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Bangladeshi worker involved in Singapore riot baseless

The Bangladesh High Commission in Singapore has refuted the news reports appeared on a section of media and news involving a Bangladeshi worker in a bus accident in Singapore commenting ‘is not based on facts’. In a statement on Monday morning, The Bangladesh High Commissioner Mahbubuz Zaman also rejected reports that the incident was fuelled by a bus accident involving a Bangladeshi worker. [caption id="attachment_1600" align="alignleft" width="300"]little-india-riot Officers from the C...

India gives Bangladesh only $ 115.3m of promised LoC

India has given only $ 115.31 million to Bangladesh from its promised $ 800 million line of credit (LoC) till November three years after the loan commitment, officials said Saturday. Dhaka signed a $1.0 billion credit deal with New Delhi in August 2010 for utilising the money to upgrade the country’s infrastructure especially to facilitate cross-border transport movement between the two countries, reports the Financial Express (FE). “The project implementation delay due to hard terms imposed by the Indian government has affected fund disbursement,” said a senior Ministry of Finance (MoF) official.

Breaking gender stereotypes in Bangladesh

About 2,000 men toil over huge, half-finished ships in a shipyard on the coast of southern Bangladesh. The clatter of grinders, drills and hammers fills the air and the smell of fuel, dust and sweat is everywhere. Workers are building vessels that will be used to ferry thousands of passengers along the maze of waterways that make up the delta that runs through the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. genderOne of the workers is a little different from the rest. Her long dark...

New 22 border ‘haats’ proposed at Meghalaya border

To create economic opportunities for the people living along the Bangladesh –India border in Meghalaya, the Indian authority is keen to set up 22 more border ‘haats’ (markets). Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said, we have sought for the establishment of 22 new border haats along the international border which would not only create economic opportunities, but would also cement bonds between the people living along the borders. Meghalaya already has two border haats - one at Kalaichar in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district and Baliamari of Bangladesh’s Kurigram district, and another in Balat (in East Khasi Hills district) and Lauwaghar (Dalora) in Bangladesh’s Sunamganj district.

RMG makers seek special law against destructive acts

Considering the recent arson attack on Standard Group an attack on the country’s RMG’s success story, apparel makers now seek a special law against such destructive acts to ensure exemplary punishment of perpetrators in a tribunal. “A special law against such destructive acts must be enacted,” President of the Exporters’ Association of Bangladesh (EAB) Abdus Salam Murshedy told UNB over phone. He said they have already talked to the Prime Minister about the formulation of such a law and also setting up of a tribunal. “I believe, the BGMEA will come up with a formal proposal soon,” said Salam Murshedy, also a BGMEA former President.

US envoy lauds Bangladesh’s role in peacekeeping

US ambassador to Dhaka, W Dan Mozena lauded Bangladesh for its ‘great contributions’ to global peacekeeping saying the world is safer, more secure and more stable today. “I’m pleased that America’s partnership with Bangladesh in supporting global peacekeeping continues. I believe that the world today is safer, more secure, more stable thanks to Bangladesh and its great contributions to global peacekeeping,” he told a function in Gazipur on Thursday. mozenaThe US diplomat made the remark while inaug...
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