and State Minister Mr. Akramul Qader attended the annual conference of Bangladesh Medical Association of North America, Louisiana chapter in Orleans, Louisiana and addressed a…
Dr. Dipu Moni, MP, Foreign Minister of the People?s Republic of Bangladesh undertook an official visit to India from 7-10 September 2009. During the visit, she held bilateral talks with the External Affairs Minister of the Republic of India Shri S.M. Krishna on a range of issues pertaining to India-Bangladesh relations. Dr. Dipu Moni also…
The government has announced a fresh list of 15 exportable products with inclusion of two new items that would receive cash subsidy in the current fiscal year, officials told AHN Media Tuesday. The exporters will receive cash subsidy on the products against net repatriation of the FOB (free on board) prices from July 1, 2009…
Bangladesh still remains an agrarian country. Because of the fast population growth, the amount of per capita cultivable land is dwindling very fast. In order to survive as a nation, and to prosper in the 21st century, Bangladesh will have to shift from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy. Consequently, the power generation will…
A National Hero of Development ,Bangladeshi ex-finance minister credited with setting the impoverished country on the path to economic reform died Saturday in a car accident, police said. The car fell into a ditch when hit by a bus near Brahmanbaria town, 100 km east of the capital Dhaka. Doctors declared him dead at a…
The Bangladeshi prime minister has ordered public servants to ditch suits and ties for short-sleeved shirts to cut air-conditioning use in the power-starved nation. Sheikh Hasina first raised the idea at a cabinet meeting last month and asked her colleagues to set an example to other government employees. “She told us to avoid suits and…