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NDA will send Bangladeshis back: Modi    

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday threatened to deport Bangladeshi immigrants if NDA comes to power, saying they were being welcomed with red carpets for vote bank politics. “I want to warn from here, brothers and sisters write down, that after May 16,  beyond the border with their bags and baggage,” Modi said alleging that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was pursuing vote bank politics. modi“You are spreading the red carpet for the Bangladeshis for the sake of vote bank politics,” he said in this largely mixed co...

First TICFA meet begins Monday  

The first meeting of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA), which has already been effective since January this year, will begin in the capital on Monday. “We’ve good preparations for the meeting.duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) market access and GSP will be the key agenda in the first TICFA meeting on Bangladesh side,” Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed told BSS today (Saturday). ticfa2Mahbub described the two-day meeting as a high-level bilateral engagement between Dhaka and Washington and said it will help find ways for increasing t...

Dhaka, Delhi move to repatriate warriors’ remains  

“India has been very sympathetic to our request for detection of the graves of our freedom fighters for reburial on the land they fought for. It will open up a new horizon in our relations,” said Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, who previously headed the Liberation War Affairs Ministry. West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya have begun the painstaking process of locating the fighters’ graves, digging up their remains and shipping them home for burial, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka announced earlier this year. The four border states appointed nodal officers to facilitate the process, according to the commission. The 4,000 or so fighters who died in combat or went missing in action were scattered in borderland states during the nine-month war. As of January, officials had ...

Mozena considers Bangladesh with deep strategic interest

Rather than saying “tiny Bangladesh” or “poor Bangladesh,” U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena said he considers Bangladesh as the country with the eighth largest population, the third largest Muslim population and one with deep strategic interest to America. mozenaHe was addressing non-resident Bangladeshis in the San Francisco Bay Area during a town-hall meeting organized by Agami, a San FranciscoBay area-based non-profit organization working to promote education for the underprivileged chil...

Bangladesh not to follow Japanese law constructing Chancery Complex

Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee has turned down a proposal of the Foreign Ministry to follow Japanese law in appointing contractor for the construction Bangladesh Chancery Complex in Tokyo. Rather, the Cabinet body asked the Foreign Ministry to go for direct procurement process under the purview of Bangladesh public procurement law (PPA) 2006. bangladesh-tokyoIn its proposal, the Foreign Ministry sought the waiver from following the Bangladesh law and instead following the Japanese law in th...

Bangladesh agrees to open power corridor for India

Dhaka has agreed to provide transit facility for a 6,000-megawatt Indian power transmission line while parts of the quantum could be used by Bangladesh. "A committee has been formed to see the feasibility of transmitting power through Rangia Raota in Assam to Borakpur in Bihar through Boro Pukuria in northwestern Dinajpur in Bangladesh," Bangladesh's power secretary Monowar Islam told a joint media briefing with his Indian counterpart Pradeep Kumar Sinha on Thursday. bd-indiaThe briefing came after a...
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