Bangladesh News

Bangladesh News.Net Friday 27th June, 2008 Environmental groups in Bangladesh are up in arms against a US-based oil giant for allegedly destroying a natural forest while exploring for oil and gas near the ...

Bangladesh News.Net Saturday 21st June, 2008 Major parties in Bangladesh, insisting on early parliamentary elections, may stay away from the civic polls announced for Aug 4 by the military-backed caretaker ...

A soldier's General, Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw crafted India's greatest military victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war that created just not history but also a new nation.

Pass rate in this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination has marked a sharp rise to 70.18 percent from last year’s 57.37 percent with over 40,000 students securing GPA-5 (Grade Point Average).more..

Former Indian Army chief Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who is credited with crafting the campaign that led to the creation of Bangladesh after the 1971 war with Pakistan, is battling for life in a military ...

Former prime minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, now in Washington, called for parliament election before other polls to restore democracy in the country.

With Asian cities growing by over 100,000 people a day, a major rethink is needed on how cities manage growth because the current approach is no longer economically, environmentally or socially sustainable, the ...

DHAKA: Melting polar ice caps could cause sea levels to rise by up to 25 metres, causing Bangladesh to disappear entirely under water by the turn of the century, according to predictions of climate change by ...

UNB, Dhaka Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed has said there is an urgent need of cleaning up of Bangladesh's cynical, venal and corrupt politics.

The backbreaking job of pedalling a rickshaw in Bangladesh could soon be history with a local company saying it has come up with battery-powered, rechargeable cycles.

The country gets into election gears for the first time since emergency was declared last year although major political parties are still tuned to the boycott mode even after the Election Commission declared ...

UNB, Dhaka US-based international oil company Chevron will conduct an additional two-dimensional seismic survey and drilling an exploration well in the hydrocarbon block 7 located in Bangladesh's southwestern ...

An aide says Bangladesh's figurehead President Iajuddin Ahmed has been hospitalized with high fever.

A view of a Muslim shrine under threat from erosion along the Padma river in Shariatpur yesterday.

The Bangladeshi barge m v Nilam moments before it sank. NOORPUR : A Bangladeshi barge, on its way to the Narayanganj inland port, sank in the Hooghly river after it ran aground hitting an island at Noorpur in ...

GMG Airline's Plane tyre got puntured in the taxiway due to excessive heat. It was Dhaka - Calcutta flight.

NEW DELHI: Islamic extremists in Bangladesh, who had managed to lie low since the 2005 synchronised bomb blasts there, have started regrouping themselves and launched recruitment drives in areas, especially ...

Demanding release of all political leaders including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the BNP-led four-party alliance yesterday said people would not accept trials under the emergency power rules that it said do ...

Bangladesh Chhatra League of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology unit yesterday called an indefinite students strike on the Ruet campus from Tuesday demanding 'proper action' against the people ...

Detained BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has finally agreed to receive treatment and might be taken to a city hospital anytime.She however has yet to say whether she would be hospitalised if advised by doctors.read more..