【引用:A number of BNP leaders said the standing committee will sit shortly to chalk out the programmes. Non-stop hartal, long march or road march will be announced to “bring down” the government, they added.The two-time premier, who owns a four-storey building on 35-katha land in Gulshan,
【引用:Bangladesh ranked first in the world by sending 10,748 peacekeepers in the United Nations (UN) mission, an ISPR press release said yesterday.Among the peacekeepers, 10,581 are male and 167 are female, the release said.Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Egypt and Nepal ranked 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th an
【引用:With the hartal coming out of the blue, many homebound passengers have been left to worry over whether the buses, trains and launches will operate today."Even if they operate on schedule, there will be doubt over passengers' safety," said Malibagh resident Motahar Hossain, "This is cruci
【引用:Tearful Khaleda tells the press after she leaves cantonment house; BNP calls hartal for today; buses, cars burnt; army says opposition leader voluntarily vacated the house】
【引用:BNP on Saturday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for November 14. Party Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain declared the hartal at a press briefing at the party's Naya Paltan office centring the shifting of BNP chief Khaleda Zia's Dhaka Cantonment residence.Earlier in the
【引用:“This 3G networks will be developed with Chinese assistance and users will get services at prices lower than India,.Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS), the state-run telephone equipment manufacturer, is working on producing low-cost laptops in a span of six months. The prices of laptops w
【引用:Ministry sources said Bangladesh will prioritise Turkish investment in the agro-food processing industry to ensure food security for the people of Bangladesh. Bangladesh will also remind Erdoðan of his president's promise to increase bilateral trade volume to one billion US dollar and w
【引用:For the first time in the history of the United States of America, Hansen Hashem Clarke, a Bangladeshi descent democratic member of the Michigan Senate, has won a congressional seat to the United States House of Representatives.Clarke was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Bangladeshi Americ
【引用:It is hoped that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to Japan, important as it is, will be able to not only establish a personal rapport at the highest level, but also to elevate the relationship between the two countries commensurate to the demands and needs of the twenty-first century
【引用:The day is considered as a black spot of the nation's history, as four Liberation War heroes -- Syed Nazrul Islam, acting president of Bangladesh government in exile in 1971, Tajuddin Ahmed, prime minister of the same government, M Mansur Ali, finance minister, and AHM Qamaruzzaman, mini
【引用:They said a Japanese bidder was set to offer a brand new but unproven power generator manufactured by MHI that would give the bidder an extra edge in terms of offering low power tariff. This particular MHI model is "M701F4".Amid such allegations, the Jica sought clarification and the EGC
【引用:Mohammad Musa, husband of the Japanese woman, on October 15 took his wife to Apollo Hospitals where she expired on October 18.Kazuko's mother Nariko and aunt Zumko reached the city early yesterday. They visited the morgue around 2:00am.Morgue sources said Musa and his brother Mohammad Sa
【引用:Food Minister Abdur Razzak, who was chief guest of the report-unveiling programme, said the booming population would directly affect the food security of the country. He expressed deep concern over the activities of the population control programmes and urged donor organisations to incre
【引用:Construction of the Padma Bridge will start in March next year instead of this year, and the cost will be $2.9 billion instead of the earlier projection of $2.4 billion, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday.......Speaking at a media briefing returning from a month-long visit to the
【引用:“We are not satisfied with the minister's explanation on selection of the blacklisted Chinese firm for repairing the cracks on Bangabandhu Bridge,” said a member of the committee after it met at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. “Members of the committee asked him (minister) to come up at
【引用:Officer-in-charge Kamal Uddin of Gulshan Police Station said Kazuko sustained injuries after she tired to kill herself with a scarf at her residence on October 15. She was then taken to Apollo Hospital in Badda where she died yesterday evening.According to a DMP official, Musa and Kazuko
【引用:On October 7, the government issued a notification transferring Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Muhammad Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan to the education ministry. The notice was cancelled yesterday, keeping him at his current post.】
【引用:Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday said Bangladesh and China are supporting each other in the international arena and cooperating for socio-economic development. Reiterating Bangladesh's support to "One China" policy, she said the two countries are enjoying excellent relations.The FM w
【引用:The country may be fibre-optically connected with India by the first week of November, as a terrestrial cable linking the two nations is set to be operational within four weeks.The 25-km link connects Darshana of Bangladesh with Krishno Nagar of India to act as an alternative backbone to
【引用:Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already said her government did not receive any formal proposal from the US about sending troops. "So there is no question of sending troops," she told her party's advisory council members during a meeting Saturday.All Awami League advisers urged Hasina,