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  • Bangladesh allows transit for foodgrains for northeast India

    In a major policy change, Bangladesh will allow India ferry foodgrains for the mountainous northeastern states via its territory, a Tripura minister said here. "Initially, the Bangladesh government has agreed to transport 10,000 tonnes of foodgrains for Tripura through its territory," Tripura Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha told IANS. "The Bangladesh government issued necessary ...

  • Legacy of cruelty by Islamists should end Bangladesh educationist

    Bangladesh educationist Azad Chowdhury called for the banning of the country's biggest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, and blamed the organisation for misusing Islam and committing the wartime atrocities during the 1971 liberation war. In an interview, Chowdhury blamed the Jamaat for butchering intellectuals in huge numbers. "Jamaat is an organized party, they had a legacy of this sort of ...

  • Bangladesh The cost of fashion

    The disaster showed the terrible working conditions, and lack of safety, for millions of workers there. Both Bangladesh and the global community are coming to terms with their roles in the disaster, because whether consumers shop at Walmart or at Giorgio Armani, the clothes they buy are probably produced in Bangladesh, which is ranks number two in the world for garment ...

  • 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 ...

  • Video In Bangladesh owner under scrutiny in deadly collapse

    More than a thousand people died because of one man - as an official inquiry into last month's garment factory collapse in Bangladesh blamed the owner for violating building codes. Many of the victims are now seeking compensation. But some workers might not receive a penny. It's been reported that their ID cards were confiscated when they got their final pay packets. ITV's ...

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The Way of the Gun

From its earliest inception, the movies have engaged in an ongoing love affair with the criminal. The most popular genres--the Western, the gangster flick, film noir--all revolved around criminals as the central characters. Yet, while engaging in this affair, movies often feel moved to romanticize the criminal in order to lessen the impact of the complicit audience falling in love with wrong doer ... ...

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  • Reporters notebook Going undercover inside a Bangladesh garment factory

    (CBS News) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Getting inside a garment factory in Bangladesh isn't easy. It's an enormous industry. There are more than 4,000 factories, employing an estimated 4 million people. Garments and textiles make up about 80 percent of Bangladesh's export ...

  • Girl Scouts Lemonade Day success reaching Bangladesh

    Contributed photo Mayor Nelda Martinez pours water for a batch of lemonade on May 5 at the stand operated by Girl Scout Elizabeth Schmidt and her friend Justin Kar. Chamber of Commerce Director Foster Edwards looks on. The stand’s $446 profit is being donated to Justin’s uncle to help pay for removal of a brain ...

  • Buddhists from Bangladesh resettle in Myanmar Rohingya Muslims cry foul

    Minority Rohingya Muslims who have long alleged persecution by the Buddhists in Myanmar, say Buddhist families from Bangladesh are now being resettled on their ...

  • Bangladesh RMG Sector-should be win-win situation for all

    Professor Abdul Mannan. After the Savar’s Rana Plaza disaster and 1127 ready-made garments workers death in five garments factories located in the building there has been flurry of activities around the world, mostly condemning the Bangladesh Ready Made Garments’ Manufacturers, the Government and other relevant trade bodies for not overseeing the safety issues of approximately 4 ...

  • Survivor of Bangladesh factory building collapse speaks out

    (CBS News) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- When she was 11 years old, Tahmina Akhter Sadia went to work in a garment factory. Four years later, she's her family's breadwinner -- and a survivor of one of the worst industrial accidents in ...

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