Dhaka, Oct 12 : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unveiled the nation’s first domestically made laptop named ‘Doel’.

The state-owned telecom company Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS) has produced four models of the laptop.

The most basic model that runs the android operating system is priced at 10,000 taka (130 dollars), and is the cheapest laptop in the world.

TSS managing director Mohammad Ismail said that the new laptop would bring lots of benefits to the nation.

After the recent visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India for the improvement of bilateral relations and increasing trade and industry between the two nations, Bangladesh Industries Minister Dilip Barua visited India and addressing the closing program of Tripura Industries and Commerce Fair, 2010.

Bangladesh Industries Minister Dilip Barua invited Indian investment into his country. According to him, the bilateral co-operation would help both nations reap benefits.

The Sheikh Hasina government on Thursday offered six fugitive convicted killers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for appeal to the Supreme Court.

Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said the government had information about the fugitives and was working to bring them back to face justice.

“The home and foreign ministries are working to bring the fugitives back. Interpol has already issued Red Alert notices against them,” he told reporters at the Secretariat in Dhaka.

The Supreme Court last November upheld the previous High Court death sentences of 12 former army officers for Mujib’s murder.

New Delhi, Jan 11 : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is on a three-day visit to New Delhi paid her tribute to Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, and had friendly discussions with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on promoting economic relation and combating terrorism on Monday.

Sheikh Hasina accompanied by dignitaries from Bangladesh, visited Rajghat and paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi.

New Delhi, Jan 11 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will hold wide-ranging talks with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday to discuss the entire range of bilateral relations, particularly focusing on issues like security, terrorism, border-related aspects, connectivity, trade and investment.

India is viewing her maiden visit as a historic opportunity to build a new and forward-looking relationship, and hopes that its security concerns are addressed.

The two sides will sign five crucial treaties, including those on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, mutual transfer of convicted prisoners, on fight against international terrorism, organised crime and illegal drug trafficking.

New Delhi, Jan. 8 : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will arrive in India on an official visit starting January 10 to 13. It will be Hasina’s first visit to India since her party registered an emphatic victory in December 2008 elections.

Issues like measures for counter terrorism and organized crime are likely to figure prominently during the talks between Bangladesh and Indian leadership.

New Delhi, Jan 8 : Resolution of the maritime boundary dispute will be an important item on their summit agenda when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina here Monday.

In October last year, Bangladesh approached the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), seeking arbitration to delineate the boundary of the continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal.

During the talks Monday, the two sides are likely to discuss the composition of the tribunal that will arbitrate the maritime boundary dispute between the two countries, a reliable source said.

New Delhi, Jan 8 : Bangladesh's dream of a two-way transit rail link to Nepal via Indian territory is set to move a step closer to reality during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India that starts Sunday.

India has cleared a long-pending demand of Dhaka to start the transit rail link between Bangladesh and Nepal through its territory, reliable sources said here Friday.

A deal on the rail link is expected to be announced during Sheikh Hasina's visit during which the two sides will also sign three counter-terror agreements and a pact on expanding power cooperation.

New Delhi, Jan 8 : Ahead of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India, Dhaka has assured New Delhi that its territory will not be used by anti-India elements.

This was revealed by External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna here Friday.

"We have been assured that Bangladesh territory will not be used by elements inimical to India while we pursue mutually beneficial relationship," Krishna said at the annual conclave of the Indian diaspora.

Krishna also hailed the development of multi-party democracy in Bangladesh as "a positive development".

New Delhi, Jan 6 - Indian intelligence and security agencies are working in close coordination with their counterparts in Dhaka to safeguard Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during her three-day visit to India, starting Sunday.

"We are working in a close coordination with Bangladesh's Special Security Force. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would be provided the same level of security as is given to any head of the state visiting India," a senior security official told IANS, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Dhaka, Jan 6 - Bangladesh will not allow its territory to be used by "militants and terrorists of another country", Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

Hasina Tuesday said she would "not invite trouble for the country" by allowing militants and terrorists to use Bangladesh for carrying out terrorism in another country.

Dhaka, Jan 2 : Ahead of her summit-level talks in India, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday ridiculed opposition leader Khaleda Zia's threats of making her government's path "thorny" should it fail to protect national interests while signing agreements with New Delhi.

"Those who had made the people's lives thorny during their tenure are now out to make the government's path thorny as well," Hasina said at a function in the southern Chittagong port town.

Dhaka, Jan 1 : Ahead of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India, opposition leader Khaleda Zia Friday warned of "a tough movement" against "any deal with India against the interest of the people".

Zia also alleged that the country was "being governed from somewhere else".

Dhaka, Dec 30 - The Bangladesh capital will be transformed into a modern metropolis as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled plans to undertake major infrastructural changes in the city and elsewhere by cleaning up the rivers and building more highways and bridges.

Sheikh Hasina Tuesday reaffirmed her pledge to upgrade the four centuries-old national capital to a modern, beautiful and hassle-free city ensuring smooth communications both on roads and waterways in and around the capital.

Dhaka, Dec 24 - It isn't possible to work "keeping the eyes shut" towards threats to other countries as everybody faces the threat of international terrorism, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

"In the present times all have to face the threats of international terrorism. Now it is not possible to work keeping the eyes shut towards the threats to other countries' sovereignty," Hasina said Wednesday while addressing military officers at the National Defence College.

Dhaka, Dec 17 - The prime ministers of Bangladesh and India are expected to meet in New Delhi Jan 11 to sign five agreements and discuss a wide range of bilateral and regional issues, officials here said.

Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Manmohan Singh were to meet Saturday. But the visit, Hasina's first since she took office in January, was postponed as both the premiers are currently busy at the climate conference in Copenhagen.

Foreign ministry officials of Bangladesh and India are working to sort out many issues ahead of the meeting now likely to take place in Hyderabad House in New Delhi Jan 11, The Daily Star said Thursday.

Dhaka, Dec 14 - The prestigious Asiatic Society of Kolkata has chosen Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque 2009.

Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, during his farewell call on Hasina as he moves to his next posting, Sunday handed over a letter from the Asiatic Society.

The letter reads: "The Council of Asiatic Society in its meeting decided, unanimously, to confer the Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque 2009 on Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh."

The crackdown on the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), northeastern India's separatist militants, and its associate groups has partly grown out of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's deep concern to avoid any experience similar to the devastation that Pakistan's involvement with the Taliban and Afghanistan's civil war has wrought on that country.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, who visited India in September, has said her country had "pledged not to allow our land to be used by any terrorist".

Dhaka, Dec 7 : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina may visit New Delhi in January next year as her December visit has been rescheduled since leaders of both countries will be busy at the Copenhagen climate summit, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said Monday.

"The Bangladesh prime minister's visit has been rescheduled. Though the fresh date has not yet finalised, but the tour is expected to take place Jan 10 or 11 next year," Moni told reporters.

According to the earlier programme, the Bangladesh leader was scheduled to visit India Dec 18 to 21 and the possible date of the meeting with the Indian prime minister was Dec 19.

Dhaka, Nov 26 - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has installed a solar power system at her office to encourage green energy expansion in her power-starved nation.

The country's single largest solar power system, with a peaking capacity of generating 21.6 kilowatts, is now operating on a trial basis, officials of the Power Development Board (PDB) that supervised the installation said Wednesday.