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Factory collapse in Mongla traps many workers; four dead

About 100 workers were feared trapped on Thursday when a cement factory collapsed in Mongla in Bagerhat district, told a police official. mongla222Four people were confirmed dead. Rescuers also pulled about 40 survivors from the debris after the factory, run by a subsidiary of the Bangladesh army, collapsed in the port town of Mongla, 335 km (210 miles) southwest of the capital, Dhaka. "There were about 150 people, including workers, inside the factory building when it collapsed," said Belayet Hossain, the officer in charge of the Mongla...

Robi Talents recognized

Robi recognized 31 of its talents today at its corporate office in Dhaka through a Talent Graduation ceremony. This talent passing out ceremony took place for the first time in the company since Robi Accelerated Development Programme (RADP) was launched in 2011. 1Robi’s potential talents are nurtured through RADP, a special programme designed in line with Axiata Group’s talent development programme. With a vision to create a pipeline of future leaders, Robi has a unique talent management process to nurture its high potential employees. Through RADP, Rob...

SBAC Bank ATM Booth in Chandona, Gazipur

South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited started Automated teller Machine (ATM) service at Chandona, Chowrasta in Gajipur and at Galaxi Hospital Building Circle 10 Mirpur. ATM BoothManaging Director & CEO of the bank Md. Rafiqul Islam inaugurated the ATM booth. Aditional Managing Director AKM Ashraf Uddin Khan, Head of card Mohammad Shafiul Azam along with other high official of the banks were also present this program.

Murder of Roy: Championing illiberal liberals

 Despite rising political violence in Bangladesh, the west has reserved its outrage for the murder of a secular Bangladeshi-American blogger. But his site tended to curtail rather than uphold free speech.

The murder of Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American blogger, in Dhaka last week has provoked much due outrage and denunciation. Avijit was stabbed to death at University of Dhaka campus and his accompanying wife was also viciously attacked. That it was so brutally inflicted on both Roy and his wife only adds to the horrific nature of this crime.

Police wants law banning torture overturned

Bangladeshi police wants the Home Affairs Ministry to drop some provisions in a law that bans the torture and inhuman treatment of people in custody or in prison by police. Bangladeshi-police-arrestSpecifically, the country’s law enforcement community wants Section 12 of the ‘Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act’ of 2013 scrapped. The provision in question says, neither a “state of war, threat of war, internal political instability or any public emergency;” nor “an order of a superior officer or a pub...

Women ahead in medical education

Despite all odds in society and lagging of women behind men in many sectors, the country’s girls are going ahead of the male counterparts in the medical education, suggest the recent trends. The current ratio of women in higher education is 33 percent, but the female students in the two top government medical colleges have outnumbered the boys in the past three years, reports Prothom Alo. Blood pressure measuring studio shotOn average 57 percent of the students enrolled with the Dhaka Medical College (DMC) in the previous three years is female, off...
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