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Bangladeshi SIMs in Mayanmar

About 50,000 Bangladeshi sim cards are used in Mayanamar, right beyond the border of Arakkan. No, not for good purposes; but for illegal activities. These unregistered SIM cards of Grameenphone, Robi, Citycell and Airtel and they are used for smuggling of arms and Yabba.
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Posing a threat to Bangladesh, Criminals and citizens of Myanmar are using Bangladeshi network to establish communication with the whole world. Mobile network companies are aware of this matter and have extended their network frequency to a vast area of Myanmar for r...

Bangladesh key economic indicators – Feb 5

DAILY INDICATORS

Tuesday Previous Taka/US $ (inter-bank) 77.75-77.7525 77.75-77.75 Call money rate (inter-bank) 06.00-07.75 05.50-08.00 Dhaka Stock Exchange index 4,809.54 4,826.51 --------------------------------------------------------------- indicatorMONTHLY CURRENT PREVIOUS Growth in: Consumer price index (BBS) Change yr/yr (pct) Dec. 7.53 7.15 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) Nov. 2,2...

Cattle smuggling creating huge anarchy in Indo-Bangla border

Illegal mass-theft of cattle is a huge problem on the border between India and Bangladesh. Along the largely porous boundary between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, cattle-raids and cattle-smuggling, often conducted by criminal gangs, raise hundreds of millions of dollars annually in illicit profits. The activity is so lucrative and dangerous that it often costs the lives of the perpetrators and innocent bystanders. cattle smugglingAccording to a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP), four men suspected of catt...

BPC to sell 170,000bls naphtha

 Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will issue a tender to sell 170,000 barrels of naphtha for March 12-14 loading from Chittagong, a company official said on Monday. The tender, which is likely to be issued this week, will close on Feb. 24, with validity up to March 2. State-owned BPC resumed exports of naphtha in November after a four-month hiatus for maintenance and repairs at its sole refinery. napthaIt last sold a same-size cargo to Japanese trading firm Itochu in mid-January at a disc...

Government suffers from legitimacy: Hossain Zillur

Post the violent elections in Bangladesh conducted on January 5, the Executive Chairman of the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and a former advisor to the caretaker government of Bangladesh, Hossain Zillur Rahman, has pinpointed the failures of the elections that were also shunned globally. "The election has led to a parliament whose legitimacy is questionable. The government which is in place now suffers from this legitimacy issue enormously at home and at abroad," said Rahman. hossain Zillur

Bangladesh to import more wheat to boost reserves

Bangladesh will take advantage of a slump in global prices for wheat by speeding up imports to build state reserves, and soon plans to issue tenders for 100,000 tonnes of the grain, a top procurement official said on Monday. Such imports are crucial for the South Asian nation to feed its poor and keep domestic prices stable at a time when political turmoil has hit supply chains and government reserves are at five-year lows. “We are soon going to issue tenders to import 100,000 tonnes of wheat,” Mohammad Badrul Hassan, procurement director in the Directorate General of Food, told Reuters. “The food scenario is not like that in 2008 when wheat and rice prices surged to record highs ... We can import grain at reasonable pri...
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