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Tender to buy 50,000 T of wheat

Country’s state grains buyer issued another tender on Monday to buy 50,000 tonnes of wheat, the latest of a series, as it steps up efforts to build reserves, officials from the state agency said. The imports are part of a plan by the Directorate General of Food, wheatthe state agency, to ship in 900,000 tonnes of wheat in the current financial year that will end in June. The deadline to submit offers under the latest tender is Jan. 22, with validity up to Feb. 5, and the wheat is to be shipped within 40 days of signing the contract. The latest tender com...

Indian tea exports to Bangladesh slump 90pc

India’s tea exports to neighbouring Bangladesh plunged 90% in the first six months of this fiscal after Dhaka raised the customs duty on tea imports. Experts say the sharp fall came at a time when exporters were struggling with reduced offtake because of political tensions between Ukraine and Russia, turmoil in West Asia and chaos in Pakistan. teaTea exports to Bangladesh fell to 0.46 million kg in the six months to September 2014 from 5.02 million kg in the year-ago period, according to the Tea Board of India. Besides, the unit price realisation for Indi...

Bangladesh wants river waters treaties with India  

Bangladesh wants to sign treaties with India to share the waters of all rivers flowing between the two neighbours, Bangladesh officials said here Friday. “Our (Bangladesh) government wants to sign separate treaties with India to share the waters of all rivers flowing between the two countries,” Bangladesh’s Comilla district deputy commissioner Mohammad Hasanuzzaman Kollol told reporters here. bd-indiaHe said: “Unless there is a treaty, Bangladesh would be deprived of getting due share of waters of the rivers flowing from Indian territories....

Glencore makes lowest offer in tender to sell wheat to Bangladesh

Glencore International made the lowest offer of $279.75 a tonne in a tender to sell 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh, an official from the state grains buyer said on Wednesday. The only other participant in the tender, opened late on Tuesday, was Olam International, which offered $309 a tonne, including freight, insurance and other expenses. wheatThis was the fourth international wheat purchase tender issued by the Directorate General of Food since the current financial year started in July. The state grains buyer plans to import 900,000 tonnes of wh...

Embassy warns Thais in Bangladesh

The Royal Thai Embassy in Bangladesh has warned Thai citizens to exercise caution and avoid government offices and important venues in Dhaka and other major cities prone to political protests following violent clashes that, so far, have claimed at least four lives and injured scores of people. hartalBurning vehicles, set on fire by opposition demonstrators, are pictured during violent protests in Dhaka on Jan 6. Bangladesh police that day arrested the deputy leader of the country’s main opposition party over accusations that he incited a series o...

Why can’t Bangladeshis protest peacefully?

Today, one year following national elections in Bangladesh, at least four people died in violence following political protests in Dhaka and other cities across the country. The proximate reason: the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP) took out protests, which the ruling Awami League government had banned, to mark a “Murder of Democracy Day.” Despite the ban on protests, press reports indicate that members of the Awami League “outnumbered” the opposition on the streets of Dhaka. hartalA brief recap of the past year’s events provides the bac...
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