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A group of Bangladeshi Buddhist monks have called on the United Nations to intervene and halt attacks on Buddhist communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of south-eastern Bangladesh, which borders both India and Myanmar.

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The Bangladesh government has said it will reconstruct four prayer houses set ablaze during two days of violence against Buddhist tribals in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

Dipankar Talukdar, the minister in charge of the region that is home to the indigenous people, said this would be done 'as soon as possible'.

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DHAKA — Nine months after losing their homes to a powerful cyclone, 200,000 Bangladeshis are living in "inhuman" conditions on river embankments with no resolution in sight, aid groups said Tuesday.

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An ancient Hindu temple in a village near the Bangladesh capital - Dhaka has been vandalised, the miscreants breaking six idols, police were quoted as saying on Saturday.

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THE government's decision to formulate a new population policy, emulating China's single-child families by 2015, to avoid a serious socio-economic debacle due to ever-increasing population is an eminently sensible one. According to the draft policy, couples having only one child will be given preference in all state facilities, including the government's assistance during admission to educational institutions.

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Some 60% of Bangladesh is at risk of rising sea levels, contaminating fish stock, farmland and drinking water with salt

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Dhaka, Nov 29 (IANS) Many people from coastal areas of Bangladesh forced out of their homes by the effects of climate change have started migrating towards already over-populated and infrastructure-crippled cities – and to India for their survival.

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Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published Sunday.

For nearly three decades scientists have struggled to figure out exactly how arsenic was getting into the drinking water of millions of people in rural Bangladesh.

The culprit, says the new study, are tens of thousands of man-made ponds excavated to provide soil for flood protection.

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DHAKA - BANGLADESHI police said on Monday they had arrested a 'self-confessed serial killer' accused of killing and raping at least 11 female garment factory workers in the south of the country.

...Most of them worked in garment factories, he said. 'He told us he wanted to kill at least 101 women as revenge against a women who refused his advances some 15 years ago,' he said, adding that Khan had been calm and quiet as he confessed.

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Today is the full-moon day of holy Prabarana, the second-biggest festival of the Buddhist world. It is the day of fasting-breaking of the three months long Uposathabrata.

The Prabarana festival is observed in the month of Aswin, and is known as Aswini Purnima. The three months long ÔBarshavasa (rain retreat) of the bhikkhus-bhikkhunis starts in the Ashari Purnima and continues up to Prabarana Purnima. The Buddha, on this day of the full moon, directed his disciples to go all around for the propagation of the dhamma -- "Carata bhikkhave carikam bahujana hitaya, bahujana sukhaya…lokanukampaya."

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The Bangladesh government has ordered its biggest troops pullout from Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), its restive southeastern region that is home to minority Buddhist tribals.

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Kolkata, July 12: Bangladesh wants to develop a Buddhist circuit tourism jointly with India and Nepal to promote its Paharpur monastery which, it claimed, is one of the largest monasteries in the Indian sub-continent.

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The mass unrest in the garment industry continued on Monday (29 June) for a third day...

On the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital city, in the industrial zone; workers' rioting and demonstrations yesterday escalated to new heights. As thousands of workers gathered in the morning, at 10am a group set off towards the nearby Dhaka Export Processing Zone where many garment factories are located. Police blocked their way and fierce fighting began - in the pitched battle police teargas and rubber bullets left 100 workers injured.

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Protesting Bangladesh workers torch factory

DHAKA: Grappling with a power crisis, Bangladesh has decided to begin its days an hour earlier in a move to save electricity by utilising
daylight.

The country switched to Daylight Saving Time (DST) on Saturday, moving away from the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), by utilising the daylight.

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The European Union (EU) has urged Bangladesh to remove temporary military bases and help resettle the original Buddhist tribal residents in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, media reports here said yesterday.

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DHAKA (AFP) – Emergency teams raced to rescue cyclone survivors in the remote southwest of Bangladesh on Wednesday as the death toll from the storm rose to 180.

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CALCUTTA, India (AP) — The death toll from Cyclone Aila in eastern India and Bangladesh rose to at least 168 on Wednesday, officials said, while heavy rains after the storm caused deadly mudslides and slowed rescue efforts.

The toll was expected to rise in both countries as rescue workers reached cut-off areas.

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After her husband left and monsoon rains washed away her straw hut, Rowshan Ara felt she had no choice but to head to Bangladesh's teeming capital.

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"We want to see the pope in our midst, we will be blessed to see him in Bangladesh, his presence will bring peace and happiness to the nation, I wish and pray his long life.” This is the wish that the venerable Dhirbangsha Bikkhu, a Buddhist monk of the international monastery in Dhaka, has sent to Benedict XVI on the occasion of his 82nd birthday.

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Three months in prison for anyone caught asking for charity in public places. The authorities promise to eliminate the phenomenon within five years, but there are about 60 million people in the country living below the poverty level.

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WCS researchers have discovered a stronghold for one of the world’s rarest freshwater dolphins, the Irrawaddy, deep in the waterlogged jungles of Bangladesh. The scientists counted nearly 6,000 of the dolphins in the South Asian country’s Sundarbans mangrove forest and the adjacent waters of the Bay of Bengal.

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March 26 (Bloomberg) -- The British body responsible for overseeing charities has begun an inquiry after Bangladeshi police found a cache of weapons at an Islamic school and orphanage allegedly supported by a U.K. organization.

The Charity Commission is working with law enforcement agencies “to investigate the allegation that terrorist activity is connected” with Green Crescent Bangladesh U.K., Chief Executive Andrew Hind said in a statement.

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'We are very afraid after this'

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — More than 1,000 border guards were charged Sunday with murder and arson in a uprising that left at least 148 people dead or missing, most of them army officers whose bodies were hurriedly discarded by the mutineers.

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DHAKA, Bangladesh: Police combing through the headquarters of mutinous border guards here found a mass grave on Friday containing around 30 bodies believed to be those of officers seized as hostages before the rebellion collapsed, according to a Bangladeshi police official.

The official requested anonymity under police rules. His disclosure followed remarks by a top general who told the local NTV television station that dozens of bodies were found in a hurriedly dug mass grave inside the compound of the guards' headquarters.

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Reporting from Chittagong and New Delhi -- Bangladesh's paramilitary surrendered today at the end of a second day of deadly protests over pay and status amid reports that at least 11 people had been killed in fighting between rival security units.

The dispute reportedly started Wednesday inside the Rifles headquarters in Dhaka during a meeting between junior paramilitary soldiers and their superiors, who are from the military.

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Eyewitness: Bangladesh mutiny

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladeshi tanks rolled into the capital Thursday, according to local media reports, hours after the prime minister warned mutinous border guards she would "do whatever is needed to end the violence."

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A mutiny by paramilitary guards spread from the heart of this congested capital to towns across Bangladesh on Thursday as the prime minister pleaded for citizens to remain calm.

At least 10 people, including three army officers, were killed in the siege in Dhaka, at the headquarters of the border guard force known as the Bangladesh Rifles.

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Bangladesh border guards launched an armed mutiny on Wednesday, taking officers hostage and sparking a fierce gunbattle in the capital that left at least five people dead and 42 wounded.

Thousands of police and troops with canons and heavy arms cordoned off the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) after the paramilitary border security force took up arms against their superiors over low pay.

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Subject: RE: Re : pleases sir any body help us work permit or extention for the visa - Ref No : 2009/02896

Dear Sir,
How are you?I am not fine? Because I am so late?I am very poor man,I am already stay here to india kolkata.I am already submitted for my document or passport or application New Delhi Ireland Embussy office.but refused to the embussy for visa.actchully I have no employement work permit for my hand.or other document its ok.I am very set now.My country Bangladesh.I am minorety person,I am Buddhist.my family depanded on me,my job its closed 9month.now this time no job for me,I am calling for my family today.I am allready massage for my family or crying for my family?my family income source only for me?I am Married person,very very financial crysus for my family.what am i me?I am very tention now,last night I am very crying.my family or my life finish.my father & mother last money take that for me?allready my money its finished.I am very faithful or belive this help us for embussy or you country?but i thinking its rong.long time my parents talk me,ireland people or man its very helpful & i am belive this?my dream or my future or my life its finished.last year my thingking safe my family or safe my life.or my thinking I am going to ireland or I am started study or job?my dream or my feture plan everything its finished.I am very sorry sir,don,t mind.my wife or my dauther child picture send to you Sir.Last time very request or help us for me,please please sir helping now.please sir if you send to employement work permit or extention for the visa purpose.very very sorry sir,if you don,t mind.please sir urgent for the send to mail me.my cell no:-+8801716215039.only 3 days stay here to india.or i am going to my country .Buddha allways help us for the every people,god bless you take care.byeeee

Regarded by

Sumon Barua

DHAKA, BANGLADESH (BosNewsLife)-- The wife of a pastor in Bangladesh was recovering Thursday, January 29, after after she was reportedly gang raped by local Muslims, the latest in a series of violent incidents against the country's embattled Christian minority.

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