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Shrimp face key test as EU safety team’s visit nears    

Frozen food exporters will face a key test early next year when a European Union team visits the country to check whether shrimp being destined to the block meets safety requirement. Exporters and officials have termed the visit by the European Union Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) in April 20-30 a 'critical test' for the shrimp industry, saying the team is coming after three years and it would determine the course of the nation's third largest export earners. MDG : Bangladesh Shrimp industry"Our future largely depends on the mission's progres...

US inspires more visa applications from Bangladesh

Sharon Weber, Deputy Consul General of US Embassy in Dhaka opined, the United States government encourages applications for US Visas from Bangladeshi nationals. IBFBShe said, applications for and issuance of US Visas have remarkably increased in Bangladesh in the recent years which is very good for the economy of both countries, but the US govt encourages more and more applications for different types of US Visas, especially B1/B2 Business Visas from Bangladesh. Sharon was addressing as the Guest of Honor in a seminar on “How to Apply and Obtain a...

Registration mandatory for NGOs

The non-government organisations (NGOs)must register with NGO Affairs Bureau to operate in Bangladesh and receive funds from international donors, according to the draft of a new law on foreign grants. ngoThe cabinet today gave final approval to the draft of Foreign Grants (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Act 2014. With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, the weekly cabinet approved the act which empowered the bureau to cancel the registration of any private organisation for its irregularities, Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan tol...

BD blasts Israel for supporting extremist groups in region

Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu voiced deep concern over the spread of the new waves of extremism in region, and lashed out at Tel Aviv for the role it has always played in recent decades to destabilize the Muslim states. enuInu, who is in Tehran to attend the 10th Islamic Conference of Information Ministers (ICIM), told reporters that Takfiri groups, who pretend to be Muslim intend to tarnish the image of Islam. Meantime, Inu added that the Zionist regime is one of the supporters of these groups. The Bangladeshi minister went o...

Modi vows to halt illegal immigrants from Bangladesh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stepped up his rhetoric against illegal immigration from Bangladesh, vowing to halt the unauthorised flow of citizens from the neighbouring country into Assam. [caption id="attachment_10856" align="alignleft" width="300"]India's PM Modi gestures as he arrives to address the Bharatiya Janata Party workers meeting in Guwahati India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) gestures as he arrives to address the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers meeting in Guwahati, November 30, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Utpal Baruah[/caption] At ...

West Bengal unaware of new maritime border

The Mamata Banerjee government has been caught unawares by the new eastern maritime border that was re-drawn by a UN tribunal in July. The cost of this ignorance: 132 fishermen in 10 trawlers languishing in Bangladeshi jail for straying into its waters. MamataAround 19,000 sq km of exclusive economic maritime zone where Indian fishermen would cast their nets was handed to Bangladesh nearly five months ago following a five-year arbitration. “We continued fishing in the area as usual but trawlers began to be seized by Bangladeshi authorities now ...
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