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Bangladesh pushes global communities for gender equity

Bangladesh has urged the global communities to keep gender equity as a ‘stand-alone’ goal in the post-2015 development agenda. Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali made the call on Monday at New York while attending a high-level meeting on women empowerment. US Secretary of State John Kerry chaired the ‘High-level Meeting of Equal violance against womenFutures Partnership’ themed on “increasing women’s representation in leadership positions”. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly that woul...

Dhaka, Colombo exploring possibility of FTA

As bilateral trade jumped by 67%, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have begun exploring the possibility of a historic Free Trade Agreement (FTA). And while it would be the first ever FTA for Bangladesh, for Sri Lanka, it is no less than a single entry-point for a huge regional economic corridor. “There are so many sectors where both countries have their own comparative advantages-in some Sri Lanka is strong, in some others, Bangladesh is strong. I bd-Lankahope that this Free Trade Agreement-at least, the possibility of signing it, will bring the two co...

Politics in Bangladesh: One and only one

 As the opposition takes a break from politics, the government tightens its grip

 THE Supreme Court of Bangladesh has just rejected appeals by a former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, over the appointment of a judge in a corruption case against her. The ruling clears the way for Mrs Zia to stand trial. Prosecutors accuse her of having siphoned off cash from charitable trusts set up in memory of her late husband, Ziaur Rahman, who was an army leader at independence and was later assassinated as president. If found guilty, the country’s second-most-powerful woman could face time in jail.

Narayanganj 7-murder: Rab officers ‘asked to kill Nur too’

A top official of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) had ordered former Rab officers Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and Maj Arif Hossain to kill Nur Hossain, alleged mastermind of the seven-murder incident in Narayanganj. The top official gave the order when Tareque, commanding officer (CO) of Rab 11, and Arif, company commander of the elite force unit, met him at the Rab headquarters two days after a Rab team led by Arif had killed Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam and six others, reports the Daily Star. They, however, did not execute the order as the situation in Narayanganj had already heated up following the abduction, sources said quoting from the confessional statement of Arif Hossain.

Can ‘womenomics’ stem the feminisation of poverty in Japan?

Fifty-four-year-old Marlyn Maeda, an unmarried freelance writer living in Tokyo who never held a permanent job, is now watching her dream of aging independently go up in smoke. “I work four jobs and barely survive,” said the writer, who disclosed only her penname to IPS. Her monthly income after writing articles, working at a call centre, selling cosmetics five days a week and working one night at a bar hovers at close to 1,600 dollars. solar JapanMaeda belongs to the burgeoning ranks of the poor in Japan, a country that saw its pover...

Two-year jail term for child marriage

The government on Monday approved a law setting a two-year jail term for anyone involved in marrying a girl aged under 18, in a bid to cut the country's notoriously high child marriage rate. The new law comes days after new UN figures showed saudi marriagetwo-thirds of Bangladeshi girls marry before they reach adulthood. It targets the parents or guardians and the marriage registrar as well as the groom, reports AFP. "Anyone found responsible for child marriage, including the groom, the marriage registrar or the guardians, would...
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