The first meeting of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA), which has already been effective since January this year, will begin in the capital on Monday.
“We’ve good preparations for the meeting.duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) market access and GSP will be the key agenda in the first TICFA meeting on Bangladesh side,” Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed told BSS today (Saturday).
Mahbub described the two-day meeting as a high-level bilateral engagement between Dhaka and Washington and said it will help find ways for increasing t...
“India has been very sympathetic to our request for detection of the graves of our freedom fighters for reburial on the land they fought for. It will open up a new horizon in our relations,” said Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, who previously headed the Liberation War Affairs Ministry.
West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya have begun the painstaking process of locating the fighters’ graves, digging up their remains and shipping them home for burial, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka announced earlier this year. The four border states appointed nodal officers to facilitate the process, according to the commission.
The 4,000 or so fighters who died in combat or went missing in action were scattered in borderland states during the nine-month war. As of January, officials had ...
The US continues to press for greater political inclusion in Bangladesh without which the Asian country’s stability will be at risk, a top Obama Administration official has said.
“In Bangladesh, we continue to press for greater political inclusion, without which, a more stable and prosperous future is put at risk,” Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Nisha Desai Biswal, said in her address at the prestigious Harvard University.
At the same time, she praised Bangladesh for its achievement in the socio ...
Rather than saying “tiny Bangladesh” or “poor Bangladesh,” U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena said he considers Bangladesh as the country with the eighth largest population, the third largest Muslim population and one with deep strategic interest to America.
He was addressing non-resident Bangladeshis in the San Francisco Bay Area during a town-hall meeting organized by Agami, a San FranciscoBay area-based non-profit organization working to promote education for the underprivileged chil...
Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee has turned down a proposal of the Foreign Ministry to follow Japanese law in appointing contractor for the construction Bangladesh Chancery Complex in Tokyo.
Rather, the Cabinet body asked the Foreign Ministry to go for direct procurement process under the purview of Bangladesh public procurement law (PPA) 2006.
In its proposal, the Foreign Ministry sought the waiver from following the Bangladesh law and instead following the Japanese law in th...
Dhaka has agreed to provide transit facility for a 6,000-megawatt Indian power transmission line while parts of the quantum could be used by Bangladesh.
"A committee has been formed to see the feasibility of transmitting power through Rangia Raota in Assam to Borakpur in Bihar through Boro Pukuria in northwestern Dinajpur in Bangladesh," Bangladesh's power secretary Monowar Islam told a joint media briefing with his Indian counterpart Pradeep Kumar Sinha on Thursday.
The briefing came after a...
