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  No extension of ECF deal with IMF: Muhith    

Finance minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said the government turned down a proposal from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to renew the deal on extended credit facility that will expire early next year. He said the government would also fix a deadline for the Korean Export Processing Zone for full utilisation of 2,500 acres of land they were allocated in 1996 at Anwara in Chittagong. Muhith was taking to reporters after a meeting with the visiting Asian Development Bank officials at his secretariat office, reports the New Age. MuhithHe said ...

India initiates work to link Northeast with Bangladesh port

India has taken the first steps to construct a Rs.70 crore ($11.5 million) bridge over the Feni river in Tripura to access Bangladeshi ports for transporting goods and heavy machinery from other parts of the country to the landlocked and mountainous northeast and to boost trade and tourism, officials said. “The Tripura government has asked a New Delhi-based private company to prepare the detailed project report (DPR). We expect that the DPR would be ready by December this year and the actual work to construct the bridge would start after that,” Tripura Public Works Department engineer-in-chief Sunil Bhowmik told IANS.

Narayanganj 7-murder: Rab officers ‘asked to kill Nur too’

A top official of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) had ordered former Rab officers Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and Maj Arif Hossain to kill Nur Hossain, alleged mastermind of the seven-murder incident in Narayanganj. The top official gave the order when Tareque, commanding officer (CO) of Rab 11, and Arif, company commander of the elite force unit, met him at the Rab headquarters two days after a Rab team led by Arif had killed Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam and six others, reports the Daily Star. They, however, did not execute the order as the situation in Narayanganj had already heated up following the abduction, sources said quoting from the confessional statement of Arif Hossain.

IAF gives Dakota to Bangladesh Air Force

On a formal request from the Bangladesh Air Force and reviewing the historic ties, the IAF today handed over one Dakota aircraft from the IAF museum to the Bangladesh Air Force. dacotaThe aircraft was gifted by Air Marshal SS Soman, Air Officer Commanding in Chief Western Air Command to Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari, Chief of Bangladesh Air Force in a befitting ceremony at Air Force Station Palam. The Dakota aircraft has played a sterling role in the history of the Indian Air Force. Much nostalgia can be associated with the aircraft as it wa...

Air Force chief meets Indian Defence Minister

bd-indiaChief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force, Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari, called on Defence Minister Arun Jaitley here on Wednesday. He also called on Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, at the Air Headquarters here. The Chief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force, who is presently in India on a goodwill visit, was presented with a memento by Air Chief Marshal Raha.

Constitution amendment bill to be passed today

The Constitution (Sixteenth Amendment) Bill probably passes into a law on Wednesday as it is included as an agenda for the parliamentary session of the day.

sangsad bhabanThe amendment will restore parliament’s power to remove Supreme Court judges for ‘misconduct or incapacity’.Parliament Secretary Ashraful Mokbul on Tuesday evening said that the bill will be passed on Wednesday. On September 7, Law, Justice and Parli...
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