"I can't wait to see dadu [grandfather]," said Shaon with a mouthful of biscuits, "Last year dadu put me on the back of a cow and I rode the cow. It was a lot of fun."

A 2,000megawatt power plant would be set up in Chittagong to ease the nagging electricity crisis, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced yesterday.

The launch of Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane highway may be delayed by one year as the scheme is stuck in consultancy glitches and frequent changes of project directors.

Although the government directed livestock department officials to remain on highest alert to prevent spread of anthrax, the efforts seem to be dogged down by a lack of proper coordination among different relevant agencies, and an acute shortage of veterinary inspectors.

The Bangladeshi workers in Libya finally went back to work for the company yesterday, which they had left a week ago protesting abuse and non-payment of salaries.

The central bank yesterday directed all public banks to help the ultra-poor open bank accounts at Tk 10 so they can get the benefits of government sponsored safety net programmes.

Agitating workers of two garment factories blocked the Dhaka-Aricha and Kaliakoir-Nabinagar highways yesterday morning to press home their demands.

SolarWorld this year honoured Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus by presenting him 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday admitted the lack of coordination between prosecutors and investigators in the trial of war crimes.

The president has become controversial by pardoning the 20 death-row convicted in the Gama killing case, the opposition BNP said yesterday.

A car bomb attack targeting a Pakistan police headquarters on Tuesday killed at least 20 people including women and children and wounded more than 50 people in northwestern city Kohat.

Computer security firm Symantec yesterday reported that about two thirds of the world's Internet users have fallen victim to cyber crime and few think crooks will be caught.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested four persons at the city's Elephant Road yesterday for possessing tablets of Yaba, a stimulating drug.

A total of 447 people in eight districts across the country have been infected with anthrax in the last three weeks, confirmed Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) yesterday.

Sixteen professional Bangladeshi photographers won the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Photography Award, 2009.

Britain's former premier Tony Blair postponed a planned launch party for his memoirs at London's Tate Modern museum yesterday after anti-war protestors threatened to target the event, his office said.

At least 16 people have been killed and scores injured in a bombing near police headquarters in the north-western Pakistani town of Kohat, police say.

Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday arrested a sub-inspector of police on charge of offering bribe.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the 150-megawatt Peaking Power Plant at Shikalbaha in Patiya of Chittagong on Wednesday.

Four robbers were arrested along with a pistol and a knife at Charghat upazila of Rajshahi early Wednesday.