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Dozens of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean

Dozens of migrants are feared to have drowned Sunday after falling from a boat into the Mediterranean Sea, the aid organization Save the Children said Tuesday. [caption id="attachment_15672" align="alignleft" width="300"]mediterrean_sea_new Italy reports more than 5,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast over the weekend Photo : AFP[/caption] The report is one of many describing migrants dying at sea. Thousands of people are leaving North Africa every month aboard crowded vessels to escape desperate conditions and reach...

$200m aid to support the poor

Almost 5 million rural poor will be provided with livelihoods and business supports under a US$200 million financing agreement. The government on Tuesday signed the agreement with the International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan window of the World Bank, for the Nuton Jibon Livelihood Improvement Project. wbThe project is designed to mobilise the poor and extreme poor people, who often remain left out from micro credit schemes, by building and strengthening community institutions including community societies, according to a World Bank new...

Caution for using fake documents for US visa

US visa applicants have been cautioned against the use of fraudulent documents as the US state department is taking all allegations of visa fraud seriously for ensuring integrity of the US visa process. The US embassy in Dhaka has noticed a steep increase in the use of fraudulent documents to obtain US visas, said a US embassy press release on Tuesday. US state dept“The US embassy doesn’t hesitate to inform local law enforcement [agencies] when a visa applicant commits any of these offences,” the US mission warned the visa applicants sayin...

‘Ban told Hasina to find political way forward’

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh during his conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday. Ban ki Moon"The Secretary-General, I think, expressed his opinion in the way we've been expressing it here, which is to call to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh," said the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General at a daily press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York yesterday. He made the remarks when a questioner wan...

Huntsman, BD cotton mill sign technical, training deal

As the global market for dyed yarns and fabrics becomes increasingly competitive, German multinational Huntsman Textile Effects is helping Queen South Textile Mills of Bangladesh reinforce its industry leadership with a renewed emphasis on environmental and economic sustainability. [caption id="attachment_15662" align="alignleft" width="300"]???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????[/caption] Under a Memorandum of Understanding signed on May 4, 2015 in Singapore, Huntsman Textile Effects will collaborate with Queen So...

Ransom for Bangladeshis stuck in jungle camps

Promising jobs in Malaysia, a gang of human traffickers held about 250,000 Bangladeshis captive in Thailand for ransom over the past eight years and made millions of taka (a million taka is about S$17,000). Lured by dreams of a better life, many of the country’s poor boarded cargo vessels to arrive in Thailand first and then travel overland to Malaysia. thailand-mass-grave-2wbHowever, before they could make it to their final destination, their dreams turned into a collective nightmare. Held in crammed and filt...
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