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Bangladeshi student raped in India

A Bangladeshi girl studying here was allegedly raped by her local guardian, who has been arrested by the police.  Birbhum Police Superintendent Alok Rajoria said today that the man, who had allegedly raped the girl, was himself from Bangladesh. rapeThe girl in her complaint to the police said that she was being blackmailed by the man, who had taken her photographs. The man was arrested from here last night on the basis of the complaint lodged at Bolpur Police Station by the student yesterday, he said. The girl was a residential student, while th...

DDCs urged to control dust  

Green activists on Saturday urged the Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs) and other authorities concerned  to take immediate steps to properly control air pollution caused by dust in the city, which poses severe threat to human health and environment. They made the call at a human chain programme jointly organised by Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) and BCHRD in front of the National Museum in the capital. Tobacco TalePoba chairman Abu Naser Khan, BCHRD executive director Mahbub Haque, Debdas G...

New technology for energy without fuel  

Bangladesh has huge potentials to generate energy without any fuel using a new technology, ‘Heavy Circular Moving Object’s Triggering Energy Conversion’ (HECMOTE), said a leading scientist. “This is a very new technology. This doesn’t require any fuel. It’s a big thing,” prominent scientist Prof Dr M Shamsher Ali told UNB on Friday. engergyProf Ali, also former Vice Chancellor of Bangladesh Open University (BOU) and ex-President of Bangladesh Science Academy, said proper funding can help scale up the initiative generating over 100 megawatt e...

India proposes another bus service to Bangladesh  

Aiming to strengthen people-to-people contact between India and Bangladesh, the central government on Saturday said it plans to introduce regular passenger bus service to Dhaka from Assam’s Guwahati via Meghalaya’s Shillong. This will be in addition to two passenger bus services to Dhaka, already operating from Kolkata in West Bengal and Agartala in Tripura. “Government plans to introduce regular passenger bus services to Dhaka from Guwahati in Assam via Shillong in Meghalaya,” an official statement said here. bd-indiaTo study and finalise the rout...

53,000 fled Myanmar, Bangladesh

About 53,000 people left Bangladesh and Myanmar on treacherous smuggling boats bound for Thailand and Malaysia this year, about 540 of them dying on the journey, the UN refugee agency said Friday. Indonesian policemen help a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar in Banda Aceh on April 8, 2013, after they were stranded on the remote island of Pulo Aceh. The majority are stateless Rohingya Muslims, fleeing ethnic tensions in Myanmar or poor prospects in Bangladesh, as well as Bangladeshis looking for a better life, the UNHCR said in a report. Rohingya<...

Conviction of journalist chills speech

The December 2 conviction of journalist David Bergman on contempt charges by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) further shrinks the narrowing space for observers to comment on the war crimes proceedings, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists said today. Bergman was sentenced to a symbolic “simple imprisonment till the rising of the court” and a fine of Taka 5,000 (about US$56) for comments he made in three separate blog postings regarding legal proceedings before the ICT. bergman2<...
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