The World Bank’s cancellation of the US$1.2 billion credit as part of the US$2.9 billion Padma bridge project is deeply regrettable, embarrassing and disappointing, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said on Saturday. [Read More]

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Source: The Daily Star

Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon on Saturday once again firmly demanded scrapping the constitutional provision that allows MPs to remain in office during parliamentary polls to ensure a level-playing field. [Read More]

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Source: The Daily Star

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion Saturday afternoon sealed off two illegal diagnostic centres in the capital’s Mohammadpur area and jailed one of its doctors. [Read More]

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Source: The Daily Star

Detectives have arrested a former official of Saudi Embassy at Rampura in the capital on charges of giving death threat to the charge d’affairs. [Read More]

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Source: The Daily Star

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia distributed relief materials Saturday afternoon among the families of people killed in last week’s landslides triggered by torrential rains in Chittagong city. [Read More]

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Source: The Daily Star

Mohammed Morsi has been sworn in as the country’s first civilian, democratically elected president at a historic ceremony in Cairo. [Read More]

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Source: The Daily Star

পদ্মা সেতু নিয়ে বিশ্বব্যাংকের বিবৃতি ‘সম্পূর্ণভাবে অগ্রহণযোগ্য’ বলে মনে করেন অর্থমন্ত্রী আবুল মাল আবদুল মুহিত।
অর্থ মন্ত্রণালয়ের জ্যেষ্ঠ তথ্য কর্মকর্তা মো. শাহেদুর রহমান অর্থমন্ত্রীর পক্ষে আজ শনিবার রাতে এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে এ কথা জানিয়েছেন। এতে বলা হয়, পদ্মা সেতু প্রকল্প বিষয়ে বিশ্বব্যাংকের বরাত দিয়ে বিভিন্ন গণমাধ্যমে আজ যা প্রকাশিত হয়েছে, সে বিষয়ে বিবৃতি দিয়েছেন অর্থমন্ত্রী।
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Celebrated writer and playwright’s condition fails to improve, reports Lovlu Ansar from New York [Read More]

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Bright chances of finding gas reserve in an experimental well in Comilla district, says a senior official, reports Aminur Rahman Rasel [Read More]

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Source: bdnews24.com | English Version

A new research has found out that among the citizens of the United Kingdom, people from of Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi origin feel more ‘British’ than their white counterparts. Muslims are the … [Read More]

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