Hoarding collapse
in storm kills 2
Two people were killed and five inured when a large hoarding collapsed near the Gulshan-1 roundabout in the Monday evening nor’wester in the city. Mohammad Mizan Murad, 40, driver of a private car, and pedestrian Saiful Islam Sobhan, 15, were killed. The injured were admitted to different clinics...[ + ]
BSF refuses to ask
Indians not to
trespass
Flag meeting fails amid growing
tension on Jaintapur border
Tension escalated in the Sylhet border on Monday after the Indian Border Security Force turned down a Bangladesh Rifles request to stop their nationals from intruding into Bangladesh territory on the pretext that the Indian government had not given them the authority to do so...[ + ]
Dhaka, Yangon resume maritime boundary
talks tomorrow
Bangladesh and Myanmar will hold the next round of negotiations to settle their disputes on the maritime boundary on March 17 and 18 [Wednesday and Thursday], said foreign affairs minister Dipu Moni on Sunday. This round of negotiations will be held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar’s new capital, she said...[ + ]
Cabinet approves
half-yearly
budget review
The cabinet on Monday expressed satisfaction that the country had efficiently overcome the impacts of global economic recession with an increase in investment and reduction in government loans from the banking sector. ‘The economic situation is better now,’ prime minister’s press secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters after the cabinet meeting at the secretariat on Monday...[ + ]
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at share price slump
Share market investors in Dhaka, Chittagong and Barisal cities on Monday staged street demonstrations protesting continuous fall in share prices in last few days. Investors in the capital city brought out a procession in front of the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Motijheel and tried to block the busy road in front of the DSE following heavy fall in share prices on Monday morning...[ + ]
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