Hamid Mir's is one of the more respectable and liberal voices in Pakistan these days. He has always been regarded as a friend of Bangladesh, naturally, because he has publicly made it clear that his country needs to offer an apology to ours over the genocide committed by the Pakistan army in former East Pakistan. [...]

The government of Bangladesh is considering nationalizing and breaking up the widely admired Grameen Bank, which pioneered the business of lending small amounts of money to poor women who want to start and grow businesses. Lawmakers should reject these destructive ideas and stop meddling in the affairs of this important financial institution, which serves 8.4 [...]

. Indeed, the World Cup as a wider concept needs a boost after that monstrosity in South Africa last year. But ultimately, a World Cup is a World Cup is a World Cup and, if you can't get excited about that - at least for the first two or three days, before you've endured all [...]

Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus speaks to the press at the Elysee Palace in Paris on October 30, 2012. Bangladesh denied on Tuesday that it plans to take control of pioneering microlender Grameen Bank which has lifted millions of people out of … [Read More]

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Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue (NBR), in a rare move, plans to give retrospective duty benefits to a section of reconditioned car importers in a bid to help them take delivery of the 3,700 imported vehicles stuck at ports for years. The tax privileges known as depreciation benefits–now 45 per cent–are meant for the [...]

In the aftermath of the April 24 Rana Plaza collapse, the plight of Bangladeshi garment workers occupied global media attention in a way it never had before. The inconvenient thing about Rana Plaza, as far as the fashion brands that rely on outsourced sweatshop labour were concerned, was that so many workers — more [...]

The Bangladesh government will appoint 200 more factory inspectors in efforts to regain the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) privileges to the US market by December, Commerce Minister GM Quader said yesterday. The recruitment will be done by October 15 under special arrangements to avoid the usual lengthy process of selection in government jobs, [...]

The national committee for reviewing and recommending withdrawal of "politically motivated" lawsuits in Bangladesh has taken up 30 murder cases, mostly against Awami League (ruling party) men, for review at its next meeting without following due procedures. The murder cases, with nearly 170 other lawsuits, have been selected for the committee's consideration, mostly without [...]

Bangladesh Nationalist party said: "We have reports that BNP supporters were barred from coming to polls and also were driven away from polling stations."Casting her vote at a college in Dhaka shortly after polling starting, Hasina said: "Voting is people's constitutional right and I am happy to be able to exercise it." Zia voted at [...]

The family of a British woman who was killed in Bangladesh say she was hacked to death with machetes by other relatives who were jealous of her wealth. Rehana Begum, 43, of Stepney, was killed Friday in Sunamganj, in northeast Bangladesh, the BBC reported. She was approached by several men wielding machetes who [...]