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Battery-run rickshaw, van, easy bike are seized and dumped in Bata Gate area in Gazipur by the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway

Questions Bangladeshi media doesn't ask about easy bikes

Nearly 6,000 seized motorised rickshaws and easy bikes have been seized and kept at Bata Gate and the T&T ground in Gazipur. That means, drivers of 6,000 engine-run rickshaws, vans and easy bikes ...

Adiba Islam along with her mother takes part in a human chain in Dhaka’s Shahbagh on 10 December 2021. Adiba Islam’s father was one of many victims of enforced disappearance.

Human rights Allegations of enforced disappearance increase in Bangladesh

The committee also put emphasis on the responsibilities of the government to protect the families of the victims of enforced disappearance, rights activists and civic bodies from any threats

Editorial

New website No justification of launching ‘Janatar Sarkar’

Questions have also arisen whether the new website is a tool to know the details of the citizens in the name of learning their opinions especially before the coming parliamentary elections

Gas crisis

Dhaka and its neighbourhood Gas crisis hits hard kitchens, industries

Titas Gas sources said complaints are being filed from almost all areas of Dhaka while the most are coming from Mohammadpur, Mirpur, Paikpara, Rampura, Jatrabari, Old Dhaka, Kalyanpur and Uttara

Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka

Hazrat Shahjalal airport Ground handling work of 3rd terminal to be outsourced to int’l standard org

The chairman said that Biman Bangladesh Airlines has been asked several times to take care of every single luggage. They were even asked to treat luggage as passengers, but they did not listen to ...

Editorial

Human Development Index: No scope to be complacent

But there is no scope to be complacent over this success. We must remember that the country is faring well overall. As many as 128 countries are ahead of Bangladesh

Editorial

Corruption in service sector Culture of rampant bribery must stop

Before coming to power, AL in its election manifesto talked about showing zero tolerance to corruption. But its reflection was seen in a very few sectors in the last 13 years of its tenure. Instead, ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan speaks at an interactive session with officers of Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC on 2 September 2022

Govt to review issue of reintroducing MRPs in the USA: Home Minister

The home minister further said the distribution of NID cards has been handed over to the home ministry at the directives of the prime minister so that all the citizens of the country get its ...

MA Mannan, Sultana Kamal, Debapriya Bhattacharya and Stefan Liller.

Youth conference Let youths’ voice be included in state governance

Youth community has to practice their citizen rights being involved in the state’s governance by exercising their suffrage

Editorial

Unregistered clinics, hospitals: Close monitoring required

To strengthen and make the private health care sector effective, it is crucial to ensure that no one can open hospitals and clinics bypassing the law

Parliament building

Govt’s wrong policy, mismanagement at root of present crisis: Oppositions

Nasrul Hamid labeled the opposition parliamentarians as people with ‘gold-fish memory’ and said they forgot everything and are playing the same broken record

Bangladesh Bank governor Abdur Rauf Talukdar

Inflation to ease within next 2-3 months, hopes BB governor

Abdur Rouf Talukder also ruled out many economists' suggestions regarding removing the nine per cent cap on the lending interest rate amid rise in prices of daily essentials

Editorial

Rajshahi University: When will the BCL’s audacity end?

We believe it is necessary to take stern action against the BCL men, involved with criminal activities on campus, to bring back the minimum conducive environment for education in the educational ...

In this file photo taken on 17 August 2021 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra

Overseeing five ministries Australian PM accuses Morrison of ‘trashing’ democracy

Some ministers of the former government have said they were not told that Morrison appointed himself to their portfolios -- including then finance minister Mathias Cormann, now secretary-general of ...

On the first day of her visit to Bangladesh, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet holds a meeting foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on 14 August 2022

Michelle Bachelet’s visit Discussion on enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, DSA

Different issues including extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, freedom of expression, media freedom and various other aspects of human rights were discussed in the meeting, said concerned ...

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