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The draft National Health Policy-2009 suggests ‘user fee’ to be given by the patients for getting health services from public hospitals, which the health experts describe as a blatant attempt to commercialise

Three days after the death of a wild male elephant in Naikhhongchhari, forest department claimed yesterday that the animal died of diarrhoea. Divisional Forest Officer of Lama forest division Zahirul Islam Akhand

Thousands of people queued outside the country’s banks yesterday as subscription for the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) from Bangladesh’s biggest mobile-phone operator Grameenphone opened at the

A group of Awami League leaders and activists mercilessly beat a youth at the residence of AL lawmaker Ilias Mollah early hours of yesterday and later handed him over to Pallabi police for allegedly demanding

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday gave orders for taking action against party men involved in extortion, tender manipulation and other unlawful activities, which are tarnishing

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain to take immediate measures including construction of an elevated expressway in the capital to ease nagging traffic

The inspector general (prisons), Brigadier General Ashraful Islam Khan, his wife and daughters were severely injured when his son hacked them in their house on Nazimuddin Road in Dhaka Saturday

A section of ruling party leaders mounts pressure on local journalists to stop reporting further on the incident of gang rape of the teenage girl at Kalapara upazila in Patuakhali. Under immense pressure, the editor of

The border force of Myanmar – Nasaka – is learnt to have restarted barbed-wire fencing of border along Tumru and Naikhangchari in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) without any discussion with its counterpart

Chairmen of the Union Parishad yesterday movement if parliament passes a proposed law that contains provision of appointing bureaucrats as administrators to the Parishad in absence of elected councils. Addressing a national Full Article on The New Nation

Sohel ParvezBangladesh Biman seeks guarantee from the government to avail bank loans to make pre-delivery payments (PDP) of about $117 million for purchasing Boeing aircraft, officials concerned said. The

The BNP, plagued by dissensions in the party, is considering a proposal to have a new leader for the Dhaka metropolitan city unit of the party for a period of two months. According to party insiders, apprehending

The government has incurred a loss of Tk 41 crore in the last 14 months due to the failure of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) to float tenders on time for handling integrated containers. The integrated

Whole villages in Indonesia’s quake zone were found obliterated by landslides Saturday, while rescuers searched desperately for up to 4,000 people believed to be still trapped in rubble. The full extent of

The government will distribute 2.65 crore of Compact Florescent Lights (CFL) from March next to 1.33 crore households free of cost within 2013 to save 350MW of electricity across the country. State Minister for

In two separate incidents of “crossfire” in Khulna and Chuadanga, two more “outlaws” were killed and two cops were injured in the wee hours of yesterday. The deceased were identified as Abu Sayeed Sarkar

The Chittagong City Mayor Alhaj ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury has locked in a fresh row over the inclusion of five unions of Patiya Upazila under Chittagong-11 constituency that belong to

A wild male elephant was allegedly killed at a rubber garden near Alikhhong village of Baishari union under Naikhhongchhari upazila in Bandarban Thursday night. Locals suspect that miscreants poisoned

After 18 days of interval for Eid and Durga Puja vacations the adjourned 3rd session of the 9th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) resumes today (Sunday) at 4 in the afternoon. Opposition BNP will continue its parliament session

The Criminal Investigation Department of police have started interrogating former home secretary Omar Faruque in connection with the 2004 seizure of 10 truckloads of arms in the port city, an official