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72,000 Dhaka buildings at earthquake risk

Disaster Management and Relief Secretary Md Shah Kamal came up with the figure on Monday at a press briefing at the Secretariat following a strong earthquake that jolted the capital and other parts of the country at dawn. Addressing the press briefing, Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya said the government has opened a control room to face possible earthquake risks which will remain open until further notice. dhakaBesides, another control room was opened earlier at the Department of Disaster Management and all the cont...

FX reserves hit record $ 27.49b at year end

Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves hit a record $27.49 billion at the end of December, the central bank said on Sunday, fuelled by steady exports and remittances. The slower pace of import growth, on the back of a fall in global commodities prices, also helped boost reserves forexabout 23 percent over the corresponding period of last year. The reserves are sufficient to cover seven months of imports. Bangladesh’s exports in July-November, the first five months of the current financial year, rose 6.7 percent from a year earlier to $12.88 billion, le...

Qatar to hire workers from Bangladesh

Qatar has agreed to hire skilled workers from Bangladesh. Labour and Social Affairs Minister of Qatar Abdullah bin Saleh Al Khulaifi spoke with Bangladesh Ambassador Ashud Ahmed about plans to hire workers from Bangladesh with the embassy stating that the minister has shown interest in taking workers in the maids from BDconstruction, hospitality and service sectors in Qatar. Ashud Ahmed has stated that there are currently 280,000 Bangladeshi workers employed in Qatar. Ambassador Ashud Ahmed told the minister about Bangladesh’s readiness to...

WB pumps millions into Bangladesh

The government on Sunday signed a $177-million additional financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA) to complete the ongoing construction of a 335 megawatt combined cycle power plant at Siddhirganj near capital Dhaka. Kazi Shofiqul Azam, additional secretary of Bangladesh’s Economic Relations Division, and Iffath Sharif, acting World Bank country director for Bangladesh, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides on Sunday. wbThe power plant will account for six percent of the total electricity delivered to the national...

Government ‘incapable of tolerating dissident views’

The government in Bangladesh is set on stopping dissenters from expressing their opinions, claims Nurul Kabir, the editor of the leading English-language daily newspaper New Age, in an interview with DW. Bangladeshi protesters remember murdered journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi The shrinking space for free speech in Bangladesh has drawn international attention in recent months. The South Asian nation has seen a number of gruesome attacks on bloggers this year that left four people dead and several others critically injured. The attacks have targeted not only bloggers, but also minority communities.

Lawyer takes aim at fatwa violence in Bangladesh

Hena Akhter was 14 when she was whipped to death for allegedly having an affair with a married man. There was uproar in local and international media at the time of her death in 2011, followed by a fervent call to outlaw so-called fatwa violence in Bangladesh. The high court ruled that Hena’s body should be exhumed to determine the extent of the violence to which the young girl was subjected. A second post-mortem examination found that she died of septicaemia due to severe internal injuries. The court ordered an investigation, which led to several arrests, including that of the Muslim cleric who issued the fatwa. [caption id="attachment_20941" align="alignleft" width="620"]
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