Senior Bangladesh naval personnel met their Omani counterparts on Monday to discuss more cooperation on military training exchanges.
Two Bangladesh Navy Ships, BNS Osman and BNS Madhumati, recently paid goodwill visits to Port of Salalah (PoS) and Port Sultan Qaboos on their way back to home country after completing a tour of duty with the multinational Maritime Task Force as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
SMAK Azad, commanding officer, BNS Osman and Commander Sharif, commanding officer, BNS Madhumati paid a courte...
Settling a longstanding India-Bangladesh maritime boundary dispute, a Hague-based international court has awarded Bangladesh 19,467square kilometres out of 25,602 sq km disputed area in the Bay of Bengal.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali disclosed this at a press briefing in the afternoon.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) delivered the verdict after nearly five years of argument and counter argument by the two nations, spot visit by judges and examination of survey reports.
The judgement is final and cannot be ...
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will be organising a training programme on ballastless tracks for professionals of urban rail-based systems in the country along with those from Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal.
"The three-day programme scheduled to be held next month will focus on various aspects of installation and maintenance of such tracks, which are now being used by most Metro systems including Delhi Metro," a DMRC official said.
The ballastless technology facilitates the movement of trains in high speed ...
Dispatch of raw rice stock from Visakhapatnam to Agartala in Tripura in the northeast region through multi model transportation ie, sea-river-road started today in the port area. The activity has been undertaken by the Food Corporation of India, AP region, to meet the public distribution system requirements.
It involves transportation of stock from Vizag port to Diamond Habour in Kolkata by a ship. At Diamond Harbour, the stock will be transshipped into barges and taken through river movement up to Bangladesh. Thereafter, it will transit Banglade...
Only 5 million of Bangladesh’s 152 million citizens have regular Internet access. Three-quarters live in rural villages. The Infoladies, a group of about 50 women in their early 20s, travel through the countryside equipped with a laptop computer, a tablet, a smartphone, a digital camera, and a glucometer ministering to the technologically impoverished.
Mahfuza Akhter, 24, an Infolady, sets up a Skype session so Abdul Kashem can show off a newborn calf to his son in Saudi Arabia. The most requested activity is setting up Skype calls to male relatives, many of whom have left to take jobs in the Middle East. Mahfuza weighs a pregnant 18-year-old. As they bike from village to village, they help villagers with a range of digital tasks, such as taking blood-sugar readings and looking up in...
The haats are aimed at increasing bilateral trade and improve living conditions of border residents
India and Bangladesh have approved setting up of four more border haats along the Indo-Bangla border in Meghalaya with an aim of increasing bilateral trade and improve living conditions of border residents.
"The Government of India and Government of Bangladesh have approved setting up of four more haats along the border, apart from the two which have been in operation for the past three years," Meghalaya Chief Secret...
