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IBFB team meets Housing Minister

A 12-member delegation headed by Mr. Hafizur Rahman Khan, President of IBFB called on Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, MP, Honorable Minister for Housing & Public Works on Wednesday 23 July 2014 and formally handed over the Keynote Paper on Well-planned Urbanization & Development: Involving Private Sector under Public Private Partnership (PPP). image002The paper was written by Mr. Suhel Ahmed Chowdhury, former Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Public Works, Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Commerce which was presented in different ...

PM urges expatriates to invest in Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the expatriate Bangladeshis, especially Sylhet diaspora, to invest in Bangladesh in a bigger volume. “Our government has created an investment-friendly atmosphere in the country by providing various incentives to local and foreign entrepreneurs. You can exploit that scope by investing in a bigger volume,” she said. sheikh-hasina2The Prime Minister made the request when a five-member all party parliamentary delegation called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her hotel on Tuesday afternoon. ...

Airlines cancel Israel flights over Gaza rocket threat  

Major US, European and Canadian airlines canceled flights to and from Israel Tuesday, after a rocket fired from Gaza struck near its main international airport in Tel Aviv. The cancelations highlighted heightened worldwide fears of a rocket hitting a passenger jet in the wake of last week’s downing of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 over rebel-held eastern Ukraine with nearly 300 on board. That incident underscored the vulnerability of commercial aircraft to surface-to-air missiles, even at cruising altitudes in excess of 30,000 feet. deltaIn t...

Dhaka needs legal rules to regain Jamdani glory, says study      

Jamdani, one of the finest Muslin textiles, has been loved by Bengali women for centuries for the beautiful sarees it make. Historically, it belongs to Dhaka, but not yet legally. A year after Bangladesh enacted a law to provide geographical identity to it historical products Jamdani has yet to be registered as a geographical indicative product (GI) for lack of rules to consolidate the legal, a researcher said, reports UNB. jamdhaniThe law, Geographical Indicative Products (Registration and Protection) Act 2013, has not been followed by ...

Yunus meets Suu Kyi in Yangon

Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus met Myanmar democratic icon and Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her home in Yangon. During the first-ever meeting between the two Nobel laureates, Yunus briefed Suu Kyi about social business programmes in Bangladesh, including micro-credit, healthcare, education and vocational training, renewable energy social businesses as well as equity investment for the development of enterprises by the unemployed young people of Grameen Bank families, said a Yunus Centre Press release on Monday. Unus-Suu KiHe...

Government urged to disband RAB

The government should disband the paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Human Rights Watch said Monday. In a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, it said that until the RAB was disbanded, it should be made an entirely civilian force by withdrawing all military officers and soldiers from its membership. RABEvidence that RAB officers were responsible for the contract killings of seven men in April, allegedly on behalf of a ruling party member, have provoked outrage in Bangladesh and are yet another example of how the unit has operated as a deat...
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