Staff ReporterExperts at a seminar in the city urged the government to take early preventive steps after detection of bird flu virus anywhere in the country. They also urged the government to give compensation for the affected farm owners within short time and form a specialist panel with virologists and microbiologists. They recommended the [...]

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Hillary Clinton yesterday denied she was contemplating defeat for her White House bid, after her wistful tribute to Barack Obama in a debate was seen by some observers as an admission of looming failure. [Read more]

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday ruled out joining the White House race as a vice presidential candidate. [Read more]

Sheikh Hasina’s doctor says that they are recommending that Hasina should be sent abroad for her ear treatment. Jail authority says it is not within the jail code that anyone jailed can be sent abroad.  [Read more]

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The draft of amendment to the Labour Laws has been almost finalised with provisions that would discourage trade unions to become the front organisations of any political party and allowing single union in each of the establishment.Disclosing this after a tri-partite meeting among the leaders of trade unions, owners associations and government, Adviser for [...]

ঢাকায় বাংলাদেশ সংলাপের ৫ম পর্বে নির্বাচন ব্যবস্থায় সংস্কারের পাশাপাশি আলোচনা হয়েছে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের শিক্ষকদের নিরাপত্তা এবং জঙ্গীদের শাস্তির বিষয় নিয়ে [Read more]

Eleven people, including two children, have been killed and more than 5,000 displaced by floods in Indonesia this week, officials said Friday. [Read more]

One of the two persons who took initiatives in requesting the United Nations to declare this day as International Mother Language Day talks to VOA and narrates the events which led to this historic declaration.
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UNB, Dhaka
Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed yesterday said Bangladesh should have her own brand of democracy as he observed Westminster model is not truly followed by the party in power.In his significant remark, the Army Chief, whose force is backing the caretaker government in sweeping reforms in the interim period, he observed that Westminster-type [...]