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Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=99000 OU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Bangladesh School Security CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS South / Central Asia - Bangladesh 19 Mar 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 2 Mar 2009 TRAVEL ALERT: BANGLADESH 2 Mar 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: BANGLADESH ANTI-MUTINY OPERATIONS CONTINUE 26 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: BANGLADESH BORDER GUARD REVOLT UPDATE 25 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: BANGLADESH GUNFIRE INCIDENT 29 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: BANGLADESH BISHWA IJTEMA EVENT; POTENTIAL DISRUPTIONS U.S. Embassy Dhaka released the following Warden Message on March 19: The Dhaka...

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Muslims in a village in western Bangladesh have forced two brothers to expel their parents from their home for converting to Christianity. Ishmael Sheikh, 70, and his wife Rahima Khatun, 55, were baptized on Nov. 9. By the end of the month, Sheikh told Compass, Muslim neighbors in Kathuly village, near Gangni town in Meherpur district, had compelled their two sons to expel them from their house. The ailing Sheikh told Compass that his two sons had come under tremendous pressure from neighbors in the village, which was entirely Muslim before the coupled received Christ. The neighbors...

Bangladesh: a building of five floors breaks down, feared victims DACCA - a building of five stages sheltering a textile workshop, stores and offices broke down Saturday in the capital of Bangladesh, Dacca, making fear many victims, one learned from police source. Many employees worked in the textile workshop at the time of the accident, indicated to AFP the assistant prefect of police force of Dacca, Obasidur Rahman. "Of the police officers, the firemen and voluntary are on the spot in order to help the people taken in the debris", it added.

Two killed, over 200 injured in 63 districts: an Islamic group claims responsibility String of bomb blasts rock Bangladesh Countrywide security alert ordered, check posts installed in each district Panic gripped the entire nation following the series of time-bomb explosions in all the district headquarters except Munshiganj that left at least two persons killed and more than 200 others injured on Wednesday. Of the dead, a minor boy was killed on the spot at Savar and a rickshawpuller succumbed to the injuries in Chapainababganj district in the bomb attack and over 50 seriously injured victims were undergoing treatment at...

HADITHA DAM, Iraq (July 27, 2005) -- As the Marines with 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment continue their fight in the Global War on Terrorism, most of them think of it as business and not personal. However, for some Marines who are of the Islamic faith, the war in Iraq hits a personal note. Cpl. Mohammed N. Rahman, who is a Sunni Muslim, fights not only to free the people of Iraq from the insurgents grip and to protect his country (America), but also to redeem his beloved religion. “This is a personal offense, not only to me but others...

Thirty-seven people are dead and about 150 missing after a ferry capsized near the Bangladesh capital Dhaka. "About 200 people were on board the boat, M.V. Maharaj," said police officer-in-charge Shafiqullah, who uses one name. "It capsized in bad weather conditions around midnight last night. "Up until early this morning we had found 37 dead bodies, but we fear that around 150 are missing." The accident took place in the Buriganga river at Pagla Bazar, close to Dhaka.

The US ambassador in Dhaka Monday urged Bangladesh government to launch fight against corruption and weak governance to accelerate the country's growth rate. "In addition to developing basic infrastructure, Bangladesh must energetically attack the twin scourges of corruption and weak governance," Harry K Thomas said while addressing the customers' gathering of Bangla CAT, the official dealer in Bangladesh of US infrastructure equipment giant Caterpillar. "Citizens and investors need confidence in the effectiveness and fairness of country's regulatory and judicial system and to be confident that sanctity of contracts is respected," he said. "Moreover, for markets to operate effectively and fairly...