Gazipur blast prime suspect nabbed
with explosives
Law enforcers in a pre-dawn raid on Monday captured a key member of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, who is suspected to have masterminded last week’s suicide attacks in Gazipur, and seized various bomb making devices. The arrest from the house of a former intelligence official foiled another suicide attack the banned Islamist organisation was planning in the district on Monday, claimed the police...[ + ]
Jamaat receives
a drubbing in
Dinajpur by-polls
Monoranjan Shill Gopal, a dissident candidate of the Jatiya Party won the by-election to the Dinajpur-1 parliamentary constituency on Monday with substantial margin defeating his nearest rival the Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Aftab Uddin Mollah. According to the unofficial election result, Gopal bagged 1,12,977 votes while Mollah secured 50,576 votes...[ + ]
Uni-track, SBA
systems deferred
The cabinet on Monday postponed the controversial uni-track secondary education system by one year, said official sources. The cabinet meeting, held with prime minister Khaleda Zia in the chair, decided that the government would introduce the system from January 2007, instead of January 2006...[ + ]
Gates to help Bangladesh narrow digital divide
Microsoft to train 200,000
students in three years
Microsoft Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Education on Monday to train over 10,000 teachers and over 2,00,000 students over the next three years in partnership with the ministry. The partners-in-learning agreement was signed during the half-day official visit of Microsoft’s chairman, Bill Gates, to Dhaka on Monday...[ + ]
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China to grant zero duty to 83 products: official
A total of 83 Bangladeshi products will get duty free access to China under the Bangkok Agreement framework soon, a visiting Chinese trade diplomat said. The Asian affairs director of China’s commerce ministry, Deng Li Yang, on Monday told the news agency that her country sincerely wanted to narrow the huge bilateral trade gap by promoting more imports from Bangladesh...[ + ]
Home textile, fabric exports to EU fall 8.9pc
Fabric and home textiles exporters have been passing through tough time in recent months with their exports to Europe declining, since the quota phased out on January 1, 2005. Industry people said European buyers were rushing to China for sourcing such products, even though Bangladeshi exporters offer cheaper prices...[ + ]
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