Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
European retailers have said they had found thousands of safety problems while inspecting Bangladesh garment factories in a drive to prevent a repeat of last year’s Rana Plaza disaster that claimed over 1,100 lives. The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, an umbrella group of nearly 200 European brands such as H&M and Carrefour, […]
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Telenor’s Grameenphone Tuesday celebrated a remarkable milestone on Tuesday when it welcomed its 50 millionth mobile customer in Bangladesh. Grameenphone (GP), 55.8 percent owned by Norwegian telecom company Telenor and 34.2 percent by local Grameen Telecom, has achieved this goal after 17 years of business in the country. At a press conference in Dhaka, top […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) — At least 10 people were killed and 40 others were injured in separate road accidents in Bangladesh on Sunday morning during a mad rush back from across the country to work in towns and cities after last week’s Muslims’ Eid and Hindus ‘ Durga Puja holidays. Seven people were killed […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 12 (NsNewsWire) — On the occasion of International Day for Disaster Reduction, Japanese experts observed that the country’s important buildings those are vulnerable to earthquake need to be tremor resistance by applying retrofitting technology. Retrofitting is a technology that could be used to make a vulnerable building earthquake resistant without demolishing it. “There […]
Read MoreIndian authorities were evacuating hundreds of thousands of people as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the east coast. Officials were stockpiling emergency supplies and rescue workers were on standby along the coastlines of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states on Saturday, with Cyclone Hudhud expected to make landfall […]
Read MoreA British citizen of Bangladesh origin has been arrested in capital Dhaka on suspicion that he is close to the international militant outfit Islamic State (IS). Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told journalists that Samiul Rahman aka Ibn Hamdan was nabbed from Dhaka’s central Kamalapur railway station area […]
Read MoreTo see a different face of Bangladesh manufacturing, a country that has earned notoriety with its ready-made garment plants, one drives 25 miles north of Dhaka city to Gazipur district. Amid a predominantly industrial enclave of garmentmakers is a 24-acre site where 5,500 workers, mostly women, are busy stitching not clothes but a range of […]
Read MoreIn Bangladesh, the largest cause of death of children above age one is not malnutrition or disease — it’s drowning. To combat this threat, a local non-profit organization is teaching thousands of children to swim. It’s a hot afternoon and a group of 12-year-olds in a park are learning to swim as the call to […]
Read MoreIndia, worried over plans by radical Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) to destabilise the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh, is expected to appraise the Obama administration about the machinations of the terror groups in the eastern neighbourhood and the necessity to support the Awami League regime during Narendra Modi’s US trip beginning Thursday. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/43376712.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
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