DHAKA: Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) hailed the proposed budget 2010-2011 as pro-people, export-and trade-friendly but stopped to foretell that it might fuel further the rising inflation.  The apex trade body of the export sector said though the

MADARIPUR: Clashes between students of Najimiuddin University College and local bus workers over a dispute in the district headquarters Tuesday left at least 50 students and policemen injured.Police Super of Madaripur Sardar Tamizuddin Ahmed was among the injured as he tried to pacify the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday exonerated former Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil from a tax-evasion case filed against him last year by the National Board of Revenue.Judge FM Aminul Islam of Special Judge’s Court-1 issued the order after hearing the petition filed by the lawyer

Dhaka:  A street fight between police and garment workers in the capital’s Tejgaon industrial area Tuesday left at least 35 people injured, including nine cops. During the melee, police fired teargas shells and rubber bullets to quell the angry workers of Samahar Sweater Factory,

DHAKA: Production in the country’s lone offshore gas field Sangu came to a grinding halt Tuesday for technical breakdown, officials said. “The production in the field halted for problems in the generator that powers the mining field,” chairman of Petrobangla Prof Hossain Mansur

DHAKA: Chinese Vice-President Xi Jingping left Dhaka for Laos on Tuesday noon after two days’ official visit to Bangladesh that yielded some broad agreements on placing the bilateral ties on a higher trajectory.Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni saw him off at Hazrat Shahjalal International

DHAKA:  The first Hajj flight from Bangladesh will take off on October 10, Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism GM Quader said Tuesday, revealing government preparation in advance for the pilgrimage. This year 75 thousand Bangladeshi pilgrims will perform Hajj from the Muslim-majority

Dhaka: The devastating Nimtoli fire originated from a kitchen stove, fed on chemicals nearby and erupted into a conflagration that left over a hundred people and many wounded in the densely populated Old Dhaka locality, says an official probe report. A five-member prove committee formed

COX’S BAZAR: Landslides triggered by torrential rain on the first day of the rainy season buried at least 50 people, including six army-men, under a deluge of mud and water in Cox’s Bazar-Bandarban belt early Tuesday, official sources said.In the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar, 46

SATKHIRA: A seven-year-old schoolboy was killed by terrors at Bakra village in Ashashuni upazila early Tuesday, a day after his abduction for ransom. Police recovered the body of Amir Hamza Sumon, the only son of Belal Hossain of the village, from Chumurkhola dam in the morning.“Sumon

DHAKA: Amar Desh destiny got darkened again as the Supreme Court`s Appellate Division Thursday stayed for four weeks the High Court order against the government action cancelling the declaration of the Bengali daily.Chamber judge SK Sinha of the Appellate Division gave the order following

RANGAMATI: An activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) was killed in Baghaichhari upazila of the hill district on Monday night, in what appears to be a repeat of periodical terrorist acts in the once-restive hills.The deceased, Shuvash Chakma, 40, was a member of the

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia sought Chinese cooperation in establishing direct road and rail links between Bangladesh and China and construction of the planned Sonadia deep-sea port.The ex-PM made the request when she paid a courtesy call on visiting

DHAKA: A beggar-maid who used to go begging her bread in the capital’s Farmgate area was found dead under a foot over-bridge there on Tuesday morning.Tejgaon police found the body under the over-bridge near Tejgaon Women’s College at about 6 am.“She might have been killed in a road

DHAKA: The Shipping Ministry Monday wrote to the government’s Cabinet Division for deciding which ministry is to look after the ship-breaking industry that is just up and coming. “The Ministry sent the letter to the Cabinet Division in the afternoon,” Shipping Minister Shahjahan

Chittagong: A Dubai-returnee’s wife was shot dead while he was wounded by bullet as robbers fired on them in their house at Mohonpurkhil village in Fatikchhari Upazilla early Monday. The deceased was identified as Bela Khatun, 40. Her husband Ahmed Safa, 48, was admitted into Chittagong

DHAKA: More than 150 students got admission into the reputed Viqarunnisa Noon School and College with the recommendation made by Rashed Khan Menon MP, the lawmaker said at a press conference arranged Monday to dispel doubts.     “I just recommended for 150 students,” said Menon,

DHAKA: Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Monday announced a plan to take the national expenditure up to 20 percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP) in the next three years, as the government opts for expansionary growth.The minister made the statement in parliament while

DHAKA: Supreme Court Bar Association leaders Monday threatened that they would launch a strong movement in retaliation for the “torture” allegedly being meted out to acting editor of Daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman on police remand. President of the Supreme Court Bar Association,

DHAKA: Anti-smoking campaigns got a boost as all the police premises in the capital--thanas, outposts, check-posts and police boxes—were made off-limits to smoking from Monday. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haq interdicted an order banning the smoking in all these