Country gets new land
Pinaki Roy,thedailystar
Friday, April 23, 2010
Even as many worry Bangladesh will shrink in size because of global warming, a new study shows that the country has actually grown in landmass equal to five times the size of Dhaka city.
The new land has emerged in the...
Bangladesh’s defence and security budget increased to $3.58 billion
The government’s budget for fiscal 2014-15, beginning July 1, has proposed increasing defence spending to Tk 16,462 crore ($2.12 billion) up from outgoing fiscal’s Tk 14,458 crore ($1.86 billion).
Presenting the annual budget...
A BSF soldier and a villager were killed in a skirmish at South Ramnagar, close to the Akhaura land port near Tripura's capital Agartala on Friday evening.
Angry villagers say they resisted the BSF when the border guards stopped an elderly villager Ismail Mia from going to a pond situated just...
Can anyone pls bring some light what exactly the roles of Bangladesh Ansars are? I have found from wiki that they are 58,00,000 in number and It works along with Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Police? Do they receive the training of Bangladesh police or Bangladesh Army?
@To all my fellow Bangladeshi and Myanmar bro's
In any way,we dont want any sort of war or tension with our neighboring countries like Myanmar.We both are developing nations and our focus should be the economic development of the country and increasing the living standard of the common...
Participants of WW1 Royal Norfolks Regiment entering Dhaka,1933
Bedford company buses for the first time on Dhaka,1966
Palash Alam,Youngest freedom Fighter,1971 (Died in 2009)
Turag River,1972
Volunteers from Bangladesh fighting with Palestinians against the...
During Marshal Law 1954, Gulistan Cinema Hall (in back)
Dhaka Stadium 1955
Gulistan Cinema Hall (1963)
Race Course ground,1890
Bangla Motor,1966
Tejgaon,1880
Pilkhana,1905
British Royal Air field in Cox'sBazar during WW2,1940
No my friend! I didnt know that.I have seen the news first in one of our local newspaper. Anyways,Its universal truth too,that the Myanmar authority are well skilled to hide news that may go against them.
Burma Times: 02 June 2014
Intelligence sources revealed that a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) mortar shell had killed at least 4 Myanmar Army personnel and injured three others when the Bangladeshi border guards responded to firing from Myanmar Army and Border Guard Police on Friday, 30 May...
Burma Times : By Sulla Patra 03 June 2014
According to the Nay Pyi Taw(central government) source, it is learnt that the Burmese intelligence department designated numerous double agents across Bangladesh in particular along the western gate, Burma-Bangladesh border to inform them...
By Ibrahim Shah 02 June 2014
Burma Times: Yangoon- It is reliably learnt by a Major from Yangoon who concealed the name for security that the Burmese united armed unit (BUAU) is well prepared to confront the western gate, Burma- Bangladesh border if the Border Guard Bangladesh Patrol Team...