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After historic triumphs in the Caribbean, Bangladesh start their mission against Zimbabwe today when they play the first one-day of the five-match series at the Queen’s Sports Club in Bulawayo. Shakib Al Hasan’s men enter the battle with the tag of ‘favourites’ and the pressure will be on them to carry on their good form ... Read more

The World Bank has offered 130 million US dollar as long-term credit to install solar energy panels as the country planned to add 1,445megawatt electricity to the system by 2014 under a desperate campaign exploring various

United Nations agencies have committed crime by distributing ‘Plumpy’nut in different places of  the country in the name of malnutrition correction. Eminent pediatrician Professor M Q-K Talukder yesterday said this while speaking at a discussion on breastfeeding at Dhaka

Sector commanders’ roundtable told The government is firm to conduct the much-awaited trial of 1971 war criminals but fairness, not quickness should be the priority while trying the perpetrators of war crimes, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said

Traders, transport workers and passengers have alleged that law enforcers themselves are involved in extortion and smugg-ling on the highways. Members of the highway police and the local police keep their eyes shut to violation of speed limits and other traffic safety rules, but

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) petition seeking stay of the High Court order that granted bail to former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia in Barapukuria Coalmine

The BNP vice-president, Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, on Friday asked the government to immediately make public the data and information about proposed Tipaimukh dam if the Indian government had given those to the Bangladeshi parliamentary

A Bangladeshi couple living in New York has been silently working for good causes of the country people over the years. They hail from the village of Kushumpur under Sirajdikhan Upazila in Munshiganj. Their philanthropic work titled Kushumpur Vulnerable

Retailers fear further rise in prices Prices of essential commodities including sugar, ginger, garlic and gram (Chhola) marked a sharp rise and other essentials including rice, onion, edible oil and vegetables remained at their previous higher level in the city’s kitchen markets

BCL expels 7; one held Sporadic clashes between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League in Surya Sen Hall of Dhaka University Thursday left at least 15 activists of the factions injured. Police in a raid of the dormitory afterwards arrested Chhatra League leader Rajib, third year student of International Relations, in connection

The Election Commission is in a quandary over its next course of action on MP Shalahuddin Quader Chowdhury imbroglio over his statement on academic qualification. The EC can strip his membership for submitting “false information” before the December 29 election. The Commission is in confusion

Bangladeshi expatriates living in different countries remitted 6.05 billion US dollars in the last seven months despite the ongoing global recession. Overseas Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain disclosed this yesterday when a nine-member

Zimbabwe A humbled touring Bangladesh by seven wickets in a one-day warm-up match in  Bulawayo on Friday, according to Bangladesh Cricket Board sources. Bangladesh talking the strike first were all out for 180 all out in 49.3 overs. Middle-order batsman Roquibul Hasan with 55 was the

In protest against the construction of Tipaimukh dam across the river Borak in Monipur state of India, a 3-day Long March towards the dam will start today at 10.00 am from the Central Shaheed Minar in the

The World Bank (WB) will contribute additional 160 million US dollar for constructing the 6.15 kilometre double-decker Padma Bridge. Visiting vice president of the WB, Isabel Guerrero stated this after a meeting with Communication Minister Syed Abul Hossain at his

An Indian court on Thursday sentenced to death three people, including a married couple, for planting bombs that killed 52 in the city of Mumbai in 2003. Judge MR Puranik, sitting at a special anti-terrorism court, ordered that Haneef Sayyed, his wife Fahmeeda Sayyed, and Ashrat Ansari “should be

Several dozen of supporters of Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi staged demonstration in front of the city’s National Eidgah on Friday morning demanding that the Myanmar government should release her and other political

Awarding $53m Gas Station to Chevron Petrobangla ignores a host of questions Petrobangla continues to hammer hurriedly awarding US oil company Chevron the contract for an over-priced gas compressor station project in the Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) system through a questionable process by totally sidelining a host of technical and financial questions raised by ... Read more

Industry leaders said increase in gas prices was unjustified at this moment as most industrial units were facing disruption in gas supply. The government on Saturday increased gas prices 11.22 per cent on an average. For industries the increase was 12 per cent as the

Says Prof Muzaffer Unplanned urbanisation and lack of coordination between the authorities in the government are turning Dhaka into an uninhabitable city, Prof Muzaffer Ahmed said at a press conference yesterday. “It seems Dhaka has no guardian,” he