Over 1,800 killed as quake ravages
Pakistan, India
More than 1,800 people were killed as a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border Saturday reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building. The earthquake was centred in Kashmir, the Himalayan territory disputed between Indian and Pakistan...[ + ]
Mobile phone price
war intensifies
Cell-phone tariff, after years of having a one-way-street in a captive market, is likely to head down shortly as the four private sector mobile operators are raring for what promises to be a bloody price battle...[ + ]
Drug smuggling, peddling on again in full swing
Despite the government’s various efforts to reportedly check drug smuggling, the illicit business has been continuing in the country with the sale of all types of hard drugs, especially Phensidyl, which have flooded Bangladesh...[ + ]
Eight more suspected militants detained
in city, Jaipurhat
The law enforcers, who are continuing the hunt for bombers, arrested eight more suspected militants from different places in the country, including two in the capital on Friday night and early Saturday for their possible involvement in the August 17 bomb blasts that killed three persons and injured over 150...
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7 BNP men injured in bomb attacks
ILO to review post-MFA consequence
The International Labour Organisation is going to review the impact of the phasing out of quota on textile and clothing exports globally. In this connection a three-day tripartite meeting will be held in Geneva between October 24 and 26, 2005 where governments, entrepreneurs and labours’ representatives from 15 countries including Bangladesh will meet with ILO governing body...[ + ]
Pakistani cos keen to invest in textiles
Major Pakistani textile entrepreneurs have intended to invest in Bangladesh’s backward linkage industries for readymade garments sector, sources in the Board of Investment have told New Age. A high-profile delegation of Pakistani businessmen, representing 10 large companies, is scheduled to visit Bangladesh some time after the Eid-ul-Fitr to look for investment options...[ + ]
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