The Bangladeshi non-profit group BRAC has been awarded a major humanitarian prize. [Read more]

JU Correspondent
At least four Jahangirnagar University (JU) teachers were assaulted by some unruly students of Drama and Dramatics Department at 12.00 noon in the old Arts Buildings yesterday.Sources said, a group of unruly Dramatics students led by Onjoli Islam Shimu started assaulting Ahmed Sunni, a Dramatics dept. teacher all on a sudden while he was [...]

খুলনায় অনুষ্ঠিত বাংলাদেশ সংলাপের দ্বাদশ পর্বে আদালতের ভেতরে-বাইরের ঘটনা নিয়ে ছিলো বিতর্ক, আলোচনা হয়েছে ড: ইউনুসের ‘ফর্মূলা’ নিয়ে [Read more]

The Bangladesh Bank governor Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed has said that the financial service sector in Bangladesh has low exposure or risk to banking and investment firms in the US and Europe. [Read more]

Democrat Barack Obama will leave the White House trail later this week to head to the side of his gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, just 11 days before the election. [Read more]

UNB, Dhaka
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was the first to obtain the registration certificate from the Election Commission yesterday, a pre-requisite for contesting the upcoming general elections.LDP, led by its chairman and former minister Oli who deserted BNP in 2006, had also collected the party registration form first and the Commission did not find much difficulty [...]

ঢাকায় অনুষ্ঠিত একাদশ ‘সংলাপে’ তত্বাবধায়ক সরকারকে ঘিরে নানা বিতর্ক সহ আলোচনায় এসেছে নির্বাচন কমিশন আর ভোটার তালিকা হালনাগাদ করার বিষয়৻ [Read more]

British sate minister for Asia, Africa and the United Nations visited Bangladesh. It was a two day visit.  [Read more]

Momentum increased yesterday for a new economic stimulus package to help cash-strapped Americans as President Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threw their weight behind an idea they earlier opposed. [Read more]

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