Saudi Arabia to employ women in key position
Following the footsteps of the ministries of Education and Health, the Ministry of Labor intends to employ women in key positions, sources at the ministry were quoted by Al-Watan newspaper recently. The sources added that the ministry had concluded its planned restructuring to accommodate women in key positions at its 33 labor offices distributed in [...]
Jackfruit and the jackals in Bangladesh: Captured BSF secret agent confessed to the Bangladeshi interrogators
April 27, 2012 No Comment
By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Captured BSF secret agent confessed to the Bangladeshi interrogators that a number of his colleagues have earlier entered Bangladesh, most of whom possess weapons In the bubbling economy and extremely unstable prices of essentials Jack fruit possibly continued to remain as the cheapest available fruit in Bangladesh. Many dislike this [...]
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By: Special Correspondent Bangladesh Bank governor Dr. Atiur Rahman Tuesday urged the Islamic banks and Islamic windows of conventional banks in Bangladesh to pursue vigorous promotion of Islamic micro and SME finances, in step with the country’s concerted efforts for faster poverty eradication with deeper and wider financial inclusion. He was addressing a World Islamic [...]
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Oil consumption in Saudi Arabia is the highest in the world, despite the fact that the economy is not heavily industrialized. According to International Energy Agency (IEA), Saudi Arabia consumes about three million barrels a day or about one billion barrels each year. If you divide that total by a population of 27 million people, [...]
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Law enforcers are still without a clue about the motive behind the killing of a Saudi embassy official near his residence in the capital’s Gulshan area early Tuesday. Police seized a CCTV camera from a building near which Khalaf Al Ali, a Saudi national, was shot dead, but it does not contain any footage [...]
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Leaders of different Arab countries have sharply reacted to the killing of Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al Ali in Dhaka. Some of them strongly condemned the killing, terming it a “terrorist act”. The Bangladesh foreign ministry claimed that Khalaf was a non-diplomat, and he had been working as an administrative staff of the Royal Saudi [...]
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A record number of 1,20,000 Bangladeshis are expected to perform Hajj this year, under government and private managements.Of the pilgrims, 1,10,000 will perform the Hajj under different Hajj agencies while only 10,000 under official management. The number of Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims were 1,05,608 last year.State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Shahjahan Miah said this at [...]
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By Nazmus Saquib An official of Saudi Embassy in Dhaka was shot dead near his house in Gulshan area of the capital last night. Khalaf Al Ali, 45, was an official with the consular section of the embassy, informed assistant commissioner of Gulshan Zone of DMP Nurul Alam. “One of our diplomatic staff was killed [...]
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In six Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian countries, at least 21 Bangladeshis are facing death sentence and 31 undergoing trial for murder. The cases involve 43 murders, including those of 28 Bangladeshis, over trading of visas and involvement in “immoral” activities, according to reports sent by Bangladesh missions abroad. Under the Middle Eastern nations’ strict [...]
Continue reading …Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari faces charge of blasphemy after tweets about Muhammad
February 12, 2012 No Comment
By David Keyes, Published: February 9 Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia on Wednesday night and is likely to be extradited soon to Saudi Arabia, where he will be tried for blaspheming religion. Kashgari, 23, had fled the kingdom Monday after he received thousands of death threats. His crime? He posted on [...]
Continue reading …Above is a video of Bangladesh Chronicle’s Nazmus Saquib interviewing Rokeya Begum, the mother of Masud Hossain, one of the Bangladeshi migrant workers who was recently executed in Saudi Arabia. NOTE: The interview is entirely in Bangla and is not subtitled. It is unprocessed footage and has not been edited in anyway.
Continue reading …5 more Bangladeshis on Saudi death row: Negotiations ongoing to save them from execution
November 7, 2011 No Comment
by Nazmus Saquib Amid the outcry from the Human Rights’ watchdogs and activists, including the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Professor Mizanur Rahman, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry has taken measures to stay the executions of five Bangladeshis currently languishing on Death Row in Saudi Arabia. Four of the convicted are currently in Saudi [...]
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