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Bangladesh girl alleges sexual harassment in India

Fourteen-year-old girl Sona (name changed), who was rescued by the police and was kept in an NGO home in the city, was reportedly sexually assaulted by some staff. The girl complained the matter to the officials. womenSona, who was allegedly brought to the city from Bangladesh in a human trafficking case, was produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). The CWC provided shelter to the girl at Childline Home. Later, she was shifted to Navajeevan Bala Bhavan. When the girl was produced before the CWC recently, she complained that the staff at Childline Ho...

Thailand looks to be BD’s new potential manpower market

As the government has intensified efforts to diversify its labour market abroad, Thailand offers a bright prospect where Bangladesh may have an access soon to two areas—deep sea fisheries and construction sectors. Both the countries are now in negotiations to finalise a memorandum of understanding (MoU) as Thailand is looking for bridging its labour gap by recruiting migrant workers from a number of countries, including Bangladesh. bd-thaiBangladesh Ambassador to Thailand Saida Muna Tasneem recently met Thai Labour Minister Surasak Karnjanarat at the ...

Closure from 1971 Bangladesh war comes at a high cost

Last Saturday, Bangladesh executed a senior Islamist party leader, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, for war crimes committed during the country’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. It was the second such hanging, with several more death sentences handed down by a domestic court set up to try local collaborators of the Pakistani army from that period. The judicial process has come under repeated international criticism for not being up to standard, while supporters of the largest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, have violently protested against the verdicts. But the trials have wide popular support. As the BBC’s Bangladesh Correspondent, I covered the first execution and some of the first verdicts. [caption id="attachment_15166" align="alignleft" width="300"]

New Zealand link to Bangladesh hardline forces

New Zealand’s spies are scooping up intelligence material on terrorists in Bangladesh and passing it to local security forces with a reputation for murder and torture, according to secret documents. The link between intelligence gathering by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and foreign security agencies, which engage in widespread killing and torture, has RABsparked concern among New Zealand’s Opposition politicians. The connection came in documents taken by whistleblower Edward Snowden when he walked out of his job as a contracto...

ATM booth robbed in Kushtia

A DBBL ATM booth was robbed in Kushtia early Tuesday. Police said that two robbers beat up security guards Kabir and Jamal and broke into dbbl-450x321the booth at Panchrasta intersection around 1:30am on Tuesday. They vandalized 10 close circuit TV cameras and other equipment at the booth. DBBL Fast Track official Mohammad Selim said there was Tk 318,400 in the cash box and the entire amount was robbed. DBBL Kushtia branch manager Nazrul Islam said a case was being filed.

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City polls: Women empowerment campaigners shocked

Absence of women from the mayoral race in Dhaka South City, Dhaka North City and the port city of Chittagong shocked women empowerment campaigners. They were equally shocked to find few women contesting for 134 common seats of ward councilors in the three cities. city pollsThe Election Commission records show that in Dhaka South City out of 386 councilor candidates only six are women, reports the New Age. In Dhaka North City out of 280 candidates contesting for the common seats only 12 are women. In Chittagong out of 213 councilor candidat...
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