41st BCS police cadre: 100 candidates facing fresh verification
The interim government is re-verifying the background of 100 individuals who passed the 41st Bangladesh Civil Service examinations and were recommended for police cadre jobs.
3w ago
Sheikh clan’s lust for duty-free cars
With an almost decimated opposition and farcical elections, a party nomination from the ruling Awami League was as good as a seat in the parliament.
3w ago
Interim govt struggling on many fronts
The government on around a dozen occasions has backtracked on its decisions during its two months in office, casting doubts about its resolve.
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Mahalaya to Vijaya Dashami: What this year’s Durga Puja predicts
Durga Puja, an annual Hindu festival, celebrates the divine force “Shakti” embodied in Goddess Durga. This year, Mahalaya falls on 2 October, marking the start of Devi Paksha. Durga arrives on 3 October by palanquin, considered inauspicious, and departs on 12 October by horse.
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Cops still afraid to come out of cocoon
An overarching sense of frustration, apprehension, and opportunism prevails over the police force, rendering it virtually dysfunctional.
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Forging unity with islamist parties: Jamaat eyes large electoral alliance
The vacuum in the wake of the Awami League’s departure from the political arena and the BNP’s impending reemergence as number one are leading other parties to peel away from these major players and seek to make their own spheres of alliance.
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BNP forms six panels for reforms
The BNP has formed six committees to formulate the party’s reform proposals in line with its 31-point outline aimed at reforming the constitution and state system and ensuring economic emancipation, said party sources.
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Post-August 5 politics: BNP, Jamaat drifting apart
The taunts and barbs leave little room for doubt that the 33-year-old ties have soured. Since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government on August 5, BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders have differed in private and in public on various issues, including reforms and election timeframe.
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June 29, 2017
Out canvassing in Eid time
Leaders of major political parties used the Eid holidays to campaign for the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2019.
June 18, 2017
Strange expenditure
The foreign ministry owes the home ministry Tk 3,786 crore which Bangladesh embassies and missions collected in passport and visa processing fees. The dues have accumulated over 16 years, and now the home ministry has asked the finance ministry to make the foreign ministry pay up.
June 2, 2017
FFs to get 2 festival bonuses
The proposed budget brings some good news for war heroes.
May 23, 2017
AL to float its 'Islamic wing'
The ruling Awami League is considering floating a new front, which will be the party's religious wing with representatives from Islamic scholars and thinkers.
May 21, 2017
BNP-Jamaat infiltrators creating divisions in AL
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said divisions have been created within the ruling party because of infiltration by BNP-Jamaat men, and blamed some of her party lawmakers for this.
May 20, 2017
MPs may come under fire
When the Awami League sits for a special extended meeting of the party at the Gono Bhaban today, party ministers and lawmakers may expect some rebuke from the grassroots leaders.
May 11, 2017
Vision 2030 is nothing but a joke
The “Vision 2030” unveiled by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was nothing but “a joke and an attempt to deceive the nation”, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday.
May 8, 2017
AL to warm up with 7 city polls
The ruling Awami League has taken the polls to seven city corporations quite seriously as, by winning those, it wants to boost the morale of party activists ahead of the 11th national polls.
May 1, 2017
Eid bonuses for war heroes
The celebration of Eid will be more joyous for the freedom fighters as the government has decided to give them Eid bonuses.
April 28, 2017
Lightning Casualties: Govt to focus on forecast
Even a few years ago, metal objects in the shapes of tridents, crescents, stars and roosters could be seen on the roofs of buildings. They are hardly seen anymore.
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