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Bangladeshi woman rescued from force prostitution in Delhi  

Rescued from a brothel at G.B. Road here and sent to Nirmal Chhaya, a Bangladeshi woman will now be escorted to her village and united with her family by the Delhi Police on the orders of a Delhi court. Earlier the Bangladesh Embassy had failed to verify her address when she insisted on going back home. The court order came after the Nirmal Chhaya welfare officer told the judge that the victim was breaking things at the shelter home as she wanted to return home. torture womenDespite repeated requests, the Bangladesh Embassy did not return a...

German-Bangladesh consultation from May 7 to review projects

The two-day biennial German-Bangladesh consultation, 2014 will be held in the capital on May 7-8 to review the implementation of the existing German-funded projects in Bangladesh as well as their possible future funding. “The two-day consultation will focus on review of the German-funded projects as well as future funding by Germany…representatives of the line ministries will attend the meeting,” Economic Relations Division Additional Secretary Abul Mansur Md Faizullah told the news media UNB. bd-zermanThe consultation will take place at the NEC-II...

Dhaka, Colombo to sign coastal shipping deal to boost trade

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have agreed to enhance shipping connectivity between the two countries to expand the bilateral trade and commerce. Following a seminar that was organized in connection with the first Bangladesh-Sri Lanka joint working group meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan told media Wednesday that the shipping connectivity between Dhaka and Colombo would strengthen the bilateral relations. “With the shipping connectivity, bilateral relations between the two South Asian nations would also be strengthened,” the Minister said while inaugurating the seminar on ‘Increasing maritime connectivity between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: Reality and possibilities’.

Malaysia to build 22,000 apartments in Bangladesh    

Malaysia will help Bangladesh in construction of 22,000 apartments in capital Dhaka and a flyover connecting Dhaka with Rajuk’s Jhilmil housing project. The Malaysian assistance will come under a Memorandum of Understanding the two countries signed in Dhaka on Tuesday, reports UNB. BD-MalUnder the MoU 12,000 apartments will be built at Uttara while 10,000 at Kamrangichar. A 13-kilometer flyover will be built connecting Dhaka’s Shantinagar to Jhilmil housing project in Keraniganj. Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Mala...

Why Bangladesh feared Indian invasion after 1975 coup  

B. Z. Khasru

 When Gen. Ziaur Rahman became Bangladesh’s virtual ruler following several bloody military coups in 1975, he told the United States that India intended to invade its small neighbor to install a puppet regime. So intense was Zia’s fear of an Indian invasion that on 7 November 1975 he made a call on the radio for national unity to face the attack. His call triggered more processions in Dhaka, initially sparked by the news of his release from detention by the officers who had mounted a failed coup earlier. The processions were laced with anti-Indian slogans. This public mood in Dhaka reflected a total reversal of the sentiment at the end of the Bangladesh war in 1971 when the sentiment was explicitly anti-Pakistani and...

Bangladesh urges SAARC secretariat to pursue issues of common rivers  

Bangladesh has urged the SAARC secretariat to pursue issues of common rivers in the region as new secretary general of the eight-nation grouping Arjun Bahadur Thapa called on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, a foreign office statement said here on Monday. "He (Alam) requested the Secretary General to pursue the regional cooperation on the issue of common rivers, since Bangladesh suffers badly for insufficient water during the dry season," a statement said referring to their meeting late yesterday. The state minister, it said, also insisted on regional cooperation in the hydropower sector among Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan, BSS reports.
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