With parliamentary elections due in December, the 20-month anti-corruption drive by Bangladesh's military-backed caretaker government has virtually come to a halt. The timetable of the polls, likely to be announced next week, has hastened the process
DHAKA: India and Bangladesh agreed yesterday to hold more talks to demarcate their maritime boundary that will enable the two countries to undertake gas and oil exploration, officials said. The talks on maritime demarcation between India and Bangladesh
DHAKA: Bangladesh has signed a $350mn loan with the World Bank for a power plant near the capital to address the impoverished countryâ??s acute electricity shortage, the bank said yesterday. The 300MW gas turbine power plant, to be built in
DHAKA: Bangladeshi authorities have ordered 15 brands of milk powder be tested for the hazardous chemical that has killed four babies in China and sickened thousands more, an official said yesterday. Director General of the Bangladesh Standard and
New Delhi (PTI): The BCCI has thrown its weight behind Bangladesh Cricket Board by promising to rope in more cricketers from its eastern neighbours into the lucrative Indian Premier League in its second edition in April next year. IPL chairman Lalit
DU CorrespondentDhaka Club Ltd yesterday arranged an Ifter mahfil at its lawn for the deprived children of the society.Around five hundred madrasah students, some of them are orphans, from two madrsahs named Ambarshah Islamia Hafizia and Eatimkhana and