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Leaders of Bangladesh Efficient Lighting Manufacturers Association (BELMA) yesterday urged the government to maintain transparency in distribution of 1.05 crore energy saving lamp so that local entrepreneurs can

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) will soon quiz former home minister Lutfozzaman Babar and some former and incumbent high officials of police in connection with the case filed against three former CID officers for

The foreign minister, Dipu Moni, has said settling the maritime boundary disputes with India and Myanmar is critical for Bangladesh’s progress. She told reporters in Chandpur on Saturday, ‘Progress according to our

The government has initiated preliminary work to establish three more public universities in Barisal, Rangamati and Gopalganj districts in order to provide ‘quality, modern, scientific and effective’ education to students

More than a million ultra poor people living in geographically disadvantaged areas are set to come under a special programme that targets to ensure food security and employment for the poorest during five months of

Rajshahi court today granted seven-day remand for the seven activists of banned Islamic militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday. The police produced the

At least seven people, including four women, were killed and 52 others injured in separate road accidents in Rajshahi, Sylhet and in Dhaka on Saturday. Our Rajshahi correspondent reports: five people were killed

Digium, a leading manufacturer of Internet Protocol (IP) products based on the open-source Asterisk platform, yesterday launched IP telephony solutions for IP telephony service providers, small and medium enterprises,

A virus linked to prostate cancer also appears to play a role in chronic fatigue syndrome, according to research that could lead to the first drug treatments for a mysterious disorder that affects 17 million people worldwide.

A New York-based Volunteers of American Community (VOAC) Bangladesh said Gen (retd) Moeen U Ahmed had wanted to take over on 1/11, but failed to convince the international powers. In a statement issued

The energy ministry considers a feasibility study to take up a pilot project for an open pit mine as a test case in the Barapukuria underground coalmine from 2011, taking into account the ever-increasing energy

Rising temperature, droughts, fogginess, humidity, flash floods, cyclones and intrusion of salinity into arable lands – all have threatened Bangladesh agriculture, livelihoods and food security, say new studies calling for

The World Bank and IMF in Istanbul assured Bangladesh of providing swift financial assistance under flexible conditions to tackle the global economic recession and impacts of climate change, Finance Minister AMA Muhith

A parliamentary panel on Friday recommended immediate appointment of an expert committee, after discussions with all concerned, to study possible impacts of India’s planned Tipaimukh dam on Bangladesh. ‘We have

After around three decades of passage of the Ombudsman Act, the government has finally started looking for a competent person for the position to investigate allegations of corruption and abuse of power by public authorities

The reconstituted body of the law commission has prepared a 21-point work plan for next two years aiming at modernising some old laws and the judicial system of the country. The commission has recently sent a draft

Schoolgirl Rokeya Parveen Mou has been passing her agonising days in a hospital bed at Sherpur upazila in Bogra for 23 days as she sustained burn wound when a 22-year-old youth threw acid on her. Selim Ahmed,

Ruling Awami League (AL) high command appears not to be concerned about serious intra-party disputes in Chittagong and dismisses the feud as the “nature of Chittagong politics”. Party insiders say Prime Minister and

Tension persists along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border as the latter continues building up troops with heavy weapons on the frontiers. Bangladesh forces too remain on high alert, home ministry sources

Britain is building a training camp for Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps to help in the fight against the Taliban in the lawless border area with southern Afghanistan, a report said yesterday. The Times said Britain also