【引用:The nation celebrates the 91st birth anniversary of Bangladesh's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Thursday. The day is observed as National Children Day. All educational institutions across the country are observing the day. The government has declared public holiday
【引用:Another human case of avian influenza has been detected in the Kamalapur area of the capital, two days after a 13-month-old girl was found carrying the H5N1 virus in the same locality. 】
【引用:Panic gripped many in the capital and elsewhere in the country on Tuesday on receiving an SMS on their mobile phones warning against the impact of radiation on Bangladesh. The radiation hoax gained currency in the backdrop of the nuclear disaster resulting from explosions in a power plan
【引用:Bangladesh is positively considering a US offer to help evacuate 17,000 Bangladeshis, stranded along Tunisian border, in an apparent move to consolidate the diplomatic ties already under 'pressure' over Yunus' removal. "The US offer conveyed through its embassy in Dhaka is under process
【引用:Bangladesh embassy in Libya does not have any information about the death of 37 Bangladeshis in the north African country. "I receive or make 300 or 400 phone calls everyday but no one tells me about any incident of Bangladeshi death anywhere in Libya," Bangladesh ambassador to Libya A B
【引用:In a statement issued on Sunday, TIB executive director Iftekharuzzaman said the Anti-corruption Commission Act (amended) 2010 that was approved in the cabinet is in conflict with people's constitutional rights of equality. "It will make the ACC dependent on the government. ACC's jurisdi
【引用:Bangladesh is unlikely to be able to import liquified natural gas (LNG) by 2013 for lack of necessary infrastructure. "It'll probably take until December 2012 to complete the necessary infrastructure for the import," an official, seeking anonymity, of the energy and mineral resources min
【引用:"Yunus is scheduled to present himself before Mymensingh Senior Judicial Magistrate Court on 10.30am Tuesday," plaintiff Nazrul Islam Chunnu on Monday told bdnews24.com. Nazrul, joint general secretary of district Jatiya Somajtantrik Dal (JSD), filed the case on Jan 21, 2007 for derogato
【引用:Hundreds of thousands of revellers welcomed in the New Year noisily with fireworks and party throughout Dhaka and elsewhere Bangladesh early on Saturday. Thousands of people counted down to midnight to ring in 2011 the length and breadth of the country in a night of revelry. In Dhaka, pa
【引用:The Christian community in Bangladesh is celebrating their biggest festival Christmas. Archbishop Paulinus Costa inaugurated the celebrations in Dhaka on Friday cutting cakes at St. Mary's Cathedral at Kakrail. Churches around the country have been illuminated and decorated with flowers
【引用:IAEA director general Yukia Amano gave the assurance during a meeting with prime minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence, Ganabhaban, on Monday evening. ・・・A memorandum of understanding was signed regarding the Rooppur project between Russia and Bangladesh during the prime
【引用:South Korea-based company YoungOne Corporation has closed all its production units in Dhaka and Chittagong indefinitely following labour unrest, a director says. Director, operations, Shikder Meshbahuddin Ahmed confirmed bdnews24.com of the shutdown around 9:30pm on Saturday. Employees a
【引用:Speakers at a workshop organised by Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) at Sheraton Hotel in the capital on Saturday said that users must be made aware of the upcoming change. IPv4 technology allows for 4.2 billion unique IP addresses, but the internet users in the country will soon exceed
【引用:"Bangladesh has set many examples. Deceiving people by siphoning off their money is another such example. This is nothing but sucking out money from the people after giving them loans," she said replying to questions from journalists on Sunday. "There has been no improvement in the lifes
【引用:BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has asked owners of readymade garment (RMG) industries to tackle attempts to create unrest in the key economic sector. In her address to the closing ceremony of Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition (BATEXPO) at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre
【引用:Bangladesh is set to hand over two of its largest-ever sea-faring cargo vessels to a German company on Friday. The 100-metre long ships can safely carry 5,200 tonnes at a go. The ice-class ships, built completely under supervision of Bangladeshi engineers, would be handed to Grona Shippi
【引用:"Japan would consider if any proposal or request is made from Bangladesh for the construction of the proposed deep seaport," Japanese ambassador Tamotsu Shinotsuka told a meet-the-press programme in the city on Tuesday. The government has taken steps to set up the port at Sonadia Island
【引用:Pro-BNP Bangladesh Nationalist Lawyers' Forum has called a protest meeting on Nov 29 across the country. The lawyers' forum announced the programme demanding withdrawal of the government notice asking BNP chief Khaleda Zia to vacate her Shaheed Mainul Road residence in Dhaka Cantonment,
【引用:Random visits to different areas show piles of garbage remained uncollected on many streets and lanes across the city on Thursday night. Chief waste manager Bipin Kumar Saha on Thursday told bdnews24.com that the cleanliness drive had been hampered due to the addition of huge amount of w
【引用:The committee decided to approve the proposals to construct five quick rental power plants, which will produce 340MW, and three independent power plants, which will produce 892MW. The proposal of EQ Capital Energy to construct a 48MW barge-mounted rental power plant at Ashuganj in Brahma