Bangladesh Travel News

Dhaka, Delhi agree on open-ended import, export; joint venture power projects; PDB can access Indian private power; 2 years needed for first exchange of power Sharier Khan Dhaka has signed a memorandum of understanding with Delhi seeking open-ended import and export of power with the option to purchase power from both public and private sectors of ...

DHAKA: The government has declared four rivers surrounding Dhaka City as Ecologically Critical Area as part of the plan to protect the rivers from encroachment as well as conservation of the biodiversity of the ancient water courses.

UNB, Dhaka Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni said the government would take necessary measures to increase manpower in Bangladesh embassies and missions across the world to provide better services to the expatriate Bangladeshis.

DHAKA: United Airways launched its flight to London yesterday, the first by a private airline in Bangladesh.

DHAKA: Speakers at a seminar yesterday said referring to a World Bank study that environment pollution is responsible for 22 percent of all deaths from diseases in Bangladesh.

"I serve as a window for my classmates either from Bangladesh or other countries to know about China," said Lin Le, a Chinese boy studying in Bangladesh.

Two University of Oklahoma journalism and mass communication students will travel to Bangladesh over the winter break to help train Bangladeshi journalists.

BSS, Dhaka The Bangladesh Embassy is going to arrange more mobile consular services in America.

New Delhi, Nov 18 : Bangladesh Power Secretary Abul Kalam Azad is visiting New Delhi on Wednesday to hold a preliminary round of energy cooperation talks ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India visit next month.

"I want to be a messenger of friendship between China and Bangladesh," Bangladeshi boy Wu Qiu told Xinhua in a recent exclusive interview.

As part of the e-governance plan, the government had drawn up a mission mode project for immigration, visa and foreigners registration and tracking called IVFRT.

Shillong, Nov 16 : Bangladesh Deputy Minister of Cultural Affairs Promode Mankin's visit to India has raised a 'protocol' controversy.

UNB, Dhaka Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry yesterday urged the Vietnam businesses to increase their investment in Bangladesh and assured them of extending all out cooperation in this regard.

The number of diarrhea patients, mostly children, is on the rise in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka like previous years with the inception of temperature plummeting months, causing outbreaks of the rotavirus-induced disease, officials said Thursday.

If you build it, they will come. True then, true now, true in the future. Here's today's Washington Post story by Maija Palmer and Amy Kazmin.

The question of belonging has always haunted her. She knew her roots were beyond the borders of West Bengal in Bangladesh.

BSS, Dhaka. The Digital ICT Fair-2009, an annual gala exposition of computer and its accessories, is gaining momentum every day with a large number of visitors showing their keen interest to the latest brands of this most modern scientific apparatus.

COX'S BAZAAR, Bangladesh - Since the Burmese military regime came to power in 1988, refugees have poured over the Naf River from Arakan State to seek asylum in neighboring Bangladesh.

NEW DELHI: The Indian high commission in Bangladesh is on high alert with Indian agencies as also agencies from other countries, who too are said to be in the line of fire, warning about impending terror strikes by groups who have base in Pakistan.

Bangladesh News.Net Sunday 8th November, 2009 A plan to attack the US embassy here was hatched in Pakistan by the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba , Bangladeshi investigators have said.