Saudi Arabia has rejected Bangladesh’s proposal to increase the quota of Haj pilgrims, authorities said on Tuesday.
Bangladesh's religious affairs ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that it was "continuing" its efforts to increase the quota fixed by the Saudi government last year, bdnews24.com reported.
A total of 101,758 pilgrims from Bangladesh will be able to perform Haj this year.
But online applications of aspirants exceeded the quota by around 30,000. So, Dhaka had written to Riyadh to accommodate 25,000 more pilgrims.
The ministry...
A team of six top officials of Bangladesh CID, a specialised wing of police, are undertaking a 15-day long training programme at the Gujarat Forensic Science University (GFSU) in Gandhinagar near here.
“Six top officials of Bangladesh CID have embarked on a 15-day long training programme at GFSU two days back,” M S Dahiya, Director of Institute of Forensic Science at the university, told PTI.
All those six officials are from different branches like chemistry, physics, narco-analysis, crime scene analysis, finger-print docum...
What is good for Bangladesh is good for India. The government is extending a $2 billion line of credit to its neighbour which is expected to create 50,000 jobs in India and provide a big boost to the government’s Make in India drive.
A line of credit is a promise to provide loans at subsidized rates from agencies such as Exim Bank. These are normally conditional on the recipient using the loan amount to buy equipment and services from Indian entities such as BHEL, RITES, small and medium enterprises.
“We have already provided $862 million line...
Asian cities continue to dominate a global list of leading destinations in attracting international visitors arriving by air, according to the annual MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index.
Besides, seven out of the world’s top 10 fastest growing destination cities are in the Asia-Pacific, which is a strong leading indicator of their continuing outstanding performance in the years to come, MasterCard said in a report
yesterday.
Asian cities have made up half of the top 10, with Bangkok retaining its position at number...
The World Bank (WB) has approved $476 million for two projects in Bangladesh to develop a strong financial sector and to improve agricultural productivity for a million poor farmers.
On June 5, the projects approved by the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors are
$300 million for the Financial Sector Support Project and $176.06 million for the Second National Agricultural Technology Program, a press release issued today said.
“These two projects will support Bangladesh to reach middle-income status by strengthening the financial sector and ensuring gre...
Development projects in Bangladesh supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are making substantial progress in helping reduce rural poverty by improving agricultural productivity. Technological innovations and microenterprise development are among the key factors highlighted by a new country programme evaluation that will be presented on Sunday.
The country programme’s target group includes people living in extreme and moderate poverty. Its targeting strategy starts by identifying geographic areas of poverty and then assessing household assets and needs – including food supply – in those areas. For example the haor areas in Sunamganj, and char areas in newly accreted land near sea in Noakhali, are remote and hard–to–reach inaccessible locations covered ...
