Bangladesh on Tuesday signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with a consortium of two Chinese firms for the installation of some 1.56 billion U.S. dollars coal-fired power plant in the country.
The struggle between the two Begums (a reference to the nation's two women political leaders) for the mastery of Bangladesh becomes ever so sharper with the Awami League government of Sheikh Hasina according its approval to the filing of sedition charges against the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader, Begum Khaleda.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has painted a rosy picture of Bangladesh's economy. "Bangladesh is now on the highway of development. Bangladesh is now a role model of development," Hasina said in a televised address to the nation on Tuesday night.
Customs officials at Bangladesh's main airport in capital Dhaka on Wednesday seized 131 gold bars weighing 20.5 kg.
It took less than half a U.S. dollar for Rahman Miah to buy two bottles of syrup for his son who had been coughing for several days.
China and Bangladesh pledged to strengthen military ties during a meeting between Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan and Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq.
An agreement between Bangladesh and Malaysia on visa waiver for diplomatic and official passport holders came into effect Thursday, Banglaseh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Two people, including an opposition member, were placed on a 10-day remand Tuesday in connection with the Japanese national Hosie Kunio killing in Bangladesh.
World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region, Annette Dixon, has pledged strong support for the development of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh needs an investment of about 7 to 8 billion U.S dollars in infrastructure development to attain 8 to 9 percent GDP growth, said a government official Thursday.
Her all-out efforts quickly caught the attention of the Bangladesh people who have felt the pinch of climate change over the last years.
Six persons arrested on poaching charges have been killed in an alleged shootout with police in Bangladesh part of Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI) of the United States, which has shown interest to help the investigation into the murder of blogger Niladri Chatterjee Niloy, Sunday sat with Bangladesh cops.
Unicef condemned on Thursday the incidents of violence against children in Bangladesh which happened recently in different parts of the country.
Bangladesh's central bank asks Finance Institutions to tighten money laundering rules DHAKA, July 1 (Xinhua)--Bangladesh's central bank on Wednesday issued a circular asking all financial institutions(FIs) to follow the anti-monetary laundering and terrorist financing rules strictly.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wrapped up his two-day maiden state visit to neighbor Bangladesh and flew back to New Delhi by a special air force flight at 8:40 p.m. Sunday evening.
The two successive strong earthquakes and subsequent major aftershocks that hit Nepal in the last few days should serve as a wake up call for Bangladesh, which sits on fault lines and thus prone to tremors, according experts here.
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