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Youngone Corporation that owns Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) on Saturday urged the government to take immediate steps to remove the longstanding stalemate over the transfer of its land deed.

Six days into defeats in the city polls, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina optimistic about winning the general elections saying the people will cast their votes in the right place in the right time.

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has thanked Bangladesh for its support in making possible the first unit of 726-megawatt gas-based power plant at Palatana in India’s north-eastern state of Tripura.

Efforts to bring back ULFA leader Anup Chetia have resumed ahead of a crucial round of negotiations between the Indian government and the rebel group’s pro-talk faction.

US Assistant Secretary Robert Blake has said they see quite an important strategic opportunity now to build on the progress that India has made with Bangladesh over the last four years to increase not only their trade but counter-terrorism and…

Names of the collaborators, who had sided with Pakistani army during the nation’s Liberation War in 1971, are likely to be struck down from the electoral rolls.

President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Friday urged all the opposition parties to get united for launching a vigorous street movement after Eid-ul-Fitr to push for restoration of the caretaker government system.

Opposition BNP on Friday condemned the recommendations of Grameen Bank Inquiry Commission to bring a change to the legal structure of the bank terming it a plot to destroy the globally acclaimed microcredit organisation.

Cautioning the opposition about the consequence of a caretaker government, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has claimed that if an unconstitutional government assume power it would try to rule the country till the “end of the world.”

Bangladesh has made a significant progress in reducing poor people by 16 million in 10 years from 2000-2010 despite the series of external shocks affecting the country in 2007 and 2008.

Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, on Thursday said the government’s all attempts to break up the Bank into pieces would be resisted.

Acquisition of land and rehabilitation works for the much-desired Padma Bridge, the largest ever infrastructure project, are almost at final stage, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader told Parliament on Thursday.

Ten Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) men were sentenced to death for involvement in the 2005 suicide bombing at Gazipur Bar association that killed eight people.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned the BNP against making way for unelected people to come to power through the restoration of the system of a poll-time caretaker government.

An election commissioner has been quoted to have said the Mayors-elect of four cities would need to wait three to four months to take the charge due to ‘legal complications.’ The elections were called by the Local Government ministry ahead…

The outgoing chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission Ghulam Rahman on Wednesday called the ACC ‘a toothless tiger’ which was yet to grow claws and teeth, because of too many loopholes in the laws.

At least 10 people were killed and six others injured as they were struck by bolts of lightning in the capital, Chapainawabganj, Sherpur and Rajshahi districts on Wednesday.

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkh (Rajuk) has taken steps against 8,000 building constructors as per the Building Construction Act of 1952 on charges of violating rules.

Senior BNP lawmaker Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Wednesday in Parliament demanded a statement from the Foreign Minister in the House under rule 300 to let people know about the present position regarding Tipaimukh Dam, Inter River-Linking Project, and Teesta water…

The present average life expectancy of women in Bangladesh is 68.8 years – a significant rise from the past, Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque told Parliament on Tuesday.

Two opposition lawmakers in Parliament on Tuesday demanded restoration of caretaker government to hold the next national elections, otherwise they warned the government will have to flee through the back door in the face of public wrath.

The US House of Representatives has approved a defense authorisation bill that will require the military-branded garments made in Bangladesh and sold at base retail stores owned by the Department of Defense comply with an enforceable fire and building safety…

A lorry driver, involved in a road crash in which 21 people including 19 Bangladeshis died, has been ordered to pay Dh 4.2 million in blood money, fined Dh 52,000 and sentenced to a year in prison.

Bangladesh’s pioneering microlender faces an uncertain future after a commission proposed the government take over or break up the Nobel-award-winning bank, analysts said Tuesday.

The presence of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad in Singapore for medical check up during the same period has given rise to a speculation that they might have talks on election issues there.

Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) on Monday said implementation of the budget proposed for fiscal 2013-2014 depends on effective handling of 14 issues that include giving a boost to foreign and private sector investment and bringing pace in ADP implementation with…

The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (Ticfa), aiming to boost trade relations with the USA and bring dynamism in trade and investment between the two countries.