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Swimming lessons made law to stop drownings

The government has made swimming lessons compulsory in schools, to reduce the number of children who drown in the country’s many waterways. According to UN figures, about 18,000 children between five and 17 die each year because they cannot swim. The education ministry says rural ponds and lakes will be made suitable for lessons and university pools opened up. swimmingBut some say the directive will be hard to implement because of a lack of pools in urban areas. Drowning has been described as a hidden epidemic in Bangladesh, one of th...

Biman negotiating Dubai authorities to deter gold smuggling

At a press briefing at Biman headquarters, the newly appointed managing director and CEO Kyle Haywood said that they are negotiating with Dubai authorities to increase security at their airports in order to deter people from smuggling gold. biman“We’re doing whatever we can,” said Haywood, who has been in the airline industry for the last 25 years, serving with different international airlines like British Airways, Etihad Airways, and low-cost carrier Air Arabia. Gold smuggling in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has been rising for the past couple o...

Aminul killers had contact with intelligence

An intelligence agency and senior officials of Dhaka EPZ had contact with the suspected killers of garments industry labour leader Aminul Islam. They had spoken to him several times over cell phone the night before his body was discovered. This has been mentioned in the charge sheet submitted by the police. aminulThe intelligence agency and the EPZ officials have not been accused in the murder case. Their names are not in the charge sheet and they have not been called on as witnesses either. An officer involved in the investigations told Prothom Alo the...

CPJ condemns killing blogger Washiqur

Bangladeshi authorities should investigate the murder of a blogger in the capital, Dhaka, and hold the perpetrators to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said yesterday. Washiqur Rahman Babu is the second blogger to be hacked to death in public in Bangladesh in the past five weeks. “The Bangladeshi government must urgently establish accountability in this murder case and others-otherwise the rest of the country’s bloggers, commentators, and washikur killingjournalists covering sensitive topics remain at grave ...

Govt exerts authority to rein media in Bangladesh: CPJ

Matiur Rahman Chowdhury has been the host of “Frontline,” a popular Bangla-language news show, for five years. Aired live three times a week, the show gained notoriety for bringing politicians, members of civil society, and journalists together to discuss current affairs. Chowdhury distinguished himself from many of his counterparts with his soft-spoken but firm demeanor as he led his guests in substantive discussion, rather than presiding over talking heads trying to drown one

Bangladesh ranks 73 in govt transparency

Bangladesh has been ranked a below average country in the ‘open government index-2015’ that defines the level of transparency in governance. The country has been placed at 73rd position among 102 nations, according to the index prepared by Washington-based World Justice Project. govtBangladesh has scored less than half (0.47) of the full marks allocated in four categories for measuring the openness. Three countries that are at the bottom of the list are Myanmar (100), Uzbekistan (101), and Zimbabwe (102). The top three countries are ...
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