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Long political crisis leads to more deaths, stilted economy

Two months into a bloody standoff in Bangladesh that has left at least 118 people dead, the violence has eased but the political crisis continues to deepen. After weeks of deadly arson attacks by anti-government protesters enforcing a crippling transport blockade, commercial vehicles and office workers have slowly begun to return to the streets in the congested capital of Dhaka. violance BDOpposition leader Khaleda Zia even called for a temporary break in the blockade on Tuesday to allow Bangladeshis to celebrate the national cricket ...

$10 copy of Blockbuster Sovaldi appears in BD

A $10 version of Sovaldi, the Gilead Sciences Inc. hepatitis C treatment that sells for $1,000 a pill in the U.S., is now available in Bangladesh and could make its way to other parts of the world where the U.S. company doesn’t have patents. [caption id="attachment_13725" align="alignleft" width="300"]Hepatitis C In the U.S., Sovaldi has sparked a backlash from commercial health insurers because of its cost of $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment. Photographer: Bob Ecker/MCT via Getty Images[/caption] Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd. doesn’t ...

FCI to ferry more rice for Tripura via BD

Another 10,000 tonnes of rice will be ferried to Tripura via Bangladesh as train services in the northeastern states have been stopped in southern part of northeast region due to gauge conversion, a minister said here on Saturday. bd-indiaTrain services in Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and southern Assam have been suspended from last October for track conversion from meter gauge to broad gauge being undertaken by the Northeast Frontier Railways and scheduled to end March 2016 in two phases. “The Food Corporation of India (FCI) informed us that it will tra...

Press Council plans enrollment certificates for journos

Bangladesh Press Council (BPC) plans to introduce enrollment certificates for journalists to ensure the entry of ‘competent people into the profession and bring about qualitative change’ in the mass media, says its Chairman Justice Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, reports UNB. press council“No one will be able to join the profession of journalism without obtaining BPC enrollment certificates …the certificate has to be obtained through an examination once the system comes into effect,“ he said in an interview with UNB. Referring to the Banglad...

Pakistan renames 107 schools after Peshawar victims

Pakistani authorities have renamed 107 schools after the victims of last year’s massacre at a Peshawar school. More than 60 schools in Peshawar are among the institutions now bearing the names of victims of the attack. Most relatives approved of the gesture, but one parent told the BBC he had not been contacted. pakistanTaliban gunmen killed more than 150 pupils and teachers at the school on 16 December. Since then authorities have promised to crack down on militants. Teachers have been given firearms training and are now able to carry wea...

Govt to cut ADP by 10pc

The government is set to cut the Annual Development Programme (ADP) by over a tenth due to a number of reasons including political turmoil. The National Economic Council (NEC) is likely to approve Tk 72,000 crore for a revised development programme in Tuesday’s meeting for 2014-15 fiscal with a 10.35 govtpercent cut. The original outlay was Tk 80,314.52 crore. The proposed development was approved at an extended meeting of the Planning Commission on March 3 at the NEC with Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair. “The ADP is always dow...
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