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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...

Canada thinks of Bangladesh a secular Muslim nation

When Canadians think of Bangladesh, they think of garment manufacturing and tragedy. In that vein, many will have seen headlines of the recent disaster where nearly 75 people perished in a ferry accident in the Muslim-majority nation of over 150 million — the most densely populated large country in the world. [caption id="attachment_13859" align="alignleft" width="300"]bangladesh The country remains an ideal partner for Canada to increase its economic base and regional influence, and to help grow a healthy, educated, strong, free and secular Muslim...

Indian Jute assoc to file case against Bangladesh

After cheaper jute products from Bangladesh flooding the domestic market, the Indian Jute Mills Association (IJMA) is set to file an anti-dumping case in the first quarter of the 2015-16 against subsidised exports. bd-india“The association has been working on an anti-dumping case which should be filed with the Ministry concerned within the next quarter. A countervailing duty has to be either an anti-subsidy or anti-dumping duty, both will be pursued simultaneously,” said Raghavendra Gupta, Chairman, IJMA. The Bangladesh government offers a 10 per cent...

Gender equality means business: UN

Although businesses were not part of the discussions at the historic Beijing Women’s Conference 20 years ago, it is now clear that achieving gender equality will require the concerted efforts of the private sector, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told participants at the annual Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event at UN Headquarters. UN.jpg.pagespeed“Removing the barriers that keep women and girls on the margins of economic, social, cultural and political life must be a top priority for us all – businesses,...
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