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Why I’m going to Havana

Fifty-four years ago, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Cuba, and three young Marine guards volunteered for one final act of duty: lowering their country’s flag before returning home. Today in Havana, I will watch proudly as those same Marines—Larry Morris, Mike East and Jim Tracy—help raise the flag over our newly re-opened U.S. Embassy. [caption id="attachment_18958" align="alignright" width="570"]Kerry_Departs fo rCuba Secretary Kerry Boards Air Force Jet For Flight to Cuba and Ceremony Re-Opening U.S. Embassy in Ha...

National Mourning Day observed at SUST

Shahjalal University of Science and technology (SUST) has observed National Mourning Day with due solemnity on Saturday marking the 40th anniversary of assassination of the Father of the Nation  Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Teachers, students along with the other officials, SUST Vice-chancellor Prof Dr Aminul Haque Bhuyan paid NMD-1homage to Bangabandhu by hoisting black flag early in the morning in front of administrative building on the campus. They hold black badge and a mourn rally paraded the whole campus. A seminar was held at the auditorium ...

Meghna Bank AGM held

The 2nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Meghna Bank Limited was held on August 13, 2015 at Hotel Amari Dhaka, Gulshan-2, Dhaka. PR2Chairman of the Bank Mr. H. N. Ashequr Rahman MP presided over the meeting. Among others, Vice Chairman, Mr. Abdul Alim Khan Selim, Managing Director & CEO, Mr. Mohammed Nurul Amin, Directors and Sponsors attended the meeting.  

Caritas urges to ensure more labor rights

Bangladesh needs to do more to ensure labor rights in the country, says a Caritas official reacting to the U.S. keeping the country off its list of developing nations who enjoy special trade privileges. “If Bangladesh can ensure labor rights, and regain the generalized system of preferences, the industry can make even more progress and the workers will benefit greatly,” says Caritas Dhaka regional director Ronjon F. Rozario. The United States announced on Aug. 11 it was not reinstating Bangladesh to a list giving trade privileges to 122 developing countries. The generalized system of preferences scheme allows duty-free access for up to 5,000

Qatar Charity provides water in Bangladesh

Qatar Charity (QC) has reached out to Bangladesh which is caught in the grip of a drought. QC started a project in Nouga, which has suffered a shortage of drinking and irrigation water and other basic services, resulting from a drought in the region. The project is wide-ranging in the facilities it is offering. It comprises 12 water units with networks for the people and lands, a health centre with outpatient clinics, inpatient beds and laboratories and a school for children, at a cost of over QAR2m. People collect water at a refugee camp for Muslims ... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

Fortune and peril in shrimp industry

In the late 1980s, Rizia Khatun saw how her largely agricultural village of Khagraghat, in southern Satkhira district, was losing arable land to a new, burgeoning industry — commercial shrimp cultivation. The new form of livelihood turned many poor landless villagers, like Rizia’s parents, from farmers to shrimp farmworkers. “When I was 10, I used to join my parents as a worker in local shrimp farms. I studied up to grade five, but I was forced to drop out because my parents were too poor to afford my education. I was married at the age of 14,” said Rizia, now 35 and a mother of four.
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