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Russian copters with Russian credit

Russia would supply six Mil Mi-171Sh military and transport helicopters and one Mi-171E rotocraft to Bangladesh. The supply is a part of an agreement signed in April 2015, Russia’s Tass news agency reported. Rosoboronexport also said that it would provide the Asian country a loan of $1 billion so that it could buy the helicopters. [caption id="attachment_19211" align="alignright" width="650"]putin Russian President Putin looks on as the head of Rosoboronexport Chemezov and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s CEO Baweja sign an agreement at MAKS-2005 international air sh...

TIB study unearths huge graft in land offices

Revealing widespread corruption and irregularities in the country’s land service sector, a new study shows that land owners have to bribe up to Tk 2 lakh for the mutation work of a plot of land, reports news UNB. The study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) unfolds various bribery rates in different land services and civil suits relating to land disputes. It says land owners are forced to bribe Tk 100-10,000 in paying Land tib logoDevelopment Tax (LDT) while Tk 1,000-50,000 for land registration, Tk 200-1,000 for withdrawal of re...

PSC chief calls on Indian minister

Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) Chairman Ekram Ahmed today met Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh here and discussed the working of UPSC which conducts prestigious civil services examination to select IAS and IPS officers. Ahmed, who is currently on a visit to India, discussed a wide range of issues related to the bd-indiafunctioning of the UPSC and that of Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) with the Singh, a press release issued by the government said. Giving an overall resume about the functioning of DoPT and t...

Concern arising over India’s river-linking plan

The recent announcement in New Delhi to go ahead with a scheme to link 30 rivers across the country, including the Brahmaputra and the Ganga in the Himalayas, set off new concerns from Bangladesh. New Delhi’s renewed thrust on the project has left not merely environmentalists, but also the Bangladeshi government, its opposition and the Indian opposition worried. bd-indiaThe announcement seems to have overlooked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s very recent reiterated commitment and a joint communique signed by the two prime ministers of Banglade...

India approves Rs 1,000cr for Indo-Bangla rail link

The Indian government has sanctioned around Rs.1,000 crore for a 15-km India-Bangladesh railway project, an official said on Sunday. The union government on Saturday communicated to Tripura that it had sanctioned Rs.580 crore to lay the rail tracks and acquire required land in Tripura, Transport Secretary Samarjit Bhowmik said. bd-indiaThe external affairs ministry earlier agreed to provide Rs.400 crore to lay the new tracks and to acquire land in Bangladeshi territory. Union cabinet secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha is looking after the execution of...
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