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Obama meets Dalai Lama

President Barack Obama held low-key talks with the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday after warnings from Beijing that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would "seriously damage" ties with Washington. od-300
The private meeting lasted about an hour, although the Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was not seen by White House photographers as he entered or exited the complex. The White House sidestepped questions about whether it was worried Obama's meeting - his third with the Dalai Lama - would upset its relat...

Nation paying homage to language martyrs

The nation is observing the International Mother Language Day (Amar Ekushey), paying tribute to the language movement martyrs who fought and died on February 21 in 1952 to make mother tongue Bangla a state language. 21
The whole country is observing the 62nd Martyrs’ Day to commemorate the Language Movement martyrs through various programmes. In the first hour of the day, President M Abdul Hamid paid homage to language movement martyrs placing floral wreaths at the central Shaheed Minar in the capital at 12:01am. Prime Minister Sheikh...

President, PM pay homage

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid homage to the Language Movement heroes by placing wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar at one minute past midnight on Friday. PM-shaheedminar-300 Sheikh Hasina has also paid tribute at the altar of the language heroes on behalf of the Bangladesh Awami League. Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, senior AL leaders Amir Hossain Amu, Tofael Ahmed, Tofail Ahmed, Matiya Chowdhuary, among others, were present at the time. Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr S...

Tight security for 21st February

The authorities has planned to ensure tight security measures in and around the Central Shaheed Minar, keeping the recent audiovisual message clip of al-Quaeda in mind, police said. HarunBangladesh-30-ed-farah
"Like previous years, all necessary security arrangements will be ensured in the capital for smooth observance of the Shaheed (martyred) Day and International Mother Language Day on February 21 this year," Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Benazir Ahmed told this at a press briefing at...

Telecom ministry takes over tariff checks

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has backtracked from approving any service or tariff of the telecom operators without prior consent from the telecom ministry, New Age reported. btrcBTRC  has been forwarding the operators' service and tariff approval applications to the telecom ministry for the past week following verbal instruction from the commission chairman, according to a BTRC official. Under Section 48 of the Bangladesh Teleco...

Bangladesh key economic indicators – Feb 18

DAILY INDICATORS Monday Previous Taka/US $ (inter-bank) 77.75-77.75 77.75-77.75 Call money rate (inter-bank) 06.75-08.25 05.50-08.25 Dhaka Stock Exchange index 4,684.07 4,713.88 --------------------------------------------------------------- indicatorMONTHLY CURRENT PREVIOUS Growth in: Consumer price index (BBS) Change yr/yr (pct) Jan. 7.50 7.35 M2 supply (bln taka) (BB) Nov. 6,425.75 6,403.17 Forex reserves ($bln)(BB) Jan. 18.12 18.07 Exports(FOB) ($mln)(BB) Dec. 2,726.20 2,212.44 Imports(FOB) ($mln)(BB) Nov. 2,506.00 2,751.00 ------...
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