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BJP mulls keeping Assam out of LBA

BJP’s electoral ambitions may force a major change in a landmark diplomatic initiative being pursued by the Modi government. bd-indiaBJP brass considers Assam, a major Northeastern state that goes to polls next year, a winning prospect and these poll calculations may result in delinking Assam from the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh for now, reports Economic Times (ET). ET spoke to several senior officials as well as BJP leaders for this report. Questions to the PMO didn’t receive any response. Officials and politicians who spok...

Gender equality comes on the airwaves

Judging by how often they make headlines, one might be tempted to believe that women in Bangladesh don’t play a major role in this country’s affairs. A recent media monitoring survey by the non-governmental radioorganisation Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS) revealed that out of 3,361 news items studied over a two-month period, “Only 16 percent of newspaper stories, 14 percent of television news [items], and 20 percent of radio news [items] considered women as subjects or interviewed them.” “Most of our audience are poor and they either don’...

Mystery has opposition on edge in Bangladesh

A jittery silence has fallen over the street where Salahuddin Ahmed, a top official of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, is believed to have been abducted a month ago. The caretaker who opened the compound gate to a group of men, and told several journalists they identified themselves as police detectives, can no longer be found, friends on the street say. Neither can the maid who opened the door to the apartment. The owner of Khaleda Ziathe apartment, the deputy managing director of a bank, is also unreachable. “Of course...

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...

Women cops 2nd batch to join UN mission

A second batch of women police will be dispatched from Dhaka tonight to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission. women policeThe 125-member unit will fly an UN-chartered flight from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport late tonight for Congo, a press release from Bangladesh Police said. Atia Hosna, an additional superintendent of police, has been chosen to be in-charge of the unit. Another female unit, the first dispatched for the programme, has been serving in Haiti under the UN peacekeeping mission with skill and prestige...

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...
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