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New7Wonders: vote Sundarban and Cox's Bazaar Local Election Results Beijing Olympic Results Latest News (Bangla) আব্দুল কুদ্দুস মাখনের স্ত্রীর মৃত্যু প্রয়াত মুক্তিযোদ্ধা আব্দুল কুদ্দুস মাখনের স্ত্রী হাসমত জাহান হাসু (৬১) মারা গেছেন।... তারেকের আয়কর ফাঁকির মামলা স্থগিতের আদেশ বহাল তারেক রহমানের বিরুদ্ধে দায়ের করা আয়কর ফাঁকির মামলার কার্যক্রম স্থগিত করে হাইকোর্টের দেয়া আদেশ বহাল রেখেছে সুপ্রিম কোর্ট।... রাজধানীতে সন্ত্রাসীর গুলিতে যুবক আহত রাজধানীর ধানমণ্ডিতে বুধবার শাহীন নামে এক যুবক সন্ত্রাসীর গুলিতে আহত হয়েছেন। আশঙ্কাজনক অবস্থায় তাকে ঢাকা মেডিকেল কলেজ হাসপাতালে ভর্তি করা হয়েছে।... মাদক মামলায় সাতক্ষীরায় দুই যুবককে ১৪ বছরের কারাদণ্ড ফেনসিডিল রাখার দায়ে দুই যুবককে ১৪ বছর করে সশ্রম কারাদণ্ড দিয়েছে সাতক্ষীরার একটি আদালত। আসামিদের প্রত্যেককে ৫০ হাজার টাকা জরিমানা, অনাদায়ে আরও এক বছরের কারাদণ্ড দেওয়া হয়েছে।... রুয়েটের নতুন উপাচার্য ফজলুল বারী রাজশাহী প্রকৌশল ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের (রুয়েট) উপাচার্য হিসেবে নিয়োগ পেয়েছেন বাংলাদেশ প্রকৌশল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের (বুয়েট) অধ্যাপক ফজলুল বারী।... Latest News (English) Farms to drive new anti-poverty agenda Agriculture takes the centre stage as the government tries to devise a new three-year strategy to tackle poverty in the country that has seen four million more plunge below the line thanks to recent price hike.... SC upholds freeze on Tarique tax-dodge case The Supreme Court Thursday upheld a High Court order that halted the proceedings of the tax-dodge case against BNP senior joint secretary general Tarique Rahman.... Makhon's wife dies Hasmat Jahan Hasu, wife of the late freedom fighter Abdul Kuddus Makhon, died early Thursday at the age of 61, a relative said.... Salman F Rahman freed on bail Authorities have released businessman and Awami League leader Salman F Rahman on bail in the IFIC Bank corruption case from Kashimpur jail, a senior prisons official said.... Moudud faces fraud charges for stashing Tk 2 crore A police officer on Wednesday filed a fraud case against former law minister Moudud Ahmed, charging him with opening fake bank accounts to stash away nearly Tk 2 crore.... Voice of America First African American Nominated as Presidential Candidate of US Major Party Barack Obama has been nominated as the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential candidate.... Democratic National Convention 2008: 2nd Day Rehan Reza-- a Bangladeshi -American from Kansas is participating in the Democratic National Convention being held in Denver, Colorado.... Bangladesh High Court Grants Bail to Former PM�s Son Tarique Rahman The High Court on Wednesday granted six-month bail in five cases to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia�s detained son Tarique Rahman.... Bangladesh High Court Grants Bails to Former Ministers and Others Bangladesh High Court granted bails to 13 VIPs, including former LGRD minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar.... Opposition Protest in West Bengal Leaves Thousands of Trucks Stranded Bengal`s busiest highway remains blocked since Sunday after the opposition began its siege of the car factory.... ABC Radio Australia Tougher rules for Bangladesh polls Stringent new rules aimed at making parliamentary elections due in December free, fair and credible have come into effect in Bangladesh.... Police to probe Bangladesh political parties Police in Bangladesh have launched a special intelligence unit to monitor the activities of political parties.... Bangladesh won't lift emergency rule before December polls Bangladesh's army-backed interim government says it won't lift the country's state of emergency before holding elections in December.... Bangladesh extends former PM Hasina's parole Bangladesh has extended the parole of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for a month so she can receive more medical treatment in the United States.... Bangladesh election 'step toward democracy' The army-backed Bangladeshi government has called Monday's local elections a successful step towards returning to democracy.... Bangladesh Corporate Blogs Have you used the premium dial-up internet service? You may have known by now that Bangladesh Tar and Telephone Board (BTTB) has changed its name to Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd. (BTCL). Moreover, it has started to offer a new range of communication services. Its Premium Dial-Up Service is perhaps the first of its kind in Bangladesh. Premium Dial-Up service has a number of cool features that enable an internet user to browse more freely. One doesn�t need to register with any ISP by purchasing (1) a registration card and (2) a recharge card. All one needs is to have a land phone line and a modem. According to BTCL, any of its telephone user can avail internet service by dialing the access code 0101234 (Multimetering) through his/her computer. The username is "bttb" and the password is "bttb". The pricing is a bit ambiguous to me. According to BTCL�s website, �The internet usage charge will be automatically added with the telephone bill. The tariff for the internet use through this service is equivalent to the local... Interested to read more? Visit http://bangladeshcorporate.blogspot.com for this post and more. ... Painful job this jobhunting is... Uploading a jobsite is hopefully the easiest job in Bangladesh it seems! Every now and then jobsites are emerging, back of buses, auto-rickshaws, minibuses etc. are the most preferred place to let know mass that yet another jobsite has appeared in the WWW. Lets name a few in the flock of bdjobs, jobsbd, jobstreet, prothomalojobs, chakri, grameenjobs, aiminlife, jobsa1 etc. Although people get help from the site and some are earning plenty, still the sites are doing their part in giving a lot of pain to the already stressed job-hunters. Confusing business bdjobs have already become a training venue for all possible areas of business. The site even ceaselessly fire emails inviting to those trainings if someone once filled up their e-resume. Needless to illustrate again that Bangladesh is a harbor of guidebooks, notebooks, photocopy, coaching centers, private tutors both walk in and home service, plagiarism, nakal bazi at school to university life and eventually training centers,... Interested to read more? Visit http://bangladeshcorporate.blogspot.com for this post and more. ... Aktel blocks the call, blocks the harassment Another testimony of the fact that intelligent managers and decision-makers of Bangladeshi corporates are keeping a close look into the conversation we are having in this growing business blog. Our fleet of business bloggers have been blogging on topics related with call blocking issues for over a year now. First it was raised under the title "Hey, mobile phone operators - listen up! " on July 20, 2007, then again on another post that followed titled "Growing Perversion Worries All But them.... " published on July 24, 2007. We sincerely thank Aktel for listening to us and introducing this service first time in Bangladesh for its customers. We hope other operators will wake up and introduce such innovative and useful service for their customers, it will surely help curb mob-teasing (mobile-teasing) for female consumers and for all in general. For all topics tagged with Aktel, see this page here. The Daily Star reports that AKTEL, the third largest mobile phone operator has introduced... Interested to read more? Visit http://bangladeshcorporate.blogspot.com for this post and more. ... Citycell's ad encourages children to use mobile phones As there grows rising concern against use of mobile phones by children, keeping in view health and environment safety related issues, Citycell decides to come up with a strange advertisement portraying children as its future customers and �how caring their customer service is� that they provide service �with a smile� to school-going children too, who one day, will grow up to be their loyal customers. Honestly, I recommend Citycell hires a better ad agency and get a life for themselves. As Grameenphone brings in �omuker bou, tomuker natni, shomuker bhai� etc. as their customer service cadre, Banglalink was quick to follow suit with their �kotha dilam� (na betha dilam?) campaign. Citycell thought that well since GP has exhausted using sisters, natnees and brothers in their ad, whereas Banglalink decided to apply the young lady, Citycell perhaps thought why not to use children to �glorify� the �superior� (!) customer service? Poor, very poor. I hope their customer service is not as bad... Interested to read more? Visit http://bangladeshcorporate.blogspot.com for this post and more. ... And here comes radvertising "Welcome back listeners, if you are planning big for an upcoming holiday , you can travel by Singapore Airlines to Hong Kong to have the time of your life...or even to Sydney, as Singapore Airlines is offering the best deal in town for its valued customers"... OR.."welcome back you all music lovers, I hope you all are aware that to enjoy the music to the fullest, you need a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, which plays your favorite music so well that you will enjoy the time..."...Just a few of the glimpses of the new phenomena which is redefining our advertising scopes...thanks to the increased popularity of the radio channels in Bangladesh and the radio listening culture, a whole new dimension of advertisements have popped up...giving plenty of rooms for the Bangladeshi corporates to think about new ways of advertising their products and services. The best thing about radio is that the target consumers/listener can actually be mobile and can still be connected to the radio through the... Interested to read more? Visit http://bangladeshcorporate.blogspot.com for this post and more. ... Wordpress Blogs Kiron, A two-headed person born in Bangladesh ... BANGLADESH: Prolonged State of Emergency threatening the judiciary and human rights defenders' ability to work ... Revisiting the Energy-Power Scenario in Bangladesh ... Corrupt millionaire ministers in Bangladesh ... Call Center in Bangladesh ... Independent Bangladesh Bangladesh News Manpower brokers in big hundi racket to buy job demands Amid lax management in the overseas sector, recruiting agencies and manpower brokers smuggle about Tk 8,000 crore every year in the form of hundi to buy visas or job demands for Bangladeshi workers. Such illegal transactions spawn enormous malpractices forcing a large part of low-skilled workers into penury. But the government measures fail miserably in negotiating [...] ... Pak govt reappoints 8 sacked judges Eight judges among dozens sacked by Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf were reappointed by the government yesterday, a move condemned by many lawyers as a political stunt. The decision comes two days after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif quit the government over differences with leading coalition partner Asif Ali Zardari over the issue of the sackings, [...] ... Politicians with no graft cases can contest polls if they surrender ill-gotten wealth Politicians facing no corruption cases or investigations won’t be barred from participating in elections if they voluntarily approach the Truth and Accountability Commission (Tac) for clemency, surrendering their ill-gotten wealth. Tac Chairman Justice Habibur Rahman Khan said this yesterday, citing the relevant law. Apparently unhappy about the responses so far from politicians and businessmen, the Tac [...] ... Sending EU poll observers depends on EPR relaxation The European Commission’s decision on sending election observers to Bangladesh depends on relaxation of the emergency rules since the EC usually does not observe elections where the state of emergency remains in place. Ambassador Stefan Frowein, head of the delegation of the EU countries’ envoys, made the remarks while talking to the reporters after an hour-long [...] ... No legal bar to sending Khaleda, Tarique abroad Home Affairs Adviser MA Matin yesterday said there is no legal bar to releasing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman from jail to facilitate their treatment abroad. He said the process of freeing Tarique, senior joint secretary general of the BNP, has made headway. “But everything cannot be disclosed right now.” Matin [...] ... The New Nation Tarique�s release matter of time: Granted bail in all cases but one Staff Reporter The release of BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman now depends on only one court order on Bashundhara bribery suit to save the accused in Sabbir murder case as he yesterday secured bail in five cases, including three extortion cases yesterday. The High Court Bench comprising Justice Sharif Uddin Chakladar and Justice Imdadul Haque Azad yesterday granted him bail for six months in the five extortion cases. The bench also stayed the proceedings of the cases and issued separate rules upon the Anti-Corruption Commission to explain why Tarique Rahman should not be granted regular bail. ... BNP announces fresh programme Staff Reporter The BNP-led four-party alliance formed human-chains defying a police ban and braving heavy rains in Dhaka city and elsewhere in the country yesterday afternoon. Police used batons to disperse the alliance's leaders and activists and snatched banners at different places, when they tried to form human chain on the streets demanding BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's unconditional release and overseas treatment for her elder son Tarique Rahman. But no major untoward incident was reported.... Salman Rahman freed on bail <... Bangladesh Bank move to speed up transaction: Mobile phone banking to expedite money transfer Staff Reporter Bangladesh Bank, with a set of regulations, is going to formalise mobile phone banking in the country to speed up money transfer by expatriates. The central bank already has drafted a guideline to this effect and has asked banks to submit their written opinions on it in two weeks. "We have invited the banks for their views on a draft guideline within two weeks," Governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed told reporters, replying to a question on the sideline of a seminar on corporate governance at Hotel Purbani in the city yesterday.... Pakistan restores eight judges Agency, Islamabad Eight of the judges sacked last November by former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have been reinstated. They took their oaths at the governor's house in Karachi. Reports say seven or eight more may be sworn in next week. Musharraf sacked some 60 judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, but some were restored later. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pulled out of the ruling coalition on Monday amid a dispute about how to restore the judges. Sharif's PML-N party wants all the sacked judges to be reinstated in one go, through an executive order that declares their sacking illegal....

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