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Protect youth from irregular migration
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Stop abusing cyber security ordinance
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Latif Seminary centenary celebration begins

Marking the 100th founding anniversary of Patuakhali Latif Municipal Seminary, a famous non-government secondary level educational
22 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Call to empower traditional CHT institutions

Speakers at a views exchange meeting yesterday called upon the government to empower the traditional social institutions of
22 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Friend of dogs and crows

When everyone in Faridpur town is going to work early in the morning, a 54-year-old man is seen walking on the roads with a bag full
22 December 2016, 18:00 PM

SUST students suffer closure

A clash among several factions of Bangladesh Chattra League (BCL) at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on December 21 prompted the university Syndicate to close it down for 15 days.
22 December 2016, 18:00 PM

A billion dollar opportunity

Bangladesh has 32 thrust sectors that have the potential to bring billions of dollars in investment and export earnings, according to a seminar organised by Dhaka Chamber of Commerce.
22 December 2016, 18:00 PM

ACC not functioning properly

According to the 'State of Governance Report' brought out by Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), the government's anti-graft body ACC does not follow up on over half the graft complaints it receives.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Youths becoming unproductive

The worryingly high rate of illiteracy, unemployment and inactivity amongst the youth of our country, poses a significant challenge for the state and society.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Couples crowd to adopt newborn

About 30 couples, most of them childless, applied till yesterday for adopting the newborn following her recovery from a roadside bush in Dinajpur municipality on Sunday.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Teesta chars turn green

Char areas of the Teesta river are covered in green now as vast tracts of the dried-up riverbeds have been turned into crop fields by the landless char people who have been cultivating various crops there in recent years.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Legendary folk artiste Abdul Gafur Hali passes away

Abdul Gafur Hali, the person considered to be one of the pioneer lyricists, composers and singers of Bangla folk, mystical and local songs, dies of old age complications at the age of 88.
21 December 2016, 08:21 AM

Loanee dies as NGO takes 2 cows

Hearing the news that an NGO had taken two cows from his house for failing to pay the loan installments, an ill school teacher
20 December 2016, 18:00 PM

TIB's report on public universities

Transparency International Bangladesh's (TIB) report on recruitment of lecturers in as many as 13 public universities makes for grim reading.
20 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Voluntary service to repair road

Residents of Nazirpur village in Muladi upazila of the district are voluntarily repairing a brick road at their own initiative to ease
20 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Cost overruns in public works

The 12.5 km Oxygen-Hathhazari road expansion project is three years too late. And that has pushed up the cost considerably.
20 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Tk 50 for cancelling Uber taxi order from now

Uber, a company that introduced an alternative taxi service for Dhaka city recently, has slapped a charge on cancelling an order after making a call for ride.
20 December 2016, 09:52 AM

A good start to the President's initiative

We are heartened by the successful holding of the first in the series of dialogues that the President has initiated with the political parties, on the appointment of a new Election Commission.
19 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Rise in migrant workers' death

It is depressing to note that over the last decade the number of Bangladeshi migrant workers who have died abroad has witnessed an alarming rise.
19 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Moulvibazar remembers 25 war heroes today

People of the district observe December 20 with sadness as more than 25 freedom fighters met their tragic death on
19 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Fugitive Kishoreganj war criminal dies

A fugitive war criminal of Kishoreganj dies due to his old age complications in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila.
19 December 2016, 07:39 AM

Bangladeshi migrant wins S’pore poetry contest

A Bangladeshi shipyard supervisor, Bikas Nath, has won the top prize in the annual poetry contest for foreign workers held in Singapore.
19 December 2016, 05:19 AM