DHAKA | Sat Oct 5, 2013 8:10am EDT
DHAKA Oct 5 (Reuters) - The Prime Ministers of Bangladesh and India have inaugurated a joint power transmission plant through which Bangladesh will receive up to 500 megawatts (MW) of electricity, a senior official said.
The move is potentially significant [...]

Forty years after its Liberation War, Bangladesh Government has honoured former Defence Minister V K Krishna Menon posthumously at a ceremony attended by the Bangladesh President and Prime Minister in Dhaka, thus formally recognising his contribution to their war of Independence. Menon's grand niece Radha Anand Menon and her husband Anand Menon were invited [...]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that the India- Bangladesh Grid interconnection at Bheramara in Bangladesh would strengthen bonds of friendship between both countries and add a rich new dimension to bilateral relations. “The initiatives being undertaken today strengthen the bonds of friendship between India and Bangladesh and add a rich new dimension to [...]

Bangladesh's anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion has arrested 10 people including seven Chinese nationals in capital Dhaka on charge of "drug smuggling", police said Saturday.Khandaker Rezaul Hassan, officer-in-charge in Dhaka's Uttara police station, told Xinhua "RAB personnel arrested three Bangladeshis and seven Chinese citizens from the city's Uttara … [Read More]

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New Zealand coach Mike Hesson has said that they are prepared to face a strong spin assault from Bangladeshi bowlers during their first Test series in the country after five years. The last time New Zealand played Tests in Bangladesh in 2008, they won 1-0 following a three-wicket win in Chittagong, which is also the [...]

At least 17 people were killed and about 30 others injured as a goods laden truck and a night passenger bus collided head on in Bangladesh's Shajahanpur sub- district of Bogra district, 197 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, on Thursday morning.Police was quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that the Dhaka bound [...]

DHAKA, Bangladesh–Bangladesh has begun work on its first nuclear power plant, which is to have two Russian-designed reactors and cost up to US$4 … [Read More]

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Forecast of rain on Friday morning coupled with an already wet outfield at the MA Aziz Stadium has threatened the start of the three-day practice match between the New Zealanders and BCB XI. Besides being an important tune-up for the New Zealand side, the match will also help Bangladesh take a final call on two [...]

DHAKA | Thu Oct 3, 2013 7:43am EDT
DHAKA Oct 3 (Reuters) - Bangladesh on Thursday approved a draft of an act to bring the Nobel prize-winning microfinance lender Grameen Bank under the authority of the central bank, which its founder, Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, has [...]

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Thursday said it will lend Bangladesh $500 million to help finance a major overhaul of secondary education to meet the country’s need for skilled and technology-savvy workers. The ADB funds - to be provided in four tranches over the coming decade - would support the Bangladesh government’s $17.1-billion 10-year secondary [...]