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April 2025

Flood leads to UN agency providing food relief in BD

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up relief efforts aimed at reaching tens of thousands of Bangladeshis stranded by a spate of flash floods which struck the South Asian country last week. According to a WFP press release issued earlier this morning, the UN agency is now targeting over 150,000 people in the coastal village of Cox’s Bazar and surrounding areas with over 100 food reliefmetric tons of emergency food supplies transported by boat and truck. Among the food assistance being distributed are vitamin and mineral...

Foundation for Indo-Bangla telecom link laid in Tripura

In an effort to create a hassle-free and potent internet link for the northeastern states, union Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday laid the foundation stone here for an international internet gateway through Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. Agartala, Tripura’s capital city, would be the third international internet gateway in India after Mumbai and Chennai. indo-bd telecom link“After the establishment of the optical fibre cable (OFC) link between Akhaura (along Agartala) and Cox’s Bazar, there would not...

Cocaine smugglers turn to India, BD for new routes, markets

Police who seized Asia’s largest known shipment of liquid cocaine at a Bangladeshi port late last month say it was headed for India, the latest sign that drug cartels are increasingly plying their trade in South Asia. It isn’t clear whether India was the final destination for the cocaine, worth as much as $14 million, or whether it was a transit point for other markets in Asia and Europe. “They wanted to redirect it to India when it got stuck at Chittagong,” Bangladeshi police official CocaineAFPMohammad Kamruzzaman said. Kamruzzaman said they ...

India to get high-speed internet from Bangladesh

North eastern states of India will be soon get high-speed uninterrupted Internet connectivity through an international gateway from Bangladesh connecting north eastern region via Cox Bazar. internetCommunications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will lay the foundation stone on Saturday in Agartala for the installing the cable from Indian side that will connect with the international gateway—a cable connection to transfer voice and data and connect internet services. The telecom connectivity in North East is frequently disturbed due to fragile telecom ...

Little faith in blogger murder investigations

Four secular Bangladeshi writers have been killed since November of 2014: Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam, and writers Avijit Roy, Oyasiqur Rahman Babu and Ananta Bijoy Das. At least a dozen more have been killed and scores of others attacked or threatened with death for their progressive and secular views, since massive protests erupted in 2013 calling for [caption id="attachment_18051" align="alignright" width="800"]Activists demonstrate before the National Press Club in Bangladesh, condemning the murder of writer and blogger Avijit Roy. Image by Sourav Lasker, copyright Demo... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

IBBL Gulshan Branch holds discussion on Ramadan

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) Gulshan Branch organised a discussion on ‘Role of Mahe Ramadan in purifying wealth and soul’ at the branch premises on July 11, 2015, Thursday. Gulshan Br(1)Engr. Md. Eskander Ali Khan, Chairman, Executive Committee of the Bank addressed the program as chief guest. Md. Mosharraf Hossain, Executive Vice President and head of the Dhaka North Zone chaired the program while Dr. Hasan Mohammad Moinuddin, Member, Shariah Supervisory Committee of the bank presented discussion on the topic. Business persons, cust...
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