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  Telcos add 49 lakh users in Q3 after dismal Q2

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05pm on October 26, 2018

  The number of active mobile phone subscribers in the country increased by 48.65 lakh in the July-September period this year after a dismal growth in the April-June quarter with...

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  Reform, not cancellation

  Nahid Riyasad | Updated at 01:15pm on October 14, 2018

  Recently, in a controversial decision the government has cancelled the quota system in civil service of Bangladesh, the decision outraged many sections of the...

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  President assents to Digital Security Bill

  Mohiuddin Alamgir | Updated at 12:00pm on October 09, 2018

  President Abdul Hamid on Monday assented to the Digital Security Bill transforming it into an act, ignoring calls from national and international journalists, freethinkers an...

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  Myanmar now shows Bangladesh island in its territory

  Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 12:10pm on October 07, 2018

  The government summoned Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka on Saturday and protested against showing Saint Martin’s Island of Bangladesh in...

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  Quota goes for Class I, Class II govt jobs

  Mustafizur Rahman and Arifur Rahman | Updated at 11:40am on October 04, 2018

  The cabinet on Wednesday endorsed a proposal of the secretary-level committee scrapping quota in recruitment of Class I and Class II civil servants in the wake of months-long anti-quota movement by students and job seekers...

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  Digital Security Bill passed amid concern

  Moloy Saha | Updated at 12:09pm on September 20, 2018

  Jatiya Sangsad on Wednesday passed the much-talked about Digital Security Bill ignoring the concern expressed by different national and international quarters, including...

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  Income inequality goes off track

  Shakhawat Hossain | Updated at 12:34pm on September 16, 2018

  A major election pledge of the successive governments led by the Awami League to eliminate income inequality has gone off track as the poor are deprived of...

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  Domestic workers return from KSA as abuse continues

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 12:27pm on September 16, 2018

  Domestic workers of the country continues to return home from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as victims of sexual abuse, torture and non-payment of wages....