Chittagong, Bangladesh News

Bangladesh News.Net Wednesday 8th July, 2009 Bangladesh will offer Chittagong and Mongla ports for use to its South Asian neighbours, developing them as regional trade hubs, a minister has said.

Commerce Minister Faruk Khan has said the government wants to see Chittagong and Mongla ports graduating to regional ones, promoting trade and cooperation among nations.

Agartala : With neighbouring Bangladesh agreeing in principle to open up Chittagong port for North Eastern states of India, the prospect for trade and commerce between the two countries has brightened, a top Bangladeshi business leader said on on Sunday.

Bangladeshi surgeons are battling to save twins born joined at the stomach and legs.

WE are unfortunately divided by an unnecessary debate about who proclaimed independence of Bangladesh.

Share trading of 28 laggard companies has been suspended from today for an indefinite period by the stock market regulator.

DHAKA: The government is thinking of promoting some additional and joint secretaries to superior positions to fill up the gap at the top of the civil administration, according to sources.

Over the past two months the local authorities in Cox's Bazaar District, southeastern Bangladesh, have torn down scores of makeshift huts belonging to an estimated 1,000 Rohingya refugees.

A Bangladesh court ruled yesterday that the father of the country's current premier Sheikh Hasina and not the late husband of her arch-rival Khaleda Zia proclaimed independence from Pakistan in 1971.

NEW Abstract The Kyoto Protocol provides for the involvement of developing countries in an atmospheric greenhouse gas reduction regime under its Clean Development Mechanism .

BSS, Dhaka Commerce Minister Muhammad Faruq Khan told the House on Sunday that the government has undertaken a special plan to control the prices of essential goods at local markets on the occasion of the upcoming month of Ramzan.

NOTE: This Reporter's Notebook accompanies the story on public radio's Marketplace which aired on June 18.

Staff Reporter A parliamentary probe body yesterday decided to summon former shipping adviser of the caretaker government Maj Gen MA Matin to explain his position about alleged irregularities against him in awarding contract of container handling at Chittagong Port to a private firm.

An official says a Bangladesh Air Force fighter plane has crashed into a river in the country's southeast but its pilot parachuted to safety.

UNB, Dhaka Former TIB chairman Prof Muzaffer Ahmed on Monday said the lawmakers and ministers should step down from their respective position if they fail to protect people's and nation's interest by saying no to Tipaimukh dam.

Bangladesh receives about $2bn in foreign aid each year, but it does not always reach the people it is intended to help.

Awami League lawmaker MA Latif was involved in a scuffle with law enforcers when the MP with his men tried to force his way into a Water Transport Coordination Cell meeting in Chittagong yesterday.

The EU noted that many hilly residents, displaced due to the prolonged conflict, are yet to return to their homesteads 11 years after the signing of the treaty, one of the prime clauses of which was removal of the temporary military camps set up during the clash.

The tender for construction of the four-lane Dhaka-Chittagong Highway will be floated in this week, Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said today.

Arms and explosives seized in 2003 and again in 2004 belonged to an Indian insurgent group using Bangladeshi territory, former top officials of Bangladesh's National Services Intelligence have told a court in Chittagong.