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Eastern Chemical Industries closes

CHATTOGRAM, June 30: Eastern Chemical Industries (ECI) Ltd, a unit of the Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust, has been closed for incurring losses continuously. The authority concerned has already announced the closure of the mill located in Rangunia of Chattogram.Some workers alleged that the mill was closed as part of a...

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Tributes to Holey Artisan terror attack victims

People from all walks of life, including Bangladesh's foreign friends, paid on Sunday their deep respect to those who lost their lives in the Gulshan Holey Artisan Bakery terror attack on July 01, 2016, reports UNB.Representatives from various political parties, foreign and diplomatic missions, police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)...

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UK backs EU sanctions against Myanmar

The UK supports the EU [European Union] sanctions against Myanmar announced on June 25, UK Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field said.They will continue to use global pressure and dialogue with Burma to make progress in the repatriation of Rohingya, he said emphatically.Mr Field's comments came...

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TIB links lack of governance in hiring to it

Torture against Bangladeshi female domestic helps in the Middle East (ME) countries is the outcome of the lack of governance in the overseas migration sector, opined Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Sunday.In the last two months, a total of 380 Bangladeshi women returned home from the ME countries in the...

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University students protest attacks on quota reformists

Students of different universities across the country staged demonstrations and boycotted classes on Sunday, protesting Saturday's attacks on the activists of quota reform movement at Dhaka University allegedly by some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists, reports UNB.Chittagong University students boycotted their classes and examinations in protest against the attacks on...

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BD consumers face high tariffs

The Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI) has released the second issue of Policy Insights, a quarterly publication of the think-tank. The lead article in this issue sheds light on the highly-protective environment for domestic industries in Bangladesh. Written by Zaidi Sattar, the article on 'The costs of industrial protection:...

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Gangster flees Paris jail by helicopter

A notorious gangster has escaped by helicopter from a prison in the Paris region, the French authorities say, reports BBC.Redoine Faid was helped by several heavily armed men who created a diversion at the prison entrance while the helicopter landed in the courtyard.The helicopter flew to the nearby Gonesse area,...

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Indian cops find 11 bodies of a family in Delhi home

NEW DELHI, July 01: Eleven members of a family were found dead at their home in north Delhi's Burari Sunday morning. Ten of the people -- among whom were two teenagers and six women -- were found hanging in the courtyard, according to a report by NDTV. The body of...

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Peter Maurer, president of International Committee of the Red Cross

Peter Maurer, president of International Committee of the Red Cross, talking to a Rohingya family during his visit to a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on Sunday — Reuters

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