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CPJ condemns killing blogger Washiqur

Bangladeshi authorities should investigate the murder of a blogger in the capital, Dhaka, and hold the perpetrators to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said yesterday. Washiqur Rahman Babu is the second blogger to be hacked to death in public in Bangladesh in the past five weeks. “The Bangladeshi government must urgently establish accountability in this murder case and others-otherwise the rest of the country’s bloggers, commentators, and washikur killingjournalists covering sensitive topics remain at grave ...

BD needs to improve investment climate, infrastructure: UK

The United Kingdom has said Bangladesh needs to improve its investment climate, infrastructure and the skills of its labour force to grow and absorb the two million new entrants into the labour force each year. “While the garment sector will always remain important, uk dfiddiversifying into other sectors is also necessary,” said Mark Lowcock, UK Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Development (DFID) emphasising improved infrastructure, investment climate and the skills of its labour force, reports UNB. Talking to UNB, Lo...

Surcharge on SIM, RIM

The government has decided to impose one percent surcharge on SIM and RIM of mobile phones. The decision was approved at the weekly meeting of the cabinet chaired by prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday. mobiledeviceIf the decision to impose the surcharge comes into effect, the government will earn Tk 140 crore a year, according to an official estimate. The government has tried to justify the move, by saying that the revenue to be coming from the surcharge will be spent on health and education. The decision will be effectiv...

WIP award handed over to PM

The “Women in Parliament (WIP) Global Forum award that Bangladesh received for reducing gender gap in politics, has been handed over to prime minister Sheikh Hasina. sheikh-hasina_25State minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam on Monday handed over the award to the prime minister at the cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat. Bangladesh received the award for its leading role in reducing gender gap in political sphere in South and South East Asia. The state minister, on behalf of the premier, received the prestigi...

Spain thanks BD for support in UN Security Council

Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ignacio Ybanez Rubio on Sunday thanked Bangladesh government for its support for being elected member of the United Nations Security Council for the 2015-2016 term. “I wanted to come here to express my gratitude for the support that we’ve got on this operation. We’re ready to cooperate with Bangladesh in the two years,” he told reporters at the Foreign spainMinistry after a meeting with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and State Minister M Shahriar Alam. Rubio said Bangladesh is a member of the UN Hu...

Political obstacles stymie energy autonomy

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Japan earlier this month, local coverage focused on a joint German-Japanese statement about the Ukraine crisis and her comment that Japan should forthrightly address its actions during World War II. She said nothing about how Japan and Germany have diverged on nuclear energy, and reportedly she and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe didn’t discuss it with each other. p18-brasorGermany decided to abandon nuclear power in 2011 as a direct result of the Fukushima No. 1 reactor disaster. The chancellor, a tr...
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