Bangladesh , putting as many as 100 people into the water, officials and witnesses say.Police said there were no immediate reports of casualties after the ferry, MV Sarash, went down on the river Meghna in Munshiganj district, 20 miles south of Dhaka. There was confusion over the number of passengers on board at the time [...]

TOKYO — The owner of Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo announced Thursday it has signed up to a safety pact covering Bangladesh's disaster-hit garment factories, following criticism of its delay in doing … [Read More]

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All aboard the election train AHEAD of the festival of Eid-al-Fitr on August 9th-11th, the two quarrelling heads of Bangladesh's political dynasties exchanged greetings cards. But the outward signs of peace between the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League, and the opposition leader, Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party [...]

A Bangladeshi man, who plotted to detonate a 9,000-pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Building in lower Manhattan last year, has blamed his violent intentions on a childhood stammer and an unfaithful girlfriend. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis has been sentenced to life in prison for working with undercover agents, posing as terrorists, to blow [...]

NTPC is likely to start supplying 250 MW power to Bangladesh from next month, giving a boost to India’s power diplomacy in South Asia. “NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN), a subsidiary of NTPC, is expected to start supplying power to Bangladesh from September 2013,” the state-run power producer said. NVVN is the nodal agency for [...]

said Thursday that it will sign a safety agreement designed to improve working conditions in Bangladesh after a devastating factory collapse in the country killed more than 1,100 garment … [Read More]

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have not received the full payments they were promised as compensation , according to a report by the Huffington Post’s Emran Hossain. About 350 survivors and family members of those who lost their lives have received between $1,200 and $2,500 from the prime minister’s relief fund, which labor activists say is little compared to the [...]

Rumors have flown for many years that DC police routinely infiltrate and spy on the frequent protests in the nation’s Capitol. But until now, activists have never been able to identify a specific undercover cop at a protest. Now, after months of piecing together evidence, attorneys Jeffrey Light and Sean Canavan working … [Read More]

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India and Bangladesh are jointly making efforts to trace the graves of martyrs of the Liberation War of 1971 with over 2,000 freedom fighters buried on this side of the border in Tripura, West Bengal, Assam and Meghalaya. Officials here said that four nodal officers from the Indian side were appointed at Agartala, Kolkata, [...]

The Bangladesh government has waived a 15 per cent VAT on the revenue mobile operators will share with the telecom regulator under 3G licences, according to a notice. It means Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission will not deduct the VAT at source on the 5.5 per cent revenue the operators will share with the regulator. [...]