Top Bangladesh cellphone company pays $117m in legal tussl...
February 24 ,2020
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By: SAM Report
Bangladesh’s leading cellphone operator paid $117 million to the country’s telecommunication regulator on Sunday amid a pro...
Bangladesh is not giving land for Indian airport
February 22 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has not responded to an Indian request for land to expand the Agartala airport in the Indian St...
Padma Bridge expenditure goes up 297 per cent
February 20 ,2020
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By: Shafiq Rahman
Padma Bridge is gradually becoming more and more visible and with it, a long-standing dream is inching nearer fulfillment. The latest s...
BTRC rejects GP’s Tk100cr offer
February 20 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Grameenphone, Bangladesh’s largest telecom operator, offered Tk100 crore to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commissio...
India wants to sell defence equipment to Bangladesh
February 20 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
India on Wednesday launched a promotional activity for selling defence equipment to Bangladesh.
‘India and Bangladesh have clo...
Does India really have a Bangladeshi problem?
February 18 ,2020
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By: Paran Balakrishnan
Here’s an easy quiz: What’s Bangladesh’s population? Answer: 163 million. Now that we have got that figure clear, let...
Padma Bridge rail route to link up with Trans Asian rail n...
February 18 ,2020
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By: Shafiq Rahman
Plans are underway in Bangladesh for enhancing railway connectivity, using the railway route of the under-construction Padma Bridge. Wi...
How Bangladesh is outperforming India
February 17 ,2020
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By: Karan Thapar
Frankly, I blame Henry Kissinger. Way back in the 1970s, he called Bangladesh “an international basket case”. At the time,...
Coast Guard to get chopper, ships, Says BD home minister
February 17 ,2020
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By: SAM Report
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Saturday that state-of-art ships, hovercrafts, drones, maritime patrol aircrafts and choppers wo...
Chinese-run projects in Bangladesh to continue
February 17 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladeshi and Chinese officials announced on Sunday that the novel coronavirus outbreak would not disrupt Chinese-run infrastructure...
AH-2 makes North Bengal a hub of South Asian trade and tou...
February 16 ,2020
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By: Probir Pramanik
Kakarvitta Panitanki border post
Kakarvitta is a dusty and crowded Nepal-India border post on the Nepalese side. Under a warm late...
Spectre of a Bangladeshi cross-over to India is ill-founde...
February 15 ,2020
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By: Swati Narayan
In an age of dog-whistle scaremongering, a Union minister alleged on February 9 that, “half of Bangladesh will come to India if c...
Bangladesh 34th highest-risk nation in coronavirus transmi...
February 15 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh ranks 34th among 43 countries with the highest risk of transmission of the deadly coronavirus through passenger flights from...
Apaches to enter two new territories, Bangladesh likely on...
February 15 ,2020
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By: SAM Report
Boeing’s most active rotary-winged marketing campaigns at the moment centre on the AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopter, with...
Bangladesh arrests suspected traffickers over refugee boat...
February 14 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Nine human trafficking suspects have been arrested, Bangladesh police said Thursday (Feb 13), after 15 Rohingya refugees drowned when a...
Saudi Arabia reportedly set to invest $30bn in Bangladesh
February 14 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Some of Saudi Arabia’s top companies are looking to invest around $30 billion in a number of Bangladesh’s business sectors,...
CHT peace accord: Shantu Larma seeks India’s help
February 13 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Santu Larma
Bangladesh’s Parbattya Chattogram Jansanghati Samity (PCJSS) supremo Santu Larma is in India, seeking Indian pus...
17 Chinese sailors leave Bangladesh
February 13 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
After remaining stranded for a couple of days inside a ship brought in for dismantlement, the 17 Chinese sailors left Bangladesh on Wed...
Bangladesh to take India to WTO for anti dumping duties on...
February 13 ,2020
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By: Syful Islam
A view of Kolkata port
As India declined to lift the anti-dumping duty on Bangladeshi goods, the commerce ministry high-ups have a...
Bangladesh eyeing $50b in investment from Saudis
February 12 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Investment is set to top the priority list as two days of talks between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia begin at Economic Relations Divisio...
Nothing official about ‘gifts’ to Bangladesh minister
February 12 ,2020
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By: Faisal Mahmud
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader
Aside from the Bangladeshi president and prime minister, very few government of...
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