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London tops super-rich city list, survey shows    

London has more billionaires than any other city in the world, and Britain has more billionaires per head of population than any other country, new data showed yesterday. The survey of Britain’s super-rich compiled for the Sunday Times newspaper is likely to prompt debate in a country where many still struggle financially and where food banks are a fact of life, despite economic growth recently returning to levels not seen since the 2008 financial crash. londonLondon is home to 72 of Britain’s 104 sterling billionaires, well ahead of Moscow in second pla...

Police operation begins in capital against tinted glasses    

Police started operation in the capital on Sunday against all artificial coverings including nontransparent and tinted glasses from car windows, UNB reports. “We began the operation from today (Sunday). We are monitoring it from various points of the capital,” Deputy Commissioner (Public Relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman told UNB. tinted-glassesHe said that any vehicle found with tinted black glasses except the built-in coverings during the time of their assembly at the factories will be fined maximum Tk 2,5...

Chemically-treated Indian mangoes flood Jessore markets        

Chemically-treated Indian mangoes have flooded the markets in Jessore region, posing serious health risks, UNB reports. Visiting different markets, the UNB correspondent found out that low quality Indian mangoes are selling at Tk 100 per kg near the Benapole border area, while they are selling at Tk 120-130 per kg in Jessore. manggoLocals alleged that good-looking Indian mangoes, including Golapkhas, are being smuggled into the country with the assistance of Indian Border Security Force (BSF). The smuggled mangoes are also sent to other part...

First ambassador of Bangladesh to Asean presents credentials

The ambassador of Bangladesh to Indonesia, Nazmul Quaunine, has presented his Letter of Credence to Asean Secretary General Le Luong Minh, as the first Ambassador of his country to the 10-member countries association.

Minh congratulated Quaunine for assuming his duty and stressed that the ambassador could play an important role in forging cooperation between Asean and Bangladesh as well as within the framework of Asean-South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Indonesia's Antara news agency reported the Asean Secretariat as saying on its website on Friday.

Bangladeshi woman rescued from force prostitution in Delhi  

Rescued from a brothel at G.B. Road here and sent to Nirmal Chhaya, a Bangladeshi woman will now be escorted to her village and united with her family by the Delhi Police on the orders of a Delhi court. Earlier the Bangladesh Embassy had failed to verify her address when she insisted on going back home. The court order came after the Nirmal Chhaya welfare officer told the judge that the victim was breaking things at the shelter home as she wanted to return home. torture womenDespite repeated requests, the Bangladesh Embassy did not return a...

BTCL refuses to reconnect UK firm despite court order    

The country’s state-owned telecommunications company is refusing to reconnect a British firm to the country’s network despite having been ordered to do so by the courts. London-based Zamir Telecom has been cut off from the Bangladesh network since March, causing it significant financial damage. Telecoms minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, has admitted giving the order for the disconnection of Zamir Telecom from the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL). naufal-zamirThis was in breach of a 2010 court order overturning a similar situation. Zamir Telecom successfully challenged BTCL in a Dhaka court in ea...
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