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Indian Foreign Secretary to visit Dhaka on March 2

New Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar is coming to Dhaka on Mar 2. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Feb 13 informed his counterpart Sheikh Hasina by telephone that he will be sending his new foreign secretary to Dhaka. Jaishankar_Foreign_Secretary_650-450x256A senior foreign ministry official confirmed the date of his visit. The foreign ministry official said they got the date on Sunday. “He will visit for a day and leave on Mar 3.” Modi replaced Sujatha Singh ...

More incentive for PPP projects

Apparently desperate to make its plan to implement mega projects under public-private financing successful for fastening development process, the government is going to offer a number of new incentives to attract more investment in Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects. govtFollowing repeated failure in bringing a breakthrough in the development process, the government now has taken a fresh move to make its earlier planned PPP concept popular and attractive to prospective investors, both at home and abroad. Around Tk 4,000 crore of PPP fund fo...

Kerry seeks govt’s action to peacefully end violence

United States Secretary of State John Kerry has called for Bangladesh government's action to peacefully end the recent violence in the country and pulled up on political parties for targeting the civilians during agitation. [caption id="attachment_13144" align="alignleft" width="300"]kerry Secretary of State John Kerry participates in the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism Foreign Fighter Ministerial at the State Department in Washington February 19. Photo: Reuters[/caption] “The Secretary called for government action to peacefully end the...

Govt’s no to UN overture to talks

Acknowledging the UN chief’s letter with a call for dialogue, the Awami League government on Wednesday rejected outright the possibility of talks with the BNP. “The government’s stand is clear: we don’t want to talk to any killer,” state minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam said. “I don’t see any dialogue.” Ban ki MoonThe state minister confirmed the receipt of UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon’s letter dated 30 January to prime minister Sheikh Hasina, two weeks later though. “We were hearing (about the letter) but conspicuo...

Bangladesh on the brink of political disaster

Bangladesh, a South Asian country of 150 million people, is on the brink of disaster now after facing a prolonged political turmoil for over a year. The recent bouts of political violence began on January 3 when police, on the order of the Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, acted very highhandedly and banned all the protests in the national capital city of Dhaka. The police also confined the leader of the country’s hartalmain opposition, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, BNP, Khaleda Zia, to her office. Apparently this was done to neutralize the oppositi...

UN sends official to broker peace deal to end BD unrest

UN Chief Ban-Ki-moon has assigned a senior official to Bangladesh to broker a peace initiative in the ongoing political unrest that has claimed over 100 lives in the country. "The secretary general is personally committed to the stability and positive development of Bangladesh," local media on Friday quoted a UN spokesman as saying. Bangladeshi textile workers run to safetThe UN secretary general's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Ban tasked UN's assistant secretary general Oscar Fernandez-Taranco to liaise with the government and "he's d...
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