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PBL Chairman, Vice-Chairmen re-elected

Eminent industrialist and social worker Hafiz Ahmed Mazumder has been re-elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pubali Bank Ltd (PBL). Besides, eminent industrialist and social worker Habibur Rahman and eminent industrialist and social worker Fahim Ahmed Faruk Chowdhury have been re-elected as the Vice-Chairmen of the Board of Directors of Pubali Bank Ltd. Photo_chairman_VC_2015Mr. Hafiz Ahmed Mazumder is an eminent Industrialist and Tea planter. Prominent social worker Mr. Majumder is associated wi...

CPJ condemns killing blogger Washiqur

Bangladeshi authorities should investigate the murder of a blogger in the capital, Dhaka, and hold the perpetrators to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said yesterday. Washiqur Rahman Babu is the second blogger to be hacked to death in public in Bangladesh in the past five weeks. “The Bangladeshi government must urgently establish accountability in this murder case and others-otherwise the rest of the country’s bloggers, commentators, and washikur killingjournalists covering sensitive topics remain at grave ...

WIP award handed over to PM

The “Women in Parliament (WIP) Global Forum award that Bangladesh received for reducing gender gap in politics, has been handed over to prime minister Sheikh Hasina. sheikh-hasina_25State minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam on Monday handed over the award to the prime minister at the cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat. Bangladesh received the award for its leading role in reducing gender gap in political sphere in South and South East Asia. The state minister, on behalf of the premier, received the prestigi...

Spain thanks BD for support in UN Security Council

Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ignacio Ybanez Rubio on Sunday thanked Bangladesh government for its support for being elected member of the United Nations Security Council for the 2015-2016 term. “I wanted to come here to express my gratitude for the support that we’ve got on this operation. We’re ready to cooperate with Bangladesh in the two years,” he told reporters at the Foreign spainMinistry after a meeting with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and State Minister M Shahriar Alam. Rubio said Bangladesh is a member of the UN Hu...

India to use Ashuganj port again to transport foodgrain

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) will transport 25,000 tonne of foodgrain from Kolkata to Tripura using land and river route of Bangladesh. This follows a pilot initiative where FCI had transported 10,000 tonne of rice last year from Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh to Agartala in Tripura using Ashuganj river port in Bangladesh. bd-indiaAt present, FCI transports grain for Targeted Public Distribution System using trucks to grain deficit N-E states such as Tripura. However, the vehicles carrying foodgrain negotiate tough geographical terrain...

Bangladesh’s instability affects India: Tripura CM

If there is any turmoil in Bangladesh, it also affects India’s peace, stability and integrity, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said. “If there is chaos and trouble in neighbouring Bangladesh, these also affect India’s peace, stability and integrity,” Sarkar said during his address at the Bangladesh Independence Day and National Day celebrations organised by the Bangladesh diplomatic mission here on Thursday night. bd-indiaHe said: “Those unhappy at the creation of Bangladesh as a sovereign nation are conspiring against the internal normal democrat...
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