Garment worker’s
death sparks off
agitation in Dhaka
Several hundred workers of a readymade garment factory staged violent protest at Pallabi in the capital city on Friday, claiming that some officials had beaten one of their colleagues to death. The workers took to the streets and went on the rampage at Road 3, Plots 5, 6 and 7 for about two hours, disrupting traffic movement in the area until 12:30pm...[ + ]
Petrobangla director, GM killed in road mishap
16 die in four accidents
At least 16 people, including two senior Petrobangla officials along with wives and an army corporal, were killed in road accidents on the Dhaka–Sylhet Highway in Narsindi and Habiganj and on the Natore–Dhaka Highway in Natore within seven hours on Friday. A Sylhet-bound microbus in Narsingdi collided head-on with a truck at Baghata in the district headquarters at about 10:30am. The microbus immediately caught fire...[ + ]
MARITIME BOUNDARY DEMARCATION
Dhaka far from
settling disputes with Delhi, Yangon
Dhaka is far from initiating a move to settle disputes with New Delhi and Yangon over the demarcation of maritime boundary, delaying the exploitation of marine resources and exercise of the country’s sovereignty in specific areas of the Bay of Bengal...[ + ]
India plans many
dams, barrages on common rivers
Tipaimukh conference begins in Dhaka
India plans to construct a number of multipurpose dams and barrages on common rivers with Bangladesh and their tributaries, said visiting Indian environmental experts and rights activists on Friday. ‘India has already constructed a number of dams and barrages on many common rivers and their tributaries,’ Ravindranath of the River Basin Friends, an non-governmental organisation, based in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, told a two-day international Tipaimukh dam conference in Dhaka...[ + ]
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Besides a large depreciation of taka against dollar by about nine per cent, two new phenomena emerged in the country’s foreign exchange market, which ended a topsy-turvy year. In their annual currency review, two foreign banks stated that the local currency saw its biggest downslide against the greenback towards the end of the calendar year 2005...[ + ]
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