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Argentina to boost economic trade ties with Bangladesh
Diplomatic Correspondent: Visiting Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship Santiago Andrés Cafiero yesterdayhoped that the economic, trade and business collaboration will go up between his country and Bangladesh following reopening of the Embassy of Argentina in Dhaka.He expressed this optimism while paying a courtesy call on Prime…
Read More »Indian Congress for resolving water sharing issue with BD
Industry Desk: Indian National Congress, the main opposition political party of the country, has underlined the need for resolving “long-pending issues through dialogue, especially the sharing of rivers water”.“India-Bangladesh ties have always been marked by openness, trust, cooperation, and mutual respect… We have successfully utilised the relationship to conclude long-standing…
Read More »Malaysian labour market rebounds
Industry Desk: Labour export to the high-demanding Malaysian labour market has witnessed a rebound amid complaints of higher migration cost than the fixed rate as the South-East Asian country recruited the second highest number of workers from Bangladesh in last month.Malaysia recruited a total of some 25,000 workers in January…
Read More »Indian medical visa aspirants suffering from fake letters
Staff Correspondent: Many medical visa seekers are depriving visa from Indian High Commission due to lack of proper document, especially fake medical appointments. A class of brokers preparing the fake medical appointments by editing others’ appointment. As a result, many critical patients are depriving of visas for treatment in different…
Read More »Washington deals with root causes of Rohingya crisis
Diplomatic Correspondent: The United States (US) has been dealing with root causes of Rohingya crisis alongside extending support to Dhaka to tackle over a million of the forcibly displaced minority Myanmar people, a senior visiting State Department official said yesterday. “We are working every day not only to try to…
Read More »BD, India discuss simplifying process of LoC projects
Industry Desk: Bangladesh and India have discussed simplification of the implementation process of Indian Line of Credit (LoC) projects.The issue was discussed at the 3rd meeting of the high-level project monitoring committee to review projects under Indian LoC held yesterday at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) in the capital.The meeting…
Read More »Why fencing India Bangladesh border?
Fencing of the 4,097-km-long border began in 1986 but a 952-km-long stretch remains to be fenced Rajeev Bhattacharyya: The Indian government has set a new deadline for the completion of the fencing of its border with Bangladesh after repeated failures over the past three decades.The latest annual report of the…
Read More »Govt fixes hajj cost at Tk 6.83 lakh
Staff Correspondent: The government has fixed Tk 6,83,018 as the cost for each pilgrim to perform hajj this year.The decision was taken at a meeting of the executive committee on hajj management with State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan in the chair yesterday.The private hajj agencies will…
Read More »Boost cross-border trade by developing land ports
Industry Desk: The government has taken many initiatives to bring about massive development in the country’s land port infrastructure, and enhance port efficiency and connectivity to boost cross-border trade and make ports more accessible and hassle-free to users.As part of that move, six new land ports are scheduled for opening…
Read More »Dhaka, New Delhi agree to start discussion for CEPA soon
Industry Desk: Bangladesh and India agreed to start discussions for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) at an early date for benefit of the people of both countries.The agreement came at the Commerce Ministerial Meeting of both countries. Bangladesh’s Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi and his Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal led…
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Hotels to be converted for Covid hospitals
Hospitals overwhelmed Staff Correspondent: The government is going to rent hotels for providing treatment …
