Tales of a lucky escape, grim ends
It is being called a miracle; a single moment that offers some semblance of hope in this bleak period.
14 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Proposed Budget: No concrete plan on rail network
Efforts to improve rail networks across the country, a core demand of the people, appearrhetoric rather than realistic in the proposed
2 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Go slowly, get costly
Be it construction of a road, a sea port or a power plant, almost all projects go through delays and cost escalations, a problem that
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Big boost for road, railway
Allocation for communications infrastructure saw a big boost in the proposed budget, though quality compliance will remain a concern
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Patients suffer across country
Patients across the country suffered a lot yesterday as doctors refrained from work at private healthcare facilities protesting vandalism
23 May 2017, 18:00 PM
News Analysis: Unexpected death, unruly protest
The premature death of a Dhaka University student at a private hospital, the subsequent vandalism there and Bangladesh Medical Association's decision to abstain from work for a day have left the nation shocked.
22 May 2017, 18:00 PM
PM intervenes to resolve feud
Several pro-Awami League teachers of Dhaka University yesterday heavily criticised their vice-chancellor in front of Prime Minister
16 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Hasina for promoting young AL leadership
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday suggested that her cabinet colleagues promote young leadership in the Awami League and in the next parliamentary election.
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM
DU Senate Election: Pro-AL teachers split with eye on VC post
The next election to the vice-chancellor panel of Dhaka University was the main reason behind the split in the pro-Awami League teachers' Blue Panel over the May 22 senate election, teachers said yesterday.
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Struggling, still
Nurul Amin saw his makeshift bookstore near Baitul Mukarram National Mosque being gutted in front of him during Hefajat-e Islam's
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Good news for heart patients
The longstanding anomalies in pricing coronary stents are set to be resolved as the drug administration started fixing the prices of the life-saving medical device for patients with blocked coronary arteries.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Heart patients at high risk
Cardiologists during their angioplasty and stent implant procedures on patients yesterday learnt stent suppliers went on an undeclared “strike”, putting heart patients' lives at stake and holding them hostage.
19 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Staff vanishes with Tk 10cr fertiliser
Fertiliser “disappearing”, fund embezzlement, and corrupt officials going unpunished plague the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) but a class-I civil servant “vanishing into thin air” with fertiliser worth crores of taka was a new low for the corporation.
17 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Where crimes draw no flak
A culture of impunity has been reigning supreme in the state-run Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) for years.
A look into the affairs of the corporation reveals that even a parliamentary standing committee could not get the corporation to take action against its officials for corruption, negligence and malpractice.
16 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Relief for critical heart patients
Heart patients in need of angioplasty and stents can have a sigh of relief as the government has moved to fix the uncontrolled prices of stents that had been worrying patients and their families for years.
12 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Cardiology dept choked by equipment shortage
The country's lone medical university, BSMMU, spent over Tk 1,000 crore in the last five years, but it could not afford to procure a Tk 6 crore worth of equipment for its catheterisation laboratory that has been out of order during the same period.
8 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Lone Medical University: Running without emergency unit since inception in 1998
The country's premier postgraduate medical institution, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), is being run without an emergency department since its inception in 1998.
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Law on land use okayed
The cabinet yesterday approved a draft law aiming to bring discipline in land management and prevent misuse of land in the country.
20 March 2017, 18:00 PM
2 officials of Chinese firm held at 'gunpoint'
Two officials of a Chinese company were held at “gunpoint” at the capital's Rail Bhaban for around five minutes apparently to prevent them from participating in a tender for a more than Tk 250-crore rail line project.
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM
Report on Anomalies: CCC probes info leak
The Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) authorities have formed a probe committee to find out how information regarding a Tk 115
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM