Bangladesh

Student visas 'soar' after change

One immigration officer filmed lengthy immigration queues at Heathrow The number of students entering the UK from India and Bangladesh has risen sharply since a new visa system began, the BBC has learned. The UK Border Agency...

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Fire destroys over 700 huts, causes one death in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- A fire raced early Sunday morning through an overcrowded slum alongside the railway tracks in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, killing one people and destroying more than 700 huts, police said. Officer...

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ULFA leaders will be given safe passage if they lay down arms

From ANI Geneva, Nov.21: United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders and cadres will be given safe passage and a chance to return to mainstream society only if they give up the path of violence and unconditionally lay down...

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Four Mujib killers to seek president's pardon

From correspondents in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 02:00 PM IST Four of the five former army officers who were sentenced to death for killing Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will seek the presidential pardon, jail...

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Six killed, 54 injured as two blasts rock Assam

NALBARI, ASSAM: Six people were on Friday killed and 54 others injured, including 34 seriously, in the two blasts suspected to have been triggered by ULFA near a police station here, five days ahead of the banned militant...

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Trial of Bangladesh border guard mutineers to begin Tuesday

Dhaka, Nov 22 : Bangladesh is to begin Tuesday the trial of over 3,500 border guards who staged a mutiny in February killing 74 people. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised to fast-track the process. "I promise, if I live,...

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Terror: a clear & present danger to biz

In the aftermath of 9/11, close to 200,000 jobs were lost or temporarily relocated out of Big Apple. Lower Manhattan alone lost 30% of its office space and scores of businesses disappeared. In the first trading session after...

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Bangladesh seeks international bids for projects worth $10b Pact to avoid double taxation

Gulf News Abu Dhabi Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh's Finance Minister, will discuss economic issues with Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, UAE Minister of State for Financial Affairs, today as part of the Joint Economic Committee...

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US military waging war around the whole World

“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica,...

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Bangladeshi mom wants twins to stay in Australia

Guardian Moira Kelly stands between Bangladeshi twins Trishna, left, and Krishna, right, whose conjoined heads and brains were separated earlier this week at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. DHAKA,...

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