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BB for operating drive against fake notes

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Thursday requested the law enforcement forces, including the intelligence agencies, to intensify their operations against those involved in manufacturing and distribution of fake notes ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. bbDuring a meeting with representatives of scheduled banks and law enforcement agencies, the central bank asked all scheduled banks to take necessary measures to make the people, specially their clients, aware of the security features of notes throughout Ramadan, said a BB press release, reports BSS. Executive director of the central bank M...

US raises cyber concerns with China

President Barack Obama has raised continuing US concerns over China’s cyber activities, as two days of talks between the two nations came to an end. He urged China to act in order to reduce tensions, the White House said. us-chinaThe US has in the past accused China of being involved in hacking government and commercial computer systems. Earlier this month, the Chinese were blamed for a security breach involving the records of four million past and present US federal employees. Speaking in Washington at the end of the talks, US Secre...

Razzak returns finally

Myanmar has finally returned abducted Border Guard Bangladesh Nayek Abdur Razzak eight days after his abduction by its border force intruding Bangladesh territory. Razzak was handed over to the BGB officials during a flag meeting at Maungdaw in Myanmar around 3:00pm Thursday. banglar_chokh_razzakBGB’s Cox’s Bazar sector commander MM Anisur Rahman confirmed the Razzak repatriation to Prothom Alo. Earlier, a seven-member BGB team reached Maungdaw of Myanmar for the meeting at about 10:15am. The BGB team, led by ...

Giving a voice to women representatives

Around 2,000 female public representatives of rural Bangladesh will be trained this year for promoting their leadership skills, says Unicef. The UN body and the National Institute of Local Government (NILG) have initiated the programme for the elected women representatives of Union Parishads (UPs) and Upazila Parishads (UZPs) in 20 women bdselected districts. The overall goal of the initiative is to build capacity of elected women representatives and officials of local government institutions focussing on improved awareness of child rights...

Thai-BD FOC in city Thursday

Trade issues, including duty-free, quota-free (DFQF) market access, direct port connectivity and signing of a number of new MoUs will be the key agenda at the first-ever Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) between Bangladesh and Thailand to be held here on Thursday. According to a senior official, bilateral trade, investment and technical cooperation, road, air and seaports connectivity, employment of Bangladeshi workers in Thailand, introduction of Buddhist circuit tourism between Bangladesh and Thailand, cooperation in defence, culture and sports and collaboration in regional for a, including Bimstec, ARF and ASEM are also

KL to recruit 5 lakh BD workers

The expatriate welfare and overseas employment ministry has said that Malaysia announced to recruit 500,000 workers from Bangladesh in the next six months of 2015. passport22222The recruitment will take place under the new Business-to Business (B-B) mechanism, the ministry said in a press release this evening. Malaysian Home Minister Dato’ Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi made the announcement during a bilateral meeting with Expatriate Welfare Minister Khandker Moshararraf Hossain in Putrajaya today, according to the press release. ...
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