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Bangladeshi woman gang-raped in India

Brought to Mumbai five years back, a 20-year-old woman from Bangladesh was allegedly pushed into flesh trade. The victim was also beaten up and gangraped by some persons near Kalyan railway station, police said today. rapeThe accused, after gangraping the victim last week, dumped her into a train, they said. Seven persons have been booked under IPC sections 376(G) (gangrape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 370 (buying or disposing of any person as a slave) read with 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and also sect...

RSS wants border between India, Bangladesh sealed

Raising the issue of illegal immigration between India and Bangladesh, the BJP’s ideological mentor RSS has demanded that the newly-approved Land Boundary Agreement should be followed up by sealing the border between the two countries. The saffron outfit said it would help check the menace of illegal immigration. The Centre recently approved the historic Land Boundary bsf womanAgreement with Bangladesh. Calling the India-Bangladesh deal a “landmark” move, RSS mouthpiece Organiser has cautioned the government that a “Jammu & Kashmir-like imbroglio ...

North Korean women arrested in Dhaka for selling Viagra

A North Korean restaurant manager in Bangladesh was arrested in connection with illegal sales of Viagra and alcohol on Friday. The supervisor of Pyongyang Restaurant in Dhaka, identified as a North Korean woman, had been secretly selling the impotence drug alongside other pharmaceuticals, reported South Korean news agency Yonhap. ARREST_2540291bBangladesh’s Customs Intelligence Investigation Department was tipped off about the illegal sale of alcohol – and a raid on Friday uncovered 210 pills of Viagra, other medications, 94...

Malaysia will discuss ‘migrant boats’ issue

The issue of Rohingya community from Myanmar and Bangladeshi nationals that fled to Malaysia would be the highlight of a meeting between Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman and his Bangladesh counterpart scheduled tomorrow. boat capsizeAnifah, while stating that nothing much can be said until the meeting with AH Mahmud Ali, admitted that the topic would be 'a very important one among other agendas'. More than a thousand Myanmar and Bangladesh migrants landed at Langkawi in boats on Sunday, as Thailand rolls out crackdown on human ...

ICT industry: A boon for women’s employment

Bangladesh has made strong strides in accelerating growth over the last decades. However, the country needs to grow around 8% yearly to reach middle income status. Innovation and use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) can help end poverty and boost shared prosperity. The World Bank, in partnership with Microsoft, organized a two-day ‘Innovation for Impact” workshop to support local ict women 2Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in integrating ICT into their work, which in turn would help these NGOs create jobs, especially for wo...

Border pact is testimony to what spirit of cooperation can achieve

Parliament’s passage of the bill on the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh brings to an end anomalies of the Radcliffe Award hastily drawn up in the days before Partition, which had continued despite earlier efforts in the Nehru-Noon accord of 1958. The 1974 Indira-Mujib accord was approved shortly by the Bangladesh parliament. India did not do so as the acquisition or surrender of any territory required precise determination of the territory involved. bd-indiaIn fact, in order to become effective, the Bangladesh constitutional amendment had t...
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