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Friday, October 2, 2009

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Bangladesh News Updates : 11.5.2009

Bangladesh News


Prove innocence in war crime

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:35 PM PDT

A Dhaka court yesterday summoned Jamaat leaders Ghulam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, and 32 others to appear before it on July 20 to explain why they should not be declared war criminals for committing crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971. According to the court [...]



GTCL goes for ‘forced’ re-tender for 3rd time

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:33 PM PDT

Going against its tender evaluation committee and a project consultant, the Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) board headed by the Petrobangla chairman disqualified the lowest bid of a crucial $150 million gas compressor project. The project is aimed at improving gas supply pressure and flow, sources said. During the GTCL board meeting Saturday, which saw heated arguments [...]



4th HC bench declines to hear Khaleda’s petition

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:31 PM PDT

This time a High Court (HC) bench assigned by Chief Justice MM Ruhul Amin has declined to hear BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s writ petition challenging the legality of the government decision to cancel the allotment of her cantonment house. Three HC benches had already shied away from hearing the former prime minister’s petition, and the court [...]



Demand for 100pc duty on newsprint import a conspiracy

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:29 PM PDT

As Bangladesh Paper Mills Association’s demanded 100 percent duty on newsprint imports, Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) yesterday urged the government to keep zero tariff on newsprint imports to ensure press freedom and free flow of information. Expressing concern, Noab in a statement said the demand for imposing 100 percent duty on newsprint import is [...]


Parties’ Poll Expenses: Reports beyond public still

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:25 PM PDT

The Election Commission (EC) has not yet disclosed polls expenditure reports submitted to it by the political parties and candidates who contested the last parliamentary election although electoral laws make the disclosure mandatory to ensure people’s access to those. Representation of the People Order (RPO) provides that copies of polls expenditure of the parties and candidates [...]



Ghulam Azam: Focus back on, 8yrs after

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:24 PM PDT

Former Jamaat ameer Ghulam Azam stayed out of focus since he disappeared from open politics of Jamaat-e-Islami eight years ago. One of the front men of 1971 who actively helped Pakistani occupation forces’ attempts to foil the birth of Bangladesh, he was brought to spotlight once again after yesterday’s court order. Ghulam Azam, who was hyperactive [...]



200 BDR men held in 7 dists

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:18 PM PDT

About 200 suspected BDR rebels were arrested from different sectors, battalions and camps in seven northern districts yesterday as the police started filing sedition cases against the border troops across the country for staging February 25-26 mutiny. Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) assisted by army personnel arrested suspected mutineers from different BDR units as courts [...]



RMG workers go on the rampage

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:14 PM PDT

Several hundred ready-made garment (RMG) workers vandalised more than a dozen garment factories at BSCIC industrial area in Fatullah of Narayanganj yesterday morning demanding a hike in their salaries. Meanwhile, another group of workers in Savar put up blockades on Dhaka-Aricha highway and damaged around 30 vehicles halting traffic movement for over an hour. Workers at both [...]



2 killed in Rangamati gunfight

Posted: 11 May 2009 05:11 PM PDT

Two activists of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) were killed in a gun battle with army members during a raid at Badalchhari under sadar upazila yesterday. The army men rounded up two UPDF activists in the predawn raid. A huge number of arms and ammunition were also recovered from the UPDF hideout, 30 kilometres off the [...]



Proposed salaries to be slashed off a little

Posted: 10 May 2009 04:43 PM PDT

The finance ministry plans to cut 10 to 20 percent of the Pay Commission’s recommended scales for 20 grades of government employees. Sources say the ministry is now looking for ways to cut Tk 2,000-2,500 crore of the commission’s recommended expenditure for paying government employees. They said the ministry is currently examining what amount of money they [...]


Monday, May 11, 2009

Bangladesh News Updates : 10.5.2009

Bangladesh News


Nuke answer to power

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:21 PM PDT

Previous governments may not have kept the promise to build a nuclear power plant for the last 40 years but this Awami League government is committed to make it happen during its tenure, said State Minister for Science and ICT Yeafesh Osman yesterday. “We mean business,” he said at a discussion titled “Prospects of nuclear power [...]



Govt’s borrowing from banks may rise 34pc

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:18 PM PDT

The government’s bank borrowing target for the next fiscal year (FY) may be increased by 34 percent over this year’s and set at Tk 18,000 crore due to a possible mismatch between budgetary earning and expenditure next year. In the current FY, the target of bank borrowing is Tk 13,500 crore. Finance ministry sources however said the [...]

Dr Wazed no more

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Eminent scientist and husband of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Dr MA Wazed Miah passed away yesterday afternoon in the capital’s Square Hospital after a prolonged battle with multiple illnesses. The prime minister was beside her husband at the moment of his passing away. He had been suffering for long from high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, and [...]



NID cards only for those eligible for becoming voters

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:13 PM PDT

Only people eligible for being registered as voters will now be entitled to get national identity (NID) card, according to a draft national identity registration act. It also proposed that preparation of fake NID card and any cooperation in this regard would be considered a non-bailable offence with the offender liable to imprisonment for up to [...]



Khaleda rushes to Sudha Sadan, consoles Hasina

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:05 PM PDT

Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia rushed to Sudha Sadan last night to stand beside Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and convey her condolence on the death of Dr MA Wazed Miah. The BNP chairperson went there around 9:00pm and stayed for around 25 minutes. The BNP also decided last night to postpone a human chain programme today [...]



Troops kill 55 Taliban in fierce Swat fighting

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:02 PM PDT

Doctors rushed to treat wounded Pakistani civilians and desperate refugees looted UN supplies yesterday, as thousands of troops backed by bomb-dropping warplanes sought to purge Taliban militants from a northwestern valley. The army said it killed as many as 55 more Taliban fighters in clashes in the Swat Valley on Saturday. Four soldiers were wounded, a [...]



Project for disabled gets uncertain

Posted: 09 May 2009 12:59 PM PDT

The fate of $35 million donor-funded project for the welfare of the persons with disability (PWDs) and disadvantaged children is uncertain due to negligence of the government in launching it formally within the timeframe, which has already expired. The World Bank and Bangladesh government signed an agreement on December 28 last year for the five-year term [...]



Infighting grips JCD over new committee

Posted: 09 May 2009 12:57 PM PDT

Internal feud has raised its ugly head in BNP’s student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) ahead of the formation of a new central committee as part of the party’s initiative to reform its associated organisations. The row was sparked over whether a fresh full-fledged central committee will be formed or a convening committee will run the [...]



Ex-NSI officer taken to TFI for quizzing

Posted: 09 May 2009 12:54 PM PDT

Further interrogation of arrested former director (security) of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Mohammad Sahab Uddin began at TFI cell in Dhaka yesterday afternoon in connection with the Chittagong arms haul case. Sahab Uddin was brought to the Task Force for Interrogation (TFI) cell in the afternoon. The interrogation started around 4:00pm, said the sources. A Chittagong court [...]



Foreign forces being invited in search of militants

Posted: 09 May 2009 12:49 PM PDT

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami yesterday said a certain quarter is inviting foreign forces to Bangladesh in search of militants mentioning the country’s inability to fight against militancy. The Jamaat chief was addressing a council of Bangladesh Islamic Lawyers Association (BILA) as chief guest at Diploma Engineers’ Institute in the capital yesterday morning. He said besides Jamaat-e-Islami, [...]

Friday, May 8, 2009

Bangladesh News Updates : 8.5.2009

Bangladesh News


Pollution industry-made

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:13 PM PDT

Industries got a whacking yesterday as experts and environmentalists maintained that rivers around Dhaka are getting polluted wholesale by industrial waste. Even industries with effluent treatment plants do not run those facilities. The capital’s sewage is also mostly untreated and dumped into the rivers as the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) has very few [...]



ADB pledges $200m

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:12 PM PDT

Bangladesh is going to get $200 million as budget support by December this year from the newly formed recession fund of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to tackle the fallout of global meltdown. Finance Minister AMA Muhith said this at a press briefing at his office yesterday on return from the ADB’s annual conference in Indonesian [...]



Cabinet to expand soon

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:12 PM PDT

Some senior and mid-level leaders of Awami League (AL) and the components of its grand alliance are busy with hectic lobbying to become cabinet members, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is planning to expand the cabinet soon. Sources in the government and AL said Hasina’s plan was inspired by an evaluation report that had identified [...]



55,000 Bangladeshis to get job gradually

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:11 PM PDT

Malaysia will gradually recruit the 55,000 Bangladeshi workers it sent back, said Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday. “Bangladesh High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur said there was discussion in the Malaysian parliament on lifting the ban but the decision has not been officially shared yet,” Mosharraf Hossain told The Daily Star. “Malaysia needs [...]



Slack swine flu screening at ZIA

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:11 PM PDT

Shahabul, a migrant worker returning from Malaysia, was coughing yesterday as his relatives helped him away from Zia International Airport (ZIA) after his arrival. The 25-year-old man said he was forced to give up his job and return home after suffering from continuous fever and coughs for over three months, but on arrival at ZIA he [...]



Talks on change in constitution start

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT

A parliamentary committee yesterday began deliberations on a private member’s bill seeking to repeal the constitutional provision that allows the president to assume the role of chief adviser to caretaker government. Along with another, the bill also proposes provisions for displaying the portrait of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at offices of [...]



Bismillah to remain in constitution

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT

Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday said Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim would remain in the constitution as it was even if the fifth amendment to the constitution was annulled in line with the High Court (HC) verdict. He refuted the allegation of former minister Moudud Ahmed that one-party BKSAL (Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League) rule and anarchy would [...]



Fresh notice to Khaleda to vacate house

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:08 PM PDT

Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonments yesterday served a fresh notice upon BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia asking her to show cause as to why she should not be asked to return the estate, including the house, within the next 15 days. Talking to The Daily Star a senior intelligence official said an officer of the Directorate [...]



Pakistan pounds Taliban hideouts

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:07 PM PDT

Pakistani attack helicopters and warplanes pounded suspected Taliban hideouts Thursday, as thousands of people fled the deadliest fighting to erupt in the northwest district of Swat in months. Aid workers warned that the humanitarian crisis was escalating in the area after families streamed out of the Taliban militant stronghold on foot or crammed into cars weighed [...]



Madhav may lead Nepal coalition

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:06 PM PDT

The CPN (UML) is all set to choose Madhav Kumar Nepal as the leader of the next coalition that will form the government. UML Vice-Chairperson Bidhya Devi Bhandari here on Wednesday said, “Madhav Kumar Nepal has the ability to bring together different parties. UML is going to pick him unanimously as the leader of the next [...]

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Bangladesh News Updates : 29.4.09

Bangladesh charges British official with terror funding
Dhaka, April 28 : Investigators Tuesday formally charged the head of a British charity and 10 Bangladeshi agents with financing terrorism in the guise of operating a religious school in...


Bangladesh charges UK charity chief with financing terrorism
DHAKA: Investigators yesterday formally charged the head of a British charity and 10 Bangladeshi agents with financing terrorism in the guise of operating a religious school in Bangladesh. A court in...


ADB Assisting Bangladesh in Improving Irrigation Systems
US$750,000 grant from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will assist Bangladesh in implementing a planned multi-million loan project in 2010 that will improve irrigation services and further enhance...


2 policemen suspended on charges of negligence
Two policemen of Motijheel Police Station who recorded a general diary (GD) against the inspector general of police (IGP) was suspended last night on charges of negligence of duty.The suspended...


RU reopens June 1
Academic activities of Rajshahi University (RU) will resume on June 1 amid tight security measures.The dormitories of the university will reopen for students in phases on May 30 and 31. RU...


Suspected killer held in Barisal
Nineteen days after the gruesome murder of Malibagh Biggyan College student Zishan, the police arrested a suspected killer from Barisal town on Monday evening. The arrestee was identified as Alvi...


21 Hizb-ut Towhid men remanded
Chief Judicial Magistrate's court of Kushtia yesterday placed 21 Hizb-ut Towhid men on four days remand.Earlier, on Wednesday last the same court remanded 10 others including the outfit's regional...


Rahman and Hossain keep Bangladesh U-19 afloat
Bangladesh Under-19 229 for 7 (Rahman 54*, Hossain 49*, Peiris 2-58, Weerasinghe 2-64) trail Sri Lanka Under-19 280 (Angelo Perera 112, Weerasinghe 44, Islam 4-58) by 51...


Three get life for rape
A Chapainawabganj court yesterday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for raping a woman. The convicts are Sahabuddin,40, Mahtab,50 and Shafiqul Islam,45, of Dhainagar village under Sadar...


Call to re-fix procurement price of Boro
More organisations yesterday demanded the government re-fix the procurement price of Boro paddy at Tk 15 per kilogram instead of Tk 14.Leaders of Bangladesh Workers' Party in a statement said farmers...

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Monday, April 27, 2009

Football (Soccer) : Popular Sports in Bangladesh

Football is popular in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is currently ranked 174th in the FIFA ranking. Bangladesh became the 2003 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) champion. SAFF includes Southern Asian countries and other countries from Asia.

The Bangladesh national football team is controlled by the Bangladesh Football Federation. It is a member of the AFC. The side has yet to qualify for a FIFA World Cup tournament. They were eliminated in the first round of their only Asian Cup appearance to date in 1980. As is the case elsewhere on the subcontinent, the national football team stands somewhat in the shadow of the country's test cricket team. The team was founded in 1972, and joined FIFA in 1974.

Apart from wins over Indonesia and Thailand in their first ever World Cup qualification in 1986, Bangladesh has struggled to impose itself. At the regional level, they have also remained in the second echelon while in Asia, the team is constantly trying to avoid being the wooden spoon of their group.

However, the association is currently working hand in hand with the Vision Asia programme which will see it restructuring its domestic league as well as initiating more youth programmes. These initiatives are coming at the right time for football in Bangladesh.

Football in Bangladesh has a huge following which was exemplified when the national team made history in their victory at the South Asian Football Federation Cup in 2003. The South Asia side won the final via penalties over Maldives before 50,000 home supporters.

Kazi Salahuddin is Bangladesh's most famous footballer, having played professional football in Hong Kong, the first Bangldeshi player to ever do so. [Presently President of Bangladesh Football Federation].


Presently Brazilian born DIDO is national team Coach.

Kabaddi : National Sports in Bangladesh

Kabaddi is a team game. Two teams of seven players occupy opposite halves of a field of 12.5m x 10m divided by a line into two halves. The teams take turns sending a "raider" across to the opposite team's half, where the goal is to tag or wrestle ("capture") members of the opposite team before returning to the home half. Tagged members are "out" and are sent off the field. The raider must not take a breath during the raid, and must prove it by constantly chanting (called 'cant' or 'dak') during the raid. Meanwhile, the defenders must form a chain, for example by linking hands; if the chain is broken, a member of the defending team is sent off. The goal of the defenders is to stop the raider from returning to the home side before taking a breath.

n 1980, Bangladesh became the runners-up in the first Asian Kabaddi Championship and India emerged as the champion. Bangladesh became runners-up again in the next Asian Kabaddi Championship held in 1985 at Jaipur, India.

Bangladeshi kabaddi team won the bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games.

Bangladesh News Updates

Bangladesh News


All Dhaka rivers left ‘dead’

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:02 PM PDT

Soft attitude of the government towards polluters and lack of awareness among city dwellers have literally left dead all the rivers and other surface waters in and around the capital. Over the years the government agencies conducted small-scale drives against the polluters without yielding any major success. The polluters have meanwhile continued polluting the rivers side [...]


Dhaka gone crazy

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:01 PM PDT

Life in the capital has become utterly miserable over the last ten days due to a severe heat wave accompanied with repeated load shedding, an acute water crisis, shortage of gas supply, infestation of mosquitoes, and the resultant near epidemic of diseases like diarrhoea. Other diseases like typhoid, jaundice, and heatstroke are also on the [...]

Tk 14 for paddy, Tk 22 for rice

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT

The government has fixed the procurement prices of per kg Boro paddy at Tk 14 while rice at Tk 22 to encourage farmers and protect their interest. A meeting of the Food Planning and Monitoring Committee also decided that a total of 10.5 lakh tonnes of rice and 1.5 lakh tonnes of paddy will be procured [...]

Quick bucks out of crisis

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Wasa water has become a source of quick bucks for some dishonest government employees in the wake of unbearable water crisis in the capital, allege a number of city dwellers. They allege a clique of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) officials are exacting more money than the official rates for water supply in lorries without [...]

Students down under look down the barrel

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT

About 6,000 Bangladeshi students brace for bad times as recession strikes Australia and starts to bite deeper into a once solid economy of a paltry 21.7 million population. Feeling pinch of the slowdown in November last year, Kevin Rudd’s government kept on trying every tricks laid out in the capitalistic economics to thwart the impact that [...]

Industrial cops in 3 months

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT

Formation process of industrial police force would be completed within next three months to maintain peace and discipline in apparel sector for which all procedures already have been finalised. Before introducing the new force, the government has decided to use battalion Ansars in the industrial areas to protect the sector from any untoward situation. This was disclosed [...]

Recession to bring food crisis back

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:58 PM PDT

The food crisis that hit many developing countries last year is likely to re-emerge following the recession and Asian countries must take measures to protect poor people from rising prices, a UN report said Friday. The report released in Bangkok called for Asian governments to implement social programs such as cash assistance and food-for-work schemes that [...]

PM calls for action

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:58 PM PDT

Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the power division and Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to act expeditiously in reducing sufferings of the people caused by ongoing water and power crisis. The PM gave the directive at a meeting with the power secretary, chairman of Wasa, managing director of Dhaka Power Distribution Company [...]

3 Bangladeshi teachers killed in Saudi road accident

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:57 PM PDT

Three Bangladeshi lecturers of King Khaled University were killed and two others injured in a tragic road accident at Doadmi, 328-km northwest of Riyadh last Friday. A relative of one of the victims told UNB that lecturers Sakil Ahmed Sohel, 27, Dr Akhtaruzzaman Afroz, 24, and his wife Sarzia Sajib, 25, died in the mishap. The [...]

72 more BDR men shown arrested

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:56 PM PDT

Seventy-two more suspected Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutineers were shown arrested yesterday and 10 of them were placed on a five-day remand each. Meanwhile, a lost BDR pistol was recovered from the Pilkhana quarters of a BDR member. A BDR jawan died of cancer at Narsingdi Sadar Hospital Saturday, says a BDR press release. Criminal Investigation Department (CID), [...]

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Bangladesh News Updates

Bangladesh News


Govt may miss MRP deadline

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT

Bangladesh’s hope of meeting the international deadline to introduce machine-readable passport (MRP) by April, 2010 looks bleak and the authorities are now not even thinking about the 2014 deadline for introducing e-passports. The government’s frequent change of mind has led to delays in launching the MRP project in the past. Shifting of stance of the [...]


Anomalies in Dal-Bhat scheme key factor

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:54 PM PDT

The jawans punished for irregularities in the BDR’s Operation Dal-Bhat led the vicious killings during the Pilkhana mutiny on February 25-26. However, the bloody revolt could be traced to the grievances nursed for years over alleged discriminations against the border guards, said sources close to the home ministry’s high-powered probe committee and Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The [...]


World heritage site left in ruins

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:53 PM PDT

Terracotta artefacts at the Paharpur Buddhist Monastery, a world heritage site, are on the verge of ruination due to sheer negligence of the Department of Archaeology. The Monastery, one of the most important archeological sites in South Asia, was declared as a protected site dates back to 1919 during the British colonial rule. Custodian of [...]


MPs’ discretionary funds used without rules

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:52 PM PDT

Members of the Parliament (MPs) have been spending from their annual discretionary fund totalling around Tk 3 crore each fiscal year since 1992, while guidelines for the spending are yet to be formulated. Legal experts said the rules must be made to give the expenditures legal coverage, otherwise serious questions might be raised about them. [...]


Govt reviews Milk Vita probe reports

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:52 PM PDT

The government has started reviewing probe reports about alleged embezzlement of a large amount of fund from state-run Milk Vita during the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance government between 2001 and 2006. The reports point fingers at former local government, rural development and cooperatives (LGRD) minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan. “The ministry is reviewing the reports submitted during the immediate-past [...]


BCL, JCD partners in ‘admission business’

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:39 PM PDT

Some 330 students failed to take admission into Pabna Edward College this academic year because of illegal ‘admission business’ by some student organisations and a section of teachers. Sources said leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and a section of teachers of the college allegedly took money from the admission seekers [...]


3 injured in gun attack over city slum’s control

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:17 PM PDT

At least three people including two local Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders were injured yesterday as unidentified criminals opened fire on them at the AL office in the city’s Fulbaria Railway Colony centring an internal feud over control of a slum. Wounded Ruhul Amin, 56, joint convener of Ward-56 AL unit, his [...]


Ctg chemical complex reopens after 6yrs

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:16 PM PDT

Industries Minister Dilip Barua yesterday said the draft industrial policy that the government announces today is aimed at turning Bangladesh into a middle-income country by 2021 when the country will celebrate its golden jubilee. The minister said this while talking to reporters after the inaugural ceremony of reopening of the state-owned Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) [...]


China’s help sought for rail link with Myanmar

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:16 PM PDT

Bangladesh has sought financial and technical assistance from China to expand the country’s railway network up to Gundum in Myanmar from Dohazari in Chittagong via Ramu in Cox’s Bazar to connect it with the Trans-Asian Railway (TAR). The government has already sent a letter to the Chinese government seeking assistance for laying about 130-kilometre railway tracks [...]


Ctg Port operations resume

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT

Vessel movement in Chittagong port resumed in full swing from yesterday morning. Sources in Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) said the main channel between Red and Green buoy at the Karnaphuli estuary has been dredged wide. However, for incoming movement of vessels the authority had to wait till yesterday morning as an extra precaution, sources said. Nine [...]

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