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‘Ban told Hasina to find political way forward’

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh during his conversation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday. Ban ki Moon"The Secretary-General, I think, expressed his opinion in the way we've been expressing it here, which is to call to find a political way forward between all the parties in Bangladesh," said the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General at a daily press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York yesterday. He made the remarks when a questioner wan...

Death, life top penalties for rape, killing

Both death and life term can be awarded as highest punishment for rape and killing, the Supreme Court ruled today. The judgement upheld a High Court verdict that scrapped the provision of single punishment in the concerned law – which was death. supreme court_0Now, Section 6(2) of Women and Children Repression Prevention (Special) Act 1995 will become void. The amendment made later in 2000 which offers life sentence as alternative punishment along with the death penalty will take effect. On March 2, 2010, High Court ann...

Indian agents in city to discuss regional terrorism

A team of agents from the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) has landed in Dhaka on Monday. NIA agents previously visited Dhaka after the bomb explosion in Bardhaman of India. This time a high-level three member team of national-investigating-agencyNIA led by its Inspector General Sanjib Kumar Singh came over to Dhaka on Monday just two days after the South Asian Al-Qaeda acknowledged its responsibility over the Avijit Roy murder. Joint Commissioner of Bangladesh Police Detective Branch, Mo...

Research on Gender in Aquaculture by ULAB, GWA

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)  and Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) has organized a seminar to disseminate research on “Gender in Aquaculture: A Study in Division of Power and Work at ULAB Auditorium in Dhanmondi. 05This research was conducted by ULAB’s Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) in collaboration with GWA from December, 2014 to March 2015 in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh. The main objective was to map the distribution of tasks between men and women involved in aquaculture. GWA is a global network dedicated to main...

Philippines, Bangladesh sign deal on foreign policy

The Philippines and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to establish a mechanism for a periodic review of bilateral relations, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday. Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario and Bangladesh Foreign bd-philipinesSecretary Md. Shahidul Haque recently inked the memorandum of understanding on establishing the Foreign Policy Consultations mechanism between the two countries, and they also successfully held their first foreign policy consultation. “At the inaugural meeting,...

Bharat Bangladesh Enclave committee writes to Centre

Members of the Bharat Bangladesh Enclave Exchange Coordination Committee (BBEECC) has written separately to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu regarding the “speedy implementation” of the Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh which remains unresolved since 1974. bd-indiaRecently, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had visited the enclaves in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal while Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, during her visit to Bangladesh in February this year, had assured the nei...
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