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.

Dhaka, Oct 5 - West Indies cricket captain Darren Sammy said his side's month-long tour of Bangladesh will be quite challenging.

Sammy and the rest of the West Indies side minus five players taking part in the Champions League Twenty20 with Trinidad & Tobago arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the Bangladesh capital Tuesday.

"Playing Bangladesh at home is always tough, as New Zealand found out the last time they were here," said Sammy.

Dhaka, Oct 1 - Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) selectors have recalled seamer Shahadat Hossain and called up uncapped all-rounder Elias Sunny but axed batsman Junaid Siddique for the limited overs series against the West Indies starting here next week.

Shahadat was named in an 18-man squad for the three One-Day Internationals while Elias is part of a 14-man unit for the one-off Twenty20 International.

Bangladesh will also host the West Indies in two Tests in the tour Oct 7-Nov 2.

Dhaka, Oct 1 - Bangladesh's foreign exchange reserves have dwindled below $10 billion after maintaining the double-digit-billion mark for three years, a media report said.

The reserves with the central bank stood at $9.88 billion Thursday, implying that it will be difficult for the country to meet next three months' import costs, the bdnews24. com reported Friday.

Jayed Bakht, senior researcher with Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), expressed concern over the fall in reserves, saying that it would put the balance of payment under pressure.

"The reserves are under pressure due to hike in import cost and decreased flow of remittance," he said.

Dhaka, Sep 18 - Bangladesh Cricket Board director Enayet Hossain Siraj has questioned the axing of Shakib Al Hasan as captain, as the authorities begin shopping for a new skipper ahead of the West Indies tour.

Shakib, appointed for the 2009 tour of the Caribbean, was dismissed from the post following Bangladesh's disappointing tour of Zimbabwe recently.

Siraj, who did not attend the board meeting at which the decisions were taken, was highly critical of the process used to get rid of Shakib.

Dhaka, Sep. 6 : Indian officials accompanying the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on his two-day official visit to Bangladesh, the first by an Indian head of government in twelve years, revealed that there is tremendous potential for enhancing bilateral trade between the two countries.

Dhaka, Sep. 6 : Government sources on Tuesday indicated that India and Bangladesh are unlikely to sign a deal on the Teesta river waters issue during the current two-day visit to Dhaka of Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, but could come up with an interim agreement.

"We are still trying to find one solution that suits all. There will be no deal unless all are involved and are onboard. If all are not onboard, it cannot be implemented. One of the main states is West Bengal. We have to take them onboard," said the sources.

Dhaka, Sep. 6 : Disappointed over the last minute holding up of the Teesta River Agreement, the Bangladesh Government today said that India''s Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, must reassure the people of Bangladesh that the hold-up is temporary and that the agreement will be signed soon.

Dhaka, April 16 - Bollywood actress Karishma Kapoor opened a furniture showroom in a posh downtown area of the national capital, saying this had the potential of becoming a world class chain in quality and design.

She was promoting N'Queens Furniture at Baridhara at a function flanked by film world colleague Chunkey Pande.

Karishma Kapoor praised the designs of the furniture and said Bangladesh was very good at making world class furniture, New Age said Saturday.

Dhaka, April 10 - Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel has an "unfair market advantage" over its competitors in Bangladesh, a report said here Sunday.

The draft Cellular Mobile Telecommunication Operators Licence Renewal Guidelines 2011, prepared by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on behalf of the posts and telecommunications ministry, allows unfair market advantage to Airtel, the latest operator to enter the market, "telecom industry insiders" were quoted as saying in New Age.

Dhaka, Jan 1 - Magsaysay Award winning Indian writer Mahasweta Devi has in a letter to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed concern at the condition of garment workers' leader Mushrefa Mishu and asked her to ensure justice to the detained woman.

"I am deeply perturbed by learning that Mishu has been arrested without warrant. She is now critically ill and admitted to hospital in custody," Mahasveta Devi wrote to Hasina Dec 27.

Dhaka, Dec 12 - Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh Khan enthralled a packed show in Dhaka, dancing to his hit numbers and also spoke snatches of Bangla. But the superstar did not campaign to make the Sundarbans mangrove forests one of the seven natural wonders of the world as the organisers claimed he would.

At the show, titled 'King Khan Live in Dhaka', the over 25,000-strong audience comprising mostly youngsters kept up a chant of "Shah Rukh", "Shah Rukh".

Indian shuttlers have won five gold and five silver medals as India continued to dominate at the 11th South Asian Games. The country bagged 12 gold medals out of 13 on the seventh day in Dhaka.

Chetan Anand clinched gold medal in the men's singles event while Sayali Gokhale won the title in the women's single event. In men's double event, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas bagged gold medal.

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.

Dhaka, Jan 22 - Seven films will be screened in the retrospective of movies made by Indian filmmaker Tapan Sinha during the 3rd International Children's Film Festival that begins here Saturday.

The film festival will be opened by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday.

Organised by Children's Film Society, Bangladesh, the week-long festival's theme is "Future in Frames".

It will screen 243 films from 50 countries in 12 venues of the national capital, New Age newspaper said. (IANS)

Dhaka, Jan 11 : India defeated Bangladesh by six wickets in the tri-nation series ODI here Monday.

Chasing 248 for victory, India reached the target in 43 overs. Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 102 while Gautam Gambhir contributed 41. (IANS)

Dhaka, Jan 11 : A captain's knock of 85 from Shakib al Hasan guided Bangladesh to a challenging 247 for six in 50 overs against India in the inconsequential sixth One-Day International of the tri-nation series at the Shere Bangla Stadium in Mirpur here Monday.

Put in to bat, Bangladesh had their back to the wall at 95 for five, but Shakib and Mohammad Mahmudullah (64 not out) stitched a 102-run partnership to take Bangladesh to a respectable total.

Dhaka, Jan 11 (IANS) Bangladesh made 247 for six in 50 overs against India in the sixth ODI of the tri-nation series at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur here Monday.

Skipper Shakib Al Hasan made 85 while whicketkeeper Mahmudullah struck an unbeaten 64 in the dead rubber.

Dhaka, Jan 11 : India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field against Bangladesh in a dead rubber of the tri-nation series at the Shere Bangla Stadium in Mirpur here Monday.

Teams:

Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Mohammad Ashraful, Raqibul Hasan, Shakib Al Hasan (captain), Mushfiqur Rahim (wicketkeeper), Mahmudullah, Naeem Islam, Abdur Razzak, Syed Rasel, Shafiul Islam

India: Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain-wicketkeeper), Suresh Raina, Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja, Sreesanth, Sudip Tyagi and Ashish Nehra.(IANS)

Dhaka, Jan 9 : Bangladesh and Myanmar Saturday agreed to compromise to resolve a long-standing maritime border dispute in the Bay of Bengal, officials said.

The lack of a clear boundary has caused tensions between the two neighbours over offshore hydrocarbon exploration in the bay in 2008.

"We have decided to demarcate maritime boundary in a process combining the principle of equity and principle of equal distance," Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Khurshid Alam told reporters at the end of a two-day talks between Dhaka and Yangon over sea boundary demarcation.