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More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route

(Reuters) – Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials. The discovery brings to more than 130 the number of people found since Saturday in the province of Phang […]

Retailers find safety problems in Bangladesh factories

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, […]

Road accidents claim 10 lives in Bangladesh

DHAKA, 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 […]

Japan transfers retrofitting technology to make buildings jolt resistant

DHAKA, 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 […]

Bangladesh’s Apex Group Emerges As Shoemaker To The World

To 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 […]

Watery Bangladesh Works to Prevent Child Drowning Deaths

In 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 […]

India suspects coup in Bangladesh, JeI plans to de-stabilise Sheikh Hasina government

India, 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

Bangladesh court reduces death sentence of Islamist party leader

Bangladesh’s top court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of an Islamist party leader convicted of war crimes to life imprisonment. A five-member bench of Appellate Division of Bangladesh’s Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain, pronounced the verdict at 10:06 a.m. local time by majority view amid tight security, reports Xinhua. The […]

Mamata to meet Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh

In the wake of allegations against one of the MPs of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) for providing money raised from the Saradha Group to Jamaat-e-Islami-Bangladesh (JMB), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet Abida Islam, Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh in Kolkata. The Chief Minister will meet the Mr. Islam at the State […]