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  • Kolkata hosts meet to enhance bilateral trade ties with Bangladesh

    Kolkata recently hosted a meeting on Tuesday to discuss measures that needs to be taken to increase cross border trade with Bangladesh. Amit Kumar Roy, Commissioner of Customs said that expectations were high as India considered Bangladesh a friendly and compliant neighbour. "Compared to other countries, compared to Pakistan etc, Bangladesh is very friendly and very compliant. They are very ...

  • Bangladesh panel blames building owner for disaster

    The head of an official inquiry into the collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said Wednesday the building's owner was the "main culprit" in the disaster because he violated building ...

  • Bangladeshi volunteers haunted by rescue trauma

    SAVAR, Bangladesh (AFP) - Mamun was hailed a hero for pulling survivors from the ruins of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza factory complex but now he struggles to sleep, haunted by the memory of sawing off a young woman's hand."I had never even touched the hand of a woman before but it was the only way to save her and the others," said the 22-year-old in an interview ahead of the ...

  • US to push for major factory safety reforms in Bangladesh

    A US government delegation will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of factory safety following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said ...

  • Clothes for the West Inside a Bangladesh factory

    A month after the deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh, that killed more than a thousand people, ITV News visited one of the factories in Dhaka that makes clothing for the west. ITV's Laura Kuenssberg ...

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Men With Guns

John Sayles' "Men With Guns" is about what happens to a society when brute force and constant threat of violence are the only means of gaining and maintaining power. The film takes place in an unnamed Central American country, where the men with guns are the rulers. Most of the country is divided into tiny segments -- some are controlled by guerrillas with guns, some are controlled by Army soldier ... ...

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  • Bangladeshs Shahbag movement still on claim leaders activists

    By Sahana Ghosh, Dhaka, May 22 : Directed at channeling the "patriotic spirit" of youngsters in Bangladesh to create a "secular youth force", the Shahbag movement, that peaked in February and March with tens of thousands of protesters and torchlight processions, is "not dead" and "lives on" sans the noise and the fury, its leaders and participating ...

  • Protests aimed at toppling Bangladesh govt

    The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-Jamaat led 18-party alliance patronised the Hefajat-e Islam's May 5 rally in Bangladesh with the aim of toppling the government. Junaid Babunagari, detained secretary general of Hefajat, revealed this in his confessional statement to Metropolitan Magistrate Harun-ur Rashid of Dhaka in the sub-inspector Shahjahan murder case yesterday afternoon. The ...

  • Study says India Jordan Bangladesh Hong Kong worlds most racially intolerant

    INDIA, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong are among the the most racist countries in the world - but Britain is among the most accepting of different races, a survey has found. The World Values Survey asked people in more than 80 countries what type of people they did NOT want as neighbours. More than 40 per cent of those quizzed in India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong said they didn't ...

  • Dhaka Premier League to begin on July 1

    The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday announced that the Dhaka Premier League, the country's most popular one-day domestic competition, would begin on July ...

  • Climbers from Bangladesh and South Korea die while descending from Everest

    Two climbers have died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest on Monday night, officials confirmed.The climbers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid Hussain of Bangladesh and Sung Ho-Seo of South Korea.Khil Lal Gautam, official at Tourism Ministry, said that Ho-Seo, who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen, refused to put on oxygen mask on returning to tent as suggested ...

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