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Police operation begins in capital against tinted glasses    

Police started operation in the capital on Sunday against all artificial coverings including nontransparent and tinted glasses from car windows, UNB reports. “We began the operation from today (Sunday). We are monitoring it from various points of the capital,” Deputy Commissioner (Public Relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman told UNB. tinted-glassesHe said that any vehicle found with tinted black glasses except the built-in coverings during the time of their assembly at the factories will be fined maximum Tk 2,5...

First ambassador of Bangladesh to Asean presents credentials

The ambassador of Bangladesh to Indonesia, Nazmul Quaunine, has presented his Letter of Credence to Asean Secretary General Le Luong Minh, as the first Ambassador of his country to the 10-member countries association.

Minh congratulated Quaunine for assuming his duty and stressed that the ambassador could play an important role in forging cooperation between Asean and Bangladesh as well as within the framework of Asean-South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Indonesia's Antara news agency reported the Asean Secretariat as saying on its website on Friday.

BTCL refuses to reconnect UK firm despite court order    

The country’s state-owned telecommunications company is refusing to reconnect a British firm to the country’s network despite having been ordered to do so by the courts. London-based Zamir Telecom has been cut off from the Bangladesh network since March, causing it significant financial damage. Telecoms minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, has admitted giving the order for the disconnection of Zamir Telecom from the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL). naufal-zamirThis was in breach of a 2010 court order overturning a similar situation. Zamir Telecom successfully challenged BTCL in a Dhaka court in ea...

Job scope for 15,000 Bangladeshis in British curry industry

The 3.6 billion-pound British curry industry, mostly owned and run by Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, has a shortage of some 15,000 skilled chefs and managers, said a successful restaurateur, insisting the Bangladesh government on grabbing the opportunity, reports BSS. A leader of the British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BBCCI) already dispatched a proposal to the British government requesting to pave the way for fulfilling the requirement of manpower shortage from Bangladesh. “We’ve, of late, submitted a comprehensive proposal with requirement of around 15,000 jobs to the British Prime Minister . easing immigration rules got paramount importance in the proposal,” Enam Ali, MBE, a Bangladeshi living in Britain and director of BBCCI, told BSS here today.

Bangladesh to build LNG import terminal with US group    

Bangladesh will ink an initial agreement in end-May with the US consortium comprising Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy for building the country’s first LNG import terminal at Moheshkhali Island, a senior Petrobangla official said Friday. The Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy consortium was selected to build the terminal in August 2012, but the US companies wanted to reach an agreement on maintenance fees before signing the final construction deal. Petrobangla has now agreed to provide maintenance fees to keep the proposed LNG terminal operative until imports start, the official said.

Bangladesh, India strike electricity corridor deal

The Bangladeshi and Indian governments tentatively struck a power co-operation deal for 2017 that would allow India to transmit electricity from its northeastern states to Bihar through Bangladesh territory. In exchange, Bangladesh would get a daily minimum of 500 to 1,000 in additional megawatts, the Daily Star reported. Under the deal, reached April 3rd at the seventh meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee on Power Co-operation, the two countries agreed to connect their distribution networks for the transfer of 6,000MW of hydroelectricity from Assam to northwestern Bihar via Boro Pukuria in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
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