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UC Berkeley to house center for Bangladesh studies

Improving garment-industry safety, designing apps to solve social problems and gathering data on antibiotic-resistant bacteria found on fruits and vegetables: These are among the innovative research projects made possible by UC Berkeley’s new Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies. bd cultureMonday, March 30, marks the official opening of the center, with Chancellor Nicholas Dirks presiding over an invitation-only ribbon-cutting at the campus’s Institute for South Asia Studies. The ceremony will be followed by a talk on Bangladesh...

Australia beat India to set up final clash

AUSSIE-Win-NSAustralia will now meet New Zealand, the only team they have not beaten in the tournament and the Kiwis will play the summit clash at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday, which will be their first match outside New Zealand in this tournament. Captain MS Dhoni kept the Indian hopes alive with a run-a-ball 65, a knock that was studded with 2 sixes and 3 fours before he was run out by direct hit from Glenn Maxwell. India got off to a good start in their run chase with openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan putting u...

Beijing prefers PMO oversight for Chinese projects

The government has responded positively after China suggested Bangladesh set up a special high-level committee under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for better coordination and facilitation of the various Chinese-proposed projects in the country aimed at its development needs, reports UNB. Following the Chinese embassy letter sent to PMO in this regard on January 25, this BD_CHINAyear, the first inception meeting was held at the PMO on February 19. The PM’s Principal Secretary Md Abul Kalam Azad was in the chair to review the progress of th...

Nation salutes independence heroes today

The nation will celebrate its 45th Independence Day and pay homage to the war martyrs today by placing flowers at the national memorial at Savar and other monuments across the country at daybreak. The sun of liberation rose over the horizon on this day in 1971 with the formal declaration of Bangladesh’s independence when the Bengalis took up arms against the Pakistani occupation army who committed one of the worst genocide in modern history during the nine-month war. [caption id="attachment_14300" align="alignleft" width="300"]main0218 Ekattorer Gha...

Political impasse impeding Bangladesh economic progress: US

The United States has said the violent political impasse in Bangladesh unfortunately is impeding the economic progress that will be needed to lift more than 60 million people out of extreme poverty. nisha biswalUS Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Deshai Biswal said this while making her statement on the US Rebalance in South Asia: Foreign Aid and Development Priorities before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Asia and the Pacific in Washington DC on March 24. She said just last week the IMF ...

Two Bangladeshis killed in Maldives

A 25-year old Bangladeshi national, Shaheen Mia, was reportedly stabbed to death in a Malé café in the Maldives during early hours on Sunday (March 22). Approximately 4:00am on Sunday, masked men dragged Shaheen Mia out from his workplace, Lhiyanu Café, in Malé’s western harbour district and stabbed him in the chest. Shaheen used to work and sleep in the café. 69214_maldipAccording to local media, a violent confrontation had taken place between Lhiyanu Café staff and a group of young men in the early hours of Saturday (21 March) when the exp...
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