Bangladesh moved into the final round of the AFC Challenge Cup 2010 after finishing runners-up in Group A with a facile 3-0 win over Macau at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday. Midfielder Zahid’s brace helped Bangladesh finish as the best runners-up and qualify for the final round.
Ten days after he said that the party chief got him wrong, Awami League's general secretary Abdul Jalil says party president Sheikh Hasina is 'magnanimous' in an apparent attempt to appease her.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has pledged to revise the minimum wage for the workers in line with the market price.
Science and ICT Ministry is now waiting for the go-ahead from the Prime Minister's Office to sign two agreements with Russia to advance with the conceived nuclear power-plant projects.
Bangladesh's Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque Wednesday said screening inbound international travelers for swine flu will start from Wednesday evening at the country's main international airport.
Jo Wood visited garment workers in Bangladesh. She tells Fiona Sibley about the astonishing contrast between city slum-dwellers and a fair trade rural producer group
KUSHTIA (BANGLADESH): Forty top leaders of Islamist militant outfits are regrouping with their 10,000-plus cadres in south-western Bangladesh in
districts bordering India's West Bengal state, authorities have said.
Bangladeshi authorities say they gleaned this information after interrogating Hizb-ut-Towhid militants who were arrested in this border town last week.
A US$750,000 grant from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will assist Bangladesh in implementing a planned multi-million loan project in 2010 to improve irrigation services in the South Asian country.
Bangladesh has charged a leader of a British-based non-governmental organisation with allgedly "funding" suspected Islamist fighters, an official said on Tuesday.
Faisal Mustafa, a Briton of Bangladeshi origin who works for the Green Crescent organisation, was arrested earlier this month.
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