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Head-on collision on Natore highway claims at least 24 lives

Natore, Oct. 20 (NsNewsWire) — A head-on collision between two passenger buses in Bangladesh’s western Natore district, some 210 km away of capital Dhaka, has claimed at least 24 lives. The district’s police chief Bashudev Bonik told NsNewsWire over mobile phone that “At least 20 passengers were killed when two buses collided head-on in Natore […]

Case filed in Bangladesh against broadcast of Indian TV channels

Bangladesh’s High Court today sought an explanation from the government regarding the transmission of three Indian TV channels on a writ seeking a ban on their broadcast in the country. A two-member bench of the High Court asked the information secretary, the chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the police chief, the director general […]

China, U.S. eye more cooperation on fighting Ebola

Visiting Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday agreed to enhance cooperation on fighting the Ebola epidemic, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said here after the talks. Yang noted that Ebola, which continues to spread in West Africa, has become a threat to the public health and […]

Mystery over 176 missing from people trafficker’s boat from Bangladesh

BANGKOK: Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of 176 people, including three women, who were on a people trafficker’s boat that left Bangladesh. There are fears traffickers intend to sell those on board to fishing trawlers or factories as slave labour in Malaysia and Indonesia. Bangladesh officials are travelling to southern Thailand to interview 134 suspected victims […]

Chinese National Day celebrated

Hundreds of local and foreign dignitaries have gathered at a ceremony in capital Dhaka to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Bangladesh Shammobadi Dal, an ally of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance, organized the ceremony at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel on Thursday. The […]

More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route

(Reuters) – Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials. The discovery brings to more than 130 the number of people found since Saturday in the province of Phang […]

Retailers find safety problems in Bangladesh factories

European retailers have said they had found thousands of safety problems while inspecting Bangladesh garment factories in a drive to prevent a repeat of last year’s Rana Plaza disaster that claimed over 1,100 lives. The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, an umbrella group of nearly 200 European brands such as H&M and Carrefour, […]

Road accidents claim 10 lives in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) — At least 10 people were killed and 40 others were injured in separate road accidents in Bangladesh on Sunday morning during a mad rush back from across the country to work in towns and cities after last week’s Muslims’ Eid and Hindus ‘ Durga Puja holidays. Seven people were killed […]

Japan transfers retrofitting technology to make buildings jolt resistant

DHAKA, Oct. 12 (NsNewsWire) — On the occasion of International Day for Disaster Reduction, Japanese experts observed that the country’s important buildings those are vulnerable to earthquake need to be tremor resistance by applying retrofitting technology. Retrofitting is a technology that could be used to make a vulnerable building earthquake resistant without demolishing it. “There […]