A group of Iranian missile experts is in North Korea to help Pyongyang prepare for a rocket launch, Japan’s Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported yesterday. [Read more]

UNB, Dhaka
Some 117 government officials ranging from deputy secretaries to secretaries are currently officers on special duty (OSDs), Parliament was informed yesterday.Replying to a question from independent member Fazlul Azim (Noakhali-6), LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, in-charge of Establishment Ministry in Parliament, said that of the 117 OSDs, 9 are at secretary level, [...]

UNB, Dhaka
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said he would consider the possibility of arranging collateral-free loans for the women entrepreneurs of the country.“We’ll have to think on how we can make an arrangement in this regard… It’s not a promise, but it deserves consideration,” he said, launching Women’s National Business Agenda (WNBA) 2009 at [...]

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At least ten people were killed and 30 others injured in a road accident on Thursday morning at Lohagara upazila of Chittagong. [Read more]

Dozens of suspected militants fired rockets early yesterday at a transport terminal in northwest Pakistan that is used to ship supplies to Nato troops based in Afghanistan, police said. [Read more]

Staff Reporter
A total of 30 leading human rights activists, economists, writers, lawyers, teachers, journalists and NGO activists in a statement yesterday demanded an independent enquiry into each of deaths of BDR personnel during the interrogation.In the statement they referred that at least 6 BDR personnel have died in mysterious circumstance causing public anxiety and concern [...]

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Security forces in Bangladesh say a Muslim seminary raided earlier this week is actually a militant training camp with ties to a British charity. [Read more]