【引用:Posing as buyers, forest officials have arrested a member of an organised gang of poachers with four skulls, three hides and 138 bones of tigers at Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat.The arrested, Jamal Fakir, admitted that he poisoned three tigers to death, and claimed to find one skull in
【引用:A commute by metro from Uttara to Jatrabari will take about 45 minutes and cost Tk 50, according to studies conducted as part of the government plans for improved public transport in the capital. The planned electric railway will carry some 60,000 people an hour at peak times. Commuters
【引用:He notes, “Before undertaking the beautification work, the authorities could have identified and developed some particular space in the city where we could make rich presentation of our culture. The tourists and people would have enjoyed that. We needed not to decorate a dozen spots. I
【引用:Thirteen distinguished personalities have been nominated for Ekushey Padak-2011 for their special contributions to the society and the country.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over the prestigious award to the persons in Osmani Memorial Auditorium at 11:00am on February 20, said an
【引用:The prime minister said the ship breaking sector has been identified as a separate industry considering its huge potentials and economic involvement.She, however, cautioned that the authorities concerned will have to be careful so that the ship breaking industry does not cause any harm t
【引用:BNP Standing Committee Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed has observed that a situation of mass upsurge is prevailing all over the country and an Egypt-like popular uprising may also take place at any time in Bangladesh.He made the remark at a roundtable on 'Election Commitment: Present Persp
【引用:The Election Commission at the end of this month will announce the union parishad polls schedule, said Election Commissioner Muhammed Sohul Hussein yesterday.He said the staggered elections would kick off with polls to union parishads in coastal and haor areas.】
【引用:But due to alleged foul play by the PDB tender committee, the consortium has now become the lowest bidder and Shanghai Electric the second lowest. Now, the PDB is seeking the power ministry's clearance for awarding the job to the consortium, well placed sources in the PDB said】
【引用:Nipah encephalitis claimed one more life in Rangpur yesterday raising the death toll to 25.Moyez Uddin, 45, of Annodanagar in Pirgachha upazila, died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital around 5:00am. He was admitted to the hospital on Saturday.】
【引用:The Saarc Standing Committee yesterday approved the draft of the Saarc Charter of Democracy and recommended its adoption by the Council of Ministers of the eight-nation regional association. The main theme of the charter is to encourage flourishing of democratic practice and governance a
【引用:Briefing reporters at the JS media centre in the afternoon, Suranjit Sengupta, co-chairman of the JS body, said, "We have discussed some fundamental issues today and hope to reach decisions at the next meeting in consultation with the leader of the House." He, however, would not elaborat
【引用:At least 83 persons were injured in sporadic clashes between police and pro-hartal activists across the country during a dawn-to-dusk hartal yesterday.The main opposition BNP enforced the nation wide hartal though most of its senior level leaders and major allies including Jamaat-e-Islam
【引用:A handmade bomb exploded on Dhaka University campus and at least nine buses were set on fire in the capital on the eve of today's nationwide hartal enforced by the main opposition BNP, police say.The bomb went off outside TSC injuring two students sitting there. The injured were Ruman Pa
【引用:Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the officers of Bangladesh Army to take all necessary measures to reduce the existing gap in their relations with soldiers.“Still there is a huge gap in the relations between Army officers and soldiers. You'll have to take all kinds of steps to
【引用:All economy seats and budget meals are the key strategy of the low-cost carriers to win the air travel market of Bangladesh. Such an approach has reduced the cost of travel, mainly to different regional destinations such as Dubai or Sri Lanka.When the question of low fare comes, many may
【引用:A Bangladesh Army officer in UN peacekeeping mission died and three were injured on Sunday in a road accident in Sudan.An ISPR release says Captain Mohammad Iftekhar Khan was killed in the accident occurred at about 1:45pm. 】
【引用:Ever since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina assumed power she made certain official visits to countries of great import to Bangladesh. Admittedly, such visits overseas have helped inject a new dynamism to Bangladesh's foreign policy. 】
【引用:Bangladesh missions in different countries have finally started issuing machine-readable passport (MRP), nearly 10 months after the country began producing the modern passport.According to sources in the foreign ministry, the Bangladesh embassies in Dubai and Abu Dhabi received applicati
【引用:While Ghana declined to be in the list in early 1990s, Botswana was the first country to graduate from LDC status in 1994. Cape Verde is the second country to graduate in 2007 and countries like Samoa, Maldives and Equatorial Guinea are said to be in the queue. Bangladesh may be the fift
【引用:The roundtable was organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on "COP 16: Debrief and Way Forward" on the outcome of last Cancun Climate Conference.The speakers said it is documented in different reports and discussed in many international forums that Bangladesh is the