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Malaysia will discuss ‘migrant boats’ issue

The issue of Rohingya community from Myanmar and Bangladeshi nationals that fled to Malaysia would be the highlight of a meeting between Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman and his Bangladesh counterpart scheduled tomorrow. boat capsizeAnifah, while stating that nothing much can be said until the meeting with AH Mahmud Ali, admitted that the topic would be 'a very important one among other agendas'. More than a thousand Myanmar and Bangladesh migrants landed at Langkawi in boats on Sunday, as Thailand rolls out crackdown on human ...

ICT industry: A boon for women’s employment

Bangladesh has made strong strides in accelerating growth over the last decades. However, the country needs to grow around 8% yearly to reach middle income status. Innovation and use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) can help end poverty and boost shared prosperity. The World Bank, in partnership with Microsoft, organized a two-day ‘Innovation for Impact” workshop to support local ict women 2Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in integrating ICT into their work, which in turn would help these NGOs create jobs, especially for wo...

Border pact is testimony to what spirit of cooperation can achieve

Parliament’s passage of the bill on the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh brings to an end anomalies of the Radcliffe Award hastily drawn up in the days before Partition, which had continued despite earlier efforts in the Nehru-Noon accord of 1958. The 1974 Indira-Mujib accord was approved shortly by the Bangladesh parliament. India did not do so as the acquisition or surrender of any territory required precise determination of the territory involved. bd-indiaIn fact, in order to become effective, the Bangladesh constitutional amendment had t...

Stop pornography in social media: HC

The High Court today (Sunday) directed the government to stop uploading and sending pornography, vulgar picture and video by service providers through mobile phones and social media including Facebook and Tweeter in seven days. say_no_to_pornIn response to a writ petition, the court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks as to why its inaction to stop such activities in the social media should not be declared illegal. Chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission and secretary to the M...

Over 1,500 Bangladesh civil servants to get training in India

Over 1,500 Bangladesh civil services officers are likely to be trained in the next three years in different Indian institutions, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said here today. Interacting with visiting Bangladeshi Minister Begum Ismat Ara Sadique, who had called upon him here, the Minister expressed satisfaction over growth in bilateral relations between the two nations. bd-indiaReferring to traditional ties between India and Bangladesh, Singh said that it was a matter of great satisfaction that in recent times the bilateral relations had grown further at...

India-Bangladesh boundary bill passed

The Lok Sabha today passed the constitution amendment bill to implement the historic land boundary agreement with Bangladesh, completing the stamp of approval by Indian parliament to settle the more than four-decade-old land boundary and exchange of enclaves issues. bd-indiaThe bill was unanimously passed by Rajya Sabha yesterday. The same bill was okayed by Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, around 6:10pm (Indian time). Moving the 119th Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha earlier in the day, which w...
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