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Glencore makes lowest offer in tender to sell wheat to Bangladesh

Glencore International made the lowest offer of $279.75 a tonne in a tender to sell 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh, an official from the state grains buyer said on Wednesday. The only other participant in the tender, opened late on Tuesday, was Olam International, which offered $309 a tonne, including freight, insurance and other expenses. wheatThis was the fourth international wheat purchase tender issued by the Directorate General of Food since the current financial year started in July. The state grains buyer plans to import 900,000 tonnes of wh...

Court gags media from reporting of Tarique Zia

A Bangladesh court today banned local media from reporting speeches by the son of the besieged opposition leader, after authorities sought to muzzle dissent amid a wave of deadly anti-government protests. mediaTarique Rahman, the eldest son of opposition leader Khaleda Zia and her heir apparent, has made a series of speeches and comments criticising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her independence hero father. Rahman, who has been living in London since 2008, was declared a fugitive more than a year ago for failing to appear in Bangladesh courts...

Behind scenes of wild and surreal movies

Dhallywood is a wild cinematic genre overflowing with noble heroes, epic danger, and ludicrous levels of glitz and glam. Thrilling stories and legendary romances have been told through Bengali cinema since 1956, with some 100 Dhallywood movies released every year. Sarker Protick takes us onto the sets and into the studios for an intimate look at the campiest films imaginable in his series Love Me or Kill Me. gunfightThe industry is the Bangladeshi cousin to India’s more well-known (and well-funded) Bollywood, but with a particularly flamboyan...

Political turmoil hits trade with India

Political turmoil in Bangladesh has severely hit the country’s trade with neighbour India and the Dhaka-Agartala bus service has been stopped, a customs official said here Wednesday. “Exports and imports through Akhaura land port here and other bd-indiatrade points in the northeastern region have remained hit since Monday as political hitches forced traders to suspend their business,” an Indian customs official told IANS. “We do not know when the internal situation of Bangladesh would normalise. However, braving the hostile situations in Ba...

Embassy warns Thais in Bangladesh

The Royal Thai Embassy in Bangladesh has warned Thai citizens to exercise caution and avoid government offices and important venues in Dhaka and other major cities prone to political protests following violent clashes that, so far, have claimed at least four lives and injured scores of people. hartalBurning vehicles, set on fire by opposition demonstrators, are pictured during violent protests in Dhaka on Jan 6. Bangladesh police that day arrested the deputy leader of the country’s main opposition party over accusations that he incited a series o...

Bangladesh diplomat must face domestic worker’s US lawsuit

A US judge on Tuesday rejected a request by a Bangladesh diplomat and his wife to dismiss a lawsuit by a former domestic worker who accused them of forcing him to work without pay in slavery-like conditions. US-bdUS District Judge Sidney Stein in Manhattan said Monirul Islam, a former New York consul general of Bangladesh, and his wife Fahima Tahsina Prova were not immune from the lawsuit by Mashud Parves Rana, because their employment and supervision of him were not "consular functions." Rana sued for back pay and punitive damages last March, shortly befor...
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