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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...

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...

British Foreign Office Peer discusses unrest in Bangladesh

A FOREIGN Office Peer visited Bradford to give its Bangladeshi community more details on the ongoing unrest in their native country. Lord William Wallace of Saltaire, Government Minister and spokesman for Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords, yesterday briefed David Ward, Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Bradford East, about the continuing political stand-off in Bangladesh. [caption id="attachment_14777" align="alignleft" width="300"]brtian foreign peer David Ward with Foreign Office Peer Lord William Wallace of Saltaire[/c...

BD, India jointly to combat maritime crimes

Cooperation in combating maritime crimes and conducting search and rescue operations came up for a discussion at a meeting between top officials of Coast Guards of India and Bangladesh here yesterday. Several issues, including training for Bangladesh Coast Guard personnel, cooperation on combating maritime crimes, maritime bd-indiasearch and rescue and pollution response at sea were discussed during the meeting, an official release said. The meeting is a step ahead in institutionalisation of cooperation between the two Coast Guards, it added. The B...

Bangladeshi woman rescued from Indian brothel

Two women, who were allegedly running a brothel house here, were today arrested and a Bangladeshi woman was rescued, police said. The women were arrested under provisions of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and remanded in custody. torture womenThe Bangladeshi woman, who was questioned with the help of a translator, said she was a native of Dhaka, had three children and was working as a sex worker at Bangalore to bring them up after her husband left them. Another sex worker brought her here from Bangalore 15 days ago. She was kept in the...
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