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Facebook posts get people arrested in Bangladesh

Many people have been arrested in Bangladesh recently for expressing their opinions on Facebook. Those arrests were made under a new law, which bloggers consider as an attempt to curb free speech in the country. Bangladesh police arrested a schoolboy on September 30, 2015 for posting “offensive remarks about Islam” on Facebook. He is a student of class nine and lives in Magura, a district far from A smartphone user shows the Facebook application on his phone in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, in this photo illustration, May 2, 2013.  Facebook Inc's mobile advertising revenue growth gained ...
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Diplomats ask for additional security

Diplomats on Tuesday asked for additional security everywhere across the country. After a government briefing with diplomats, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Gibson said, “We discussed about strengthening security everywhere.” diplomatsThe briefing which started at 3:15pm at the state guesthouse Padma, was attended by the heads of diplomatic missions, the UN and other international bodies in the country. Two foreigners in Bangladesh, Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella and Japanese Kunio Hoshi were shot dead in Dhaka and Rangpur in...

Funds crunch mires Indo-Bangla rail project

Five years after the plan for an India-Bangladesh railway network was approved, uncertainty persists over the project as no funds have been allocated yet, authorities said. “It is not certain when the work for the project would start. No funds have been allocated so far for the Agartala (India)-Akhaura (Bangladesh) railway project,” Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) general manager R.K. Gupta told reporters here on Sunday evening. indo-Bangla railTripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said: “No funds were also allocated for land acquisi...

Foreigner killings sign of deeper crisis, says Moyeen Khan

A senior Bangladesh opposition leader said on Monday the killing of two foreign nationals was a sign that law and order was collapsing and the situation may get worse unless a stalemate between the two main political parties is resolved. [caption id="attachment_20116" align="alignright" width="650"]Moyeen-khan-1 File photo of Moyeen Khan[/caption] The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has staged violent protests since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League won a second consecutive term in January 2014. The BNP boycotted the election...

ADB to help finance India-Bangladesh power link

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to help finance a project to increase transmission capacity of an India-Bangladesh power link to allow Bangladesh to better meet sharply rising power demand. ADB’s $120 million loan to Bangladesh will double the capacity of the existing interconnector which links the power grid of western Bangladesh at Bheramara and the grid of eastern India at Bharampur. adb1The two networks were first interconnected in 2013, under a previous project financed by ADB. New transmission capacity will rise from 500 megawatts (MW) to 1,000 MW,...

Sanitation success declines open defecation into 1pc

Speakers at an international sanitation conference in the capital on Saturday commended Bangladesh on its remarkable success in reducing open defecation and improving access to sanitation, while emphasising on the need to prepare for future challenges. The inaugural session of the conference, entitled Journey To Zero, took place today (03 Oct 2015) at Hotel Lakeshore in Gulshan, and was attended by representative of the Government of Bangladesh, civil society and academia. Mr. Abdul Malek, Secretary, Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, spoke of rates of open defecation falling from 34% in 1990 to