North Korea fired artillery and South Korea responded with warning shots along their disputed western sea border Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties and the North later said its barrage was part of a continuing drill. [Read more]

Talha Bin Habib
The Government has started working on the extension of the amended Health Nutrition and Population Sector Programme (HNPSP) from July next year without any disruption of service delivery to the people. The current HNPSP programme, with a budget of Tk 37,384 crore, will end in June next year. There will [...]

bdnews24.com, Khagrachharhi
A Bangalee organisation barricaded two roads in Khagrachharhi and Rangamati on Tuesday, a day after hill people barricaded roads in the hill districts in protest over a land dispute. The roadblock-cum-siege called by the Parbattya Bangalee Chhatra Parishad disrupted movement of all vehicles on Khagrachharhi-Dighinala and Rangamati-Baghachharhi-Baghaihat roads since morning. Parbattya Bangalee Chhatra Parishad [...]

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বাংলাদেশ নির্বাচন ২০০৮ নিয়ে বিবিসি বাংলার বিশেষ আয়োজন [Read more]

He also said although this government has taken some steps to remove pollutions from Buriganga, but it is going very slowly and the coordination between different water management departments of government is not good. [Read more]

Sri Lankans voted in their first post-war presidential election yesterday amid claims of violence and voter intimidation after a bitter and highly personal campaign. [Read more]

Staff Reporter
The government yesterday approved Rangpur as a new administrative division comprising eight districts, raising the total number of division to seven in the country.The decision in this regard came at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting of the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reorganisation (NICAR) at the Bangladesh Secretariat.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over [...]

JU Correspondent
The 4th convocation of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will be held on January 30 at the central ground of the university. President of the country, Zillur Rahman, also the Chancellor of the University, will preside over the convocation while Mohammad Tafazzul Islam, Chief Justice of the country, will be present as the chief speaker. Nurul [...]

এসপ্তাহে আলোচনার প্রসঙ্গ: সরকারে রদবদল, সেনাবাহিনীর ভূমিকা ও রাজনৈতিক দলের সঙ্গে আলোচনাসহ অন্যান্য বিষয়৻ [Read more]