Bangladesh News

Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed inaugurates the automation of Chittagong Customs House at a function at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka yesterday.

Teletalk Bangladesh, the state-owned mobile operator, said Monday it is to double its subscriber capacity after agreeing a network expansion project with Nokia Siemens Networks that will enhance its existing ...

UNB, Dhaka London-based Economic Intelligence Unit has said the caretaker government and the Election Commission need to overcome a number of obstacles in the weeks ahead to ensure that the forthcoming ...

Indo-Asian News Service Agartala, Oct. 4: Bangladesh has become the breeding ground for young recruits of various Islamist terror groups, including the Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami , which is considered Al Qaeda's ...

Bangladeshi children and adolescents are rampantly used as child labour and in prostitution at different places in India. This horrifying picture has been revealed through surveys conducted by Indian NGOs..more..

Agartala, Oct 3 : Tripura police has arrested four persons, including three Bangladeshi nationals, in connection with the Wednesday's serial blasts in Agartala today.

Mohammad Aminul Haq inspects a papaya in a central Dhaka food market but soon after picking it up, he returns it to its place on the fruit cart.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arranged a coordinated traffic system for smooth movement of millions of outbound and inbound passengers of the country's capital ahead of the Muslim's largest religious festival, ...

Uzbekistan News.Net Sunday 28th September, 2008 Bangladesh may be the lead country to provide its army personnel for the United Nations-backed 'stabilising force' in Somalia.

DHAKA: The well-marked low formed over the north-west Bay off Bangladesh-West Bengal coast moved northwards inland and lay over the southwestern parts of Bangladesh encompassing Barisal, Patuakhali, Madaripur ...

Dhaka, Sep 29 : Leaders of the banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad al Islami in Bangladesh have floated the Islamic Democratic Party ahead of the December elections with permission from the caretaker ...

Dhaka, Sep 30 More than fifty people were missing and several injured as two passenger ferries collided in a river in southern Bangladesh early Tuesday, a senior official said.

DHAKA: Hopes of former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina returning home to take the reins of her party ahead of a December election suffered a blow on Monday when the High Court rejected a bail petition.

Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina said in Washington yesterday that her meeting with BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia depends upon the decision of Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC). "I shall accept in national interest whatever decision the working committee takes, my personal opinion is that there is a move to put across the table with me someone who is responsible for plundering of state wealth, misuse of power, extortion, patronage of terrorists and misrule, " she said...more..

MUCH talk has lately been going on about the projected meeting, or the need for a meeting, between Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.

Pashchimanchal Gas Company Ltd is not giving any new connection in Bogra, Pabna and Sirajganj for the last nine months showing gas and pipe 'crisis' and Petrobangla 'directives'. However, Petrobangla officials ...

Dhaka, Sept 27 The inflow of foreign direct investment to Bangladesh fell by 16 per cent in 2007 over that of the previous year, despite a significant rise in both global and regional inflows, according to a UN ...

Bangladesh News.Net Wednesday 24th September, 2008 Twenty months of an anti-graft drive by the military-backed caretaker government has made only a marginal difference to the perception about corruption ...

Nasima wishes she never dared stand up to the thugs who raped her daughter, a mentally challenged preteen.

Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed assured the global leaders that his caretaker government is now totally focused on fulfilling the pledge to hold free and fair parliamentary polls on December 18.He expressed the confidence that all political parties would participate in the elections under new laws and regulations..more..