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July 3, 2023

Bake Off winner Nadiya hailed

GREAT British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has been hailed a ‘true British Muslim’ and an inspiration to others by Portsmouth’s Bangladeshi leader. The 30-year-old mum, from Leeds, was crowned the winner of the latest BBC series of the TV Nadiacompetition, beating Ian Cumming and Tamal Ray in an emotional final which had judge Mary Berry in tears. Abu-Suyeb Tanzam, head of the British Bangladeshi Cultural Academy in Portsmouth, said he has been ‘humbled’ by Nadiya’s success. Great British Bake Off’s latest champion is a Muslim of a Bangladeshi herit...

Sailing season fuels new smuggling fears

Abu Bakkar relied solely on the money he earned as an agricultural day laborer to pay for the expenses of his five-member family. It was rarely enough. Like many of his neighbors, Bakkar, 33, a Muslim from the Chandanaish area of Bangladesh’s Chittagong district, was desperate for a better way of providing for his family. So in early May, he joined a group of 14 from his village to set off for Malaysia in search of better prospects. [caption id="attachment_20227" align="alignright" width="540"]Andaman_Saling_670-1 The coming end of the...

India wants Mutual Legal Assistance treaty with BD

India today said its interaction in legal matters with Bangladesh can be further strengthened if the two countries sign a mutual legal assistance agreement. India’s views on the issue were conveyed by Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda to Chief Justice of Bangladesh Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha during a meeting here. “The Minister for Law and Justice expressed the view that our mutual interactions in legal bd-indiamatters will be further strengthened if India and Bangladesh are able to have a Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement,” a Law Ministry release s...

Expat murders linked to IS put Bangladesh on edge

Two expat murders in Bangladesh are stoking concerns that Islamic extremists may tarnish the country’s image at a time when its economy is a rare bright spot in Asia. A Japanese investor was shot and killed in northern Bangladesh on Oct. 3, about a week after three people murdered an Italian aid worker in an area popular with diplomats in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the slayings, an assertion rejected by the government. “This threat and insecurity currently makes foreigners think twice before they visit [caption id="attachment_20006" align="alignleft" width="540"]

Bangladesh brokers ‘violating’ labor pact

The local recruitment businesses in Saudi Arabia are complaining that the Bangladesh government has failed to provide the 500,000 housemaids it had promised earlier this year, with only 2,000 employed in the Kingdom over the past six months. Mishari Al-Thufairi, chairman of the recruitment committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said it was clear that the Bangladesh government wants to send men [caption id="attachment_20220" align="alignleft" width="540"]Arab News - In this January 2015 file photo, then acting Labor Minister Adel Fakeih, right, exchange mementos with Ba...
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Undeclared Indian embargo halts BD-Nepal trade

Bangladesh-Nepal bilateral trade has been halted for the past two weeks due to the undeclared Indian trade embargo on Nepal. [caption id="attachment_20215" align="alignleft" width="650"]BD-Nepal trade A file photo shows Nepal-bound goods carriers stranded at Fulbari on the India-Bangladesh border.[/caption] According to Nepal Transit Warehouse Company, about 200 trucks carrying various imported goods have been stuck at Banlabanda on the India-Bangladesh border. “Bangladeshi exporters are reluctant to dispatch goods to Nepal,” said Yadav Raj Shiwak...