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Bangladesh textile workers go on rampage
Textile workers set fire to a factory in Bangladesh on Monday in a third day of demonstrations for payment of wages, witnesses said, as the global economic crisis hits the South Asian country's main export industry.
Dhaka protestors, police clash over Indian project, 10 hurt
At least 10 people, including five policemen, were injured Sunday when the members of a rights body clashed with the police outside the Indian high commission here, protesting the construction of Tipaimukh dam in India's Manipur state.
'Border guards to get back weapons soon'
DHAKA: The Bangladesh Rifles troops are to get back their weapons a soona as situation becomes normal gradually and the process was underway to try the culprits of February 25-26 carnage a expectedly under the Army Acta .
2 more swine flu cases detected
Bangladeshi immigration officers wear protective masks on duty at Zia International Airport in Dhaka in the wake of swine flu outbreak in nearly 100 countries across the world.
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Bureaucratic obstacles won?t be tolerated: Faruk Khan
Commerce Minister Lt Col Faruk Khan Friday said the government would not tolerate any bureaucratic obstacle or complexity that hampers the country's economic development.
Dhaka nabs militant who set up terror unit in India
Tajikistan News.Net Friday 3rd July, 2009 Abdur Rahim alias Shahadat who played a key role in strengthening the banned Islamist militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in bordering districts of India's West Bengal state has been arrested, the police said.
'Allow hilsa export at reduced price'
DHAKA: Fish exporters on Thursday urged the government to allow them to export to India hilsa fish weighing 600 grams to one kilogram for US dollar 4 per kg.
At least 8 wounded in bomb blast in passenger train in Bangladesh
A bomb exploded Saturday in a passenger train in Bangladesh's Chuadanga town in Jhenaidah district, 178 km southwest of capital Dhaka, leaving at least eight passengers wounded, police said.
Manipur dam will not harm Bangladesh: India
IMPHAL: India's Tipaimukh dam project, coming up in Manipur on the river Barak that flows into Bangladesh, will not harm that country as feared by its politicians and civil society, say officials here.
Biman to add 3 new aircraft in fleet New York
UNB, Dhaka Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited is set to procure three new generation aircrafts for its fleet by October next to operate flights on more routes, including resuming its New York operations.
SEC takes action against 28 defaulter companies
Share trading of 28 laggard companies has been suspended from today for an indefinite period by the stock market regulator.
Dhaka's information rights law comes into force
Bangladesh News.Net Wednesday 1st July, 2009 Bangladesh's Right to Information Act 2009 came into effect Wednesday, but officials who would enable information to be delivered are yet to be appointed.
BANGLADESH: Some 1,000 Rohingyas evicted from makeshift huts
DHAKA, : Over the past two months the local authorities in Cox's Bazaar District, southeastern Bangladesh, have torn down scores of makeshift huts belonging to an estimated 1,000 Rohingya refugees.
When Michael Jackson Came to Manikganj
I had gone to a village in Manikganj to gauge the voices of the people there regarding their views on the new satellite universe.
Thousands of cyclone survivors await homes
DHAKA: More than 350,000 Bangladeshis are struggling without proper homes and at greater risk of disease a month after cyclone Aila ravaged parts of the country, international aid group Oxfam said yesterday.
Bomb threat halts trading at BD bourse
DHAKA: The Dhaka Stock Exchange closed 45 minutes early Monday after authorities received a hoax bomb threat and suspended trading, officials said.
Agitating workers set fire to factory in Bangladesh
Dhaka, June 29 : Agitating workers Monday set fire to a garment factory located on the outskirts of the capital, where violence over the past two days has left two workers dead and 200 injured.
Steps taken to make sugar mills profitable: Dilip Barua
BSS, Dhaka Industries Minister Dilip Barua told the House yesterday that the government has undertaken various steps to make the sugar mills profitable.
Expat Bangladeshis spend more calling home than others
The survey '"Teleuse at the bottom of the pyramid", conducted by LIRNEasia, a regional ICT policy research institute, found 87 percent of Bangladeshi migrants called home at least once a week, while 34 percent called home daily.
Dhaka, London partner in fighting terror
DHAKA: Bangladesh and UK yesterday launched a joint working group to enhance counter terrorism cooperation between the two countries for building capacity of combating terrorism.