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Bangladeshi expats’ passport troubles to be thing of past soon  

Bangladeshi expatriates will soon find it easier to get machine readable passports (MRPs), the country’s embassy in Muscat has said. The Bangladesh government will outsource the work of converting handwritten passports into machine readable ones to a private firm this year, it added. passport BdInternational Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) earlier notified member countries that it would not accept international passengers without machine readable passports after March 31, 2015. “This project will significantly help replace the r...

Police operation begins in capital against tinted glasses    

Police started operation in the capital on Sunday against all artificial coverings including nontransparent and tinted glasses from car windows, UNB reports. “We began the operation from today (Sunday). We are monitoring it from various points of the capital,” Deputy Commissioner (Public Relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman told UNB. tinted-glassesHe said that any vehicle found with tinted black glasses except the built-in coverings during the time of their assembly at the factories will be fined maximum Tk 2,5...

First ambassador of Bangladesh to Asean presents credentials

The ambassador of Bangladesh to Indonesia, Nazmul Quaunine, has presented his Letter of Credence to Asean Secretary General Le Luong Minh, as the first Ambassador of his country to the 10-member countries association.

Minh congratulated Quaunine for assuming his duty and stressed that the ambassador could play an important role in forging cooperation between Asean and Bangladesh as well as within the framework of Asean-South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Indonesia's Antara news agency reported the Asean Secretariat as saying on its website on Friday.

BTCL refuses to reconnect UK firm despite court order    

The country’s state-owned telecommunications company is refusing to reconnect a British firm to the country’s network despite having been ordered to do so by the courts. London-based Zamir Telecom has been cut off from the Bangladesh network since March, causing it significant financial damage. Telecoms minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, has admitted giving the order for the disconnection of Zamir Telecom from the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL). naufal-zamirThis was in breach of a 2010 court order overturning a similar situation. Zamir Telecom successfully challenged BTCL in a Dhaka court in ea...

Bangladesh to build LNG import terminal with US group    

Bangladesh will ink an initial agreement in end-May with the US consortium comprising Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy for building the country’s first LNG import terminal at Moheshkhali Island, a senior Petrobangla official said Friday. The Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy consortium was selected to build the terminal in August 2012, but the US companies wanted to reach an agreement on maintenance fees before signing the final construction deal. Petrobangla has now agreed to provide maintenance fees to keep the proposed LNG terminal operative until imports start, the official said.

Three US navy planes crushed in Japan snow

At least three US Navy P-3 Orion surveillance planes were crushed “beyond repair” when unusually heavy snowfall swept across Japan in February, a US military daily reported Wednesday. The planes were inside a contractor’s hangar near the US Navy air facility in Atsugi, west of Tokyo, the Pacific Stars and Stripes said in its online edition, citing a US Naval spokeswoman, AFP reports. us planeA US Orion and six P-3 variants from the Japanese defence forces brought in for repairs or checks were also there. The 550-foot (168-metre)-long han...
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