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Govt struggles to fill FF quota in civil services

There are not enough candidates to fill up the 30 per cent quota for freedom fighters, their children and grandchildren, women and ethnic minorities in the technical cadres of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS), said sources in the public administration ministry and the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC). The technical cadres include education, livestock and engineering. Owing to the non-fulfilment of the quota, the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has not been appointing any one against the freedom fighters’ quota category, leaving a number of positions lying vacant for the past few years. In this context, the government is going to fill up the reserved posts from the national merit list of BSC qualifiers,…

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Relocate tanneries in 72hrs or face closure

Industries minister Amir Hossain Amu yesterday asked tannery owners to shift their factories to Savar…

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News

Bangladesh politics now in bad shape, says GM Kader

Panchagarh: Jatiya Party presidium member GM Kader yesterday bemoaned that politics in Bangladesh is now in a very fragile shape as the trend has changed drastically, reports UNB. Speaking at a biennial council of the district unit Jatiya Party, he, however, hoped a new trend of positive politics will…

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Metro

A dangerous passion

Street food, which is very popular to the people living in urban areas like Dhaka due to its cheap price and sharp taste, is harmful to human health as it fails to ensure sufficient safety standards, say experts, reports UNB. They said the street food are being produced in unhygienic conditions in the…

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Editorial

Survival of NGOs in context of middle income country

Towards living in an anti poverty world, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) had been established in the year of 2000; and by 2015, a massive progress has come across the MDGs that include mainly eradication of global poverty, enforcing child education, reducing child death, access to pure…

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Op-ed

This time the government is right

For someone who finds India unsafe to live in, after riding on its bandwagon, has no business promoting an Incredible India campaign. The replay of disparaging remarks apart, the Government of India has axed Bollywood super star Aamir Khan. It has, in what could be a blow to him, discontinued to engage…

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Miscellaneous

�Govt to ensure freedom, security of journalists�

Prime Minister’s Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury yesterday said it is the responsibility of all governments to ensure justice for every incident of journalist killing. “The govt will have to ensure freedom and security of journalists,” he said speaking at a function marking an…

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Business

Govt plans to issue power company bonds on S�pore stock market

The government has made plans to raise USD 1 billion for mega power projects by issuing bonds of power companies on Singapore’s stock market in the near future. Talking to journalists on the sidelines of a seminar yesterday, state minister for power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid,…

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Worldwide

US bomber flies over S Korea

AFP, OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea: The US sent a heavy bomber over South Korea on Sunday in a show of force as North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un insisted his country’s latest nuclear test was carried out in self-defence. The test on Wednesday of what the North claimed was its first hydrogen bomb has…

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Dhakalive

Subrana�s first solo exhibition begins at Gallery Twenty One

Painter Shameem Subrana’s first solo exhibition titled ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Life’ is now on display at Gallery Twenty One in the city’s Dhanmondi area. Veteran artists Professor Hashem Khan, Professor Rafiqun Nabi, Professor Nisar Hossain, Executive Director of…

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Sports

Bangladesh Olympic team fail to keep early lead

Bangladesh Olympic team started their campaign in the Bangabandhu Gold Cup International Football Tournament with a 1-1 draw against Bahrain yesterday at the Shamsul Huda Stadium in Jessore. Bangladesh, who deserved to begin with a winning start in the tournament demonstrating impressive…

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Nationwide

Child killing protested

Human Rights Forum, a platform of the human rights activists in Jhenidah, yesterday organised a human chain to protest against the spate of killings of minor boys in the district and elsewhere in the country. The speakers on the occasion recalled with great concern over burning alive of three brothers…

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Zero tolerance to terrorism

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her government’s stance of zero tolerance to terrorism and said no one would be allowed to use Bangladesh’s soil for insurgent acts against any country, reports UNB. The Prime Minister made the remarks when visiting Minister for Power, Urban…

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Panorama

The sweeping changes of the Obama presidency

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 906-page health care reform law known as Obamacare. It was, as a live microphone caught Vice President Joe Biden exclaiming to his boss, a big deal, with Biden memorably inserting an extra word for emphasis—and…

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