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Joint marine research with India

In a first of its kind, India will conduct a joint marine research with Bangladesh in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to understand the ecology of the Bay of Bengal that affects the climatic conditions of the region. A team of scientists from the CSIR’s National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) will head to the Bay of Bengal in October-November along with its Research Vessel (RV) Sindhu Sadhana. bd-indiaThereafter India will also train Bangladeshi scientists in the field. India is also pushing for a joint cooperation in the field of oceanography ...

Discuss on BD-USA security issues Sept 11

Bangladesh and the United States (US) will discuss regional cooperation, and traditional and non-traditional security issues including cooperation in countering terrorism in the upcoming fourth Security Dialogue to be held in Washington DC on September 11. The Foreign Ministry notified the date of the dialogue officially on Monday and said issued like bd-us-flag1cyber security, disaster management, military cooperation and peacekeeping operations in the UN will be discussed in the meet. The Foreign Ministry said the cooperation between the two...

RMB instead of US$ advised for Sino-BD trade transaction

Bankers from Bangladesh and China suggested introduction of transaction in RMB (Chinese Yuan) instead of US Dollar for International Trade between the two countries. This will help in reducing cost of production and price volatility due to changing exchange rates of US Dollar between Bangladesh and Chinese currencies. It will also save additional costs as this will involve two currencies instead of three. This was suggested by the participants during a day-long Seminar on Bangladesh China Trade Finance : Role of Banks in Kunming, China last Friday ( 21 August). A total 45 senior

Russian copters with Russian credit

Russia would supply six Mil Mi-171Sh military and transport helicopters and one Mi-171E rotocraft to Bangladesh. The supply is a part of an agreement signed in April 2015, Russia’s Tass news agency reported. Rosoboronexport also said that it would provide the Asian country a loan of $1 billion so that it could buy the helicopters. [caption id="attachment_19211" align="alignright" width="650"]putin Russian President Putin looks on as the head of Rosoboronexport Chemezov and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s CEO Baweja sign an agreement at MAKS-2005 international air sh...

Govt to approve proposal for new road to Myanmar

Bangladesh’s economic policy-making body is all set to approve a proposal for constructing a new road to Myanmar, aimed at boosting bilateral trade, an official said Monday. A Planning Ministry official who did not like to be named said the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council will likely approve the proposal on Tuesday in a meeting with BD-MyanmarPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports Xinhua. The 540 million taka (about 7 million US dollars) proposed new road will pass through Bangladesh’s two southeastern hilly dist...

China to build floating oil terminal for Bangladesh

The government is set to sign a contract with a Chinese company next month to establish the country’s first floating terminal in the Bay of Bengal to unload imported fuel oil, officials said yesterday. bangladesh-and-china-flagEnergy division officials said a state-owned Chinese company is to obtain the work order from the Bangladesh government to install the floating terminal - single point mooring (SPM) - in the sea near Maheshkhali Island. The energy division requested the planning commission (PC) last week to a...
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