Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that by building the Padma bridge with local funding, Bangladesh wants to show the world it is now capable of implementing any mega project on its own. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project and river training work at Janjira, she said her government's decision to implement this dream project with own funding was a challenge.

When it opens in 2018, the much-expected Padma Bridge will shorten travel time between the capital and the southern region, giving a major boost to trade and economic activities in the country, say experts. About a quarter of the country's population living in the southwest region will directly benefit from the 6.15-kilometre bridge as the travel time to and from Dhaka city will be cut short to about one-fourth of what it is now.

The government has set up a computer incident response team (CIRT) at Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) to secure its online public

This year's English in Schools programme concluded yesterday through a daylong training at a Rajshahi city hotel where the 52

While the government's dream project Padma bridge is widely expected to boost the country's economy, there is also fear that it may take a heavy toll on the famous hilsa fish of the river.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday expressed apprehension over the municipality polls scheduled for December 30, saying

The future of the Padma bridge will depend largely on how river training is done to keep such a meandering river under control during and after its construction. River training is the most challenging job for building the country's largest bridge because of the Padma's unpredictable characteristics, riverbank erosion, riverbed scouring and flash flood, say experts.

Nazrul Islam, deputy press secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and Sheikh Muhammad Rifat Ali, director of national Institute of

The High Court scraps a lower court order that placed Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna on a seven-day remand in a sedition case.

The High Court yesterday stayed for a month a government order that suspended Dinajpur Pourasava mayor Syed Jahangir Alam on charge of irregularities.

A global summit on business process outsourcing (BPO) begins in Dhaka with an aim to earn $1 billion from the sector in the next six years and create two lakh jobs.

The cost of building a pipeline in the Bay of Bengal, for unloading fuel from tankers in the deep sea to storage facilities on mainland, went over five times higher than the initial estimate.

Noting that the implementation of land boundary agreement has consolidated the relations between Bangladesh and India, President

Speakers at a press conference yesterday urged the government to immediately search out all of Bangladesh's 1971 war heroines, issue a gazette and duly honour and provide benefits since many of them were now old and sick.

The local government ministry at a meeting yesterday decided to form a committee to reclaim Dhaka city's canals, which have either been illegally grabbed or clogged with solid wastes, to help resolve water congestion in the capital.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to immediately remove all unauthorised structures within 10 metres of highways, restore visibility of motorists at blind curves, and install speed-limit signs to prevent road accidents. The court asked the government to have the relevant rules amended in the Highways Act, 1994, as well, so that no structures could be built within 10 metres of highways.

The Supreme Court clears the way for holding election to Singair municipality in Manikganj on December 30.

The High Court directs the government to immediately remove illegal structures within 10 metres of highways across the country.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified elderly man, aged about 80, from Dinajpur branch canal of Teesta Irrigation Project at Horish

Contradicting the fact that a mass movement forced him to step down 25 years back, former military dictator HM Ershad yesterday apparently claimed that he had handed over power on his own accord “to strengthen and keep constitutional democracy on track”.