Bangladesh aggression close up 100 garment industrial units

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Dhaka: Garment laborers requesting higher pay conflicted with police and struck processing plants on Monday in a modern cinch on the edge of Bangladesh's capital. The specialists have dismissed a proposed 5,300 takas ($66.25) month to month least wage, a raise by

Bangladesh ruling parties want to supervise upcoming election

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Dhaka: Bangladesh's bureau clergymen today tendered their acquiescences to prepare for an all-gathering government to manage general races, with the Bnp-headed resistance inflexible on the interest for an

Bangladesh custodies five opposition party leaders

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Dhaka: Bangladeshi powers have captured three senior pioneers of the primary restriction party in the company of expanding pressures in front of one year from now's decisions, an official said Saturday. Police analysts captured Moudud Ahmed, M.k. Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia on late Friday, hours after a cooperation headed by primary

UN protests 152 Bangladesh death sentences

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United Nations: The Un's top human rights official has communicated genuine alert at capital punishments passed on in Bangladesh to 152 outskirt protects after mass trials that she says were unreasonable. Un Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said Wednesday the trials ''neglected to meet the most basic models of due process.'' A Bangladesh court sentenced 152 gatekeepers to passing Tuesday for a 2009 uprising. The sentences accompanied

Bangladesh passes law for closer Grameen oversight

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Dhaka: Bangladesh's parliament has passed a law carrying the pioneering Grameen Bank under closer national bank supervision, a move bitingly restricted by the loan specialist's originator Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Grameen was a trail blazer in expanding little credits to the poor as a method of decreasing

Bangladesh court sentences 152 to death for 2009 mutiny

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A court in Dhaka honored expiration to 152 incorporating Bangladesh Rifles (Bdr) delegate right hand executive Towhidul Islam and life-term to 160 incorporating previous Bnp administrator Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and ward-level Awami League pioneer

Bangladesh strike leaves two dead

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Dhaka: Bangladeshi police terminated live adjusts at nonconformists Monday in restored crashes that killed two individuals, as a new across the nation strike got under approach to constrain the head administrator to stop, authorities said. An administration official said crashes emitted between

The ultimate tragedy of Bangladeshi politics

A whole week slipped by when two sides of Bangladesh ground against one another like tectonic plates. A week ago, changes emitted the nation over as though a country was shaking in ache. Individuals existed in the

12 dead in Bangladesh violence

Dhaka : Anxieties mounted crosswise over Bangladesh over fatal political savagery which has left 12 individuals dead and hundreds harmed since Friday. Five men were allegedly dead and scores, around them policemen excessively, harmed in savagery in the capital city Dhaka on the first day of the strike authorized by previous leader Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its partners Sunday, Xinhua reported. Dismissing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's solicit for an exchange, the restriction cooperation called the 60-hour close down from 6 a.m. Sunday requesting the structuring of an all-gathering survey time government. The nation over, six protestors were allegedly murdered and 500 others harmed when restriction supporters and their managing gathering adversaries battled pitched fights. The expiration of an alternate restriction man was accounted for Saturday. The normally occupied boulevards of the capital Dhaka looked just about forsook Sunday night as frenzy grasped the city inhabitants and many against uproar police were conveyed. Tv footage indicated security compels scattered protestors with poisonous gas and elastic shots as they tried to walk on major ways of Dhaka. Sheikh Hasina's governing Awami League (Al) accused the principle restriction party for making anarchic scenario in the name of political exercises and urged resistance guide to withdraw the close down call and sit for exchange. Throughout the strike, many vehicles were crushed or set ablaze in Dhaka and somewhere else Sunday.

Bangladesh violence hits bus service, trade with India

Agartala : Trade ties and transport administrations between Bangladesh and India took a hit as savagery shook the neighbouring nation as the restriction supported 60-hour countrywide shutdown started Sunday, authorities said here. The nation's principle resistance party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bnp) headed the 18-gathering organization together that called the across the nation shutdown starting 6 a.m. Sunday, and it is situated to proceed until 6 p.m. of Oct 29. The restriction is requesting that a guardian government be established throughout the general decisions, and that the races be held early 2014. As per bdnews24.com, an online news entryway in Bangladesh, viciousness in the nation since Saturday has guaranteed no less than 12 lives, and numerous vehicles, shops and government holdings have been harmed. "Exchange between Bangladesh and India's northeastern states was severely influenced as many products laden trucks and different vehicles were stranded on either side of the outskirts bordering Tripura and Meghalaya on account of the shutdown in that nation," a traditions official told Ians in Agartala. Agartala Exporters-Importers Association general secretary Habul Biswas told correspondents that over 700 laborers are included in the exchanging at the Akhaurah checkpost and different Lcss (Land Customs Stations) in Tripura, however as labourers of Bangladesh were not accessible, and truck drivers dreaded for the security of their vehicles, the fare import business has been handicapped. Akhaurah is a standout amongst the most significant universal exchanging land ports in northeast India adjoining Agartala city. On normal, something like 200 Bangladeshi trucks stacked with products come to Tripura each day. Biswas said that business worth Rs.15 million, on normal, happens every day through Akhaurah, the second-most significant universal exchanging land port along the India-Bangladesh fringe, after the Petrapol-Banepole checkpost in West Bengal. Exchange between India and Bangladesh has been occurring through Akhaurah and five different Lcss in Tripura, which imparts a 856-km outskirt with Bangladesh. The setup in Bangladesh likewise prompted the suspension of the Dhaka-Agartala transport administration. "For security explanations, transports between Dhaka and Agartala are not utilizing. The transport administration is relied upon to continue after the setup in Bangladesh comes back to typical," an official of the Tripura Road Transport Corporation, one of the specialists of the Dhaka-Agartala transport administration, said. He included that an aggregation of sightseers from Tripura who headed off to Bangladesh as of late give the ax their excursion in that nation and returned Saturday. Then, the Border Security Force (Bsf) has further tightened security up and down the India-Bangladesh outskirt. "We have conveyed extra troopers along the whole Indo-Bangla outskirt. Senior authorities of the Bsf are nearly managing the setup. Prohibitory requests under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (banning ny get together of five or more individuals) have been declared along the global outskirts," a Bsf agent told Ians. India offers a 4,096-km fringe with Bangladesh, of which 2,216 km is with West Bengal, 856 km with Tripura, 443 km with Meghalaya, 318 km with Mizoram and 262 km with Assam. A substantial partition of the International Border is unfenced and permeable.

Sheikh Hasina, Khaleda Zia hold talks to end political impasse

Dhaka, October 26: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her rival Khaleda Zia Saturday discussed the possibility of a dialogue between ruling and opposition parties to end the stalemate over a caretaker government to oversee elections, Xinhua reported. The two leaders talked to each other over phone for 37 minutes. It was the first direct conversation between them since 2009. Prime Minister Hasina invited Khaleda Zia, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, to Gono Bhaban, the former's official residence, Monday evening to discuss about the caretaker government, said a BNP official requesting anonymity. Hasina, also the ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party president, urged the BNP chief to withdraw her call for a three-day strike from Sunday morning, the official added. BNP chief accepted Hasina's invitation for holding dialogue, but deferred the premier's proposed date. "We'll hold talks but cannot withdraw the hartal (shutdown)," Khaleda's press secretary Maruf Kamal quoted her as saying to Hasina during the 37-minute phone conversation. Zia also said the dialogue could be held after the shutdown. On Friday, Bangladesh's main opposition called a three-day nationwide shutdown from Sunday morning to press its demand for restoration of the non-party caretaker government system to oversee the national elections slated for early 2014. Zia announced the shutdown at a grand rally in capital Dhaka, giving Hasina government two-day ultimatum for initiating a dialogue on a neutral election-time government. At least six protesters were killed and about 500 injured when anti-government protesters and activists of the ruling party fought pitched battles Friday in different parts of Bangladesh.

Sheikh Hasina fails to reach Zia over phone, shutdown looms

Dhaka, October 26: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday telephoned her arch-rival Khaleda Zia to invite her for talks to resolve a standoff on holding the next general election but failed to reach her, even as Bangladesh braced for a shutdown called by the main opposition BNP. "The Prime Minister called the opposition leader at her official phone at 1:15 pm (local time) but nobody picked it for half an hour," Abul Kalam Azad, press secretary to the premier, told reporters here. Hasina's special assistant Mahbubul Haque Shakil said the premier tried to reach Zia from 1:15 pm to 1:45 pm but no one responded to her phone call. He said Hasina was still trying to reach Zia, the chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). BNP's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters that Zia's official phone "is out of order for a long time" and all her lines "remain out of order most of the times." An official said a personal aide of Hasina also called the BNP chief's special assistant, Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas. "He (Biswas) was told that the Prime Minister is scheduled to attend a meeting of the Awami League's parliamentary party at 6pm. The Leader of the Opposition can call her back by 6pm, if she wants to," the official said. Hasina reached out to her arch-rival a day after BNP supporters staged violent protests across Bangladesh to push the party's demand for setting up an interim government comprising of non-political individuals. Six persons were killed and over 300 injured in clashes between BNP workers and security forces. Zia has threatened to launch a 60-hour nationwide shutdown from tomorrow if her demands are not met. Hasina has proposed the formation of a caretaker government with representatives of all political parties, but this was rejected by Zia. The violence continued today as suspected opposition activists blasted seven crude bombs in front of the houses of a Supreme Court judge, the environment minister and a police office. A bus and a private car was set ablaze. No one was injured in the explosions but they sparked fears of violence ahead of the possible shutdown. Paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troops guarded the streets in the capital where most residents preferred to stay indoors and the streets looked deserted.

Bangladesh opposition calls three-day strike

Dhaka : Bangladesh's main opposition Friday called a three-day nationwide strike from Sunday morning to press its demand for restoration of the non-party caretaker government system to oversee the national elections slated for early 2014. Former prime minister Khaleda Zia announced the strike at a grand rally in capital Dhaka, giving Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government a two-day ultimatum for initiating a dialogue on a neutral election-time government, Xinhua reported. Tens of thousands of Bangladesh opposition supporters flooded the lush green Suhrawardy Udyan. The leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its 17 allies, including Jamaat-e-Islami, marched toward the rally venue with banners, placards and "sheaf of paddy" election symbol of BNP, breaking through several obstacles on their way. Khaleda Zia alleged that the Awami League-led alliance government has not worked to ensure the rights of the people and rather concentrated to protect the interests of the party. "This government arrests people when they try to hold meetings and rallies. They are out to violate people’s rights," The Daily Star quoted a BNP leader as saying.