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Govt to procure 3.50 lakh MT rice from India, Thailand, Vietnam
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs yesterday approved three separate proposals for procuring 3.50 lakh metric tons of rice under direct procurement method (DPM)...
MK Alamgir-Nafeez Sarafat raise allegations of graft against each other
The two sent letters to government agencies against one another
A volley of finger-pointing has begun between Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, former home minister and chairman...
Govt to expand eye treatment to each upazila: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government would expand the eye treatment facilities through a community vision centre (CVC) to each upazila gradually,...
‘US can look to Bangladesh as a model to cut poverty’
Bangladesh has much to teach the world on how to engineer progress, says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof
Bangladesh can be a shining example of...
Sylhet 3 MP Mahmud Samad dies of Covid-19
On February 10, the MP received his first dose of coronavirus vaccine and had no adverse effect
Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, the Member of Parliament...
Dhaka seeks KL’s support to finalize protocol on manpower recruitment
Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur has launched a digital platform called "BanglaTiger Digital"
Bangladesh has sought Malaysian support to finalize a protocol to amend...
Bangladesh minister ‘frustrated’ as ‘recklessness’ drives COVID rate up
The rate of coronavirus infection is once again on the rise amid the mass vaccination drive, apparently frustrating Health Minister Zahid Maleque.
He blames people’s...
Sujan seeks US investment in railways
Railways Minister M Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday urged the government of the United States (US) to invest in Bangladesh railways.
The minister made this call...
Madrasa teacher beats child mercilessly
The video of the child being beaten for running after his mother went viral
A video of a madrasa teacher in Hathazari of Chittagong went...
March 1971 Diary: Too little and too late
This piece is the first in a series that will run until March 25, in which we reproduce Rehman Sobhan’s contemporaneous account of the...
