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Girl rescued while trafficking in India

 The Indian border guards have handed back to Bangaldesh a 13-year-old girl who was allegedly being trafficked through a riverine area along the international frontier. The incident occurred on March 4 when a patrol party of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Gunarmath area of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal detected some movement along the bank of Ichhamati river along the Indo-Bangla border. stop_women_abuseOn being challenged, two ...

Inflation cools in February, could climb again

Bangladesh's annual inflation cooled in February for the first time since November, the Statistics Bureau said on Thursday, as political turmoil eased after an election in January, but it could go up again once electricity tariffs are raised. Inflation eased to 7.44 percent in February from 7.50 percent a month earlier, as non-food prices fell. inflationFood prices were 8.84 percent higher than a year earlier in February, a touch higher than January's 8.81 percent rise. In contr...

More 100mw from India likely

India may have finally promised Bangladesh 100 MW of electricity from the ONGC Tripura Power Company-promoted 736.6 MW gas-based facility at Palatana in Tripura. India sells 500 MW of electricity a day to Dhaka through West Bengal border. Of the total, 250 MW is sourced from NTPC at Central Electricity Regulatory Commission determined tariff. The rest is traded through open market deals. bd-indiaAccording to media reports in Kolkata and Dhaka, at a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Seikh Hasina, a...

Bangladesh team visits WSU to expand expertise in electricity

A group from Bangladesh traveled halfway across the world to learn to better develop electrification in their country from Washington State University (WSU) experts in power engineering. “We are working for the villagers,” said Abdul Aziz, executive engineer with his country’s Rural Electrification Board (REB), whose members will spend several weeks in Pullman. “We are learning methods at WSU that will help us bring the villagers better service and an improved distribution system.” Bangladesh-tour-of-Avista-450

AIBL EC Meeting held

The 430th meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL) was held at the Board Room of the Bank on Thursday (March 06, 2014). 20140306_aibl_EC_pressAbdul Malek Mollah, Vice Chairman of the Committee presided over the meeting. The meeting reviewed overall business performance of the Bank. Members of the Committee  Nazmul Ahsan Khaled,   Hafez Md. Enayet Ullah,  Ahamedul Haque,  Abu Naser Md. Yeahea,  Engr. Kh. Mesbah Udd...

Eastland Ins holds annual conference

The Regional/Branch Managers’ Conference-2014 of Eastland Insurance Company Ltd was held on Thursday, the 6th March, 2014 in the Auditorium of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the capital. EIC Press PhotoMahbubur Rahman, Chairman of the Company inaugurated the Conference. The Chairman in his inaugural speech expressed satisfaction on overall performance of the Company and praised the Officials for their commendable achievement during the year 2013. He called upon the Managers to face the challenge ahead and maintain ...
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