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July 3, 2023

2 deals inked with Bhutan

Bangladesh and Bhutan today signed two agreements, including one on trade which will allow the two neighbouring countries to enjoy duty-free export of 90 items to each other. Another agreement is on allocation of a land at Dhaka city’s Baridhara diplomatic enclave to Bhutan for the construction of its embassy. bd-bhutanCommerce Minister Tofail Ahmed and Bhutan’s Economic Affairs Minister Norbu Wangchuk inked the agreement on trade for their respective counties, while Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Bhutanese counterpart Rinzin Do...

Dhaka, Colombo sign deal to import rice to Sri Lanka  

The Contract to purchase 25,000 metric tons of coarse rice from Bangladesh on a Government to Government basis was signed by the Governments of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh on 03 December 2014 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mr.Nalin Fernando, Chairman of Lanka Sathosa Ltd, Sri Lanka and Mr. Sarwar Khan, Director General of, Directorate of Food, Bangladesh signed the Agreement on behalf of the Governments of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively. rice dealUnder the provisions of the Contract, Sri Lanka agreed to purchase 25,000 metric tons of non-fragran...

Bangladeshi student raped in India

A Bangladeshi girl studying here was allegedly raped by her local guardian, who has been arrested by the police.  Birbhum Police Superintendent Alok Rajoria said today that the man, who had allegedly raped the girl, was himself from Bangladesh. rapeThe girl in her complaint to the police said that she was being blackmailed by the man, who had taken her photographs. The man was arrested from here last night on the basis of the complaint lodged at Bolpur Police Station by the student yesterday, he said. The girl was a residential student, while th...

DDCs urged to control dust  

Green activists on Saturday urged the Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs) and other authorities concerned  to take immediate steps to properly control air pollution caused by dust in the city, which poses severe threat to human health and environment. They made the call at a human chain programme jointly organised by Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) and BCHRD in front of the National Museum in the capital. Tobacco TalePoba chairman Abu Naser Khan, BCHRD executive director Mahbub Haque, Debdas G...

New technology for energy without fuel  

Bangladesh has huge potentials to generate energy without any fuel using a new technology, ‘Heavy Circular Moving Object’s Triggering Energy Conversion’ (HECMOTE), said a leading scientist. “This is a very new technology. This doesn’t require any fuel. It’s a big thing,” prominent scientist Prof Dr M Shamsher Ali told UNB on Friday. engergyProf Ali, also former Vice Chancellor of Bangladesh Open University (BOU) and ex-President of Bangladesh Science Academy, said proper funding can help scale up the initiative generating over 100 megawatt e...

India proposes another bus service to Bangladesh  

Aiming to strengthen people-to-people contact between India and Bangladesh, the central government on Saturday said it plans to introduce regular passenger bus service to Dhaka from Assam’s Guwahati via Meghalaya’s Shillong. This will be in addition to two passenger bus services to Dhaka, already operating from Kolkata in West Bengal and Agartala in Tripura. “Government plans to introduce regular passenger bus services to Dhaka from Guwahati in Assam via Shillong in Meghalaya,” an official statement said here. bd-indiaTo study and finalise the rout...