus Screening: Measures at airport still not enough
A plane carrying passengers from the Chinese city of Kunming landed at the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 2:15pm yesterday. An aircraft of Turkish Airlines arrived from Istanbul around the same time.
4 February 2020, 18:00 PM
City polls questionable
The absence of opposition parties at polling centres has made Dhaka city elections questionable, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder said yesterday.
4 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Defaulted Loans: Tk 50,186cr rescheduled last year
Banks rescheduled a record amount of defaulted loans last year as part of their efforts to contain bad debt and show hefty profit.
4 February 2020, 18:00 PM
GP faces crisis over SIM sales
Grameenphone may not be able to sell new SIMs after a week or two as it has come close to exhausting the new connections it was allowed to sell by the regulator, said its CEO yesterday.
3 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh Bank Reserve Heist: Int’l payment system now slower, costlier
It has been four years since a band of hackers broke into this Bangladesh Bank’s account with the New York Fed with the intent to pull off what would have been the biggest cyber heist in history.
3 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Transport leaders score another win
Accepting another demand of road transport association leaders, the government has relaxed the experience requirement for getting a heavy vehicle driving licence.
3 February 2020, 18:00 PM
SSC Exams: Wrong test papers given at 4 centres
Wrong question papers were distributed among students during yesterday’s Bangla first part SSC exams at four centres in Barishal, Nilphamari, Jashore, and Feni.
3 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Preventing Coronavirus Outbreak: Govt has taken all necessary steps
Bangladesh has taken all necessary measures to prevent coronavirus from entering the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.
3 February 2020, 18:00 PM
China virus deaths top SARS toll
China said yesterday it urgently needed medical equipment and surgical masks as the death toll from a new coronavirus jumped above 360, making it more deadly than the SARS crisis nearly two decades ago.
3 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Organisational weaknesses exposed again
The BNP’s organisational weaknesses were exposed once again as the party leaders and activists failed to show up at the polling centres on Saturday, said party insiders.
2 February 2020, 18:00 PM
BNP observes subdued hartal
The dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced yesterday by BNP in Dhaka city, protesting “widespread irregularities” in the city corporation elections, ended peacefully with little impact on public life.
2 February 2020, 18:00 PM
The uphill battle to remove, recycle laminated posters
There is a major concern over the disposal of tonnes of laminated campaign posters without causing further damage to the environment and public health.
2 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Councillor Race: Tainted figures, rebels fare well
At least 17 controversial ward councillor candidates, all backed by the Awami League, emerged victorious in Saturday’s Dhaka city polls.
2 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus Epidemic: First foreign death reported
China yesterday imposed a lockdown on a major city far away from the epicentre of a coronavirus epidemic, as its death toll from the disease soared to 304 and the first foreign fatality was reported in the Philippines.
2 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Returnees from Wuhan: In quarantine, but not ideally
Sadman Sakib, 19, one of the 304 who returned from China and now quarantined in the Ashkona Hajj camp, was not very comfortable inside his two-bed dormitory room in Wuhan University.
2 February 2020, 18:00 PM
3 journos beaten up
In the absence of rival party activists, journalists covering the Dhaka city election at various polling centres yesterday were apparently a thorn on the side of ruling party candidates and their supporters.
1 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Voters keep off
The polling atmosphere was eerily festive. Almost too peaceful to be true.
Election posters flooded every nook and cranny of the capital. Supporters of the candidates, mostly from the Awami League, were seen outside the polling centres. Law enforcers patrolled the streets while peace prevailed.
1 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Ghosts around machines?
Unlike any polls in the past, eligible city dwellers yesterday were free to exercise their right to vote through machine, for the first time, at all centres across Dhaka.
1 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Snapshots of election day: As we saw it
Yesterday’s Dhaka city polls may appear to many a re-run of the national election held on December 30, 2018, because of some aspects.
1 February 2020, 18:00 PM
EVM Experience: Not smooth sailing at all
For most it was the first EVM experience and for many the experience was not pleasant.
1 February 2020, 18:00 PM