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Law to regulate govt employees’ marriage with foreigners

The government proposed a bill in parliament that would regulate the nuptials of all public servants with foreigners, reports said in Dhaka on Thursday. Local government minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Wednesday night proposed the bill titled Public Servants (Marriage with Foreign Nationals) Bill, 2015 that suggested the government employees must obtain presidential assent to marry or even agree to marry a foreign national. laws“A public servant who contravenes the provisions shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law or in the terms and con...

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...

Tazreen owners indicted

A Bangladesh court ordered on Thursday two garment factory owners and 11 others stand trial for causing the death of 111 workers, almost three years after the country’s worst industrial fire. Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter were formally charged over the blaze that tore rana-plaza-1jpgthrough the Tazreen factory on Dhaka’s outskirts, trapping workers who stitched clothes for Western retailers. “The court charged the 13 including Delwar and his wife with causing death by negligence,” prosecutor Khandakar Abdul Mannan said outs...

Woman accuses priest of abuse

A Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against a Catholic priest on Aug. 30, about a month after a woman accused the priest of abuse and refusing to marry her after nearly 10 years of an alleged intimate relationship. Felicita Murmu, 44, a Catholic from the indigenous Santal community, filed her case against Father Patras Hembrom, 43, also a Santal, on July 28 under the country’s Women and Children Repression Act. Murmu’s lawyer Debendra Nath said that if found guilty, Father Hembrom could face 10 years in jail plus a fine. “Having a physical relationship with a woman with a false promise of marriage is a serious crime according to the law,” she said. Murmu said she was left with no option except to pursue a legal claim against the priest for his past alleged abuses.

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...
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