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Organ trade unabated, targeting children, poor

Five days after his kidnapping, the body of 6-year-old Harun-ur-Rashid was discovered dumped in wetlands near Sirajganj, north of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. The child’s kidneys were cut out — a victim of the country’s black market organ trade. organ tradeAfter Harun disappeared from the village of Tebaria on April 22, the boy’s father, Abdul Hannan, feared the worst and contacted authorities. One arrested suspect told police Harun was drugged before being taken under a bridge where three waiting men had arrived from Dhaka. The susp...

Rising oceans force farmers inland for new jobs

About seven years ago, Gaur Mondol noticed he couldn’t grow as much rice on his land as salty water seeped in from the Passur River, which stretches from his home in Bangladesh’s interior all the way to the Indian Ocean. [caption id="attachment_11610" align="alignleft" width="300"]Farmers Photographer: Munir uz Zaman/AFP/GettyImages Bangladeshi farmers harvest rice in a field on the outskirts of Dhaka.[/caption] Now the rice paddies are completely inundated, leaving the land barren. To find work, he must walk for miles each day to other villages. His ...

Air quality may improve as tropics threaten

There are signs of the persistent dense fog and poor air quality finally improving across India and Bangladesh next week, when a tropical threat looms. The end to the stagnant air pattern from Pakistan to northern India to Bangladesh will not come through this weekend. air qualityWith weather disturbances passing by to the north too weak to stir up and clear the air, an area of high pressure will instead hold firm and lead to continued dense fog, chilly air and poor air quality. Visibility will continue to drop to zero frequently ...

Robi News Corner on BTV premises

Mobile phone operator Robi Axiata Limited has set up a news corner hdrwith internet facility at Bangladesh Television (BTV) premises at Rampura on the occasion of BTV’s Golden Jubilee celebration. BTV officials and invited guests enjoyed Robi’s 3.5G internet at the news corner.

Japan inflation, industrial output weaken in Nov

Japan says its inflation rate eased slightly in November as household spending dropped, hindering the government’s effort to get the world’s third-largest economy out of recession and back to sustainable growth. japanGovernment data released Friday showed core consumer prices, excluding food, rose 2.7 percent while the inflation rate excluding food and energy was 2.1 percent. The inflation rate was 2.9 percent in October. Overall incomes fell 1.1 percent in November from a year earlier while household spending was down 2.5 percent. Unemployment ...

Money supply rises 13 pc on year

The country's broad money supply in October rose 13 percent to 7,209.43 billion taka ($92.55 billion) from a year earlier, but down 40.6 billion taka call moneyfrom the previous month, the central bank said on Wednesday. Below is the table of broad money supply:     Broad money supply Oct. 2014     Sept. 2014   Oct. 2013  (bln taka) 7,209.43     7,250.03     6,403.17 ($1 = 77.90 taka)

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