Bangladesh Social Club (BSC) has launched a wing to focus on women from their community living in Oman. Speaking to Times of Oman, the president of the BSC, Shafiqul Islam Bhuiyan said, “It was a dream of the BSC to form a women’s wing and now that has come true.” The wing was formed in the presence of Safia Al Omairi from the Ministry of Social Affairs and all the executive members of BSC at the Al Massa hall in CBD recently. The women’s wing will start functioning with 40 members. Elaborating about the w...

A Bangladeshi worker was found dead with multiple slash wounds to his body at an unnumbered two-storey house in Kampung Batas, Jenalik near here. A neighbour who regularly sent food to the victim is reported to have discovered his body at the upper floor of the house at about 8.30am, Tuesday. The neighbour, who declined to reveal her name, said the deceased – Daud Hossain, a construction worker in his 40s – had been missing for two days before Hari Raya Aidiladha. Kubang Pasu District Police Chief Superint...

A 350-tonne falling concrete span that killed three Bangladeshi MRT workers last month could have been avoided if shims had been in place to balance it. An investigation by MRT Corp revealed that the span toppled from its piers on Aug 18 because no shims were beneath it while parapets were installed on one side of the span’s top. “What happened was the work to install the parapet was carried out without shims, with the temporary jacks being very close together,” MRT Corp chief executive Datuk Azhar Abdul Hamid told reporters here Friday.

Bangladesh Social Club will open its branches at Sohar, Salalah, Sur and Buraimi, said Mohammed Shafiqul Islam Bhuiyan, the newly appointed president of the club in Muscat. He said they would soon approach the Ministry of Social Development for land to build their own club premises. “A large number of clubs have their own land so it is time the Bangladesh Social Club also had one of its own,” Bhuiyan told Times of Oman on Monday. The club has been operating from a rented flat in CBD area in Ruwi until now. [caption id="attachment_9350" align="alignleft" width="300"]