Amphetamine Smuggling: Stopover Dhaka

A group of chemical traders in Chennai are found to be the kingpins of amphetamine smuggling from India through Dhaka, according to an investigation by the Department of Narcotics Control.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Good initiative, yet ineffective

While the government has taken steps to ensure victims of gender-based violence such as rape can go to local-level bodies for remedy, these initiatives largely fall flat because of little action and follow-up.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Faridul takes oath as state minister for religious affairs

Awami League MP Faridul Haque Khan took oath as the state minister for religious affairs last evening.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Veteran journo Muniruzzaman passes away

Celebrated journalist and acting editor of the Daily Sangbad, Khandaker Muniruzzaman, who upheld progressive ideals, secular politics and freedom of speech, passed away yesterday.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Smart NID for Expatriates: EC sending staff to 40 countries

The Election Commission will send its officials to 40 countries to hand smart NID cards to the Bangladeshis living there.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Covid-19 Vaccine: Work to ensure smooth supply, distribution

As Covid-19 cases yesterday crossed the 4.5 lakh mark, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked officials concerned to prepare for theproper supply and distribution of the vaccine before it arrives in the country.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Metro Extension, Transport Hub: Kamalapur station may shift northward

Bangladesh Railway and the metro rail authorities have agreed to a new plan which requires shifting of Kamalapur Station Plaza to a nearby location to make space for extending the MRT-6 line up to Kamalapur from Motijheel.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Defiant Trump allows Biden transition

President Donald Trump came his closest yet to admitting election defeat Monday after the government agency meant to ease Joe Biden’s transition into the White House said it was finally lifting its unprecedented block on assistance.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Tazreen Tragedy: ‘Got neither a penny, nor a fistful of rice’

Since the Tazreen Fashions factory fire on November 24, 2012, former senior sewing machine operator Shilpi Akter has left no stone unturned to support herself and her family of five, even though she had lost her ability for labour-intensive work.
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Incoming Passengers: Ensure no entry without Covid-free certificate

With coronavirus transmission on the rise, the National Technical Advisory Committee on the virus has urged the government to immediately bar airlines from bringing in passengers on international flights without valid Covid-19 negative certificates.
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM

The art of cargo theft

A syndicate has long been stealing imported goods after breaking the locks of containers at the Mongla Port and selling those in the local market, a DB investigation found.
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Secret Saudi Visit: Israeli PM met MBS, Pompeo

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held secret talks in Saudi Arabia Sunday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, several media said, in the first reported trip by an Israeli premier to the kingdom.
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Covid-19 Medical Frontliners: Incentive not reality yet

The government has failed to provide a special honorarium to healthcare professionals more than four months into its announcement of rewarding medical frontliners in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Antimicrobial Resistance: It’s worsening amid pandemic

Different bacteria have already developed resistance to most life-saving antibiotics, but widespread irrational use of the drugs during the pandemic have raised fears of even more drug-resistant germs.
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Make people wear mask

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in yesterday’s cabinet meeting asked the authorities concerned to make people wear facemasks outside home to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
23 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Govt to keep all safe from Covid

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday assured the people that the government has paid special attention to keep them safe from coronavirus amid apprehensions of deterioration of the situation in winter.
22 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Govt changes, but his ‘magic’ goes on

The rise of Monir Hossain, also known as Golden Monir, over almost two decades was unaffected by regime change because he knew how to keep high-ups in the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha and the housing and public works ministry happy.
22 November 2020, 18:00 PM

WHO envoy fears Covid third wave

A World Health Organization (WHO) special Covid-19 envoy has predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections.
22 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Badal Roy no more

Badal Roy, an iconic footballer of the national team, breathed his last at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday. He was 62.
22 November 2020, 18:00 PM

They’re enemy of state, nation

The High Court yesterday issued an injunction to restrain people from laundering money abroad, observing that those who do so have no patriotism and betray the country.
22 November 2020, 18:00 PM