Bangladesh

DHAKA, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Forest Department of Bangladesh has started setting up a total of 1,330 cameras at 665 spots in the Sundarbans, world's largest mangrove forests, to count tigers, deer and pigs.

Abu Naser, forest official of Sundarbans west zone and director of Sundarbans Tiger Conservation Project, told Bangladesh private news agency UNB that the camera installation work started at Kalabogi Ecotourism Center on Sunday morning, adding that apart from counting tigers, this year, the forest department will count deer and pigs as well under the project.

DHAKA, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The 27th edition of the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), the largest annual commercial and trade event in Bangladesh, kicked off Sunday at the mega Chinese-built venue the Bangabandhu Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Center (BBCFEC).

The trade fair, which is being held at the BBCFEC located in Purbachal on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, will last for a month.

DHAKA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Bangladeshi Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said on Thursday the country is to construct six more metro rail lines in the capital Dhaka by 2030.

He said a feasibility study is also conducted on the metro rail lines in Chattogram city, some 242 km southeast of Dhaka.

Quader revealed the plan at a press conference held a day after Bangladesh's first-ever metro began commercial operations on Wednesday.

DHAKA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said on Monday that Bangladesh does not want interference from any country in Bangladesh's internal affairs.

"We're a mature country. We're a sovereign country. We are an independent country," leading private news agency UNB quoted him as saying at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

The foreign minister said that other countries do not need to give prescriptions to Bangladesh on democracy and human rights as these are deeply rooted in Bangladesh's DNA.

DHAKA, Dec 20 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, yesterday, reiterated her call for boosting food production, to save the country from any possible trouble, amid the global economic recession.

“We have to increase our production and preserve them, so that our country must not plunge into any danger,” she was quoted as saying, by the United News of Bangladesh (UNB), adding that, the government had set up a number of modern silos to stock rice.

DHAKA, Dec 16 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh’s first-ever metro will begin commercial operations on Dec 28, easing gridlock in capital city Dhaka, an official said, yesterday.

“Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, will formally inaugurate the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT Line)-6 of the metro rail, from the capital’s Uttara to Agargaon area, at a function on Dec 28,” Bangladeshi Road Transport and Highways Division Secretary, ABM Amin Ullah Nuri told journalists yesterday.

He said that, all sorts of construction works were completed and the MRT Line-6 was ready for commercial operation.

DHAKA, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday unveiled her government's vision to build a "Smart Bangladesh" by 2041.

"We'll make Bangladesh a developed country by 2041, and that Bangladesh will be a Smart Bangladesh," she was quoted as saying in a report by Bangladesh's leading private news agency UNB.

The prime minister made the remarks when attending the inaugural program of Digital Bangladesh Day 2022.

DHAKA, Dec 5 (NNN-BSS) – A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka and parts of the country this morning, according to a meteorologist of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).

Kazi Zebunnesa, a meteorologist from Bangladesh Meteorological Department, said that, the epicentre of the earthquake was at a depth of 10 km in the Bay of Bengal.

The meteorologist said, the epicentre was 520 kilometres away from the Agargaon Seismic Centre in the capital, Dhaka. The earthquake occurred at around 9:02 a.m. local time.

DHAKA, Dec 2 (NNN-BSS) – A three-day tourism expo kicked off here yesterday, with a view to boosting the country’s travel industry business.

The Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh (ATAB), organised the event titled “Bangladesh International Travel and Tourism Expo” at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, also known as the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.

Bangladeshi Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister, Md Mahbub Ali, inaugurated the expo.

RANGAMATI, Bangladesh (AP) — A quarter century ago, Modhumala Chakma says it was impossible to leave her house in the evening and walk around the nearby hills because they were controlled by a tribal insurgent group seeking autonomy in southeastern Bangladesh.

“It was a difficult time,” says the 60-year-old farm worker from an ethnic minority in the Shuvolong area of Rangamati, one of three districts bordering India and Myanmar collectively called Chittagong Hill Tracts. “We lived in constant fear of being raped or killed.”

“Those bad days are gone,” she says.