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Foreign minister Dipu Moni is scheduled to leave for Washington on September 14 on a three-day official trip at the invitation of her US counterpart

Digital phone sets hit the market next month; fibre-optic cables on the cards Telephone Shilpo Sangstha and Cable Shilpo Sangstha have taken up three mega projects to produce digital telephone sets, cellphones, fibre-optic cables, solar panels and laptops in the

The government is going to purchase a total of 267 new vehicles including 172 Pajero jeeps for use by the VIPs, secretaries, upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) and private secretaries (PSs) to ministers and secretaries of ministries at a

The Election Commission on Wednesday notified another ruling Awami League lawmaker, Kabirul Huq, asking him to explain why he should not be stripped of the parliament membership for contesting polls while holding a public

Chairman and managing director of the Azad Group, Abul Kalam Azad, who was arrested on August 28 on charge of assaulting a police officer, was released on bail from the Dhaka Central Jail last evening. Jail super of the

Mother, son spend in vain 6 hours for test A desperate mother of a seven-year-old ailing boy failed to receive any assistance after six agonising hours spent rushing to four different hospitals, which the government said to be providing treatment for swine flu or

The public prosecutor at Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court has recommended cancellation of a case against BNP’s senior joint secretary general Tarique Rahman on

A helicopter carrying a powerful politician from southern India disappeared in heavy rains yesterday as it flew over a forested region largely controlled by Maoist

Joynal Hazari, a former Awami League MP, was today set free from Feni jail following the High Court granted bail in an arms case in which was awarded life imprisonment six years

Start attending office wearing trousers, shirts Giving up 27 years’ official dress code, bureaucrats at the Bangladesh Secretariat have started attending their offices wearing trousers and shirts in a more business-like

The results of the written examinations of the 28th BCS were published yesterday. According to a press release of the Public Service Commission(PSC), 5,881 candidates passed the exams

Anti-viral drug Oseltamivir is available in all public medical colleges, hospitals, civil surgeon’s offices in districts and upazila hospitals free of

A lecturer of Uttara Women’s Medical College allegedly committed suicide at her in-laws residence in the city’s Purba Rampura area yesterday.he dead was identified as Nusrat Sharmin, 33, wife of Badruddaza Dipu, a doctor of

The government yesterday signed a credit agreement worth $ 130 million with the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessionary arm, to help increase access to electricity through installation

Shortage of bus seats Sept 2: People who migrated to the port city for making fortune from country’s northern districts have long been facing serious transport crisis to get back home mainly ahead of different occasions like Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Azha and

The Barisal Veterinary Institute, which is the outer campus of Patuakhali University of Science and Technology, was on Wednesday closed for an indefinite period. The students were asked to leave their hostels by the

Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance tickets from September 7 in view of the forthcoming holy Eid-ul-Fitr. Special security measures will also be taken in five major railway stations to ensure good services to the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Geneva on Tuesday afternoon at the head of a 45-member Bangladesh delegation to attend a five-day UN-sponsored international meet on climate

Govt says no need to confirm swine flu; suspects advised to start treatment; 34 more infection reported The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) yesterday stopped its testing facility for detecting swine flu–the only available service in the country–except for cases referred

Suspected swine flu patients find themselves as unwelcome visitors at designated hospitals, with the first death from H1N1 virus sending panic waves across the country and 34 more people tested positive