Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Omar Abdullah on Saturday said there seems to be a connection between Modi's recent speech criticizing Bangladeshi immigrants in India and the unprovoked killing of Muslims in Assam.
Responding to a question on the violence in Assam where more than thirty people have been killed in a spate of attacks by suspected tribal militants, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, without naming Narendra Modi attacked him where the latter in one of his speech in a rally had said that if...
The Jute and Textiles Ministry has spent 73 per cent of the fund released for implementing 18 projects under the annual development programme (ADP) in the first nine months of the current fiscal year 2013-14.
According to an official release, the ministry spent Taka 53.27 crore out of Taka 72.65 crore released till March this year under the ADP.
The information was revealed at a recent review meeting on the progress of implementation of the ADP projects, reports BSS.
The government has allocated Taka 121.75 crore for the ministry for imple...
A strong 6.0- magnitude earthquake shook buildings in Tokyo early Monday, seismologists and AFP reporters said, but officials stressed there was no risk of a tsunami.
Tokyo inhabitants—set to enjoy a national holiday—were woken shortly after dawn by the quake, which jolted the densely built apartments and office blocks, reports AFP.
Some objects fell from shelves and furniture wobbled, an AFP reporter saw.
The epicentre of the quake—which hit at 5:18 am (2018 GMT Sunday) -- was near Izu Oshima island southwest of central ...
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dared BJP prime ministerial candidate, to implement his promise of sending Bangladeshi’s packing after May 16 if his party came to power, saying that the ‘paper tiger’ should first meet the ‘Royal Bengal Tiger’.
“Touch a single person, we will see. The paper tiger should know there is a Royal Bengal tiger in Sunderbans. First you face that,” Banerjee, the chief minister, told an election meeting here.
Claiming that the Gujarat chief minister did not know history, she said that Banglades...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will build an enough advance stock of five Ramadan essentials in an effort to help ensure smooth supply of those items during the fasting month beginning in July next, said officials.
The five items are edible oil, sugar and lentil, gram/chickpea and date the demand of which skyrockets during Ramadan because of their high consumption, knocking up the prices, UNB reports.
Though the officials would not say anything about the stock quantity right now, they told UNB that the TCB dealers will get the uninterrupted supply of the essentials as per their requirement during the holy month.
“There had been no problem over the last two years. There’ll be no problem this year, too,” TCB Chairman Brig Gen Sarwar Jahan Talukdar told UNB on Saturda...
Bangladesh, the world’s third largest cotton importer according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is on a mission to topple No. 1 importer China.
“Obviously, we wish to take China’s place, and that day is not so far off — two, three years’ time,” Mehdi Ali, general secretary of the Bangladesh Cotton Association, told WSJ Frontiers on Friday at an industry conference in Miami.
China’s imports are expected to drop 50% during the upcoming season as it winds down a strategic stockpiling program, according to the National Cotton Council, a U.S. industry group — leaving room for Bangladesh to expand its role in the international market.
Responding to a question on the violence in Assam where more than thirty people have been killed in a spate of attacks by suspected tribal militants, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, without naming Narendra Modi attacked him where the latter in one of his speech in a rally had said that if...
