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Terrorism a grim threat in my country: CJ

Chief Justice of Bangladesh Surendra Kumar Sinha today said terrorism has become a serious threat to the security of his country and there was an urgent need to curb activities of groups like IS. Delivering a speech at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) here, Justice Sinha said time has come for the entire world to stand together to fight IS and other forms of terrorism. His statement came in the wake of recent killings of a Japanese and an Italian in Bangladesh CJ BDwithin one week. The Islamic State (IS) has reportedly claimed responsibility for the...

Women taking charge from top to bottom

Rani Mondal searches the floor of the riverbed with her fingers, craning her neck above the water. The river is home to a farm of clawing crabs. “It hurts a lot when you are bitten but you apply salt and Savlon and go to the doctor’s if it gets septic,” Mondal said. An award-winning crab farmer living on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, she used to be extremely poor. Her village has been battered repeatedly by cyclones, making the ground too salty for large-scale agriculture. [caption id="attachment_20028" align="alignright" width="650"]Rani Mondal (centre) and fellow crab farmers, who work... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

Female student robbed at RU campus

A female student of Rajshahi University (RU) on Tuesday afternoon was robbed on the university campus. The victim student was Jemi, a first year student of Psychology Department. She said, she along with her friend, Mamunur Rashid, a first year student of Applied Physic And Electronic Department of Islamic University, Kustia, was sitting at Senate Building of the university around 5:00pm. A group of unknown youths riding motor-cycle came to them and snatcherthreatened saying that they are the men of Bangladesh Chhatra League, ruling Awami League backe...

Tazreen owners indicted

A Bangladesh court ordered on Thursday two garment factory owners and 11 others stand trial for causing the death of 111 workers, almost three years after the country’s worst industrial fire. Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter were formally charged over the blaze that tore rana-plaza-1jpgthrough the Tazreen factory on Dhaka’s outskirts, trapping workers who stitched clothes for Western retailers. “The court charged the 13 including Delwar and his wife with causing death by negligence,” prosecutor Khandakar Abdul Mannan said outs...

New project launched for vulnerable women

A new project titled the “Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO)” was launched on Sunday to support over 4400 poor women in the rural areas of Satkhira and Kurigram districts. women in BDImplemented by the Local Government Division of Bangladesh, this five-year project is aimed at the most vulnerable rural poor women. The UNDP, Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDGF), the Spanish Government and International Labour Organization (ILO) are providing financial assistance to the project, reports BSS. “The subs...

Bilateral trade between BD, Malaysia to improve in 2H15

Bilateral trade between Malaysia and Bangladesh, which fell 26.4% as of May this year, is expected to improve in the second half, amid a better economic environment. From January to May 2015, bilateral trade declined to US$412 million from US$560 million during the same period of last year. “Bilateral trade will increase by 5% (in the second half of the year. This is my expectation,” said bd-malysiathe Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation’s (Matrade) Chief Executive Officer, Datuk Dzulkifli Mahmud. Last year, exports to Bangladesh...
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