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April 2025

Sydney family fears prejudice if deported to Bangladesh

A Sydney boy being deported because he has autism will have a seriously diminished quality of life in Bangladesh where his family will face discrimination, his father says. The immigration department has ordered four-year-old Australian-born Fayyed Hoque and his family to leave the country because his autism has been deemed too burdensome for taxpayers. [caption id="attachment_18026" align="alignright" width="718"]sydnee family Fayyad with his father Mohammad and mother Tonima. (Facebook)[/caption] Fayyad, along with his father Mohammad Hoque and...

Stampede at Maymensing clothes handout kills 25

At least 25 people have been killed in a stampede during a handout of free clothes in the northern Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh, police said. The stampede erupted on Friday when hundreds of people tried to force their way into a factory compound through a small gate after massing outside the building before dawn, local police chiefs told the AFP news agency. [caption id="attachment_18023" align="alignright" width="643"]-Mymensing Stampede Photo Courtesy: Prothom Alo[/caption] “We have so far recovered 23 bodies. Most of the dead are p...

BD RMG industry can be a role model for Africa

Historically, the path to wealth for nations has run through manufacturing. Manufacturing gives you a way to quickly move a lot of people from low-productivity farming to higher-productivity jobs without requiring that they pick up lots of new skills first. And the garment industry fits the bill admirably; it does not not require lots of expensive infrastructure or a skilled population that can supply and maintain fancy machines, and it does use lots of low-skilled labor. Once you get people through the factory gates, their higher productivity and earnings will support improvements in infrastructure, education and services, that can fuel further growth. Eventually, one hopes that your country will get too rich to support much garment manufacturing, because workers will be able to comman...

3 Bangladeshis killed in Saudi road crash

Nine people including three Bangladeshis were killed in a road accident in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia early today. Nazmul Islam, director general of foreign ministry’s West Asia region, confirmed the death of three Bangladeshis to The Daily Star. riyadhAt least 17 others were injured in the incident, he said. “Three of the dead were Bangladeshis while the others were Indians.” The victims were identified as Wahed Ali, hailing from of Jamalpur, Masud Mia, from Kishorganj and Alam Chand Mia from Tangail. Seven of the injured were also Bangladeshis, Moh...

1,000 technical interns to receive trainings in Japan

About 1,000 Bangladeshi technical interns are set to receive trainings in Japan under an apprenticeship and entrepreneurship training programme as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two countries were signed on Wednesday. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and Executive Chairman of IM Japan Kyoei Yanagisawa signed the MoU at Probashi Kalyan Bhaban here on Wednesday. BD-JapanDirector General Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training Begum Shamsun Nahar and senior executive director of the ...

RU students losing interest on utilising Central Library

Students of Rajshahi University (RU) are losing interest to study in Central Library alleging the absence of the relevant books here while university experts claimed our educational system liable. A few numbers of students are seen studying here in a day. According to the information of the attendance khata, on June 30, only 179 students came to study in the central library and a day before, 292 students came here to study. On Friday (June 26), only 96 students studied here. central Labrary of RUTalking to the media, stude...
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