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 19 new women lawmakers can help end discrimination Speakers at a seminar underscored the need for more participation of women in the policymaking and implementation of the women development policy of 1997. Congratulating the 19 newly-elected women members of the parliament, they called for total elimination of acid throwing and dowry-related repression on women and killing. Meanwhile, Karmojibi Nari (KN), an association for employed and working women, in a statement Wednesday hoped that gender discriminations and violence against women will end very soon. President of Karmojibi Nari, Shirin Akhter, and General Secretary, Sharmin Kabir, have sent letters of felicitation to the 19 women lawmakers details.... |
 Bangladesh's new cabinet line-upThe line-up of Bangladesh's 32-member new cabinet, which was sworn in President House Tuesday evening, is as follows: |
 Brazil to send aid to GazaBrazil will send an Air Force plane with 14 tons of food and medicine for the people in the Gaza details.... |
 4.7 scale quake jolts northern regionA mild tremor shook the northern parts of the country on Tuesday night. There was no immediate report of any details.... |
 BNP to join cabinet's oath taking ceremonyPutting all the speculations to rest the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has decided to join the swearing-in ceremony to be details.... |
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 City dwellers rush for village homes to vote on Monday Nation awaits democracy Books for a Peaceful World: Dhaka book fair launched Bangladesh hardest hit by natural disaster in 2007 |
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Sustainable transport dev policy needed In communities across the nation, there is a growing concern that current development pattern, dominated by `sprawl`? which induces an ever-increasing need to travel and thus construction of more roads ? is not in the long-term interest of our cities, existing suburbs, small towns, rural communities or wilderness areas. It is thus unfortunate that our city planners, including the Strategic Transport Project (STP) team selected a growth pole or deverse land use development scenario, which promotes sprawl and the ever-increasing need to travel and to construct new roads. The scenario was selected on the assumption that the development of a number of poles or larger settlements outside Dhaka proper connected details.... |
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| All promise well before polls but rarely keep them: Abul Kashem First vice president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) Abul Kashem Ahmed recently said many well pledges are included in the election manifestos of all the political parties of the country, but the pledges are rarely implemented. He, however, sees both the major parties`- Awami Legue, BNP- polls pledges to control price hike and putting emphasis on the agro sector as positive aspirations. details.... |
