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Focus on GS post, Joy

The two-day 20th council session of ruling Awami League (AL) began yesterday with the grassroots leaders demanding an important position in the party’s policymaking level for Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of party president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The issue of party’s general secretary post was also on the focus as many council participants said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader is a tough contender for incumbent general secretary and public administration minister Syed Ashraful Islam. Most of the AL district leaders, speaking at the first session of the two-day council of the ruling party, said Joy should be given an important post in the party’s executive body to hear the voices and demands of the…

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Make list of poor people

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged its leaders, activists and public…

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News

NBR to increase number of recipients for its taxpayer award

National Board of Revenue (NBR) has brought changes to its policy for increasing the number of recipients of taxpayer award to encourage and inspire the honest taxpayers at district level, reports BSS. Along with the three highest taxpayers, a women and a youth will be given the award from this year.…

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Metro

Journos discuss ways to report better on humanitarian issues

A two-day international media conference ended in the capital yesterday discussing how media and humanitarian organisations can work better together, reports UNB. Media professionals from 11 Asia-Pacific countries attended the Asia Media Conference 2016 titled ‘Reporting Humanitarian Emergencies…

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Editorial

Harnessing prospects of ICT sector

Experts believe that the ICT sector will, in the near future, surpass the readymade garment sector as the country’s leading foreign exchange earner. Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in the sector, especially in the last five years or so. Bangladesh currently has three fibre optic connections…

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Op-ed

Logic and rituals

Logic seems to have overtaken rituals in India. There is an awakening of sorts giving a go-by to dogmatic practices especially in the much feared sphere of religion. There is an attempt to redefine age old conventions by making them pro women. Voices have begun to question rituals which are not…

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Miscellaneous

Awareness on nutrition requires for mothers, newborns

Hosne Ara Begum (22), a resident of Mirpur who gave birth to a dead child at her house with a help of a midwife instead of going to a hospital at the instruction of her hubby and mother-in-law, was saying that she has now been suffering from abdomen pain, weakness and other physical problems, reports…

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Business

Billboards in motion

Billboards may not be an eyesore for residents of Dhaka anymore. At least, not the kind of billboard Mad’ad Digital, a new advertising firm, plans to introduce in the city. It has introduced the mobile billboard. It is a modern-era digital advertisement tool that has gained popularity in many…

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Worldwide

Syrian army used chemical weapons in 2015: UN

AFP, UNITED NATIONS, United States: AFP The Syrian army attacked the village of Qmenas with chemical weapons in March 2015, UN experts said in a report released Friday. But they were unable to determine who was responsible for two other chemical weapons attacks—against Binnish in Idlib province…

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Dhakalive

Cultural arena remembers Poet Shamsur Rahman today

In memory of noted poet, writer and columnist Shamsur Rahman on his 88th birth anniversary today, Bangla Academy, National Poetry Council and Shamsur Rahman Smriti Parishad have jointly organised a programme featuring discussion, poetry recitation and song performance in the capital’s Bangla Academy…

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Sports

All-round Stokes keeps Tigers at bay

Bangladesh apparently lost the control of the first Test after Ben Stokes put Shakib Al Hasan’s five-wicket haul in shed, showing a stellar all-round performance to make England favourite on a pitch which was increasingly deteriorating as the time progressed. Stokes ripped through Bangladesh tail…

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Nationwide

Jute growers happy over lofty prices

Farmers are happy for getting good price with their bumper production of jute in the district, reports BSS. Harvesting of jute have completed in all the ten upazilas of the district. The cultivators harvested over 48,447 bales of jute fiber this season in the upazilas. Department of Agriculture Extension…

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Educational institutions to come under digital monitoring

The government is all set to bring all educational institutions in the country under a digital monitoring system by December to ensure transparency and accountability. Sources in the Directorate of Inspection and Audit (DIA) under the education ministry said the authorities of 36,000 educational institutions…

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