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Human traffickers in Bay of Bengal cast sights on Bangladesh

Abul Hasan, a 30-year-old fisherman, was drinking tea at a restaurant here when he was approached by two men who said they could help him get a good job at a factory in Malaysia. He was told that he could pay for his passage after he started working, he said, so he followed the men to a nearby village to “see some brochures.” traffic in Bay 111The next thing he remembers was waking up, nauseated, alongside more than a dozen other men aboard a fishing boat. Six guards armed with knives stood watch. “I knew I was in troub...

3rd Bangladesh-US partnership talks end  

Bangladesh and the United States have recognized the importance of the relationship between the two countries and look forward to further broadening, deepening, and strengthening the Dhaka-Washington partnership, said the joint statement issued upon the completion of the two-day long third Bangladesh-US Partnership dialogue at the state department. Foreign secretary Shahidul Haque led the Bangladesh side to the dialogue while the US side was headed by under secretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman. The two delegation leaders highlighted the robust and growing bilateral ties between Bangladesh and the United States and affirmed that the relationship is based on shared values and common goals of the two countries and their peoples.

How bombs supplied from India to Bangladesh

As the investigating agencies continue their questioning of several suspects in the Burdhwan blast including Shaikh Yusuf, it has found that in the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had moved four consignments of bombs to Bangladesh in the years 2013 and 2014. burdwan-blastOfficers privy to the investigation informed that the bombs prepared in West Bengal in the past two years had moved in five separate consignments across the border and have reached Bangladesh. Terrorists suspected to have bribed guards at India-Bangladesh bord...

Bangladesh to export 50,000 T rice to Sri Lanka

Bangladesh will export 50,000 tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka for the first time under a government-to-government deal at $450 a tonne including cost, freight and insurance, Food Minister Mohammad Karmul Islam said on Monday. bangladeshi_rice_400Strong output and good government stocks have prompted the Bangladesh government to initiate the plan to export rice. “We have sufficient stock, and our production is also good. So there will be no crisis due to rice export,” a Bangladesh food ministry official said. In Sri La...

Chevron announces production from Bibiyana expansion project

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), the US-based international oil company, Tuesday formally announced its enhanced gas production from Bibiyana gas field. A press statement, released from Chevron’s headquarters in San Ramon of California, said that its Bangladesh subsidiary has commenced natural gas production from the Bibiyana Expansion Project in the northeastern part of the country. chevron-logo-promoThe project included an expansion of the existing gas plant to process increased natural gas volumes from the Bibiyana Fi...

Jump in machinery imports raises money laundering suspicion  

The imports of capital and other industrial machinery increased by 21 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year compared with that in the same period of the FY2013-14 raising a suspicion of money laundering. According to the latest Bangladesh Bank data, the import of capital machinery and machinery for miscellaneous industries increased to $1.65 billion in July-September of the FY15 from $1.37 billion in the same period of the FY14. money_scamThe year-on-year growth in imports of industrial machinery was around 15 per ...
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