A new Indian Visa Application Center (IVAC) has opened in Dhanmondi, Dhaka located at House No. 24, Road No. 2. The State Bank of India once again made the request in a statement on Wednesday as the opening of new centre failed to lessen the rush at Gulshan. To avoid congestion at the Gulshan application center, the applicants are advised to to visit the Dhanmondi centers as well, an Indian High Commission press release said. “Visa applicants are advised to submit their applications to IVAC Dhanmondi to abstain congestion at the IVAC, Gulsh...

A $10 version of Sovaldi, the Gilead Sciences Inc. hepatitis C treatment that sells for $1,000 a pill in the U.S., is now available in Bangladesh and could make its way to other parts of the world where the U.S. company doesn’t have patents. [caption id="attachment_13725" align="alignleft" width="300"] In the U.S., Sovaldi has sparked a backlash from commercial health insurers because of its cost of $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment. Photographer: Bob Ecker/MCT via Getty Images[/caption] Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd. doesn’t ...

Another 10,000 tonnes of rice will be ferried to Tripura via Bangladesh as train services in the northeastern states have been stopped in southern part of northeast region due to gauge conversion, a minister said here on Saturday. Train services in Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and southern Assam have been suspended from last October for track conversion from meter gauge to broad gauge being undertaken by the Northeast Frontier Railways and scheduled to end March 2016 in two phases. “The Food Corporation of India (FCI) informed us that it will tra...

Bangladesh Press Council (BPC) plans to introduce enrollment certificates for journalists to ensure the entry of ‘competent people into the profession and bring about qualitative change’ in the mass media, says its Chairman Justice Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, reports UNB. “No one will be able to join the profession of journalism without obtaining BPC enrollment certificates …the certificate has to be obtained through an examination once the system comes into effect,“ he said in an interview with UNB. Referring to the Banglad...