Days before the commencement of winter session of Parliament, voices demanding the settlement of the issue of enclaves in Bangladesh and India can be heard on both sides of the border. On Thursday, hundreds of students gathered outside Dhaka University with posters and placards demanding a solution to the six-decade-old issue.
“Thousands of people living on either side of the border are being denied citizenship rights. They have no access to basic health, education and other facilities from either of the governments,” Lizu Hasan a student of philosophy in Bangaldesh, told The Hindu on Friday.
While 51 Bangladeshi enclaves with about 14,000 residents in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, 111 Indian enclaves with a population of 38,000 are located in four districts of Bangladesh.
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Singer, songwriter and beatmaker JocElyn ellis and professional DJ Andre “A-Minor” Barden recently traveled to Bangladesh to teach hip-hop.
On Nov. 4, the two went to the country as part of Next Level, an international cultural exchange initiative created by UNC Chapel Hill’s music professor Mark Katz. The program selects U.S. hip-hop artists to travel with one of six residency teams to Bosnia-Herzegovina/Montenegro, India, Serbia, Bangladesh, Senegal and Zimbabwe. Each residency team contains 4-5 DJs, emcees, beatmakers and dancers.
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According to Business Monitor International (BMI), access to natural gas in Bangladesh is going to significantly increase over the coming years. This boost will come from the Bibiyana expansion project, combined with LNG imports expected from 2015. BMI anticipates that this will improve reliability in gas supply to the power sector and industry, supporting a solid growth forecast for 2015 and 2016.
Chevron has announced the completion and first gas from the Bibiyana Expansion Project in the north east of the country. New development wells and an expansion of gas processing facilities will see the project increase gas output by approximately 15 billion m3. Bibiyana is now Bangladesh’s largest producing gas field. The developments will also enable production of natural gas liquids to m...
The Hazaribagh, or “Thousand Gardens,” neighborhood in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka has no trees or flowers. Instead, the industrial area is saturated with toxic chemicals from more than 200 leather tanneries polluting the air, water, and soil. The stench of animal hides, garbage dumps, and furnace smoke is so foul, some locals wear face masks. “It’s a shameful way to live,” says Gul Dulali, 27, a mother of two living in a one-room shack next to a bubbling gray stream.
Bangladesh’s leather exports are a $1 billion-a-year industry, according to the Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau. Competitive prices and improved quality have attracted an increasing number of importers from Asia and Europe. Almost all of the country’s leather production, 80 percent, is exported. As with Bangla...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) inaugurated its 289th branch at Boalkhali of Chittagong on Saturday, November 15, 2014. Nurul Islam Khalifa, Deputy Managing Director of the Bank inaugurated the branch as chief guest.
Mohammed Monirul Moula, Executive Vice President of the Bank and Shahida Akter Shefu, Vice Chairman of Boalkhali Upazila were present in the function as special guests.
Mohammed. Amirul Islam, Executive Vice President & Head of Chittagong South zone of the Bank presided over the function. The program was add...
Asia enters its annual season of political summits in the coming weeks and US President Barack Obama will be a key player. Despite his Democrat party losing America’s domestic mid-term elections, the President will continue to be a key presence, first at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and then at the East Asia Summit (EAS), hosted by Myanmar.
Simply turning up shows that America is, indeed, making the effort to continue its rebalance to the region. But after the pomp and ceremony dies down, will Asia be satisfied with what America has to offer the region? And will Obama judge his time here as well spent?
