The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources suggested increasing electricity lines

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed developing Ganges Barrage on the Padma River in Bangladesh under a joint venture

A four-lane flyover will be built at Bhulta Bazar on Dhaka-Sylhet highway to ease traffic at the busy intersection of four different routes.

The cabinet yesterday approved a proposal of the Ministry of Youths and Sports to expand the National Service Programme (NSP) in 20 upazilas to create jobs for 30,000 unemployed youths.

Mentioning that sense of unity and secularism is the long-practicing characteristics of people of Bangladesh, President Abdul Hamid yesterday said religion belongs to a community but festival belongs to all.

Aggrieved villagers beat up a man and later handed him over to the police for allegedly torturing his wife for dowry at

Envoys of four countries yesterday said there is still some concern despite the government's beefing-up of security.

A Bogra court here on Monday sentenced a man to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing a trader in 2006, reports our

A delegation of Commonwealth Secretariat (COMSEC) yesterday said progress in prevention of early marriage,

Eying to minimise income disparity of the citizens, about 1.29 crore new jobs would be created over the period of the new five-year plan, although 99 lakh people are expected to join the workforce during the period.

A legal framework is needed along with the seventh five year plan of the government and food policy to ensure poor people's right to food, said speakers at a views-exchange meeting yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has taken sufficient security measures for peaceful celebration of Durga Puja and Ashura, said its Director General Benazir Ahmed yesterday.

The government is mulling over ways to deal with the issue of marriage of girls aged below 18 and above 16 in special cases such as elopement and unwanted pregnancy, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki said yesterday. The minimum age of marriage for girls will remain 18 in the upcoming Child Marriage Restraint Act, and the government will not enact any law that will have negative impact on the lives of women, she said.

Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajote leaders yesterday demanded that Hindus be immediately granted a three-day holiday to celebrate

United efforts can make the capital city visibly clean and green within next four years, said Dhaka North City Corporation mayor

In another development towards road connectivity between Bangladesh and India, Tripura bus operators yesterday

There has been significant progress in Bangladesh's readymade garment sector's capacity building over the last two and a half years but

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the construction works of the 2nd Kanchpur Bridge

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that had halted VAT collection on tuition fees paid to English

The government will form in a month a separate commission to recruit teachers at the non-government educational institutions in order to curb corruption in the recruitment process.