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Panel on creating ‘technology bank’ for world’s poorest nations

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the formation of a High-Level Panel to study the scope and functions of a proposed new “technology bank” and dedicated to helping the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) advance out of poverty, the Organization’s spokesperson confirmed today. mobiledeviceThe High-Level Panel – which is to advise on the organizational and operational aspects of the planned “Technology Bank and Science, Technology and Innovation Supporting Mechanism” – will be chaired by Rwanda’s Romain Mur...

Summit invests $ 319m to raise power production

Bangladesh’s leading private power producer plans to reach full capacity early next year at a 335-megawatt plant, a senior executive said on Saturday, as the country seeks to plug a shortfall in electricity supply. power plantThe power unit of conglomerate Summit Group is implementing a $319 million project to raise electricity production from the current level of 210 megawatts. “The combined cycle project is almost in its completion stage and we hope to produce with full capacity by the end of February,” A.N.M. Tariqur Rashid, deputy managing ...

West Bengal unaware of new maritime border

The Mamata Banerjee government has been caught unawares by the new eastern maritime border that was re-drawn by a UN tribunal in July. The cost of this ignorance: 132 fishermen in 10 trawlers languishing in Bangladeshi jail for straying into its waters. MamataAround 19,000 sq km of exclusive economic maritime zone where Indian fishermen would cast their nets was handed to Bangladesh nearly five months ago following a five-year arbitration. “We continued fishing in the area as usual but trawlers began to be seized by Bangladeshi authorities now ...

Women blamed for causing rape

A senior police officer in Bangladesh has blamed the clothing choice of women for causing rape. The police commander, in charge of a regional police station in Sylhet division, blamed Bollywood films for encouraging women to wear “revealing” outfits, which he said would in-turn lead to them being raped. “Foreign media, such as Indian TV and films, are watched by our children, who then want to wear these revealing outfits,” he told a reporter from US magazine Vice News. rape“That’s the issue. We follow Islamic laws and rules here. I think if girl...

Bangladesh elected as Director-General of IMSO

Bangladesh candidate Captain Moin Uddin Ahmed has been elected the next Director- General of International Mobile Satellite Organisation (IMSO) on Thursday in London, the Bangladeshi embassy said in a statement yesterday. imsoIMSO is an inter-governmental organisation with 99 member states whose main purpose is the oversight of public satellite safety and security communication services provided by mobile satellite communication systems. This is the sixth election Bangladesh has contested and won in the past six months. The other elections were for Chair of...

Bergman awaits verdict over war toll claim

A Bangladesh court is expected to rule Monday on whether an award-winning British journalist is guilty of contempt after he questioned the assertion that three million people died in the 1971 independence war. In a case seen as a test of the country’s commitment to free speech, judges will decide if David Bergman acted unlawfully by doubting the official version of one of the most contentious issues in Bangladesh’s short history. Bergman is the author of a popular blog about Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, a domestic court which has found several opposition supporters guilty of mass murder over their role in the 1971 conflict.
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