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President Zillur Rahman has said that despite global recession Bangladesh economy is moving forward as a result of remittance send by millions of Bangladeshi workers working abroad. [Read more]

Pakistan’s embattled government reached out to the opposition Monday as it sought to limit the damage from a recent Supreme Court decision striking down an amnesty protecting several of its senior officials from corruption charges. [Read more]

Staff Reporter
Former foreign secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury has outright rejected any possibility of redrawing of Indo-Bangladesh border as has been desired by Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty prior to his departure for New Delhi. “The unmarked land and enclaves are not in a position of great strategic importance, so it is doable and soluble,” [...]

কোপেনহেগেনে রাতভর তিক্ত বিতর্কের পর জাতিসংঘের জলবায়ু সংক্রান্ত সম্মেলনে বিভিন্ন দেশের প্রতিনিধিরা শেষ পর্য্ন্ত একটা মতৈক্যে পৌঁছোতে সক্ষম হয়েছেন৻ [Read more]

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has projected a slow growth in GDP in FY2010 in Bangladesh. [Read more]

Millions of people along the East Coast were bracing for potentially dicey commutes as they returned to work Monday after a weekend winter storm dropped record snowfall, interrupted holiday shopping and stranded travelers. [Read more]

BBC online
Pakistan’s government has said it will not resign, following a court ruling which overturned an amnesty for politicians facing corruption charges. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the Government had no intention of bowing to opposition demands to stand down. Senior figures including interior and defence ministers are among those affected by the Supreme Court [...]

Staff Reporter
Different organisations yesterday condemned the terrorist attack on Daily Amar Desh special correspondent M Abdullah who was reportedly attacked for publishing news on the corruption of energy advisor Tawfik-e-Elahi and son of Sheikh Hasina.Denouncing the attack on journalist M Abdullah who is also publicity and publication secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), its [...]

Staff Reporter
The government yesterday decided to reduce five per cent bank interest rate against the loans taken by 16 state owned jute mills.It also directed public and private banks to disburse loans so that the mills could maintain their smooth production. The decision came at a meeting at the conference room of the Ministry [...]