0 Bangladesh's urbanization developing a health care black hole

Bangladesh Maternal

In 1901, Bangladesh's urban population was under 2%. Now, greater than a century later, urban organizers are predicting the nation's future is going to be certainly one of sprawling, inter-connected metropolises having a largely urban population moving between 100s of metropolitan areas and enormous cities.

This past year, the nation's census demonstrated that from a population in excess of 150 million; just below 30% reside in the quickly growing metropolitan areas and cities, using the urban population growing about 6% annually as huge numbers of people leave rural areas looking for work.

Dhaka soaks up a lot of individuals on the go. Its sprawling slums are proof of the capital's find it difficult to accommodate the countless new citizens. Land is really scarce that individuals have completed rivers round the city to create space for brand new housing. Mass evictions are increasing as landowners obvious out slums to create method for more lucrative building projects. New citizens are progressively pressed to the city's fringes.

0 Teen billed with attempting to inflate Chicago bar

Teen billed with attempting

Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American guy who attempted to detonate what he thought would be a vehicle explosive device outdoors a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors stated Saturday.

Adel Daoud, a U.S. citizen in the Chicago suburb of Hillside, was arrested Friday evening within an undercover operation by which a real estate agent pretending to become a terrorist provided him having a phony vehicle explosive device and viewed him press the trigger, prosecutors stated.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago, which introduced the arrest Saturday, stated the unit was harmless and the public never was in danger.

0 Bangladesh Muslims protest, blocked from March on U.S. embassy

Bangladesh Muslims

About 1,000 Bangladeshi Islamists attempted to march around the U.S. embassy in Dhaka on Thursday to protest against a U.S. film that's stated to insult the Prophet Mohammad but security forces stopped them reaching the mission, police and witnesses stated.

Anti-U.S. protests have exploded in a number of nations now. On Tuesday evening, gunmen stormed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the U.S. ambassador and three other staff members were wiped out.

0 Destiny MD's bail scrapped

Destiny

A Dhaka court has scrapped an earlier order granting bail to 5 top authorities of Destiny 2000 Limited, including its Controlling Director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin, in 2 money washing cases.

Acting Judge Mohammad Aktaruzzaman from the Senior Special Judge's Court gave an order on Wednesday after nodding an Anti Corruption Commission (ACC)'s plea seeking overview of the main Metropolitan Magistrate's Court's decision to grant them bail.

Others, whose bails were scrapped, are Destiny 2000 Limited Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid, Controlling Director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin, and authorities Mohammad Hossain, Mohammad Gofranul Haque and Mohammad Sayeedur Rahman.

0 Ghulam Azam associated with intellectuals' execution

Ghulam Azam

Human privileges activist and freedom fighter Sultana Kamal told the war crimes tribunal on Wednesday that Jamaat-e-Islami guru Ghulam Azam 'must happen to be the main one to approve the execution of intellectuals' in 1971 throughout the Liberation War.

Former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam's defence counsel had requested the prosecution witness whether she understood when and where Azam, indicted for war crimes on Apr 13, had approved the murder from the Bangladeshi intellectuals.

The witness stated the leader of Al Badr, Motiur Rahman Nizami, seemed to be an innovator from the Jamaat. "And because the Jamaat chief should have approved the accomplishments."