Bangladesh

Dhaka, May 25 (bdnews24.com)—Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged Bangladeshis to build a 'Sonar Bangla' free from oppression and poverty to fulfil the hopes of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.  

FROM LEFT…Ziaur Rahman, managing director, Bay Footwear; Nurul Islam, chairman, Noman Group; Saiduzzaman Khan of Janata Jute Mills; Andrew Tilke, CEO, HSBC Bangladesh; Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman; Asif Ashraf, director, Urmi Group; Finance ...  

Photo: PMOUnb, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to work for building such a Bangladesh where every citizen will enjoy equal and basic rights breaking the vicious cycle of poverty as dreamt by National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and ...  

Studies suggest 20 to 25 percent Bangladeshi suffer from high blood pressure, of them 10 to 20 percent cannot control it despite lifestyle measures and taking medicines in adequate dosage, a condition doctors call difficult or resistant hypertension.  

KOLKATA: The audience at Shishir Mancha savoured every moment of Nazrul Jayanti organised by the Bangladesh deputy high commission and Agnibina on Friday to celebrate the 113th birth anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam. The event was attended by ...  

Bangladesh and India will jointly celebrate the 90th anniversary of the publication of poem 'Bidrohi' by rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and his 113th birth anniversary tomorrow (Friday). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the two-day programme at ...  

An order has been given from Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to accelerate the implementation of the on-going development projects in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Below is an article published by the Financial Express: Prime Minister (PM ...  

Guwahati, May 26 (IANS) BSF troops deployed along the India-Bangladesh border have arrested a hard core cadre of the Meghalaya-based militant outfit Hynnewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), a BSF spokesman said Saturday. The Border Security Force spokesman told IANS that the cadre was arrested Friday evening while trying to sneak over to the Indian [...]  

Saharasri Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing Worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar in a meeting with Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina during his visit to Dhaka. Sahara India Pariwar, a major business conglomerate in India has on Friday announced its ...  

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks through video conference from her official residence Gono Bhaban with expatriates living in New York City on Sunday night. Photo: PMOUnb, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged Bangladeshi expatriates to ...  

The approval came at the weekly cabinet meeting here chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. This was disclosed to the media by Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, the Daily Star reported.  

Dhaka, May 20 (IANS) The Bangladesh government Saturday approved 550 billion taka ($7 billion) for undertaking developmental projects during the fiscal year 2012-13. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Economic Council, the country’s highest economic policy-making body, chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka. Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam, secretary of [...]  

Dhaka, May 21 (bdnews24.com) – The foreign ministry has strongly protested opening fire by India's Border Security Force (BSF) and killing of two unarmed Bangladeshi nationals recently. Md Durul Islam (38) of Chapainawabganj received bullet wounds on May ...  

PATNA: A Darbhanga resident, Satish Choudhary (34), has mysteriously reached Bangladesh and is languishing in a jail there. The matter came to light after Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, Bara Moghbazar, Dhaka, sent a letter written by Satish to ...  

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks at a grand rally of teachers organised by Bangladesh Government Secondary Teachers Association on the Residential Model College premises in the capital yesterday. Photo: PMOUnb, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...  

Therefore, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took the opportunity of telling the outgoing Myanmar ambassador in Bangladesh U Min Lwin that she looks forward to a vibrant relationship with democratising Myanmar. She saw it as the stepping stone for building ...  

New Delhi, May 22 (PTI) Over 200 BSF troopers were injured in attacks along the Indo-Bangladesh border since 2011, the government said today. Two Border Security Force personnel were also killed at this frontier during the same period. While in 2011, 147 ...  

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visiting Delhi in 2010 and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh going to Dhaka in September last year marks the beginning of a new era in bilateral relations, Sarkar said. He said the eternal appeal of ...  

Rafiqul's arm is no wider than a tube of sweets. The 18-month-old Rohingya refugee suffers from acute malnutrition and, without medical treatment and nutritional therapy, his chances of survival are becoming slimmer. The latest survey by ...  

DHAKA, 15 MAY: Bangladesh’s High Court today banned the publication of a political novel by popular writer Humayun Ahmed for “distortion of historical facts” about the assassination of the country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along ...  

DHAKA  - Demonstrators torched vehicles and fought police in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka after a court Wednesday denied bail to 33 opposition figures over charges stemming from an anti-government protest last month. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) called a nationwide general strike for Thursday, saying the court decision was "politically motivated" aimed at crushing ...  

number of Bangladeshi citizens killed by Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) this year shows no decline, activists say. Despite protests by the Bangladeshi government and rights groups, the ...  

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Hundreds of opposition protesters are rallying in Bangladesh’s capital to demand that authorities release 33 activists and find a missing opposition leader. Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was leading Sunday’s protest in Dhaka.  

Dhaka, May 21 (IANS) An alliance of 18 political parties in Bangladesh Sunday staged a seven-hour mass hunger strike to protest against the government’s “oppressive policies”. Thousands of political activists, members of various organisations and professional bodies joined the strike at 10 a.m. in Dhaka. Leader of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party [...]  

KENT coach Jimmy Adams revealed he will look into the possibility of signing former Bangladesh skipper Mohammad Ashraful for the t20 campaign, after receiving a tip-off from the Courier's sport journalist. Ashraful, 27, has come over from Bangladesh to ...  

Your Excellency, let me introduce myself to you as a Saudi diplomat who visited Bangladesh before it became independent. I was dispatched in the 1960s by the Saudi government to Chittagong to issue Bangladeshi pilgrims Haj visas. In the 1980s I returned to ...  

Dhaka, May 23 (bdnews24.com) – Indian business conglomerate Sahara Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh government on Wednesday to invest in the housing sector. Chairman of the Sahara Group Subrata Roy Sahara, on behalf of his ...  

http://educationboardresults.gov.bd/ - SSC Exam Result Of Bangladesh 2012Friends,The SSC Results 2012 (Secondary School Certificate) will be shortly released for all boards of Bangladesh On 7th may 2012,Monday (07-05-2012).The Important Boards Of Bangladesh are Barisal, Chittagong, Comilla, Dinajpur, Jessore, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Madrash, Technical, DIBS (Dhaka).All the Students Those who have appeared for BD SSC EXAMS 2012 which were held from...  

Five varieties of mouthwatering fish preparations made in quintessential Bengali style were on the menu. New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had a lavish spread reserved for Pranab Mukherjee during the latter's weekend visit to Dhaka.  

Dhaka, April 13 (bdnews24.com) – President Zillur Rahman, prime minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader Khaleda Zia have conveyed Bengali New Year's greetings to Bangladeshis and all Bengali-speaking people across the globe. Pahela Baishakh ...  

Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRINSpared thus far in recent quakesDHAKA, 22 February 2012 (IRIN) - Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, is ill-prepared for earthquakes due to lack of awareness and unplanned urbanization, say experts. “Total disregard for ...  

Indeed, many of those women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts were preyed upon by military personnel, even though Bangladesh was a party to major international human rights treaties. Rapes and other violence against indigenous women in Bangladesh ...  

Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman Tuesday emphasised the need for strong regulation for monitoring micro-finance institutions. “We are striving to maintain the right balance of ensuring that micro-finance institutions (MFIs) have the space to innovate while maintaining oversight of poor people’s money,” said Rahman, who heads Bangladesh’s central bank, at [...]  

Dutch-Bangla Bank is the first bank in Bangladesh to be fully automated and introduce Electronic Banking. The automation was completed in 2003, but further additions and features are continuously being added and upgraded. DBBL has adopted the ...  

A three-day Expo Malaysia begins at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital tomorrow. The Malaysian High Commission in Bangladesh is organising the show in observance of the 40th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Bangladesh. Malaysian ...  

BGB Director General Maj Gen Anwar Hussain said they have rescued around 70 women and children along the Indo-Bangla borders from human traffickers in the past three months. He said the girls were often trafficked into India in the guise of honeymooners.  

DHAKA - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Bangladesh Saturday to pull out of a spiral of political turmoil, saying the impoverished nation’s democratic credentials were at stake. “We urge all political actors in Bangladesh to work together for the good of the country,” Clinton told reporters following talks in Dhaka with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni. “In a strong ...  

Dhaka, May 7 (bdnews24.com) – Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman has received the prestigious Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque for 2011 in recognition of his 'significant contribution to international co-operation towards human progress". West Bengal ...  

who is also on two-day visit, would hold delegation-level talks with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and will meet opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Sunday. The two countries have struggled to establish good ties ever since India helped ...  

Dhaka, May 8 (bdnews24.com) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday inaugurated the first consignment of double-decker buses imported from India. The Prime Minister handed over the keys of the buses to Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC ...  

Dhaka, May 8 (bdnews24.com) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday inaugurated the first consignment of double-decker buses imported from India. The Prime Minister handed over the keys of the buses to Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC ...  

Dhaka, April 24 (IANS) The editor of a Bangladeshi daily has received death threats from unidentified people for publishing reports on a missing leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Golam Sarwar, editor of Bangla daily Shamokal, filed a police complaint Monday, the Daily Star reported Tuesday. A police officer said the journalist mentioned [...]  

To document the religious heritage of Bangladesh, the Bangla Academy in Dhaka has published several books: on Hindu temples [Ratanlal Chaakraborty, Bangladesher Mandir, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, B.S. 1394,] Buddhist stupas and temples, and Muslim mosques and mazars.  

Jahangir Alam, executive director of Bangladesh Bank (BB), died of cardiac arrest in Istanbul, Turkey yesterday at the age of 56, said an official. BB Deputy Governor Sitangshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury told The Daily Star that following a cardiac arrest at noon ...  

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here on Sunday. Bilateral issues, including ways to enhance two-way trade were reportedly discussed in the meeting. Mukherjee arrived in Dhaka on Saturday to participate in the ...  

Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada meets Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office in Dhaka yesterday. PMOUnb, Dhaka Bangladesh is a country of potential and will go a long way if its potential can be properly utilised, Japan's Deputy Prime ...  

Atiur Rahman, central bank governor, receives the Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque at a ceremony in Kolkata yesterday. Photo: Bangladesh Bank Star Business Desk Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman has received the prestigious Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque 2011 at a ...  

Dhaka, April 29 (IANS) Unidentified attackers Sunday hurled two bombs at the Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka, one in front of the home ministry, but no one was injured in the incident, officials said. The explosions took place during a strike called by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led 18-party alliance to protest the disappearance [...]  

DHAKA, May 19: A 31-year-old Bangladeshi accountant on Saturday became the first woman from her country to climb Mount Everest. Nishat Majumder, who began her adventure on April 9, hoisted the Bangladeshi flag atop the 8,848-metre peak, an ...  

The First International Ministerial Conference on Refugees in the Muslim World began in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, yesterday with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni heading a Bangladesh delegation to it. The two-day meeting is the first of its kind under the aegis of ...  

Nishat Majumder, who began her adventure April 9, hoisted the Bangladeshi flag atop the 8,848-metre-high peak, an official of the Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club told the Daily Star. The club organised the trip and a non-governmental organisation ...  

Bangladesh News 24 hoursQuader sees Padma bridge without loanBangladesh News 24 hoursDhaka, May 20 (bdnews24.com)—Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Tk 240 billion Padma bridge will be built without taking any loan. He made the comment a day after the government decided to allocate Tk 30 billion from the Annual ...Padma Bridge construction to start this year, says QuaderFinancial Express BangladeshGovt to fund it if...  

Organised by the club, the adventure was co-sponsored by Plan Bangladesh, a non-government organisation (NGO), under a campaign titled 'Because I Am a Girl'. Nishat left Dhaka for the quest on April 6, a press release of Plan Bangladesh said earlier.  

GUWAHATI, May 12 – An international fake currency note racket was busted by the Border Security Force (BSF) following the arrest of one Bangladeshi national, who was earlier arrested in United States of America. Photocopy of a fake Indian passport was ...  

The herbal medicine market, which has been expanding gradually since 1980, will exceed Tk 2,500 crore by 2020, herbalists said yesterday. The sales volume of herbal medicines jumped to Tk 1,000 crore in 2010 against Tk 1 crore in 1980. Bangladesh can earn ...  

A cultural delegation from India, which includes actress Sharmila Tagore ... The commencement of the joint celebrations, in May 2011, was attended by the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari in Dhaka and the ...  

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader, also in-charge of the railways ministry, inaugurates a new express train on Dhaka-Sylhet route at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday. Photo: STARStaff Correspondent Bangladesh Railway yesterday introduced a new ...  

Bengal was later part of the Gupta Empire and Harsha Empire from the 3rd to the 6th centuries CE. Following its collapse, a dynamic Bengali named Shashanka founded an impressive short-lived kingdom. After a period of anarchy, the Bengali ...  

Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club (BMTC) officials said Muhith and Majumdar set their feet on Everest's 8,850-meter-high summit from the northern side of the mountain in Nepal at 9.30am Bangladesh time. Plan Bangladesh, an NGO that sponsored Majumdar ...  

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has killed two Bangladeshis and injured 10 others on average per month this year despite repeated pledges by their home minister not to open fire along the border. .....  

India and Bangladesh are set to review the accords signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's historic visit to New Delhi in 2010 and Manmohan Singh's reciprocal visit to Bangladesh in September last year. Seven months after the setback in signing the ...  

in a statement said her scaling effort was dedicated to the Plan Bangladesh''s global campaign-- "Because I am a Girl" to be launched officially around the world on the International Day of the Girl Child on October 11. BMTC founder Inam-al Haque said ...  

Dhaka, Apr 15 (bdnews24.com) – Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has informed president Zillur Rahman about the understanding reached between Bangladesh and Malaysia over Padma bridge construction. During a courtesy call on him on Sunday evening, Hasina also ...  

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the United States to allow duty and quota free access of Bangladeshi products to boost trade relations between the two countries. "Bangladeshi .....  

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni went to New Delhi yesterday to take part in the first Bangladesh-India Joint Commission meeting and discuss bilateral issues including the Teesta water-sharing deal with India. Dipu Moni would co-chair the meeting with Indian ...  

New Delhi, May 8 (PTI) Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni today met Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed with him issues related to terrorism, smuggling of goods along the international borders and border management. After a 20-minute meeting with ...  

Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Dipu Moni and I have just had a very useful and productive first meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC). 2. This meeting is reflective of the qualitative transformation that India-Bangladesh ...  

If last week we visited Russia, this week we head down to Bangladesh where we meet one of the members of a hacking group that dedicates its existence to fighting for justice and against the Indian Border Security Force (BSF). The last time we’ve heard ...  

The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka will declare the SSC results on May 7, 2012 after 10:00 p.m. according to the official website. Around 14, 20,057 students had appeared in the Secondary...read more  

Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at stone-throwing opposition supporters ... Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government scrapped the 15-year-old system last year, saying it contradicted the constitution. The opposition says elections will be rigged ...  

Bangladesh Railway on Tuesday introduced a new express train on the Dhaka-Sylhet route to meet commuters' demand. The Kalni Express with 562 seats in 12 coaches will run six days a week. The intercity train is to give stoppages at Biman Bandar-Kulaura ...  

Agartala, May 20: An elephant that entered Tripura last month from neighbouring Bangladesh and triggered panic among the people in various parts of the state has been handed over to Bangladeshi authorities, an official said here Sunday. - Indiatalkies.com  

Dhaka, May 13 (bdnews24.com) – One Bangladeshi traveller was found dead and two others unconscious in a hotel room at Pattaya in Thailand on Saturday. Bangladesh ambassador to Thailand Imtiaz Hossain on Sunday confirmed bdnews24.com the incident.  

Dhaka, May 14 (bdnews24.com) -- Police have pressed charges against five members of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for the 'killing' of Humayun Azad, who was a Dhaka University professor. Inspector of Criminal ...  

An activist of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) shouts slogans during a nationwide strike in Dhaka on April 24, 2012. Seven small bombs exploded in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday, ...  

Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur in principle agreed recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia under government arrangements to reduce the cost of sending workers and end their abuses. “Under this process, those seeking jobs in Malaysia will be registered ...  

On Monday, leaders from India and Bangladesh, whose national anthems were penned by the poet, paid rich tributes to Tagore with Bangladeshi foreign minister Dipu Moni said Tagore would continue to inspire "every Bengali" at every point of life.  

Dhaka, Apr 27 (bdnews24.com) – Bangladesh will discuss a range of bilateral issues with US during secretary of state Hillary Clinton's visit to Dhaka, says foreign minister Dipu Moni. The former first lady is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on May 5 on a ...  

Dhaka, May 3 (bdnews24.com) – Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni has said she would discuss the proposed $700 million Japanese loan package during her meeting with the Japanese deputy prime minister Katsuya Okada who is due to arrive in Dhaka Thursday.  

Dhaka, Apr 27 (bdnews24.com) – Bangladesh and India are set for about two weeks of intense diplomatic activities, say officials. Foreign minister Dipu Moni will be visiting Kolkata to receive the prestigious Mother Teresa International Award on Apr 29 ...  

Dhaka, May 3 (bdnews24.com) – Amid hectic persuasion from Washington, Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni has neither confirmed nor ruled out signing of Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (TICFA) during the visit of US secretary of ...  

Bangladesh Railway will press a pair of new intercity train, Kalni Express, on Dhaka-Sylhet route from tomorrow. The train will head from Sylhet Railway Station at 6:20am and reach Dhaka at 1:00pm while the return trip will start at 3:00pm, ending at ...  

Bangladesh and India will review the progresses made in different bilateral matters during Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee’s visit to Dhaka on May 5-6. Briefing reporters, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Thursday said Pranab Mukherjee will ...  

Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN)-- A senior Bangladeshi minister has said that comments by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the globally acclaimed microlender Grameen Bank and its founder were "unwarranted." The Bangladeshi central bank last ...  

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Friday that her country was ready to offer discount drugs to Turkey to increase the trade volume between the two countries. “We are exporting drugs to Europe and North Africa. We also want Turkey to ...  

Amid raids and arrests, senior Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders have gone into hiding, as the government's sudden tough stance against the opposition's continuous agitation yesterday sent pa .....  

NEW DELHI: India has told Bangladesh that it was still working to create a domestic consensus on the Teesta water sharing treaty, even as both the sides agreed to establish a new sub-group on the Tipaimukh dam which has been a political hot potato in the ...  

Dhaka, May 6 (bdnews24.com) – The dead body of Brac official Mohammad Mohiuddin, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan, arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday morning. Brac media manager at Dhaka Zia Hashan told bdnews24.com that the body was ...  

SHILLONG: BSF jawans nabbed a Bangladeshi national involved in fake Indian currency (FICN) racket near the Indo-Bangla border in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. The BSF party recovered "high quality of FICN" corresponding to Rs ...  

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bomb blasts and arrests marked an opposition-called general strike in Bangladesh on Thursday in protest of a court order jailing 33 of the alliance's leaders. No injuries were reported from several crude bombs that exploded in Dhaka.  

Dhaka, Apr 14 (bdnews24.com) — Bangladeshis are celebrating the Bengali New Year 1419 amid festivity, gaiety and fanfare on Saturday, the first day of Baishakh. After Chhayanat's programme at Ramna Batamul at dawn and Fine Arts Institute's Mongol Shobha ...  

Guwahati, May 2 : A flag meeting between the Border Security Force (BSF), Assam government officials and their Bangladesh counterparts will held at a border point on Thursday to discuss the ways of fishing out bodies of the victims of the ferry disaster of ...  

The first joint consultative commission meeting, co-chaired by foreign minister SM Krishna and his Bangladeshi counterpart Dipu Moni, on Monday saw Dhaka insisting on early signing of the pact, which has remained hostage to West Bengal CM Mamata ...  

Guwahati, May 2 : A flag meeting between the Border Security Force (BSF), Assam government officials and their Bangladesh counterparts will held at a border point on Thursday to discuss the ways of ...  

His body was exhumed following a court order. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that Islam, president of the Savar and Ashulia units of the Bangladesh Garment & Industrial Workers Federation, disappeared ...  

the local media said. The duo, Najoum Mohammad Amin Abdul-Sharif and Abdul-Majid Abu Bakr Hamza, were accused of killing another Bangladeshi national Mohammed Shaheen Mohammad Kabir and stealing his money and mobile phones, Saudi Press Agency (SPA ...  

Four vehicles were torched in different parts of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka yesterday on the eve of two back-to-back shutdowns called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led 18-party allia .....  

DHAKA, May 15: Bangladesh on Tuesday banned a novel by popular fiction writer Humayun Ahmed for allegedly distorting how the nation’s first president and his family were murdered in 1975. Humayun Ahmed’s books, written in Bengali ...  

The exact origin of the word "Bangla" or "Bengal" is not known, though it is believed to be derived from Bang, the Dravidian-speaking tribe that settled in the area around the year 1000 BCE. The kingdom of Gangaridai was formed from at least the ...  

DHAKA, May 15: Tea prices in Bangladesh eased slightly at the weekly auction on Tuesday due to rising supplies but almost all the quantity on offer was sold amid strong demand for good quality new-season varieties, brokers said. The average ...  

By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala/Silchar, May 8 : River erosion has made the job of Border Security Force (BSF) guards increasingly difficult and dangerous along the India-Bangladesh border, says a ...  

He was accompanied by A S M Hannan Shah, Mirza Abbas, Amanullah Aman and other top brass of the party during ... The bench of justices Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Mohammad Nazrul Islam Talukder gave a split verdict on the petition but gave them respite ...  

Bangladesh education board published ssc result 2012.Board decide some College HSC Admission online and by sms.this service start 12 may from 6 june.teletalk mobile operator by sms Admission from fillup.How to Apply online hsc Admission by sms.  

is being taken forward by Manmohan Singh and Sheikh Hasina. Regarding the proposed visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to India and Bangladesh between May 5 and May 8, Moni said she was very much welcome in the region. To a question, she said ...  

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee [ Images] on Saturday arrived in Dhaka on a two-day tour to join the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of poet Rabindranath Tagore [ Images]. Flying in from Philippines, Mukherjee was received by Bangladeshi ...  

A Bangladeshi man was found dead and two other Bangladeshis were found unconscious in a hotel room in Pattaya yesterday. The dead man was identified as Business Chan, 57. Sanjib Saha, 54, and Rashid Harunur, 58, were believed to be comatose and were rushed ...  

... government has decided to celebrate the Pahela Baishakh in a befitting manner to show case Bengali culture; its traditional foods, music, arts, songs and the colourful dresses worn on the occasion. He said the Bangladeshi community celebrates this ...  

DHAKA, May 10 (Xinhua) -- "Hartal" is a term in many South Asian languages meaning strike action and is still commonly used in Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. In Bangladesh ... Ali Kayser, a trader of live birds in Dhaka, is completely ...  

National poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s poem on Kemal Pasha was well known in Bengal, now Bangladesh. The Kemal Atatürk Model High School in Daganbhuiyan, Feni, which was set up in 1927, is a reflection of the reverence shown by the people of Bengal towards ...  

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi tribunal on Sunday indicted an 89-year-old former chief of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami on 61 charges for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, months after he was arrested. "The international ...  

Says the actress, “I met several academicians and intellectuals during my brief visit. I wish I had the time to see more of Bangladesh. But I return to the country soon again.There are many points of similarities between the Bengali culture in India and in Bangladesh.  

Dhaka, May 1 (bdnews24.com) – Meira Kumar, the Indian Lok Sabha speaker, is learning Bengali ahead of her visit to Bangladesh, reported Indian Anandabazar Patrika. The Indian daily reported that Meira is to visit Dhaka by the end of May ahead of the 80th ...  

Nujum Abdul-Sherif and Abdul-Majid Hamzah were executed in the southern city of Jizan for the murder of Mohammed Kabir, also of Bangladeshi nationality. The two were found to have attacked Kabir as he slept, beating and strangling him, before stealing his ...  

Bangladesh has been keen on inking the Teesta water Bangladesh has been keen on inking the Teesta water treaty which was proposed to be signed during the Prime Minister's visit to Bangladesh in September 2011. However, key UPA ally and West Bengal Chief ...  

Sharjah, May 9 (IANS/WAM) Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, met the ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Wednesday and discussed economic and social development issues. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al ...  

DHAKA - Bangladesh police charged 28 opposition officials on Monday over a series of bomb explosions in the capital Dhaka, as a nationwide strike again paralysed the country. Police said they had raided the house of the second-highest leader of the ...  

The government yesterday contradicted a news item of IRNA which quoting Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad as saying that “Bangladesh is proud of Iran's nuclear achievements and capabilities.” In a press release yesterday, the ...  

Clinton met with Grameen’s ousted founder - Nobel Prize-winning economics professor Mohammad Yunus - and later voiced strong support for the organization which has fallen out of favor with Bangladesh’s political leadership. “I have followed the ...  

During the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit, Bangladesh will demand resolving some long-pending issues like duty-free access, GSP and Ticfa to remove trade barriers between the two countries. Hillary comes to Dhaka this afternoon on a two-day ...  

KOLKATA, India -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton swept through two of Asia's most downtrodden cities Sunday with an upbeat message of economic and political salvation. From Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Kolkata, India, Clinton urged students ...  

Dhaka: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton urged Bangladesh not to interfere in Grameen Bank, whose founder Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was ousted last year in a move supporters called politically motivated. Clinton met Yunus on Sunday in Dhaka ...  

media reports said Thursday. Meherun Runi, senior reporter of ATN Bangla TV channel, and her husband Sagar Sarowar, news editor of Maasranga Television, were killed Feb 11 in their apartment in the posh West Rajabazar area of Dhaka. The remains of Runi and ...  

media reports said Thursday. Meherun Runi, senior reporter of ATN Bangla TV channel, and her husband Sagar Sarowar, news editor of Maasranga Television, were killed Feb 11 in their apartment in the posh West Rajabazar area of Dhaka. The remains of Runi and ...  

Dhaka, May 5 (Agencies): US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said she was "betting on Bangladesh" today as she began a visit to the impoverished South Asian country, gripped by growing tensions over the disappearance of an Opposition leader. She urged ...  

Over 300 soldiers were sentenced to varying prison terms of up to seven years by a Bangladeshi court today for their involvement in the 2009 bloody mutiny at the country's frontier paramilitary force, in which 74 people were killed. A special Border Guard ...  

Photo: RobiStar Business Desk Mobile operator Robi Axiata Ltd has launched a corporate grooming effort for the Bangladeshi youth to develop leadership skills, the company said in a statement yesterday. The project, known as Robi Experiential Programme ...  

DHAKA, 23 April 2012 (IRIN) - The Bangladesh Government must do more to address the outstanding water needs of the capital, Dhaka, as experts warn that unless efforts are stepped up, things will worsen. The city requires 2.2 billion litres a day, but can ...  

Admitting time and again that the Americans too had to fight civil wars to establish democratic process, human rights and dignity, she said her government was ready to be helpful to the Bangladeshi people for liberty, democracy and rights. The US is ...  

DHAKA, Bangladesh—Reports say Bangladesh's government will investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering small loan agency Grameen Bank founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Prothom Alo and the Daily Star newspapers on Monday quoted ...  

New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) A Bangladeshi Air Force cadet, who force-landed his trainer plane on the Indian side of the border in West Bengal due to bad weather, was Thursday returned to Dhaka, an official said here. “The cadet was flown back to Dhaka ...  

Bangladesh Finance Minister A M A Muhith reportedly has announced that the national government “will form a commission to ensure ‘accountability’ of the Grameen social businesses run by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.” The minister argues that while these social businesses shared the name of microfinance institution (MFI) Grameen Bank, it is unclear how the mission of [...]  

Bangladesh has proposed widening the periphery of the Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) to boost up productivity in industrial and service sectors of the countries in the Asian region. APO Bangladesh Country Director and Industries Secretary KH Masud ...  

#snapjudgment DHAKA, BANGLADESH, MAY 5: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton alights from an airplane upon her arrival in Bangladesh, there to promote tolerance, democracy and development in one of the world's most impoverished nations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 5, 2012. (Photo by Pavel Rahman/AP) More »  

The exact origin of the word "Bangla" or "Bengal" is not known, though it is believed to be derived from Bang, the Dravidian-speaking tribe that settled in the area around the year 1000 BCE. The kingdom of Gangaridai was formed from at least the 7th ...  

KOLKATA, India – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton swept through two of the world's most downtrodden cities Sunday with an upbeat message of economic and political salvation. From Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Kolkata, India, Clinton urged ...  

DHAKA: Bangladesh said today that a much-delayed deal over sharing water with India was making progress as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee visited from New Delhi to shore up damaged cross-border ties. The deal to share Teesta river water was ...  

SCC GPA-5 achievers from Ak Khan-UCEP Technical School form a human chain at Cheragi Pahar intersection in Chittagong city on Monday as it did not get media coverage on its achievement of first position under Bangladesh Technical Education Board.  

local media reported. The remains bodies of Meherun Runi, senior reporter of ATN Bangla television, and her husband Sagar Sarowar, news editor of Maasranga Television, were exhumed from their graves in capital Dhaka following a Dhaka court order ...  

Bangladesh and India have agreed to conclude an extradition treaty at the earliest and vowed not to allow domestic or foreign militants and insurgents in each other's territories. A joint statement issued on Monday said Foreign Minister Dipu ...  

I hope a significant amount of money will enter the capital market this year," Syed Belal Ahmed, founder chairman of UK Bangladesh Business ... The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) general index went through a losing streak with daily turnover lower than Tk ...  

Many developments in trade and connectivity were taking Many developments in trade and connectivity were taking place and Bangladesh wanted revival of all old linkages and routes that existed before the Partition of India in 1947 so that the northeastern ...  

Agartala, May 5 (IANS): India and Bangladesh will start work next week to build a bridge over river Feni in Tripura for access to Bangladesh's Chittagong sea port to ferry goods and heavy machinery for northeast India, a minister said here today.  

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh's state-run Petrobangla has signed a deal with Russian energy giant Gazprom to drill 10 onshore wells. The $193 million deal was signed in Dhaka on Thursday amid hopes that Bangladesh will be able to add up ...  

KOLKATA, India — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton swept through two of Asia’s most downtrodden cities Sunday with an upbeat message of economic and political salvation. From Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Kolkata, India, Clinton urged ...  

Not only Ilias Ali's, but the life of every individual is also precious ... Bangladesh Insurance Association chairman Sheikh Kabir Hossain, and Bangladesh Dokan Malik Samity president Amir Hossain, among others, attended the news conference.  

KATHMANDU: As many as 36 Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested in Kuwait with Nepali passports, Nepal’s local mission and media reported today. It is the latest in the series of fraudulent activities by Bangladeshi nationals. The ...  

Clinton met with Grameen’s ousted founder — Nobel Prize-winning economics professor Mohammad Yunus — and later voiced strong support for the organization, which has fallen out of favor with Bangladesh’s political leadership.