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Oman, Bangladesh discuss naval ties

Senior Bangladesh naval personnel met their Omani counterparts on Monday to discuss more cooperation on military training exchanges. Two Bangladesh Navy Ships, BNS Osman and BNS Madhumati, recently paid goodwill visits to Port of Salalah (PoS) and Port Sultan Qaboos on their way back to home country after completing a tour of duty with the multinational Maritime Task Force as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). oman-bdSMAK Azad, commanding officer, BNS Osman and Commander Sharif, commanding officer, BNS Madhumati paid a courte...

Maritime dispute with India: Bangladesh gets 19,467sq km area in Bay

Settling a longstanding India-Bangladesh maritime boundary dispute, a Hague-based international court has awarded Bangladesh 19,467square kilometres out of 25,602 sq km disputed area in the Bay of Bengal. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali disclosed this at a press briefing in the afternoon. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) delivered the verdict after nearly five years of argument and counter argument by the two nations, spot visit by judges and examination of survey reports. maritime-mapThe judgement is final and cannot be ...

DMRC to train Bangladesh officials on ballastless tracks

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will be organising a training programme on ballastless tracks for professionals of urban rail-based systems in the country along with those from Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal. "The three-day programme scheduled to be held next month will focus on various aspects of installation and maintenance of such tracks, which are now being used by most Metro systems including Delhi Metro," a DMRC official said. Ballast-less trackThe ballastless technology facilitates the movement of trains in high speed ...

Consignment leaves Vizag port for Tripura via Bangaladesh

Dispatch of raw rice stock from Visakhapatnam to Agartala in Tripura in the northeast region through multi model transportation ie, sea-river-road started today in the port area. The activity has been undertaken by the Food Corporation of India, AP region, to meet the public distribution system requirements. bd-indiaIt involves transportation of stock from Vizag port to Diamond Habour in Kolkata by a ship. At Diamond Harbour, the stock will be transshipped into barges and taken through river movement up to Bangladesh. Thereafter, it will transit Banglade...

Four more border haats approved in Meghalaya

The haats are aimed at increasing bilateral trade and improve living conditions of border residents India and Bangladesh have approved setting up of four more border haats along the Indo-Bangla border in Meghalaya with an aim of increasing bilateral trade and improve living conditions of border residents. borderhaat-112"The Government of India and Government of Bangladesh have approved setting up of four more haats along the border, apart from the two which have been in operation for the past three years," Meghalaya Chief Secret...

Saree diplomacy between India and Bangladesh  

It is time for saree diplomacy in the South Asian region. What started of as a one –off affair a month ago between India and Pakistan, has now reached Dhaka marking the first stand alone foreign visit of Sushma Swaraj, the Indian External Affairs Minister. Former premier Khaleda Zia presented two Jamdani sarees to Swaraj at her 30-minute meeting (one of the sarees was a gift for the visiting minister’s daughter) on Friday. The Indian officials have described the Zia-Swaraj meeting as Delhi’s effort to reach out to all sections of Bangladesh society. . On Thursday the Indian minister met Prime Minister Sheik Hasina and presented a cream-coloured saree. In return Hasina gifted her famous Bangladeshi Jamdani saree.
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