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Bangladesh’s longest-serving finance minister M Saifur Rahman was buried on Monday at the family graveyard in Baharmardan of Moulavibazar after he died in a car crash on the Dhaka-Sylhet

The government has sanctioned taka 10 crore for the victims of the cyclonic storm Aila in four upazilas of Satkhira and Khulna districts for constructing

The foreign minister, Dipu Moni, reached New Delhi Monday afternoon for bilateral talks with her Indian counterpart, SM Krishna, today. The meeting between the two South Asian next-door neighbours scheduled to be held at the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday received the draft of the Education Policy 2009 that envisages basic changes to set the country’s outmoded education system in tune with the

Allaying the fear of a gloomy aman prospect due to delayed monsoon, the northern region has lived up to its ‘food bowl’ reputation by well surpassing the target acreage of tilling

The United States accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008, a year in which global sales were at a three-year low, The New York Times reported

The finance ministry has sought the Bangladesh Bank’s opinion on making it mandatory for non-banking financial institutions to increase their paid-up capital by 100 per cent in three years, said officials

Mobile court also penalises black-smoke emitters, vehicles with fake papers A mobile court yesterday penalised motor vehicle owners with fines in the city’s Agargaon area for using horns beyond permissible sound limit, emitting black smokes and possessing

Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) has planned to begin a five-year project for pearl culture in the country, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas told parliament

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $55 million loan to support small scale water services in Bangladesh to help cut rural poverty, improve community involvement, and address the threat posed

A female giraffe of Dhaka Zoo died yesterday. “The giraffe died at 2:00pm after suffering from absolute dehydration,” Dr Aminur Rahman, curator of the zoo,

A one-year-old boy of a tenant was killed after the house owner’s son allegedly dipped him into mud at Majarbari in the city’s Uttarkhan area Sunday night as a sequel to a tenant-owner feud over

The lone independent lawmaker of the 9th parliament Fazlul Azim on Monday demanded submission of a report by the parliamentary delegation which visited the controversial Tipaimukh dam site in north-eastern

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) yesterday urged its members to pay wages and festival bonus on time to avert any untoward incidents

Police on Monday morning retrieved the bullet-hit dead body of a BNP leader of Barisal who went missing in Dhaka. The deceased, Golam Mostafa Nanna, 48, was vice president of Babuganj upazila unit of the main opposition

Foreign Office minister Ivan Lewis will visit Tibet this week as part of a fact-finding mission to China, the first such trip by a British minister, his office

Taiwan’s premier quit Monday over the government’s handling of last month’s deadly typhoon as the China-friendly administration struggled to end its worst crisis since

Intellectuals, teachers and students at a solidarity meeting on the Dhaka University campus on Monday demanded dismissal of Home Minister Sahera Khatun and a total ban on exporting national resources

The import of reconditioned vehicles has declined significantly due to imposition of import duties by the government and increase of prices in the international

The government is going to introduce exclusive bus services for school children by late October as part of its efforts to ease traffic jams in the