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  • Bangladesh urged to attract more investment in energy sector

    Bangladesh government should attract more investment in the energy sector to help the country maintain its growth momentum and ensure energy security, analysts said yesterday.The suggestion came at a US-Bangladesh partnership dialogue on the energy sector at the auditorium of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the capital.Robert Ichord, deputy assistant secretary for energy transformation ...

  • Bangladesh to seek Interpol help in arresting opposition leader Tarique

    A Dhaka court yesterday cleared the way for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Bangladesh to seek the help of Interpol in arresting Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman in connection with a money laundering case.In an immediate reaction, the Bogra and Sirajganj units of the BNP called for daylong strike in the districts while BNP affiliates Chhatra Dal, ...

  • Slave Labor Wal-Mart and Wahhabism Bangladesh in turbulence

    USA The Bangladeshi elite are facing tough decisions in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory to curb the rampant abuse of the work force. Support for the government has been weakening and there has been a disturbing rise in radical Islam. The streets of Dhaka have been awash with protests, violence, and killing in recent times as the Bangladeshi public expresses its resentment to the ...

  • Bangladesh factory collapse Why women endure danger to make clothes for the West

    Qashem Mollah, whose 19-year-old daughter Parveen Akter is missing in the rubble of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh. Almost one month after a garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, killing at least 1,127, relatives still gather daily at the site amid the rubble holding pictures of their missing loved ones. Almost all the pictures are of women."We have looked for her body everywhere ...

  • Bangladesh association shuts down 12 risky garment units

    DHAKA -- The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has shut production at 12 risky buildings in and around Dhaka, in its first move to tighten compliance in the apparel sector after the fatal Rana Plaza collapse on April ...

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Undefeated

Undefeated

Given the manner in which it so seamlessly incorporates virtually every tearjerker sports movie clich imaginable, cynics will be forgiven if they mistake Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martins Oscar-winning Undefeated as yet another scripted film produced in faux-documentary style. Yet, it ... ...

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  • Bangladesh allows foodgrains movement via Ashuganj port

    Bangladesh government last week allowed India to transport 10,000 tonnes of rice for Tripura which would come from Haldia port to Ashuganj port in Brahmanbaria district in Bangladesh, about 40 km from here, and then the grains would reach Agartala by trucks, Tripura Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha told ...

  • Bangladesh building disaster toll rises to 1129

    DHAKA (AFP) - The death toll from the collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory complex has risen to 1,129 after two more injured workers died a month after the disaster, officials said on Sunday.Senior government official Zillur Rahman Chowdhury told AFP one male and one female victim of one of the world's worst industrial disasters had died in hospital."They were rescued alive from ...

  • Bangladeshi women risk lives making clothes for West

    "The faces had gone, there was nothing left of them, it was horrible," said Mollah."My daughter has gone, she was everything to us. We have lost everything."As the eldest child, Parveen provided for her family of nine living 150 miles away in the rural district of Pabna.Mollah is too ill to work, and the family - which also included her grandparents - relied on Parveen to ...

  • Big Backlash in Bangladesh Workers Escalate Demands for Better Working Conditions

    The future of Bangladesh lies in the power of international cooperation and the implementation of concrete political measures to end unfair labor ...

  • Bangladesh paralysed by opposition strike

    Police say opposition activists have set offhomemade bombs and damaged several vehicles in Bangladesh's capital as theylaunched a general strike demandingresignation ofPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina before general elections, which aredue early next year. Police official Monirul Islam said no one had been injured in Sunday's incidents, and more than10,000 security forceswere deployed in ...

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