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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

The National Human Rights Commission has virtually ceased to exist as the government is yet to reconstitute the quasi-judicial body in line with the National Human Rights Commission Act enacted by the

BKMEA set to clear salaries, bonuses of its workers for Eid In the wake of the demand from different trade organisations, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday made it clear that the disbursement of the stimulus fund would be made only through the decision of the

In the absence of specific rules against contempt of parliament, the speaker of Jatiya Sangsad now intends to place in the house a panel’s recommendations for measures against those defying

JS body works on unfair sacking, retirement of defence officials A parliamentary committee yesterday sent 90 applications of armed forces officials to the defence ministry for verifying who were “deprived or harassed or sacked on political grounds” in the last

Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun yesterday said that the ongoing drive in the country’s south-western region was continuing in accordance with the list prepared by the law enforcing agencies to contain the

Two suspected criminals were killed in separate ‘crossfire’ with the members of Rapid Action Battalion and police in Faridpur and Kushtia early Sunday.  Of them, Tofazzal Hossain alias Tapu Khan, a local Juba League leader, was killed in a gunfight with the

Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank Managing Director Prof Muhammad Yunus totally denied his involvement with any political party in Bangladesh. “I am not involved with any political party,” Prof Yunus told UNB over

Burial today Leaders, workers and supporters of BNP and other political parties, colleagues and well-wishers yesterday paid homage to veteran political leader Saifur Rahman, who died in a road crash

Zia Orphanage Trust case Leader of the opposition in parliament and BNP chairperson, Begum Khaleda Zia will appear before the metropolitan session judges court today (Monday) at 1.00pm for hearing of charge, in the