Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today requested the Centre to talk to Bangladesh government for restarting railway services from Agartala to the neighbouring country. "Government of Bangladesh may be pursued to take all necessary actions and Railway Ministry may take up this (restoration of rail link) construction work with highest priority," Sarkar said at the
conference of Chief Ministers of all North Eastern states.
"Prior to independence, towns in Tripura were connected by railway network with erstwhile East Pakistan, presen...
Major irregularities and shoddy work have been detected in the Tk 9.42 billion Gorai river restoration project (phase-II), officials said.
Such irregularities have seriously undermined the main objectives of reducing salinity and ensuring higher water flow in the Gorai River, an evaluation report of the government’s Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) has revealed.
Officials concerned said the salinity of the Gorai River has increased, water flow has not improved and the river erosion is continuing even after completion of the major portion of the project in last five years, the Financial Express reports.
The central bank has started the process of disbursing loan for jute millers and traders from its refinance fund to help them purchase raw jute. The bank has already directed about two dozens of scheduled banks to start disbursement of the loan.
Bangladesh Bank set up a Tk 200 crore refinance fund last year to help jute growers to have fair prices and jute millers and traders in purchasing required amount of raw jute during the season to run their mills and business, reports the Financial Express.
A recent meeting of Bangladesh Bank took the decision to disburse the loan among the state-owned jute mills, private jute mills and raw jute traders. The BB also issued a circular to managing directors and chief executive officers of all scheduled banks saying that the board of directors...
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has accused Russia of a “flagrant violation of international law” after Russian humanitarian aid lorries entered Ukraine without permission.
More than 100 Russian lorries had entered on Friday without any customs clearance or Red Cross escort, he said.
Reports say the first trucks have reached the rebel-held city of Luhansk in the eastern war zone.
Russia accused Ukraine of unreasonable obstruction and sent the convoy in, reports BBC.
Ukraine’s security chief Valentyn Nalyvay...
National flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines is planning to appoint fresh pilots for the smooth operation of its flights.
“At a recent meeting, we’ve discussed the issue and asked Biman to appoint fresh pilots for its fleet,” Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon told UNB.
The minister also said he has instructed the Biman authorities to give priority to picking pilots from local people as there is a scope for utilising some 10 cadet pilots now sitting idle.
“Local pilots will be our main choice for the national flag carrier and ...
Bangladesh has decided to set up an economic zone exclusively for the entrepreneurs of Japan, the world’s third largest economic power.
“We have a plan to set up eight new economic zones across the country. We may allow the zone at Mirsarai in Chittagong for Japanese investors,” said Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday.
“The decision to allow a separate economic zone for the Japanese investors has already been made,” Tofail told reporters after a meeting with Norihiko Inshiguro, vice-minister of economy, trade and industry of Japan, at the Secretariat, Daily Star reports.
“We may finalise the allocation of the economic zone during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next month,” he said, adding that the government had acquired 8,000 acres of land in Mirsarai.
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