THE
DAILY
NEWSPAPER




Write to the editor

Pages

Front Page «
National «
Metro «
Business «
International «
Sports «
Editorial «
Op-Ed «
Home «
Timeout «
Letters «

Others

Archive «
Special Supplements «




Independence Day Special


New Age Ekushey Special

Google

Search this site

 

 

EC wants BNP reconciliation for talks
United BNP to turn up for talks in 72hrs if Delwar invited as secy gen, says Hannan
BNP not divided, says Mahbub

The Election Commission on Thursday asked the mainstream Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its splinter group to jointly participate in the dialogue with it on the proposed electoral reforms. The EC made the request at separate informal meetings with both the factions of BNP held in its conference room...[ + ]

Adviser sends SMS to Delwar for talks
Khaleda gives party colleagues
green light to attend

The military-backed interim government made a fresh invitation to the mainstream Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday afternoon to attend an informal pre-dialogue meeting...[ + ]

Govt finds no reason for MS rod price-hike
Adviser warns ship-breakers of punitive
action if laws violated

The military-controlled interim government has taken a number of initiatives for breaking the monopoly in the mild steel rod business to bring down the spiralling prices of the major construction material to a reasonable level...[ + ]

Home adviser warns against violence over women policy

Home affairs adviser MA Matin has said the government will no longer tolerate violence centring the proposed women development policy...[ + ]

Other Headlines
» Clerics want provisions for equal rights dropped
» AL vows to free Hasina at any cost
» ACC hunts for Justice Fazlul Haque
» Ex-secy Shahidul Islam arrested in Niko graft case
» Police foil CPB human chain
» Maoists extend lead in Nepal polls, re-voting smooth
» Teachers at DU wear black ribbons
» Charge hearing in Hasina case halted for 2hrs
» Former PSC member Mahfuz jailed
» Court allows 2 lawyers to meet Khaleda in jail
» Spain to open mission in Dhaka within months
» Pak court acquits Zardari in second murder case
» Suicide bomber kills 51 Iraqi mourners
» Chicken pox spreads fast for two weeks
» ULFA leaders doing business in Bangladesh: Indian minister
» Terrorists operating freely on Pak border: US
» ADB comes under fire
» Hillary rebukes Obama, hoping for uphill comeback
» Poverty makes him beast
» IOJ faction demands home adviser’s resignation
» Bangladesh to benefit from Dubai edn charity
» Storm kills student
» 11 JMB men jailed for life in Rajshahi
» Body formed to decide on structured questions in SSC exams
» Sharif seeks parliament seat


Banks given 2 weeks for suggestion

Bangladesh Bank has given the private bank directors two weeks’ time to come up with their suggestions on how to select two directors from the depositors, said BB governor Salehuddin Ahmed on Thursday...[ + ]

Dhaka stocks dip on UBL share
price adjustment

Dhaka stocks dropped on Thursday due to fall in share price of the Uttara Bank Ltd on its ex-dividend trade and price correction after couple of days’ record rises, market operators said...[ + ]

Other Headlines
» CPD hands over budget proposals to adviser
» Corruption in jute sector to be probed
» Guide to investment launched
» Oil price hits record $115.54 a barrel
» India targets hoarders to wrestle inflation
» Mirza Tareq, Bazlul Haque elected president, GS of BPRA
» Further US rate cuts seen in wake of inflation
» ECB warns again of lasting inflation, market tensions
» S’pore key exports down by 5.9pc
» China seeks to boost farm output amid soaring food costs
» Sri Lanka risks further fall in credit rating
» India, Brazil sign four agreements
» US business leader warns of ‘double dip’ recession
» DBBL holds 1st EGM and 12th AGM
» Euro strikes new high near 1.60 dollars


Pahela Baishakh Special

Weekend


Fund from pvt firms sought to build Asad Museum

The Dhaka City Corporation, which laid the foundation stone of Shaheed Asad Sarani Museum on January 28 making an announcement to invite tender for construction within 15 days, is now looking for private sector financer because of fund constraints...
[ + ]

Encroachers reoccupy Sayedabad Park

The Sayedabad Park in the capital has been reoccupied by encroachers only few days after the Dhaka City Corporation reclaimed it through an eviction
drive...
[ + ]



Vision Asia gets new vision

The much-talked about Vision Asia football project is set to get fresh impetus in Bangladesh after a year-long hibernation due to the lack of initiatives on the part of the Bangladesh Football Federation...[ + ]

Stage set for
IPL opening

It will probably be for the first time in their lives that Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly, former India captains and now rival skippers in the Indian Premier League, will walk out for the toss in a stadium plunged in darkness...[ + ]


Editorial
» Zero-sum game in RMG sector must end
» Farmers, not lenders, hold key to food security

National
» Energy experts, officials to seek ways to quell coal mining controversies
» Resource exploitation, pollution on in ECAs
Home
» Soaring prices of raw materials hit construction works
» 18 houses burnt, six injured
International
» Reuters man among 20 killed
in Gaza clashes

» ‘Nepal Maoist victory brings hard
lessons for India’

Timeout
» Partha Pratim Mazumder honoured
» Wrishiz honours 3

  EDITOR: NURUL KABIR
FOUNDER EDITOR: ENAYETULLAH KHAN
Copyright © New Age 2005
Mailing address Holiday Building, 30, Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh.
Phone 880-2-8153034-39 Fax 880-2-8112247
Email newagebd@global-bd.net
Web Designer Zahirul Islam Mamoon