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Arms seized in Mizoram meant for CHT Shanti Bahini

Mizoram police officials today said that the arms seized near Lengpui, about 40 km west from here, was meant for Bangladesh insurgent group Parabatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS.) The officials said that PCJSS, led by Santulrama, was a breakaway group of the erstwhile Shanti Bahini, a Chakma insurgent group fighting for autonomy of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, before signing accord with the Bangladesh government on December 2, 1997. shanti bahiniThe arms seized yesterday included five modified AK-47 assault rifles, 5100 r...

NBR selects 50 for coveted ‘Tax Card’

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has preliminarily selected 50 names for the prestigious ‘Tax Card’ for 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal years. Of the 50, according to sources at the NBR, 40 names will finally be selected for the Tax Card to honour top taxpayers in different sectors, including the service and manufacturing one, for their contributions to the national exchequer, reports UNB. “This will support and help them reduce hassles in tax filing. The Tax Card is also aimed at encouraging other taxpayers to regularly and properly pay taxes,” an NBR official told UNB. nb... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

India’s first cross-country pipeline to connect Bangladesh

India’s first cross-country pipeline will connect to Bangladesh. Assam-based Numaligarh Refineries Limited (NRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), will shortly begin work on laying a product pipeline from Siliguri in West Bengal to Parbatipur in Bangladesh. The pipeline would allow BPCL to penetrate the Bangladeshi market and ensure sustained supply of petroleum products to Bangladesh. bd-indiaThe length of the pipeline would be approximately 170 km and NRL would export high speed diesel (HSD), and motor spirit t...

Floating above Bangladesh’s floods

Climate change is a serious problem pretty much everywhere, but for low-lying, heavily populated Bangladesh, rising sea levels are a mortal threat. The massive floods this week that have left nearly half a million people homeless make that fact excruciatingly clear. [caption id="attachment_9044" align="alignleft" width="300"]flood Children are let out of class for the day from a solar-powered floating school, operated by Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, on May 20 in Pabna District, Bangladesh. (Photo: Allison Joyce/Getty Images)[/caption] It may be too late t...

India to launch shipping service to Myanmar, Bangladesh

India will soon launch regular shipping service to Myanmar and Bangladesh, a move that would help strengthen ties with the two immediate neighbours. While Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is likely to start fresh shipping lines to run container ships between India and Myanmar in October, sources said commercial trial run of vessels on India-Bangladesh coastal routes will begin in the same month. Officials said that the regular coastal shipping between Bangladesh ports and India’s eastern ports such as Paradip and Haldia may commence by this year-end. ship brea... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

‘Infoladies’ bring change in rural Bangladesh

After she became pregnant for the first time last year, Nilufer Yasmin says “thousands of queries” popped into her mind. The young woman, who lives in the northern town of Bogra, sought help in a unique way: from an “Infolady”, one of more than 50 young women in rural Bangladesh who reach the country’s remotest villages, on bicycle, to provide health, agricultural and information technology services. infoladyYasmin says the Infolady helped connect her to a government service that provides advice over the telephone for expecting mothers - ri...
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