Bangladesh Nationalist Party called a country wide mass demonstration on January 29, but the government's police administration imposed a ban on all street gatherings in the capital on January 29 to head off the opposition and ruling parties from an apparent collision course over incendiary political issues .

Shamim Ahmed bdnews24.com Correspondent Dhaka, Feb 3 - Cell phone users will have to wait another year to enjoy mobile number portability service, says the chief of the telecoms regulator.

Dhaka, Feb 3 : India's Manav Das continued to stay in the front with a third successive sub-par round of 71 that gave him a five-shot lead with one more round to go in the Bangladesh Open Amateur golf championships, here today.

The bank provides various products that includes investment options, deposit, rural development and special schemes.

A ruling party-backed quarter is selling housing plots allegedly filling a portion of the River Kirtankhola near the Barisal port.

The World Cancer Day will be observed in Bangladesh today with no government programmes, while about 1.5 lakh people die of cancer every year in the country.

A close political associate of Awami League lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh was found dead in a Dhaka hotel on Friday.

By Prem Kumar Panjamothy KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 -- Tenaga Nasional Bhd is keen to develop a 1,400-megawatt coal-based power plant in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh worth US$2.5 billion on a joint-venture basis, to meet the demand for power in the country.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Thursday secured a regular bail appearing in a Dhaka court in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Dhaka University, Feb 3 - Bangladesh Chhatra League expelled eight of its Dhaka University unit activists and issued show cause notices for two central leaders on Friday, following a clash at Suhrawardy Udyan on Thursday night over setting up food stalls at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair.