In yet another major initiative strengthening people-to-people cooperation between South Asian nations, people's movements in India joined hands with their Bangladesh counterparts to save the Sunderbans.
This was declared in Delhi by a delegation of 11 senior activists who took part in the Long March organized by National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and started from Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka on March 10 to Kathakhali Morh, Bagherhat district, Bangladesh – a distance of 250 kms from the capital.
Ashok Choudhury, and Roma Malik of All India Union of Forest Working People, Soumya Dutta,
Bangladesh confirmed on Tuesday its first case of the Zika virus in an old sample of blood from a 67-year old man who had not been overseas, health ministry officials said.
The man lives in southeastern port city of Chittagong and was well, junior health minister Zahid Maleque told a news conference. None of his relatives had tested positive, he said.
Mahmudur Rahman, director of the ministry’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, said the man had never traveled outside Bangladesh.
“The virus was foun...
Around 91 percent of Nordic companies doing business in Bangladesh are contemplating to increase their activities in Bangladesh over the coming 3-years period. The reason behind increasing activities in Bangladesh could be due to 34% of the respondents experiencing higher profits compared to other markets they are active in, a rise from 25% in 2013.
There has been a 9% rise in favorability of doing business in Bangladesh since 2013 with 56% of the Nordic businesses reporting a very favorable outlook in 2015.
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On February 5, 2016, cyber-robbers made off with $81 million dollars (US) after successfully executing a series of transactions that traveled through the New York Federal Reserve Bank and moved money to accounts in Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
As the process of investigating and attempting to recover the illegally purloined funds continues, the World Bank has stepped into the fray. It has proposed to help the Bangladesh Bank in its efforts to recover the stolen money and to enhance Bangladesh’s cyber security. The offer came via letter sent to the Bangladesh Bank on Sunday.
The World Bank offered to extend support to the Bangladesh Bank in its efforts to pursue resolution of this matter with the US Federal Reserve. The attack used a Federal Reserve
India has evinced keen interest to invest for developing the Payra seaport in Bangladesh in a move to further strengthen the existing ties between the two neighboring countries.
The interest was shown while Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla
paid a curtsey call with Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan in his secretariat office here today, according to a press release.
During the meeting they discussed bilateral issues including seaports of Chittagong, Mongla, Ashuganj and Pangaon, co...
precious gift of the nature. An appeal was made to them to...
