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Reports on overcoming business challenges in BD

The University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh's Center for Enterprise and Society, in collaboration with MRB Bangladesh, has published a comprehensive report on the strategies that entrepreneurs use to overcome the obstacles faced when setting up businesses in Bangladesh. The report was based on the Overcoming Business Challenges Survey (OBCS) and it explores effective strategies _MG_1257_aleading to positive outcomes in the respective sectors. The OBCS is a survey of 536 CEOs and Managing Directors from small, medium, and large firms across th...

Govt to strengthen coastguard to deal with migrant crisis

Bangladesh is to strengthen its coastguard operations in an effort to stop human trafficking and other illegal activities on its shores as a refugee crisis mounts in Asia. An estimated 25,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar boarded smugglers’ boats in the first three months of this year, twice as many as in the same period of 2014, the UN refugee rohingyaagency has said. “We have undertaken a 4.6 billion taka (($74 million) project to strengthen the coastguards,” Planning Minister Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday, adding that...

Govt tightens border vigil to fight human trafficking

The government will establish more Border Operational Post (BOP) of paramilitary border guards in southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts areas to fight the growing cases of human trafficking. BGBState Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said this on Tuesday at a press conference, Xinhua news agency reported. “We’ve decided to strengthen our efforts to better combat the problem of human trafficking by establishing more BOP of Border Guard of Bangladesh in around 250 km border line in Chittagong Hill Tracts that has not been well protected,” ...

Gold seized in Ctg handed over to Bangladesh Bank

Police have handed over the gold bars and ornaments worth 10 crore, seized from an electronics warehouse in Chittagong, to Bangladesh Bank on Monday. GoldMarjina Aktar, officer in-charge of Sadarghat police station, handed over the gold weighing 20kgs to the bank authorities in presence of Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Farid Alam. Morjina Aktar said seized gold bars and ornaments have been handed over to Bangladesh Bank volt following a court order. There were 120 gold bars weighing 14kgs and 200 grams and 16 items of gold ornaments weighi...

Bangladeshi woman gang-raped in India

Brought to Mumbai five years back, a 20-year-old woman from Bangladesh was allegedly pushed into flesh trade. The victim was also beaten up and gangraped by some persons near Kalyan railway station, police said today. rapeThe accused, after gangraping the victim last week, dumped her into a train, they said. Seven persons have been booked under IPC sections 376(G) (gangrape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 370 (buying or disposing of any person as a slave) read with 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and also sect...

RSS wants border between India, Bangladesh sealed

Raising the issue of illegal immigration between India and Bangladesh, the BJP’s ideological mentor RSS has demanded that the newly-approved Land Boundary Agreement should be followed up by sealing the border between the two countries. The saffron outfit said it would help check the menace of illegal immigration. The Centre recently approved the historic Land Boundary bsf womanAgreement with Bangladesh. Calling the India-Bangladesh deal a “landmark” move, RSS mouthpiece Organiser has cautioned the government that a “Jammu & Kashmir-like imbroglio ...
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