Indian Police rescued a minor Bangladeshi girl who was allegedly forced into flesh trade by a man from West Bengal and his wife. The Police took the man on two days' police remand whereas, his wife was later sent to judicial custody.
The Gurgaon police arrested the couple on Thursday for allegedly bringing a minor girl from Dhaka to India via West Bengal and then forcing her into flesh trade.
The 15-year-old girl was brought to the city from Dhaka by a West Bengal resident, Safikul Ishlam alias Aakash, promising a better job but on arriving, she was immediately forced into flesh trade by Safikul and his wife Hansi alias Teena, ...
Though “everything but arms” has defined Bangladesh’s core export policy for the past 30 years, the Bangladesh Ordnance Factories (BOF) now hopes to change that.
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A police officer mans an armoured car gun-mount in Dhaka in March 2013. Bangladesh is now taking steps toward exporting arms for the first time in 30 years. [Munir uz Zaman/AFP][/caption]The state-owned weapons manufacturer, part of the Ministry of Defence, seeks governmental clearance to sell its line of munitions abroad. If granted, Ban...
The Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development (BFTD) and Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh (ATAB) in collaboration with the Ministry of Civil Aviation & Tourism, Bangladesh Tourism Board, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh Inbound Tour Operators Association, Bangladesh International Hotel Association, and FBCCI will be organizing its annual country’s biggest & prestigious international travel and tourism event, the 4th Bangladesh International Tourism Fair (BITF) 2014 from June 19-21, 2014 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.
The event will be inaugurated by the Honorable Minister for Civil Aviation & Tourism Mr. Rashed Khan Menon MP on June 19, 2014 at 4.30 p m. while Mr. K...
International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB) organized a Stakeholders Meeting on Developing Satellite City under Public Private Partnership (PPP) on Thursday (29th of May 2014) at its Banani Office in the city. The meeting was presided over by the Mr. Hafizur Rahman Khan, President of IBFB and moderated by Mr. Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury, Founding President of IBFB where Mr. Suhel Ahmed Chowdhury, former Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Public Works, Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Commerce presented the Keynote Paper.
The m...
The government will set up 21 more border outposts (BOPs) along the boundary with India's northeastern states to check movement of terrorists and smuggling of contraband and drugs, an official said here Tuesday.
"The proposed 21 BOPs would be set up along India-Bangladesh borders with Tripura and Mizoram to curb the cross-border movement of militants and smuggling of goods and drugs," a top security official told IANS.
He said: "The insurgents of northeast India and smugglers have been using the Tripura-Mizoram-Bangladesh borders as their safe...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday said some ministries will have separate allocations in the upcoming budget for persons with disabilities.
Responding to a demand of a delegation of Parliamentarians’ Caucus on Persons with Disabilities, he said it might be possible next year to introduce the allocations for them under different ministries UNB reports.
The ministries have provisions for such allocations but those must be defined, he said.
The finance minister was holding a pre-budget meeting with the caucus members and members of the...
