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  • BCB chief Bangladesh may lose ICC membership if it doesnt follow guidelines

    The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) chief Nazmul Hassan has warned the board's officials that it may lose membership if the election guidelines are not followed as instructed by the ICC. The ICC had amended its election guidelines in order to reduce government interference in electing officials to the board and accordingly BCB had to amend its constitution in March 2012, the Daily Times ...

  • Brit Muslim accused of war crimes in Bangladesh willing to clear name in fair trial

    A British Muslim leader from London indicted in Bangladesh for war crimes has said he is willing to face a fair trial to clear his name. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, who was born in Bangladesh, is accused of playing a role in the abduction and killing of 18 people during the 1971 liberation war from Pakistan. According to the BBC, the 64-year-old, who lives in north London with his wife and four ...

  • World Bangladesh sentences to death 10 Islamists for suicide bombing

    The 2005 attack on the bar association office in Gazipur, north of the capital Dhaka, was staged by the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), to lobby for the introduction of sharia, or Muslim religious ...

  • 10 Islamist militants get death penalty in Bangladesh

    Bangladeshi Islamist outfit were sentenced to death on Thursday by a fast-track court here after they were found guilty of involvement in a deadly suicide bombing in 2005 that claimed eight lives. The court handed down death penalty to 10 operatives of the banned Islamist ...

  • 10 Bangladesh Islamic extremists to be hanged

    (36 mins ago) A Bangladeshi court sentenced 10 Islamic militants to death after finding them guilty of assisting a deadly suicide bombing on a lawyers' office in 2005, a prosecutor said. The militants, from the outlawed Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh, showed no remorse after a judge read out the verdict and sentence in a crowded court room in the capital Dhaka, special public prosecutor ...

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Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) [DVD]

Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) [DVD]

Luis Buñuel's Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) is not one of his better-known or his best films. But, it is a fascinatingly bizarre minor work, a seemingly straightforward country melodrama that becomes gradually weirder as the story progresses even though the surface of the narrative never quite ruptures in absolute absurdity, as in other Bu&nti ... ...

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  • Bangladesh factory collapse Survivors who had limbs amputated without anaesthetic

    Baring their scars with dignity, the survivors of Bangladesh’s factory collapse who had limbs amputated without anaesthetic by amateur first-aiders so they could be pulled from the ...

  • Bangladesh snatching bank from poor Yunus

    Grameen Bank from the poor after it raised its stake in the pioneering micro-lender. In an opinion piece published in all major Bangladeshi dailies, the ...

  • Players commit to playing in Dhaka League

    Bangladesh's professional cricketers have withdrawn their threat to boycott the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League. The decision was taken after assurances from the Bangladesh Cricket Board that the new gradation- and rotation-based system of players' transfers would only be applicable to this ...

  • AP PHOTOS For amputees wounds from Bangladesh garment factory collapse will never fade

    SAVAR, Bangladesh -- It was the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry. When the Rana Plaza factory building crashed down in April, 1,129 people were killed. But many others had to sacrifice their limbs to survive. Arms and legs were trapped under the building rubble, forcing rescuers with no medical training to perform amputations on the spot to free the victims. No anesthesia ...

  • Bangladesh should not let Grameen Bank be snatched away from the poor Yunus

    The Grameen Bank Commission is going to organise a workshop at BIAM Auditorium on July 2 to discuss its recommendations for legal changes to the Grameen Bank structure. It has been announced that Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith will deliver his valuable comments about his experience in this regard. There will be a discussion with experienced and distinguished persons of the country at the ...

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