Bangladesh News

Sluggishness has gripped the entire public administration, as all previous reform attempts towards making it service oriented have gone into hibernation amid mounting political influence of successive ruling parties...

Law enforcers fear around 150 suspected or convicted militants who are now out of jail may embrace militancy again as there were no motivational programmes in the prisons...

Bangladesh is set to officially release three flood-tolerant rice varieties that would help farmers prevent up to a million tonnes of annual crop loss caused by flash floods, researches said...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia smells provocation of competitor foreign countries behind the persistent unrest in the readymade garment sector (RMG)...

The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday sent detained former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar to the Taskforce for Interrogation (TFI) cell for quizzing in the August 21 grenade attack case...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked her cabinet colleagues and party lawmakers to remain alert for at least next two months as ‘untoward incidents’ might occur ahead of the Supreme Court verdict in the Bangabandhu murder case. Th...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government would take punitive measures against the people, irrespective of workers and owners, responsible for unrest in the garment sector...

Detective branch of police Wednesday night arrested three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiyeba (LeT) leaders from a madrasa in Chittagong in connection with a plot to attack the US embassy in Dhaka...

The Power Development Board’s (PDB) selection of best bidders for eight rental power projects totalling 530 megawatt capacity reflects the process followed during the caretaker government rule as inexperienced bidders are getting priority by just offering lowest power tariff. ...

The Detective Branch of police has identified seven attackers and 53 accomplices in the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh, said a DB source...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country would get rid of power crisis by 2011 as 1,487MW of power will be generated and added to the national grid by then...

A nexus of outlaws and some mainstream political leaders kept alive the decades-old left-leaning extremism, which later turned into absolute terrorism in the southwestern district of Kushtia...

Police arrested the general secretary of a faction of Kushtia town Mahila Awami League who has also been a patron of an underground armed group Gono Mukti Fouz (GMF), in connection with transporting firearms and ammunition including an AK-47 rifle on Monday night...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government would seek retrial of the case filed for assassinating four national leaders...