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  • Bangladesh online activist calls for ban of Islamists accused of wartime atrocities

    Bangladesh online activist and spokesperson of the Shahbagh's Ganajagaran Mancha, Imran H Sarkar, has called for the banning of country's biggest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, while blaming it for wartime atrocities committed during the 1971 liberation war. Jamaat, an Islamist ally of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), opposed independence from Pakistan, denied ...

  • Bangladesh bosses hail safety deal

    Bangladesh labour activists and manufacturers have welcomed plans by foreign retailers to improve shocking safety standards at garment factories after a disaster which killed over 1,100 workers.The retailers' promise followed last month's collapse of a nine-storey factory complex outside Dhaka that killed 1,127 people in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.Labour ...

  • Teargas used on Dhaka textile workers

    Rescue workers look for trapped garment workers in the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30km outside Dhaka, in this April 26, 2013, file ...

  • Bangladesh has one-month ban on rallies

    Bangladeshi authorities have announced a one-month ban on political rallies to facilitate relief operations after Cyclone Mahasen.'It is not possible to protect the fundamental rights like holding meetings and rallies when the country was hit by a natural disaster,' Local Government and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters in the capital Dhaka.The category-one ...

  • 17 killed 30 injured in road accident in Bangladesh

    At least 17 people were killed and about 30 others injured as a goods laden truck and a night passenger bus collided head on in Bangladesh's Shajahanpur sub- district of Bogra district, 197 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, on Thursday morning.Police was quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that the Dhaka bound truck collided head on with the passenger bus, leaving 11 passengers ...

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The Wasp Woman [DVD]

The Wasp Woman [DVD]

The Giant Gila Monster may have been the perfect make-out movie. After all, as a low-budget, B-movie sci-fi/horror hybrid aimed directly at the insatiable teenage market, it played drive-ins in the late 1950s and early 1960s, yet it is so inept and boring that I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to watch it all the way through. So, even if stuck on a blind date about whom you're ... ...

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  • Bangladesh garment hub to reopen

    Bangladesh garment manufacturers said they would reopen hundreds of factories in a manufacturing hub outside the capital, days after they shut the plants due to worker unrest following a deadly accident.The manufacturers on Monday announced the shutdown of the factories in the Ashulia industrial area after two weeks of protests over the death of 1,127 garment workers in the country's worst ...

  • Bangladesh Myanmar suffer with cyclone

    A cyclone ripped into the Bangladeshi coast Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people hunkered down in evacuation shelters, including in a region of Myanmar torn by communal unrest.Two people died as Cyclone Mahasen hit Bangladesh's southern Patuakhali coast, officials said, while heavy rains and strong winds also lashed neighbouring Myanmar's northwest coast, home to tens of ...

  • Bangladesh factories close indefinitely

    Hundreds of factories which form the hub of Bangladesh's garment industry are to close indefinitely after worker unrest sparked by the death of more than 1100 colleagues, employees say.As the search for bodies from last month's building collapse wrapped up, the textile industry's main trade body said all operations at the nearby Ashulia industrial zone on the outskirts of Dhaka ...

  • Bangladesh unlikely to retain preferential treatment in the US market

    The prospects of Bangladesh retaining the generalised system of preferences (GSP) in the US market are bleak, according to Commerce Minister GM Quader."After the Rana Plaza collapse, expecting a positive result from the USTR [United States Trade Representative] hearing has become difficult," Quader told The Daily Star yesterday. "I cannot exactly say whether the outcome will be ...

  • Bangladeshi opposition leader says govt ban on political rallies stalls talks

    Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said the dialogue between the government and the opposition would be "affected" by the government's "ban" on holding rallies for a month.She made the comment when a delegation of ambassadors called on her at her Gulshan office last night.The delegation included William Hanna, head of EU delegation to ...

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