Bangladesh News

Probe body recommends stripping Sircar of MP status, recovering Tk 2.5cr from the BNP trio, taking legal action against them for undermining parliament A parliamentary body investigating irregularities during the tenure of former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar asked the House yesterday to strip Sircar of his MP status and recover around Tk 2.50 crore ...

The government will allocate houses in favour of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehena as their private residence, after being selected by the security experts.

According to them, transshipment can be done through Chittagong and Mongla international ports and Sherpur and Ashuganj river ports, besides through road and railways.

Bangladeshi immigration officers wear protective masks on duty at Zia International Airport in Dhaka in the wake of swine flu outbreak in nearly 100 countries across the world.

At least 10 people, including five policemen, were injured Sunday when the members of a rights body clashed with the police outside the Indian high commission here, protesting the construction of Tipaimukh dam in India's Manipur state.

BANGLADESH'S dynastic political rivalries have reared their heads again with the decision to close three galleries in the national museum for presenting a 'distorted' version of the war of liberation.

More than a month after Cyclone Aila battered southern Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of people are still unable to return to their homes, and the government and aid agencies are struggling to provide basic relief.

Bangladeshi surgeons were battling yesterday to save twins born joined at the stomach and legs.

The police on Sunday arrested two and beat up a small group of young men and women who were rallying in front of the Indian High Commission at Gulshan against the IndiaA A A s plan for Tipaimukh dam construction, witnesses said.

Bangladeshi man arrested for beating tiger to death DHAKA - Police in southeastern Bangladesh arrested a man Thursday for beating an endangered Bengal tiger to death after it strayed into a village, a forest official said.

South East Asia News.Net Saturday 4th July, 2009 Karachi, July 4 : Only two out of 30,000 Bangladeshi non-governmental organisations are working for the welfare of the Pakistani refugees living in 66 camps in that country, it has been claimed.

Torrential rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing six people and stranding half a million in their homes in Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday.

Abdur Rahim alias Shahadat who played a key role in strengthening the banned Islamist militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in bordering districts of India's West Bengal state has been arrested, the police said.

Bangladesh and the United States are going to hold their first-ever bilateral talks in September to discuss entire range of issues between the two countries, local news agency UNB reported on Wednesday.

TRADING in Bangladesh's main bourse, the Dhaka Stock Exchange here, was suspended for nearly an hour today following a bomb threat in the afternoon, officials said.

Tajikistan News.Net Friday 3rd July, 2009 Bangladesh's exporters have made common ca use with Indian importers to urge Dhaka to reduce taxes on the prized hilsa fish and place it on par with frozen shrimp and other marine products it exports to other countries.

Police and garment workers continued fight on the second day on Sunday over the workers' outstanding payment, leaving another worker dead and 100 wounded in police firing at Savar, about 30 kms north of capital city Dhaka.

DHAKA: A garment worker was shot and killed on Saturday as thousands of factory employees protesting wage cuts clashed with law enforcement officers near the Bangaldeshi capital, police said.

IMPHAL: India's Tipaimukh dam project, coming up in Manipur on the river Barak that flows into Bangladesh, will not harm that country as feared by its politicians and civil society, say officials here.

The CCEA headed by Finance Minister AMA Muhith, officials said, will decide as per the proposal to the prime minister that includes a detailed account of the process adopted in selection.