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BD wins award for women’s empowerment

Bangladesh has won an international award for women’s empowerment and reducing gender gaps, securing a place among the top 10 countries that reduced gender gaps in politics significantly, media reported yesterday. bangladeshThe Women in Parliaments (WIP) Global Forum presented this award to Bangladesh in its annual summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Shahriar Alam received the award on behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The foreign ministry said that Bangladesh w...

Viner named Guardian’s first female editor

Katharine Viner is to become the first female editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper. Viner, currently editor-in-chief of the broadsheet’s New York-based US website, will take over from the departing Alan Rusbridger in the summer. [caption id="attachment_14118" align="alignleft" width="300"]viner-wbn Katharine Viner will become the first female editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper. This AFP photo taken on October 15, 2006 shows editor Viner poses at the Off-Broadway opening night performance of My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Minetta Lane ...

Indian textiles ministry worried over jute import from BD

Rising jute import from Bangladesh is a matter of concern and the issue has been taken up with Commerce Ministry, Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar said in Lok Sabha today. jute goods"Jute from Bangladesh is coming. We can stop it. We have taken up the matter with Commerce Ministry. The import is rising every year and it is a matter of concern," he said replying to questions. Gangwar said jute sector plays an important role in India's economy, especially in the eastern parts, and supports the livelihood of around 40 lakh families. The exports ...

BD, Seychelles relations in good progress

The outgoing High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Seychelles, Shabbir Chowdhury, has ended his mandate feeling confident that relations between the two countries, which he described as being previously “dormant and inactive”, had improved. [caption id="attachment_13988" align="alignleft" width="300"]BD SChyschelys The outgoing High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Seychelles, Shabbir Chowdhury bidding farewell to President James Michel on Tuesday. (Mervyn Marie, Seychelles News Agency)[/caption] Speaking to the local press in an interview in ...

IGP should have resigned: Justice Haque

The inspector general of police (IGP) should have resigned immediately after the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy, said Law Commission Chairman Justice ABM Khairul Haque on Monday. [caption id="attachment_13937" align="alignleft" width="300"]khairulnew_3 Justice ABM Khairul Haque[/caption] “The IGP should have quit the day Avijit was killed. But, I don’t expect it as such culture is not practiced in our country,” said Khairul Haque, also a former chief justice. He was addressing a discussion on Avijit murder, ongoing terrorism and resp...

Poor suffer most as unrest hits economy

For weeks, Bangladeshi farmer Dibakar Ghosh has been pouring his milk into the river, unable to get it to buyers because of a months-long transport blockade that has crippled the impoverished nation. As his losses mount, the 30-year-old can no longer afford to feed his cows and fears he may have to sell them for slaughter, destroying his business, reports AFP. child labour“My losses in the last two months add up to 60,000 taka (about $800),” Gosh told AFP from his village in the northwestern cattle-farming region. “There are 150...
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