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Bangladesh first time allows FCI to use its port for Tripura

For the first time an FCI consignment will enter Tripura using Ashuganj river port of Bangladesh, a senior official said today.  About 5000 tonnes of foodgrains, dispatched by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) from Kakinada port in Andhra Paradesh, has reached Ashuganj river port in Bangladesh for entry into Tripura, Chief Secretary S K Panda said. Bangladesh-firs39758“FCI officials informed that the consignment of foodgrains have reached Ashuganj port. Unloading of the foodgrains and transportation by trucks for Trip...

Bangladesh plane catches fire at Nepal , passengers safe  

A Bangladeshi aircraft caught fire while landing at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) Monday afternoon, officials said. bimanAirport police said the wheels of Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG702 caught fire when it touched down at the airport at around 2 p.m., Xinhua reported. Fire fighters at TIA soon brought the minor fire under control and the passengers were evacuated. “The aircraft has now been parked at the airport’s hangar and its scheduled return to Dhaka at 3.10 p.m. has been cancelled,” a high level source at the TIA told Xi...

Illegal drugs entering Bangladesh from Burma ahead of Eid

Illegal drugs  such as yaba, heroin, and Phensidyl (a brand of medicinal syrup which is addictive because it contains codeine) have been entering Bangladesh almost every day from Burma ahead of a holiday called “Festival,” according to a businessman from Teknaf who preferred not to be named for security reasons. Sources say drug dealers have been smuggling Phensidyl, yaba tablets, and heroin through different border points and storing them in different parts of the country. BD-MyanmarRecently, authorities scored a success in their campa...

Biman sitting idle with large planes  

All six Boeing 777s of Biman remain underutilised for lack of long-haul flights and pilots, causing the national carrier to lose crores of taka every year. “More than 20 percent of the operational capacity of the planes remain unutilised, as we could not open routes in line with their capacity,” an official at Biman’s operations department told The Daily Star on condition of anonymity, reports the Daily Star. The calculation was made given that each of the six aircraft flies 12 hours a day, the official said. biman-300Sometimes, a shortage of pi...

India tops in South Asia’s human trafficking: UN official

India has emerged as the top destination for human trafficking in South Asia, a top UN official has said. South Asia representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Cristina Albertine, said that a majority of the victims are from Bangladesh and Nepal. “India is a top destination for human trafficking in South Asia. People are trafficked from Nepal, the Gulf, Bangladesh and so on.” Albertine told IANS in an interview at the UNODC office. stop_women_abuseAlbertine said that there is no exact figure o...

Banking sector caught in enervating trap  

Country's banking sector is caught in an enervating trap characterised by high rates of interest, excess liquidity and declined growth in credits to private sector and intermediating low investment, according to an independent multidisciplinary think-tank findings. Such a situation of the banking sector is attributed to poor risk management and high fraudulence, driven by captured governance and lax oversights. This altogether results in truncated profits to the shareholders. Unnayan-Onneshan, the think-tank, revealed the la...
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