BNP: Next budget unlikely to be pro-people one
File photo of BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi addressing a press briefing at the party’s Naya Paltan headquarters in Dhaka Focus Bangla Ruhul Kabir Rizvi says they will come up with a formal reaction to the budget after the finance minister places it in the House Dubbing the government anti-people, BNP Senior Joint […]
The death toll from a ship packed with migrants that sank off the Tunisian coast last weekend has risen to 60, the United Nations migration agency said late on Monday, one of the worst migrant boat disasters in recent years. The boat went down near the southern island of Kerkenna, overnight on Sunday. The victims […]
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Mahadi Al Hasnat Photo:Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune Bangladeshi female migrant worker forced into prostitution in Jordan Jasmine lives in a village named Basta under Singair upazila of Manikganj district. Her father, Tara Mia, is a van driver and her mother is a homemaker. Since Jasmine grew up in extreme poverty, she dreamt of doing something […]
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Spin wizard Rashid Khan’s stunning four-wicket haul has handed Afghanistan their first-ever T20I series triumph against Bangladesh in India’s Dehradun. The Afghans took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series with a 6-wicket win in second match. They reached the target of 135 with more than one over to spare after Shakib Al Hasan […]
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RMG factories in Dhaka. – New Age file photo Several billion dollars in salaries and allowances of top level foreign employees are flying out of the country every year as the technical education provided here does not meet the requirements of the growing readymade garment sector in Bangladesh. An unpublished study of Dhaka University and […]
Continue reading …Bangladesh: Tea Seller Complains Police Threatened to Kill Her By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Jun 05, 2018 A woman who operates a tea stall in Bangladesh’s capital has filed a complaint in court against four police officers who, she alleges, vandalized her business and threatened to kill her unless she paid a bribe. Maksuda […]
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AMA Muhith has said the government is not levying any new tax in the upcoming national budget to be presented a few months before the general elections. The finance minister revealed the ‘good news’ to reporters at the Secretariat on Monday as he is proposing the budget in parliament for the 2018-19 fiscal year on […]
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan. — UNB file photo Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan has warned that their party will be forced to wage a strong street movement if it failed to have Khaleda Zia freed from jail through a legal battle. He issued the threat at a discussion […]
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A woman cries for her missing relatives during the search for vicitms in San Miguel Los Lotes, a village in Escuintla Department, about 35 km southwest of Guatemala City, on June 4, 2018, a day after the eruption of the Fuego Volcano AFP Authorities had warned the death toll could rise after searches resumed for survivors […]
Continue reading …Police arrest Awami League leader with suspected links to wife’s murder in Chandpur
June 5, 2018 No Comment
Police arrest Awami League leader with suspected links to wife’s murder in Chandpur Police have arrested a local leader of Awami league suspected of killing his wife, another Awami League leader in Chandpur. The deceased, Shaheen Sultana Fancy, 55, was the principal of Gollak Ideal Degree College in Faridganj and also a member of the […]
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One-stop service caught in red tape Syed Mansur Hashim Bangladesh lags behind its peers in the region when it comes to foreign direct investment (FDI). That hardly comes as a surprise given the amount of bureaucratic red-tape hurdles a prospective investor has to surmount before launching a business operation. As pointed out in a front-page […]
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The Tigers’ nightmare had come true Sunday evening as they lost the first game convincingly by 45 runs in their second ever meeting against Afghanistan in the format Bangladesh will look to save their skin when they take on designated home side Afghanistan in the second game of the three-match T20I series at Rajiv Gandhi […]
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