Bangladesh News

Bangladesh on Thursday reiterated that its soil would not be used for terrorist activities against any country.

The Bangladeshi government has introduced some fresh measures tightening the registration process of SIM and RUIM cards, following a rise in cellphone use for criminal activities.

BNP leaders yesterday demanded that the government stop the activities of European Union and foreign NGOs in Chittagong Hill Tracts and declare international commission on CHT illegal.

DHAKA: The Asian Development Bank has projected a lower growth rate at 5.5 per cent for the Bangladesh economy for the current fiscal year from 5.9 in FY '09 as the first-half period's growth in some major sectors like industry and services has been buffeted by the global recession.

St Petersburg News.Net Tuesday 9th March, 2010 The Dhaka High Court in Bangladesh Tuesday quashed the charges of corruption against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed in the procurement of Russian fighter plane Mig-29. The court observed that there was no element of misappropriation of state fund by the prime minister in this case, which was filed ...

Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:05 pm Press Release: Nava Thakuria Burma on radar as New Delhi prepares for talks with ULFA Nava Thakuria The military ruled Burma emerges as an important actor on the projected peace talks between the Union government of India and the banned militant group, United Liberation Front of Asom .

Tajikistan News.Net Tuesday 9th March, 2010 Bangladesh's Unique Group, which owns Westin Dhaka, has signed a deal with Starwood Hotels and Resorts to set up two more five-star hotels in Dhaka and a third in Chittagong.

DHAKA: Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had made detailed plans for the liberation from Pakistan during a stay in London in 1969, his daughter and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

Bangladesh's elite Rapid Action Battalion has arrested an alleged operative of banned HuJI, who is one of the accused in the assassination of the country's former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria in 2005.

India and Bangladesh will discuss issues related to cross-border terrorist activities and joint patrolling of the frontiers as top officers of border guarding forces of both the countries begin their four-day meeting here tomorrow.

Uzbekistan News.Net Monday 8th March, 2010 The Bangladesh government has announced the revival of a women's development policy to mark International Women's Day Monday while activists pledged to focus on acid attacks on women.

Uzbekistan News.Net Monday 8th March, 2010 Bangladesh wants to limit the proposed trial of 'war criminals' -- those who killed unarmed civilians in the 1971 freedom struggle -- to a symbolic few, according to a ruling party leader.

"She suckered us. Suckered us.....this woman suckered us." So said an enraged US president Richard Nixon of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi after learning that war had broken out on the subcontinent on Dec 3, 1971, and Indian forces had made a decisive push towards then East Pakistan that it recognised as Bangladesh three days later.

DHAKA: Bangladesh is to resume talks after five years on a Free Trade Agreement with India that it hopes will allow greater access to the Indian market.

Name signs at Zia Uddyan were dismantled on Saturday night. The four-hour long demolition work started at 8pm.A A A cabinet meeting last month decided to rename 39 establishments across the country, in many cases restoring names previously given by the last Awami League government which had been changed by the subsequent BNP administration.

DHAKA: The Power Development Board has primarily accepted a proposal of leading local power company Summit to revive the 450-megawatt Sirajganj power project, which the last BNP-led alliance government had cancelled in 2004 without any explanation.

BSS, Dhaka Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhit on Friday said the price spiral in the international market might affect the local market, likely to make the country's current inflation situation unstable in the coming days.

A suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed operative arrested in Dhaka has told Bangladeshi investigators that he arranged safe passage to India from Bangladesh for several militants who were involved in the 1999 hijack of an Indian Airlines plane.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Railway is going to launch electronic ticketing service to ease the sufferings of passengers.

Shillong, Feb 28 : Cross border firing between the Border Security Force and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR was reported at Muktapur area of Meghalaya on Sunday.