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Protect migratory birds to ensure healthy ecosystem: Experts

Wildlife experts and environmentalists have stressed the need for protecting migratory birds in the country to ensure a healthy ecosystem. “Migratory birds are a part of our ecosystem and if the birds population declines our ecosystem will be badly affected,” Conservator of Forests Dr Tapan Kumar Dey, said at a discussion marking the World Migratory Bird Day 2014. The Forest Department under the Ministry of Environment and Forests organised the discussion at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city on Sunday, reports UNB. ParijiThe World M...

REHAB keen to build govt-proposed 22,000 flats  

Real Estate & Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) has said it wants to build 22,000 apartments in the city’s Uttara and Kamrangirchar areas opposing the government plan to award the job to Malaysia. A REHAB delegation, led by its president Mokarram Hossain Khan, on Sunday met Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain at his ministry office and placed the demand. The REHAB president requested the minister to award the construction works to members of the association saying, “Now there’re some 22,000 flats of its members that remain unsold. So, such foreign investment will deepen the crisis in the country’s housing sector.”

Sudan keen to import jute, jute goods from Bangladesh    

Sudan expressed its interest to import jute, jute goods and pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh. The non-resident Sudanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dr Hassan E El Talib, expressed this interest when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganobhaban residence here on Sunday evening. He also requested the Prime Minister to encourage Bangladeshi investors to invest in his country in shipbreaking industry. jute goodsPM’s special assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil briefed reporters after the meeting, reports BSS. Dr Talib co...

Bangladeshi expats’ passport troubles to be thing of past soon  

Bangladeshi expatriates will soon find it easier to get machine readable passports (MRPs), the country’s embassy in Muscat has said. The Bangladesh government will outsource the work of converting handwritten passports into machine readable ones to a private firm this year, it added. passport BdInternational Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) earlier notified member countries that it would not accept international passengers without machine readable passports after March 31, 2015. “This project will significantly help replace the r...

Traders seek business tie-ups at Siliguri trade fair  

Bangladesh traders are attending a trade fair here, with the objective of expanding their business opportunities. The Kanchenjunga Trade Fair is being held in a stadium. Traditional Bangladesh saris, including Dakai Jamdani, Dakai Silk, Dakai Kota, Tangail Tat and Moslin, and many more varieties, have been put on display at fair stalls. bd-indiaA customer, Laxmi Kundu, said: "I am glad that this fair is happening. I have purchased some things that I liked. If possible, I would have liked to go to Bangladesh, but I would like more goods to come from...

Boishakher Valobasha : Kobitai Gane  

Ghashful, a media house organized a program on ‘Boishakher Valobasha : Kobitai Gane’ on Sunday (May 11, 2014) at Conference Lounge of National Press Club. GhashfulPresided over by Poet Rubi Rahman the gathering of country noted poets starts playing guitar by guitarist Rehana Matlub. Shahadat Hossain Nipu and Rabeya Sultana Panna recited the romantic poem. Poet Farid Ahmed Dulal presented the keynote paper. Noted poets in the program expressed love through their self composed poems. Poet Mahbub Mahbub Talukder, Rafique Azad, Al-Mujahidi, Rab...
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