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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...

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...

TIB study unearths huge graft in land offices

Revealing widespread corruption and irregularities in the country’s land service sector, a new study shows that land owners have to bribe up to Tk 2 lakh for the mutation work of a plot of land, reports news UNB. The study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) unfolds various bribery rates in different land services and civil suits relating to land disputes. It says land owners are forced to bribe Tk 100-10,000 in paying Land tib logoDevelopment Tax (LDT) while Tk 1,000-50,000 for land registration, Tk 200-1,000 for withdrawal of re...

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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