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Tourism industry bears brunt of oil-spill in Sundarban  

Khulna tourism industry is bearing the brunt of oil spill spread over Shela river and its adjacent canals in Sundarban as oil tanker Southern Star–7 sank in the Shela river in the World’s largest mangrove forest on December 9. Hundreds of people engaged in tourism are now passing their idle time as tourists are reluctant to visit Sundarban following the accident fearing that they would face unwanted situation due to oil spill, said Sundarban Tourist Club executive director Md Abdullah Bony. sundarbansTourists from home and abroad prefe...

China offers preferential loan to renovate KPM      

China has offered preferential loan to renovate the Karnaphuli Paper Mills (KPM) in Chittagong to enhance its production capacity to 30,000 metric tonnes a year. In a letter to the Industries Secretary on December 5, 2014, DGM of the China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC) Zhao Zhengxian also requested the Bangladesh government to take necessary steps for signing an MoU between CMC and Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) to facilitate the works. kpmSources at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) said an internatio...

Switching between mobile operators possible in 3 years    

Mobile operators said they will be able to let users switch from one operator to another without changing their numbers within two to three years. Bangladesh Telecommu-nication Regulatory Commi-ssion is now taking opinions of stakeholders, including subscribers and operators, to introduce the service—mobile number portability (MNP). More than 70 countries have MNP, which increases competition among operators in terms of service quality, said Md Sarwar Alam, BTRC secretary and spokesperson, reports the Daily Star. [caption id="attachment_3606" align="alignleft" width="300"]79 pc mobile SIM re... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

LPG subsidy goes down the drain

Government subsidy of up to Tk 75 crore a year, meant to support LP gas (cooking gas) consumers, is being eaten up by a few middlemen for years. Though these middlemen (dealers) are thriving at the expense of taxpayers’ money, the government has done little in the last five and a half years to correct the price of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC)-produced liquefied petroleum gas in line with the market rate, reports the Daily Star. lpg-subsidy-goesState-owned BPC sells a 12.5kg LP gas cylinder for Tk 700, while pr...

Bangladeshis most active in politics

Bangladesh has ranked the highest in terms of people’s political participation among 33 developing and emerging nations, says a global survey. The country, however, has a very low political efficacy with over two-thirds of the respondents saying government officials do not care about what the people think, it says. The survey, titled “Spring 2014 Global Attitudes Survey” by the US-based Pew Research Centre, shows 65 percent Bangladeshis have higher level of involvement in political affairs and 29 percent medium level, though the Asia region ranks the lowest in this field with an overall median of 24 percent. As regions, the Middle East and Africa have relatively high rates of participation in political affairs.

Modi assures Hamid of resolving Teesta, LBA issues

Reaffirming the Indian government’s commitment on resolving Teesta water sharing and implementation of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) issues, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said his government has been working continuously on these two crucial matters. “We’ve been working on Teesta water sharing and LBA issues for their immediate solution,” the Indian premier said when he met President Abdul Hamid at Hyderabad House, President’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS quoting the meeting. INDIA-BANGLADESH/Modi said...
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