The Prime Minister is now in London on a five-day official visit to attend the inaugural ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. During a meeting she disclosed her plans to undertake the task of building Padma Bridge with it’s own fund. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has made it clear that the . She said,...
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The government has received a US$ 2.03 billion worth of foreign assistance in the last fiscal year (FY 2011-12), officials said yesterday. Bangladesh’s multilateral and bilateral donors disbursed $ 1.77 billion in assistance in FY 2010-11, $ 260 million down from the $ 2.03 billion aid received in the just concluded fiscal (FY 2011-12),...
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Garment factory owners have agreed to pay workers their bonus and arrears before Eid holidays. Home Minister Shahara Khatun said this to the reporters after a meeting with the leaders of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association, Bangladesh Knitwear Manufactures & Exporters Association, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association and workers unions at her secretariat office...
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Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), established in 1972, is the authority for planning, construction and operation of power generation and transmission facilities throughout Bangladesh and for distribution in urban areas except metropolitan city of Dhaka and its adjoining area. BangladeshPower Development Board inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Energy Holdings International INC and...
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DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh police announced Wednesday that they have arrested four suspects accused of killing a Saudi diplomat in Dhaka earlier this year and it appears the incident was a street crime gone wrong. Khalaf bin Mohammed Salem al-Ali, a 45-year-old official in the Saudi Embassy’s consular section, was shot and killed 30...
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Kokrajhar: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday said that the situation in Kokrajhar was still tense and the state government was trying its best to control it. The violence in the Kokrajhar region of Assam has shown no sign of ending with the death toll up to 21. An estimated 50,000 refugees have taken...
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Syed Abul Hossain resigned as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Minister on Monday. In an open letter to the public published through different newspapers on Saturday, Syed Abul Hossain indicated this outcome. The events unfolded in the following manner; At around 7:30am, Syed Abul Hossain left his Gulshan residence in a an ordinary vehicle...
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Thousands of people have gathered in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to pay their last respects to the writer Humayun Ahmed, who died last week. His body arrived in Dhaka from New York early on Monday and was taken to the city’s Central Shaheed Minar monument. Political leaders, officials and fans thronged to get a...
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(reported in http://english.pravda.ru) As soon as Russia blocked the Western variant of the resolution on Syria, which indirectly stipulated a possibility for a military intervention, Russia became the target of the Western rage. Representatives of Western countries cracked down on Russia with furious accusations. The U.S. threatened to bypass the UN Security Council, which, as...
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Humayun Ahmed, born on November 13, 1948 – July 19, 2012, author, dramatist and film director, emerging in the Bengali literary world as the most popular fiction writer of the country died in Bellevue Hospital in New York on the 19th of July, 2012 at 11.30 PM BST. After a nine-month struggle against colorectal cancer and after 12 sessions of chemotherapy, he had...
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