The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved the expansion of Bangladesh-India (Bheramara-Baharampur) existing power grid connection to import additional 500 MW power to meet the growing demand for ensuring socio-economic development.
In scores of hit-and-run arson attacks, almost every day, since the out-of-sorts Bangladesh Nationalist Party launched its farcical “peaceful” programme about a month back, 49 innocent lives were burnt to death, and 331 suffered burn injuries. Admitted at the DMCH burn unit, the victims were making the air thick with their blood-cud...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam today handed over the Women in Parliament (WIP) Global Forum Award to Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina at Bangladesh Secretariat.
The Cabinet has given final approval to a proposal for imposing one percent surcharge on use of SIM or RIM card of the mobile operators.
The US-Bangladesh relations have been growing like the banyan tree Senator Edward Kennedy planted as a symbol of “friendship” at Dhaka University in 1972 soon after independence, Washington’s point person for South Asia Nisha Desai Biswal has said.