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India-Bangladesh coastal shipping service sets sail

India-Bangladesh cross-border trade received a major fillip with the introduction of a new coastal shipping service between the two neighboring nations. The service, branded the Prantik Bangladesh India Xpress, or Prantik BIX, connects Kolkata to Chittagong, Bangladesh’s main cargo gateway, reports http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/trade-lanes/india-bangladesh-coastal-shipping-service-sets-sail_20150410.html. “Industry leaders have opined that this direct service will benefit shippers from all […]

Bangladesh executes Islamist party leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman convicted of war crimes

Bangladesh on Saturday night executed Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, an Islamist party leader convicted of war crimes, which is the second execution for crimes against humanity committed during the country’s war of independence in 1971. The death sentence of the war crimes accused Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed days after an Appellate […]

Bangladesh suffers 2.2 bln USD economic loss from political unrest in 3 months of 2015: World Bank

DHAKA, April 12 (Xinhua) — The World Bank Sunday said the Bangladeshi economy has suffered a heavy loss from the prolonged political unrest. The Washington-based lender in an updated report revealed that the country has suffered a financial loss of around 2.2 billion U. S. dollars in the last three months of political turmoil. “Bangladesh […]

KAFCO contributes nearly 12 mln taka to labor welfare foundation

DHAKA, April 9 (NsNewsWire) — Karnaphuli Fertilizer Co. Ltd. (KAFCO) has contributed nearly 12 million taka to the Sramik Kalyan Foundation. Industries Secretary Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, also a KAFCO board director, handed over the cheque amounting to 117, 32,479 taka , 0.5% of KAFCO profit for the financial year 2013-14 , to Md […]

Grameen Intel teams up with RRF to provide e-agro services to farmers

DHAKA, April 9 (NsNewsWire) — Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd and Rural Reconstruction Fundation (RRF) have teamed up to provide e-agro services to thousands of farmers in a rural Bangladesh district. In this connection, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) , concerning collaboration for Information Technologies transfer to Bangladesh rural farmers, has been signed between Grameen […]

At least 24 killed, 22 injured in road accident in central Bangladesh

By Jasim Katabi DHAKA, April 9 (NsNewsWire) — At least 24 people were killed and more than 22 others injured when a passenger bus veered off the road and fell into a ditch in Bangladesh’s central Faridpur district, some 101 km away of capital Dhaka, early Thursday. “The passenger bus fell into a road side […]

Bangladesh select rookie Talukdar for Pakistan series

DHAKA, April 9 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh have named uncapped opening batsman Rony Talukdar in a 14-man squad for their one-day series against Pakistan next week. Talukdar, who has been named in the party for two of the three ODIs, top-scored in the Dhaka Premier League with 714 runs at an average of 51. He replaces […]

Innovative Ideas have been awarded under ‘Smart Farmer, Smart Future’ campaign

DHAKA, April 8 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID), Grameenphone and Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), together are delighted to award the most innovative ideas on “How to use ICT in Agriculture” of the triumphant campaign “Smart Farmer, Smart Future” on Tuesday, 07 April 2015 at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh, Khamarbari, Farmgate, […]

Bangladesh’s mobile phone users reach nearly 122 mln in January

DHAKA, April 8 (NsNewsWire) — The total number of Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers reached nearly 122 million at the end of January with addition of 1.514 million new users in the first month of the year, statistics of the country’s telecom regulator showed Tuesday. According to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission ( BTRC) data, the number […]