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  • Neil Nitin Mukesh visits Bangla Sahib Gurudwara for new flick

    Neil Nitin Mukesh visited Bangla Sahib Gurudwara in New Delhi to pray for the success of his upcoming movie, 'Shortcut Romeo'. During his interaction with media persons, the 31-year-old actor said that he was happy to be in Delhi, which he considers to be his home. "My film is releasing this Friday on 21st June and I am really happy that I am in a city which I consider my home." the actor ...

  • 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 ...

  • Mass hysteria blamed for Bangladesh garment workers illness say officials

    Hundreds of Bangladesh factory workers who fell sick in recent weeks could have been struck down by a mysterious illness described as a type of "mass hysteria," officials said on Tuesday. Garment workers at several factories fell sick with stomach pains and vomiting, leading officials to initially suspect contaminated drinking water at their workplaces as the cause. But doctors ...

  • Bangladesh Bank gives green light to ninth new bank

    Bangladesh Bank yesterday decided to grant a licence to NRB Global Bank, taking the number of new banks to nine, a spokesman for the central bank said. BB took the decision at its board meeting yesterday with Governor Atiur Rahman in the chair, said AFM Asaduzzaman, general manager of BB. Nizam Chowdhury, a US-based expatriate and chairman of NRB Global Bank, also confirmed The Daily Star on ...

  • Bangladesh approves $154 million for power textile investments

    DHAKA, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:56pm EDT DHAKA, June 18 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's central bank approved $154 million worth of investment on Tuesday to boost electricity supply and enable a number of textile investments. The move was made by the Investment Scrutiny Committee dealing with approvals of private sector foreign borrowing at a meeting presided over by bank governor ...

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The Haunted Strangler [DVD]

The Haunted Strangler [DVD]

By the late 1950s, Boris Karloff, one of the great icons of the horror cinema, was falling on hard times. Part of the problem was that the genre with which he was so completely associated was fast becoming a joke, plagued by artless, quickie B-movie garbage and goofy parod ... ...

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  • Nadir Shah issues mercy letter to BCB

    10-year ban after a BCB investigation found him guilty of corruption after a Indian TV channel's sting operation in 2012. "I have submitted a mercy letter addressing the board president [Nazmul Hassan], and it [has been] received by the [acting] CEO [Nizamuddin Ahmed]," Shah said. "I have asked to lift the ban that the cricket board has issued against me as I have already ...

  • Bangladesh factory workers mass poisoning is actually a psychogenic illness

    Bangladesh factory workers have been reportedly hit by "mass psychogenic illness" and have not fallen sick due to contaminated water. According to the Christian Science Monitor, 450 garment workers fell ill at the Starlight Sweater factory near Dhaka due to possible contamination, but doctors say that "mass hysteria" is to be blamed for the recent outbreak of sickness and not ...

  • Bangladeshs Grameen Bank may be broken up

    Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus speaks to the press at the Elysee Palace in Paris, last October. Bangladesh's pioneering microlender faces an uncertain future after a commission proposed the government take over or break up the Nobel-award-winning bank, analysts said ...

  • Shattered dreams for Bangladesh garment workers

    TEKANI,Bangladesh Moushumi's family now has one of the largest homes in their village; two bedrooms plus a living area with walls made of sturdy brick. Her father and brother will soon have a small business out front, selling furniture her dad will make. There will be money to pay for her younger sister to get married when it's time. It is the dream of nearly every Bangladeshi garment ...

  • Bangladesh garment factory workers come to capital hoping to save but find mere survival a struggle

    TEKANI,Bangladesh Moushumi's family now has one of the largest homes in their village; two bedrooms plus a living area with walls made of sturdy brick. Her father and brother will soon have a small business out front, selling furniture her dad will make. There will be money to pay for her younger sister to get married when it's time. It is the dream of nearly every Bangladeshi garment ...

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