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Sandblasting jeans comes under fire in Bangladesh

Suman Howlader was thrilled to land a job in a Bangladeshi factory sandblasting new jeans to make them look old, but he now believes the diktats of fashion have exacted a heavy toll on his health.
After working for three years, he started vomiting blood, coughing badly and struggling to breathe before being admitted to [...]

West Indies’ Samuels cleared to bowl

The West Indies were given a boost on Thursday ahead of their Bangladesh tour when all-rounder Marlon Samuels was cleared to bowl by the sport’s world governing body.
The off-spinner, a key member of the West Indies Test, one-day and Twenty20 squads for the tour, had been suspended from bowling after being reported for a suspect action in 2008.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) [...]

Read More » No commentSeptember 29, 2011

Bangladesh gives Indian leader posthumous honour

Former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was honoured posthumously on Monday by Bangladesh for helping the country win independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Sonia Gandhi, Indira Gandhi’s daughter in-law and the head of India’s ruling Congress party, accepted the Bangladesh Freedom Honour from Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman at a reception in Dhaka.
“If Indira Gandhi could have [...]

Bangladesh, India open border bazaar

Bangladesh and India on Saturday opened a bazaar along their border as part of new moves to improve ties between the south Asian neighbours, officials said.
Bangladesh Commerce Minister Mohammad Faruk Khan and his Indian counterpart, Anand Sharma, inaugurated the “Border Haat” (bazaar) along the frontier of Kurigram in northern Bangladesh and the [...]

Four killed, 200,000 stranded in Bangladesh floods

At least four people were killed and more than 200,000 stranded after three days of heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said Friday.
The government’s flood forecasting and warning centre said more than 49 centimetres (19 inches) of rain had pounded the worst-hit Cox’s Bazaar district since Wednesday, [...]

Violent strike shuts down Bangladesh

Dozens of people including a senior opposition figure were injured during violent protests in Bangladesh on Wednesday as an anti-government strike shut down the country for the second time in four days.
Joynal Abedin Faruk, chief whip of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), sustained serious head injuries during clashes with police and was admitted to the [...]

26 dead, scores missing in Bangladesh boat sinking

DHAKA (AFP) – At least 26 people, mostly women and children, drowned and scores of others were missing after a passenger river ferry sank in eastern Bangladesh on Thursday, police said.
Passengers were asleep on the ferry when it hit the wreck of a cargo ship that sank a few days ago in [...]

Bruised W.Indies face Pakistan in W.Cup quarter-final

DHAKA (AFP) – Struggling West Indies need look no further than their manager Richie Richardson for inspiration when they clash with buoyant Pakistan in the World Cup quarter-final on Wednesday.
Richardson was captain when the West Indies overturned the form book in the 1996 quarter-final in Karachi and stunned South Africa, who had come through the [...]

Bangladesh factories close for World Cup

DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh garment export firms on Sunday protested against government orders to shut down factories during the cricket World Cup, saying the move would affect the country’s economy.
Garment factories have been instructed to close for six hours every evening until the final on April 2 so that power cuts do not affect avid [...]

Read More » No commentFebruary 28, 2011

Workers pay high price at Bangladesh tanneries

DHAKA (AFP) – Standing barefoot in toxic chromium effluent at a tannery in Dhaka’s Hazaribag district, 23-year-old leather worker Sumon fears his job is sending him to an early grave.
A decade of inhaling fumes from the chemicals used to turn Bangladeshi raw hide into soft leather for shoes to be sold in the West has [...]

Read More » No commentFebruary 18, 2011