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Bangladesh's young all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who has been lauded as one of cricket's brightest prospects, believes his country can soon lift itself into the top tier of the game.
New Delhi - A major separatist group in India's north-eastern state of Assam claimed Thursday that two of its senior leaders were arrested in Bangladesh and handed over to Indian authorities, news reports said. The banned United Liberation Front of A...
River discharge and regional climate are keysCholera, an acute diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, has reemerged as a global killer. Outbreaks typically occur once a year in Africa and Latin America. But in Bangladesh the epidemics occur twice a year – in the spring and again in the fall.Scientists have tried, without much success, to determine the cause of these unique ...
Members of Penn’s Bengali Students Association are working to break the language barrier for some West Philadelphia high school students. Once a week, members of BSA meet in the ARCH building to mentor a group of University City High School students, ranging from ages 14 to 19, who have recently emigrated from Bengali-speaking countries, most notably Bangladesh. The BSA-funded program focuses on ...
KUTUBDIA, 3 November 2009 (IRIN) - The fisherman, his wife, three sons, two daughters, a sister-in-law, a dog and a goat and I eye each other dubiously. The family of eight is not certain whether I will be able to sleep in their mud hut, which is slightly bigger than a large sports utility vehicle. The animals seem to agree.
Dhaka, Nov 1 (PTI) Bangladesh authorities today launched an enquiry into the factory violence that killed three people and injured nearly 100 at the suburban Tongi area and cases were filed against 3,000 people.
Bangladeshi police in the capital Dhaka closed a photography exhibition on Tibet following complaints from Chinese diplomats, the government and organisers said Monday.
Opener Tamim Iqbal hit 80 runs off 72 balls as Bangladesh cruised to a four-wicket victory over Zimbabwe to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match one day series here on Saturday.
The faculty here at American University's School of Communication include several of the country's leading environmental filmmakers with their work coordinated through the Center for Environmental Filmmaking . One of our faculty Larry Engel worked on the recent PBS NOW film "Waterworld" which documents how climate change is impacting Bangladesh. The film describes the human health effects that ...
Zimbabwe lost four wickets for 19 runs in ten overs after captain Hamilton Masakadza won the toss and elected to bat in the fourth one-day international match against hosts Bangladesh here Tuesday.
SAN DIEGO and DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Entra Health Systems, an international applied healthcare technology company, and the Telemedicine Reference Center Ltd. of Dhaka, a pioneer in eHealth, today launched AmCare -- Intensive Diabetes Management, the world's first integrated mobile phone-based telehealth network that uses MyGlucoHealth Wireless diabetic monitoring technology.
As one of Myanmar's ethnic Muslim Rohingya, 45-year-old Manjurul Islam endured a lifetime of oppression before he finally fled the country for a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh.
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The Bangladeshi government on Sunday ordered an official inquiry into labour rioting that left two people dead and 100 injured at an industrial estate outside the capital Dhaka.
Panel Discussion Featuring New Data From Haiti, Liberia and Bangladesh Thursday, November 5, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Room 2200, Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill
Bangladesh coast guards said Monday they had rescued 46 children living as "bonded labour" on fish farms in the Sundarbans mangrove forest.
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