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Cyber protection act on cards

The government will put in place the National Enterprise Architect (NEA) Act to protect its web portals from hackers. At a secretary-level meeting on last Thursday, the Cabinet secretary asked the secretary of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division to implement the Act, sources in the Cabinet and ICT Divisions said. After the Act is put in place, all government servers and portals will be integrated under a central platform for cyber protection of data, the sources explained. Some foreign hackers, especially from Pakistan, have been repeatedly trying to hack into the networking systems and web portals of some government organisations, including the Bangladesh Bank (BB) and the foreign ministry, said a secretary who attended…

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ROSATOM prefers local cos

Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM is preferring local manufacturers and suppliers for…

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News

Hajj online registration extended till April 23

Some 76,360 people, who are interested in performing holy Hajj this year, are yet to complete the online registration process as most of the Hajj agents have abstained from registering pilgrims as they are organising an agitation to press for their demands. The government, however, yesterday extended…

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Metro

AL squirms as former, current Ctg mayors slug it out

The long-standing internal feud in the Chittagong city unit of the ruling Awami League (AL) between ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, the president of the city unit of the party and former city mayor, and AJM Nasir Uddin, secretary of the city unit and incumbent Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) mayor, has once…

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Editorial

Making jute bags mandatory

The government is launching a special drive from May 15 to ensure the mandatory use of jute bags for packaging at least 17 specified commodities, including paddy, rice, wheat, maize, fertilisers, sugar, onion, ginger, garlic, pulses, potato, flour, chilli, turmeric, coriander seeds and husks of…

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Op-ed

A step backwards

How do we determine under what circumstance a girl of say 12 or 14 or 16 should be married off? How do we ascertain that marriage is a better option for an underprivileged girl when case after case of abandonment by the husband has been a norm? These are the questions we should be asking the lawmakers…

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Miscellaneous

Farmers expect bumper Boro yield in Manikganj

MANIKGANJ: Farmers of the district are expecting a bumper production of Boro as they are getting maximum output of the paddy in most of the areas during this current season, reports BSS. Department of Agriculture Extension office sources said farmers cultivated Boro on 47,500 hectares of land in the…

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Business

Integrated income tax act gets cabinet approval

The cabinet has approved in principle a proposal of the Internal Resources Division (IRD) for formulating an integrated income tax law incorporating all previous rules, amendment and orders, reports BSS. The approval was given in the weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat in the…

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Worldwide

Mass evacuation in Syria postponed after blast kills 80 children

Beirut: The evacuation of more than 3,000 Syrians that was scheduled to take place Sunday from four areas as part of a population transfer has been postponed, opposition activists said, a day after a deadly blast that killed more than 120 people, many of them government supporters, reports AP. The reasons…

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Dhakalive

Sayeed Babu in new TVC after 2 years

Audience-admired actor Sayeed Babu has worked in a new television commercial (TVC) after two years. This time, he has modeled in a TVC of a multinational company’s switch socket. Dhruba Hasan has made the Babu’s new TVC, whose shooting was completed in the capital’s Coke Studio last…

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Sports

Abahani, Legends, Doleshwar keep going

The national cricketers continued their good form in the ongoing Walton Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, much to the delight of the team management as the Tri-nation series in Ireland and ICC Champions Trophy in England is approaching fast. Mushfiqur Rahim, one of the key batsmen in Bangladesh…

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Nationwide

‘Reduce dependence on single crop’

Kishoreganj: President Abdul Hamid on Sunday urged people living in the haor region to cultivate alternative crops alongside boro paddy and use fallow land properly all year round to minimise their dependence on a single crop, reports UNB.“Choose an alternative crop and use abandoned land for…

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EC’s draft election roadmap suggests dialogues with political parties

The Election Commission Secretariat has drafted a roadmap for the 11th parliamentary election with a proposal for holding dialogues with political parties and other stakeholders to make it a participatory one, reports UNB. A total of 22 major agenda were incorporated in the roadmap which will be implemented…

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Panorama

Afghanistan: A pawn in major power rivalry?

Amin Saikal is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. On Friday, Russia held a regional conference to explore the prospects for settling the long-running Afghanistan conflict. This follows a similar conference that Moscow held in February, which was preceded…

The mysterious origins of the piñata

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