Provides the latest RSS feeds for Bangladesh News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Bangladesh Sun.com http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/cat/ba01aa42514dc37d/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 12:58:53 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:58:53 -0400 30 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 ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214738372/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Fri, 24 May 2013 10:00:02 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214738372/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d A Bangladesh Government report into the collapse of a multi-storied factory building has uncovered a series of violations. The report revealed that the building had been constructed with sub-standard materials on unsuitable land. According to the BBC, it also recommended life sentences for the building's owner and the owners of five garment factories operating there. The Rana Plaza collapse on ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214732101/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Fri, 24 May 2013 03:20:02 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214732101/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Minority Rohingya Muslims who have long alleged persecution by the Buddhists in Myanmar, say Buddhist families from Bangladesh are now being resettled on their ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214737741/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Fri, 24 May 2013 08:31:49 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214737741/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d 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 ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214736911/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Fri, 24 May 2013 07:53:22 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214736911/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d (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 ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214735483/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Fri, 24 May 2013 06:09:45 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214735483/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d DOHA, May 23 2013 (Al Jazeera) - Those responsible for the Bangladesh building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers should be given life in prison, a government-appointed committee has ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214733275/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:48 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214733275/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d (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 ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214731148/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:31 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214731148/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Bangladesh is struggling to conduct even a crude assessment of the country's garment factories. To appreciate the Sisyphean task, spend a day with Mohammed Helal Ahmed, a 42-year-old-civil engineer in the Dhaka city government, as he struggles through cursory factory inspections. His day starts with a decrepit government car that breaks down and a list of misspelled factory names with ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214730276/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 23:41:56 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214730276/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended yesterday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll hit 1,127. Mohammed Amir Hossain Mazumder, deputy director of fire service and civil defense, said search for bodies from the April 24 collapse was called off at 6pm. Bulldozers and other ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729711/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 22:22:49 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729711/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Cyclone Mahasen has damaged crops worth 2.75 Bangladeshi taka (US$35.2 million), hurting hundreds of farmers in the southern districts.Aus seedlings, sesame seeds, green chilli, mung beans, peanuts, vegetables, sunflower and various other crops were damaged as fields were submerged by heavy rains and water logging, farmers and officials of Department of Agricultural Extension said.The cyclone ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729048/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:40 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729048/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has urged the Bangladesh government to hold a dialogue with it on formation of an election-time bipartisan neutral government.In a press statement on Thursday evening, BNP said the government should take the initiative "in the interest of peaceful handover of power through a participatory and competitive national election."The ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729187/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 22:00:37 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729187/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d The European Parliament in a resolution yesterday said Bangladesh's duty and quota-free access to the EU market can be withdrawn in the event of serious and systematic violations of the principles set out in different human rights conventions.Members of European Parliament (MEPs) called on the European Commission to investigate the country's compliance with these conventions.They expect ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729189/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 21:59:30 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729189/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Just a few hours of torrential rain pushed much of the capital city Dhaka to ankle to waist-deep water, causing immense sufferings to the city dwellers yesterday.Two pedestrians died of electrocution when they stepped on a snapped electric cable in the waterlogged street at Bangsal in the old town.In Uttara, a mother and her five-month-old baby died in their sleep when a wall collapsed on their ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729222/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 21:58:30 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729222/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d The Bangladesh government is going to install a filter for sensitive content at the internet gateways of the country which would hamper free flow of information.The filter would be effective for all data passing through gateways and sites like Facebook, Twitter and different blogs. Even news websites could be affected.At a conference at Dubai in December, the International Telecommunication ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729223/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:47 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214729223/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Bangladesh unless it sees an improvement in the country's working conditions following the collapse last month of a building housing a number of garment ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214728337/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:30 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214728337/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d A teenager who survived the massive Bangladesh factory collapse says she was afraid to go to work the day of the incident. Those who try to improve working conditions face retaliation. Holly Williams ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214728411/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 20:43:33 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214728411/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d The defects and errors that led to the world's deadliest garment-industry accident include the swampy ground the Rana Plaza was built on, the "extremely poor quality" construction materials and the massive, vibrating equipment operating when the eight-story building collapsed, a committee appointed ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214721537/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 14:36:25 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214721537/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d THE commission investigating a building collapse that left 1127 dead and more than 2400 hurt is urging the Bangladeshi government to pursue homicide charges against the owners of the structure and of the five textile factories. The worst industrial disaster in the history of the South Asian nation was due to poor construction and the use of "extremely poor quality" materials, according to ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214719508/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:19 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214719508/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Poor quality cement and iron rods have been blamed in a government committee report for a massive building collapse in Bangladesh in which more than 1,000 people were killed. CBS News' Holly Williams recently went undercover in that country to investigate unsafe working ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214718526/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 12:09:27 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214718526/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the ';main culprit'; for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214718468/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 12:02:19 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214718468/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Rendering of Shobuj Pata low-rise condo project, Dhaka, Bangladesh by Toronto-based JCI Architects. Instead of pushing tall buildings upright, you can tip the towers onto their sides, as JCI decided to do here. The move lets skyscrapers do what they do best - provide dwellings that are safe and private, but compactly stacked in the landscape. (JCI ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214715340/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 10:04:56 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214715340/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Sohel Rana also "used extremely poor quality iron rods and cement," Ahmed told The Associated Press on Thursday. "There were a series of irregularities." The report found that Rana had permission to build a six-story structure and added two floors illegally so he could rent them out to garment factories. Past statements from authorities said the owner had permission for a ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214715007/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 09:49:09 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214715007/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d The report also said the building was not built for industrial use and the weight of the heavy garment factory machinery and their vibrations contributed to the building ... http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214715008/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d Thu, 23 May 2013 09:49:07 -0400 http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/sid/214715008/scat/ba01aa42514dc37d "I think the cost of clothes does need to go up," she said. "We have had this race to the bottom. Nothing can be much worse than what has happened." Prof Black said people can still save money by buying good quality clothes and make do and mend. 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