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  • Awami League leaders sending a bouquet to the party chief Sheikh Hasina through a jail official near the special jail gate at the Sangshad Bhaban premises marking the homecoming day of Hasina on Saturday.
    POSTED: May 18, 2008 - 11:09

    Awami League will go for tougher movement to free detained party president Sheikh Hasina after consultation with the allies in 14-party combine, but hope she will be released before declaring any such programme.


  • Hamid, one of four fugitives of Chuadanga jailbreak, was arrested with bullet injuries yesterday.
    POSTED: May 18, 2008 - 10:43

    One of the four convicted extremists, who fled away from Chuadanga District Jail by scaling over its boundary wall Thursday night, was arrested from village Chhaighoria under Sadar upazila of the district yesterday morning.


  • These file photos show Maitree Express having a locomotive change at Darshana Railway Station and, right, passengers inside the train get weary of the delay of over two hours there. The number of Dhaka-Kolkata train passengers is decreasing day by day due
    POSTED: May 17, 2008 - 12:29

    Launched amid much enthusiasm and fanfare over a month ago, Dhaka-Kolkata passenger train service now sees not even one third of seat capacity of the carriages used.

SAARC nations urged to fight natural disaster unitedly
May 18, 2008 - 11:05
Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury.. » FULL STORY
'Stay well,’ says Anwar in tears as he departs for UK
May 18, 2008 - 10:56
British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury yesterday morning said his farewells in tears as he left Bangladesh for London, ending his four-year extended diplomatic assignment in his paternal place.
Suicide bombing, fighting claim 38 lives in Sri Lanka
May 17, 2008 - 11:42
At least 38 people were killed in suicide bombing and fighting in Sri Lanka.
Bangladesh Affairs
Illegal Bangladeshis to be deported from Rajasthan
The right-wing Hindu government in Rajasthan declared Friday their decision to deport.. » FULL STORY
Bangladeshi chef becomes jury in Belgium
Workers Party demands white paper on caretaker g..
DCC asked to stop dumping garbage into rivers
Unprecedented land price rise in city
Politics
Barge-mounted graft case: Special court order to..
The special corruption-trial court orders today whether charges would be framed against former Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and 7 others in the Khulna barge-mounted power plant graft case.
I am not absconder, says Nizami
GATCO case arrest warrants fuel endless speculat..
BNP unity declaration before May 30
B Chy urges govt to sit with senior politicians
Business
Prime Bank opens 3 ATM booths
Prime Bank Limited opened three ATM Booths in the city on May 14 at Pragati Sarani, Ring Road and Bijoynagar in the capital city.
Uttara Bank raises authorised capital to Tk 160c..
Phoenix Finance declares 22pc cash dividend
Phoenix Finance declares 22pc cash dividend
Bangladeshi software has huge demand in Japan: J..
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France angered by Burmese delays
France's ambassador to the UN has accused Burma's government of being on the verge of committing a crime against humanity by not accepting foreign aid.
Italy pledges to bolster security
Who could tell Clinton to quit?
Bin Laden driver's trial delayed
Zimbabwe attacks 'out of control'
Weather
Cyclone plunges Myanmar into primitive existence
Residents of Myanmar's largest city were plunged into a primitive existence Monday, using candles.. » FULL STORY
Another cyclone likely this month
Nargis gathers strength, moves slowly
Weather of Bangladesh
Weather of Bangladesh
Sports
Windies to stand and deliver against Aussies, sa..
West Indies coach John Dyson believes his team's daunting, imminent challenge against Australia could be the making of his Caribbean team.
Premier Hockey Usha outplay Ajax
Abahani lock horns with Mohammedan today
Div II Kabaddi: Jail team, Sharnali Sangsad in f..
BKSP beat Mukta Jiban Football Club 2-0
Technology Today
'$100 laptop' platform moves on
An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the $100 laptop has been launched.
Yahoo faces struggle for control
Blackberry 'moves away from business'
Virtual telescope opens night sky
Google helps the web to go social
Science
Europe could get manned spaceship
A plan for a manned spacecraft has been announced by the European firm EADS.
US lists polar bear as threatened
Nasa set to join petaflop elite
Europe could get manned spaceship
Frigid robot eyes top tech prize
Health
The sweet solution - 1
Which is the mother of all medicines? Yes, ‘honey’. It takes 300 bees flying 15,000 air miles to make about 1/2 kg of honey,.. » FULL STORY
5 ways to control high blood pressure
Measure your blood pressure at home
Single anti-flu drug 'not enough'
Meningitis B trials 'encouraging'
Arts & Entertainment
Mrinal Sen turns 85
Mrinal Sen has stopped directing films since long and when he turned 85 last Tuesday (May 13) last, he made it clear that he did not have any plan to make movies now.
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy honours Professor ..
"Prince Caspian": Out of the wardrobe, into a wa..
Poetry recitation at Russian Centre of Science a..
Egg tempera with a flare
Bangla Lifestyle
Texting while driving? Time to unplug
Sarmiento, who writes a blog called eSoup (http://www.esoupblog.com/), said she has taken up painting again and become involved in volunteer projects since beginning her own "digital day of rest" two months ago.
Education
Schools' testing regime 'leaves pupils unprepare..
Teaching to national curriculum tests is ruining pupils' futures and leaving them unprepared for the world of work, says a report released today by a group of MPs.
NU appoints 700 employees illegally
A shoot, biryani and betel leaf spitting
A Winter Night
Recognition to Adivasi mother tongue a must
Blogs
Insurance sector gets boost as economy grows rap..
Commerce Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman yesterday said that the importance of insurance business is assuming a new dimension with the rapid growth of the country's economy.
Campaign to popularize potato food item
Too many accidents, Too many Highway Police
No democracy without discipline: CJ
Special Coverage
Low over Bay persists
The well-marked low over eastcentral Bay and adjoining northeast Bay and Myanmar coast persists at 9 AM yesterday. It is likely to intensify further.
DCC ill-equipped to stem menace: Man-mosquito fi..
Lawyers firm to boycott Appellate Divn today
Women's rights in light of Islamic laws urged
From the Foreign Press : Power of One, Act Now, ..
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April 20, 2008 - 10:42
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Penal tax on legalisation of undi..
Microsoft unveils its web vision
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IMF head warns of dire consequences
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Interviews
  • Fugitive former ministers may seek bail tomorrow

    Four of the six former senior ministers, including former LGRD Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and former Industries Minister Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, against whom a Court in Dhaka on Thursday issued warrant of arrest in Gatco scam case, are expected to move the High Court tomorrow seeking ad-interim bail against lower Court’s order.

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