Garment leaders call for political calm
Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin, middle, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, speaks during a joint press briefing at his office in Dhaka yesterday. Jahangir Alamin, right, president of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association, …
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Ultras taking advantage of unfenced border
GUWAHATI, Feb 2 – Large patches of unfenced border with Bangladesh in Meghalaya are still encouraging movement of militants and there is urgent need for expediting the work of completing the fencing to check the menace. Highly placed police sources in …
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Bangladesh new UN peace commission chair
New York, Jan 31 (bdnews24.com) — Bangladesh's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr AK Abdul Momen, has been elected chairman of the Peace-Building Commission. The six-year-old commission works to mobilise resources and …
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Poush Parbon – Observing Makar Sankranti the Bengali Way
January, 28, 2012 (Washington Bangla Radio/ Penning Creations): When it comes to food, the premium connoisseur in French is rivaled only by a true-blue Bengali. The Bengali's much-celebrated love for all fine things in life gets a little more …
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Manav takes lead in Bangladesh Amateur Open
Dhaka: Defending champion Khalin Joshi seemed a bit out of form but his teammate Manav Das quickly made up with the day`s best card to take sole lead at the end of the first day of the 2012 Bangladesh Open Amateur Championships at the Kurmitola Golf …
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1971 has no legal, constitutional justification
Chakravartty is one of the signatories of a recent PIL filed before the Gauhati High Court demanding annulment of the validity of all declarations and accords in respect of determination of Indian citizenship for immigrants from Bangladesh and East …
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Zimbabwe's Ervine targets England berth
Zimbabwe-born all-rounder Sean Ervine is hopeful a fruitful stint for the Duronto Rajshanti in the Bangladesh Premier League will catch the eye of the England selectors. The 29-year-old, who last year turned down a berth in his country of birth's World …
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Manav takes lead in Bangladesh Amateur Open
Dhaka: Defending champion Khalin Joshi seemed a bit out of form but his teammate Manav Das quickly made up with the day`s best card to take sole lead at the end of the first day of the 2012 Bangladesh Open Amateur Championships at the Kurmitola Golf …
Read more on Zee News

1971 has no legal, constitutional justification
Chakravartty is one of the signatories of a recent PIL filed before the Gauhati High Court demanding annulment of the validity of all declarations and accords in respect of determination of Indian citizenship for immigrants from Bangladesh and East …
Read more on Assam Tribune

Zimbabwe's Ervine targets England berth
Zimbabwe-born all-rounder Sean Ervine is hopeful a fruitful stint for the Duronto Rajshanti in the Bangladesh Premier League will catch the eye of the England selectors. The 29-year-old, who last year turned down a berth in his country of birth's World …
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Bangladesh tea prices fall
Tea prices in Bangladesh fell on Tuesday at a weekly auction because of a larger quantity of poor varieties on offer, brokers said. The average price of Bangladeshi tea fell to 158.84 taka ($ 1.90) a kg from 166.82 taka a kg in the previous sale, …
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Bangladesh Under-19s v England Under-19s – Youth ODI – 6th Match Update
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Bangladesh Under-19s took a lead by 4-2 in the seven-match Youth One Day International (ODI) tournament after winning the sixth fixture of the series against England by six wickets at Sylhet Stadium. After winning the toss, …
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IBM brings smarter computing for Bangladeshi companies
IBM has unveiled smarter computing solutions that help clients in Bangladesh transform, grow and become more competitive. A wide range of workload-optimisation hardware solutions, such as IBM Storwize V7000, IBM Starter Kit for Cloud and IBM …
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Wandering minstrels of Sufi to delight Kolkata
The event, second edition of Sufi Sutra, is organised by Bangla-natak.com, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Unesco. Top Sufi musicians from six countries — India, Egypt, Morocco, Azerbaijan, Denmark and Hungary will be performing from …
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Green Band, Blue Band and Smokes of Bangla Spring
“Members of the law enforcing agencies are actually planting seeds of Bangla Spring by continuing extreme form of repression on the people”, the experts said. It may be mentioned here that, on Friday (January 27, 2012) a group of Facebook page …
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Associate players eyeing BPL platform
The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), however, stands to be a different proposition. A league rule required each of the six franchises to buy at least one player from an Associate country, a nod to Bangladesh's own history as an Associate.
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Ali Hai eyes Bangladesh crown
KARACHI: Former champion Ali Hai will be looking to regain the title when the 2012 Bangladesh National Amateur Golf Championship will tee off at the Kurmitola Golf Club in Dhaka on Wednesday (today). Ali, the reigning national amateur champion, …
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Bangladesh On The Tipaimukh Dam: A Print Media Analysis
By Panchali Saikia The dilemma between India and Bangladesh over the construction of the Tipaimukh dam has been augmented by raging controversies within both countries. This article brings out perspectives from Bangladesh through the opinions roofed in …
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Renewable Energy Development Authority Soon In Bangladesh
But in Bangladesh, its progress is very slow. So far, Bangladesh has been to generate 70 MW renewable energy while India 20000 MW. The government planned to add 500 MW of renewable energy to the country's power generation within the next two years.
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Wrong SSC question papers in 3 dists
SSC and equivalent exams began across the country with 1420057 students sitting the school-leaving tests at 2464 centres. bdnews24.com Rangpur correspondent said students taking Bangla first paper exams at Rangpur Zilla School centre under Dinajpur …
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Mega project on power line okayed
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved the Tk 5413-crore project at its meeting in NEC Bhaban at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The project was taken up as part of the …
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Bangladesh court orders seizure of disputed school book
—File photo by AFP DHAKA: A Bangladesh court has ordered millions of copies of a school textbook to be seized in a dispute over credit for the nation's 1971 independence struggle, a state prosecutor said Monday. The high court in Dhaka instructed …
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Intl. peace activists around the world to stage pro-Iran rallies
TEHRAN – International activists from more than 40 US cities and some other countries, including Canada, India, Ireland, Bangladesh, and Norway, have announced that they will hold pro-Iran rallies on Saturday, February 4.
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