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Bangladesh to export 50,000 T rice to Sri Lanka

Bangladesh will export 50,000 tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka for the first time under a government-to-government deal at $450 a tonne including cost, freight and insurance, Food Minister Mohammad Karmul Islam said on Monday. bangladeshi_rice_400Strong output and good government stocks have prompted the Bangladesh government to initiate the plan to export rice. “We have sufficient stock, and our production is also good. So there will be no crisis due to rice export,” a Bangladesh food ministry official said. In Sri La...

Pakistan, Bangladesh to attend China’s summit

China has called a meeting to strengthen connectivity between Pakistan, Bangladesh and six other neighbouring countries ahead of the APEC summit here. China-flagThe “Dialogue on Strengthening Connectivity Partnership” would be attended by Pakistan, Bangladesh, Laos, Myanmar, Myanmar, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Cambodia, scheduled to be held here on November 8. President Xi Jinping will attend and host the meeting, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying has said. The meeting would be attended by Prime Minister of Pakistan Na...

Robi Career Carnival held at CUET

Robi Axiata Limited, one of the leading mobile phone operators organized a day long program named “Robi Career Carnival” at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) on 27 October, 2014. Robi organized this program to make the students of CUET aware of the career opportunities available with the company and the industry at large. Robi-3The day-long event was packed with a lot of interesting activities for the students. Robi had set up Career Booth inside the campus where information regarding internship opportunities as well as r...

Chevron announces production from Bibiyana expansion project

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), the US-based international oil company, Tuesday formally announced its enhanced gas production from Bibiyana gas field. A press statement, released from Chevron’s headquarters in San Ramon of California, said that its Bangladesh subsidiary has commenced natural gas production from the Bibiyana Expansion Project in the northeastern part of the country. chevron-logo-promoThe project included an expansion of the existing gas plant to process increased natural gas volumes from the Bibiyana Fi...

Jump in machinery imports raises money laundering suspicion  

The imports of capital and other industrial machinery increased by 21 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year compared with that in the same period of the FY2013-14 raising a suspicion of money laundering. According to the latest Bangladesh Bank data, the import of capital machinery and machinery for miscellaneous industries increased to $1.65 billion in July-September of the FY15 from $1.37 billion in the same period of the FY14. money_scamThe year-on-year growth in imports of industrial machinery was around 15 per ...

People in Bangladesh have no legal right to food

Economists, lawyers and farmers on Monday said that people in Bangladesh have no legal entitlement to food as food is not recognised as a right but it is recognized as one of the basic necessities in the country’s constitution. They urged the government to take steps to ensure right to food through enactment of relevant laws. They made their remarks while speaking at a public hearing on right to food at CIRDAP auditorium. Bangladesh Human Rights Commission and Oxfam jointly organised the event. Food rightBHRC chairman Minazur Rahman...
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