When seemingly unending political street-battles gripped Bangladesh in late 2006, the United Nations pushed the country’s military in a circuitous way to take over the administration, brazenly violating its own charter that bars the world institution from interfering in any member state’s internal affairs.
The UN coerced the reluctant Bangalee generals by threatening them with the loss of their participation in international peacekeeping jobs, which are highly prized by Bangladesh’s armed forces. On 11 January 2007, the military grudgingly agreed to rule the country from behind the scenes and created a facade of a civilian administration with an ailing president and a rubber-stamp council of advisers, who acted as cabinet ministers. This unprecedented political posture was dubbed as ...
Andhra Pradesh region of Food Corporation of India has undertaken the challenging and novel task of dispatch of raw rice stocks from Visakhapatnam to Agartala in Tripura through multimodal transportation to meet PDS requirement.
The task involves transportation of stocks from Visakhapatnam Port to Diamond Harbour in Kolkata by a ship. At Diamond Harbour the stocks will be trans-shipped into barges and taken through river movement up to Bangladesh. Thereafter the stocks will transit Bangladesh through trucks and again from Bangladesh border to FCI...
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin will travel to Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 11–13. Drawing on his background as a former corporate CEO, Assistant Secretary Rivkin will highlight the opportunities for collaboration between American and Bangladeshi businesses in Bangladesh and the region.
While in Bangladesh, he will meet with government officials to discuss areas and opportunities for increased bilateral trade and investment as well as Bangladesh’s regional economic connectivity.
The Assistant Secretary will ...
The government this evening signed a Tk 8,707 crore agreement with a Chinese company for the river training works of the Padma Bridge project.
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he river training works are the second most costly component of the US$ 3 billion project.
Padma Bridge project director Shafiqul Islam and deputy chief engineer of Sonohydra Corporation Ltd inked the agreement on behalf of their respective sides at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Bridges Division Secret...
US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena on Sunday said necessary steps have been taken to expedite US visa application process from here which will help build stronger bridges between the people of the two countries.
“I’m a bridge builder…it’s my second job (to build bridges),” he said while speaking at the inauguration ceremony of new visa collection centre at Saimon Centre in the city.
The US envoy described the opening of three visa collection centers in Chittagong, Sylhet and Dhaka as an important development in promoting partnership, relationshi...
The government has drafted the 'Textile Policy 2014' aiming to double the local textile production by the fiscal year 2019-20, sources said.
The annual combined demand for fabric from the domestic market and the export-oriented garment sector is around 11,400 million metres, of which 62 per cent, about 7,000 million metres, is met locally.
Now, the government has targeted to raise the domestic production to 14,036 metres by 2019-20, double the existing production, they added.
The move to prepare a new policy was ini...
