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BNP is ‘trusted haven’ for militancy: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said BNP is a 'trusted haven' for militancy. "The BNP blamed the Awami League over the escape of militants from the court premises in Dhaka. But BNP is the sponsor of militancy. Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai had emerged...

National,Back Page

S Arabia-owned co refutes Bangladesh Post report

Saudi Visa & Travel Solutions Limited, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia government’s Saudi Company for Visa and Travel Solutions (SVTS), has refuted a news report run by the Bangladesh Post on October 18 under the caption "New visa centre by two Saudis trying to get embassy nod"...

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Full-scale Aman harvest begins in Khulna

Harvest of Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) paddy has been progressing in full swing at all the four districts under Khulna region for a couple of weeks.This year, Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has fixed plantation target is 2, 99,110 hectares of land and the production target has been set at...

Country

Marginalised families use hydroponics tech in veg farming

Some of the marginalized families, particularly the ethnic minority ones, have started using hydroponic technology for the first time in the region because the modern technology is suitable for growing vegetables.Shyamoli Murmu, 23, wife of Ramesh Murmu, Sabina Marandi, 27, wife of Pijush Marandi, a...

City

BNP organising picnic in the name of rally: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said that a big picnic is being held in the name of BNP rally. He said all this while talking to reporters at the secretariat on Sunday (November 20).In this context, he said, BNP is extorting money from b...

City

Repay the debt you owe to the community: BUET Pro VC

Bangladesh University of Engineering (BUET) has held an introductory meeting for Level-1/Term-1 freshers of the academic year 2021-22. The introductory meeting was held on Saturday 19 November 2022 in the afternoon at the Gymnasium Complex of Buet. About 1500 people including parents, students parti...

City

$18m inclusive education initiative launched

USAID’s new five-year $18 million Shobai Miley Shikhi (“Everyone Learns Together”) project will improve learning opportunities for primary school children in hard-to-reach areas,  with focus on those with disabilities or special needs.U.S. Agency for International Development ...

City

Bumper Aman rice output likely as harvest continues in Rangpur

Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and farmers are expecting a bumper production of Aman rice as its harvest continues now in full swing with excellent yield rate in Rangpur agriculture region.“Farmers are happy with the highest yield rate of Aman rice in the last ten ...

City

Transport owners, workers get paniced when BNP calls for a rally, says Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Joint General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League Dr Hasan Mahmud said that when BNP calls a rally, the transport owners and workers are all in panic.  Because in the past in 2013-15 BNP burnt bus-trucks.  They attacked buses and trucks and public...

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BMDC suspends registration of Impulse Hospital’s MD

Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC) has suspended the Registration of Prof. Dr. Ali Zahir Al-Amin, a senior Physician and ENT & Head Neck-Surgery specialist, for one year period alleging his negligence and carelessness in providing treatment to the patients.  Prof. Dr. Ali Zahir Al...

City

No benefit in intimidating Sheikh Hasina: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said there will be no benefit by issuing threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she never fears the showdown of BNP."To intimidate Sheikh Hasina will yield no result...although BNP leaders are in defensive mood in words, an aggressive s...

National,Front Page

Republicans narrowly win back the House

Republicans have secured the 218 seats needed for a majority in the lower chamber of Congress a week after the midterm elections, the BBC's US partner CBS News projects.While the party's margin in the House of Representatives is razor-thin, it is enough to stall President Joe Biden's age...

City

Govt committed to ensuring people’s security: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the government is committed to ensure people's safety and security and their properties in any circumstances."We know that BNP will go back to their usual path of terrorism to hide its failure. But we want to say clearly that the gove...

World,Front Page

Trump launches 2024 White House bid

Former US president Donald Trump has announced his third straight presidential bid to claw back the White House."I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," said Trump at a gathering of hundreds of supporters at his residence in Florida on Tuesday.Analysts say...

City

BNP wants to create public sufferings in name of rally: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said it is not comprehensible why BNP wants to create public sufferings through blocking one of the main roads of the capital in the name of holding rally on December 10."It is not right to create public sufferings through holding ralli...

City

BNP will no more be allowed to ‘play with fire’: Quader

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader warned that BNP would not be allowed anymore to 'play with fire' as the country's people would resist the BNP men."If the BNP men want to play with fire, the people will resist them. We have to remain active in field during the...

City

New trust fund established at DU

A new trust fund titled “Professor Dr Muklesur Rahman Trust Fund” has been established at the Department of Mathematics of Dhaka University (DU).  Retired Professor of DU Mathematics Department Dr Muklesur Rahman handed over a cheque for Tk. 40 lac to the Treasurer of DU Professor M...

City

Country is not safe in the hands of BNP: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said, "Those who chant 'take back Bangladesh, Pakistan was better', the country is never safe in the hands of them." They want to take the country back, they want to make it like Pakistan.He said this in the chief guest's sp...

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Bumper Aman yield will be achieved, says Razzaque

Minister of Agriculture and Awami League presidium member Dr. Abdur Razzaque said, there are field full of crops in the country. Aman paddy condition is good as of now, bumper yield will be achieved. Besides, the country has ample food reserves. If there is no major natural disaster, there will be n...

City

‘Digital industrial revolution challenges existing education system’

Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said that the digital industrial revolution has challenged the existing education system. Human civilization has entered a new era. The government, academia, industries and technologists should come forward in a concerted effort to meet the challe...