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Bangladesh NDC team arrives in Sri Lanka

A delegation of 32 service personnel from Bangladesh National Defence College (NDC), headed by Rear Admiral Muhammad Anwarul Islam currently in Sri Lanka on a familiarization tour as part of their curriculum, called on Major General Sumedha Perera, Director General General Staff at the Army Headquarters, Colombo on Friday (12). Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) has extended the invitation for this visit as a token of goodwill and bilateral relations. NDC SLThe delegation on arrival at the Army Headquarters was received by Major General Sumedha Perera ...

India to launch shipping service to Myanmar, Bangladesh

India will soon launch regular shipping service to Myanmar and Bangladesh, a move that would help strengthen ties with the two immediate neighbours. While Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is likely to start fresh shipping lines to run container ships between India and Myanmar in October, sources said commercial trial run of vessels on India-Bangladesh coastal routes will begin in the same month. Officials said that the regular coastal shipping between Bangladesh ports and India’s eastern ports such as Paradip and Haldia may commence by this year-end. ship brea... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

Jamaat gets Indian funds to fan agitation against AL govt

Islamic fundamentalists, mainly Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, received funds from Saradha Group chairman Sudipto Sen, the prime accused in the multi-crore chit fund scam, to fuel agitation against Awami League government, reports Indian media. Saradha Group chairman Sudipto Sen not only funded political parties in India, but also Islamic fundamentalists in Bangladesh, said the report run by the New Indian Express yesterday. Jamaat-e-IslamiInvestigating agencies CBI and Enforcement Directorate have stumbled upon sensational infor...

Girls seek equal opportunity in Bangladesh

Until five years ago, Shima Aktar, a student in Gajaghanta village in the Rangpur district of Bangladesh, about 370 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, was leading a normal life. But when her father decided that it was time for her to conform to purdah, a religious practice of female seclusion, things changed. The young girl, now 16 years old, says her father pulled her out of school at the age of 11 and began to lay plans for her marriage to an older man “for her own protection” he said. girls bdBorn to a hardline Muslim family, pretty, shy...

Most part of fund for Gorai project goes down the drain  

Major irregularities and shoddy work have been detected in the Tk 9.42 billion Gorai river restoration project (phase-II), officials said. Such irregularities have seriously undermined the main objectives of reducing salinity and ensuring higher water flow in the Gorai River, an evaluation report of the government’s Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) has revealed. Officials concerned said the salinity of the Gorai River has increased, water flow has not improved and the river erosion is continuing even after completion of the major portion of the project in last five years, the Financial Express reports.

ACC sues MP Bodi, ex-state ministers Mannan, Mahbubur for illegal wealth

The Anti-Corruption Commission today sued an incumbent lawmaker and two former state ministers on charges of amassing illegal wealth. The accused are Awami League’s Cox’s Bazar-4 lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi and former state minister for water resources Mahbubur Rahman and state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan. acc-logo_3ACC Deputy Directors Khairul Huda, Nasir Uddin and Abdus Subhan filed separate cases with the Ramna Police Station in Dhaka around 4:00pm, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, media and public relations offi...
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