Price benefit eludes exporters as production low
Bangladeshi exporters have failed to benefit from uptrend in prices of black tiger variety shrimp on the international market due to supply shortage. Exporters said that the current price of black tiger has risen significantly in the last five years on the global market. Each pound frozen shrimp is now...
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90 migrants perish in Med boat capsize off Libya, says IOM
GENEVA, Feb 2 (AFP): At least 90 people were feared dead on Friday in the latest migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency said.A boat carrying the migrants capsized off the coast of Zuwara in the early hours Friday, International Organisation for...
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Myanmar sees Feb not right time for UN team’s visit
Myanmar told the United Nations Security Council not to visit during February this year because it was "not the right time," Kuwait's UN Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi said on Thursday, report agencies.The country did not completely reject the proposed trip, he added.The revelation came while the US State Department said...
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Man gets life in prison for killing Bangladeshi in London attack
A British man found guilty of murder after he drove a van into Muslim worshippers outside a London mosque last June, leaving one dead and injuring many more, was jailed for life on Friday and told he would serve at least 43 years behind bars, reports Reuters.Darren Osborne became obsessed...
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Japan raids hacked crypto exchange, bitcoin plunges further
TOKYO, Feb 2 (AFP): Japanese authorities on Friday raided virtual currency exchange Coincheck, a week after the Tokyo-based firm lost $530 million in cryptocurrency to hackers. The raid comes as bitcoin dipped below $9,000 for the first time since November after India said Thursday it would take measures to prevent...
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No. 3 US diplomat quits in latest departure under Trump
The US State Department's third-ranking official, Tom Shannon, said on Thursday he was stepping down, the latest senior career diplomat to exit since President Donald Trump took office a year ago, reports Reuters.Shannon, who serves as under secretary of state for political affairs, is the most senior career diplomat at...
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Noise pollution has reached an alarming level
Noise pollution has reached an alarming level in the National Press Club and adjacent areas in the capital due to daily use of sound-amplifying devices in the protest programmes of various organisations. The photo was taken on Friday. — FE Photo
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Bangladesh Food Safety Authority organises a procession
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority organises a procession in the capital on Friday on the occasion of National Food Safety Day. — FE Photo
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UK's Boris Johnson among leaders on way to Bangladesh
More world leaders are flying to Bangladesh to see the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya refugees as the crisis lingers on, reports bdnews24.com.A senior official at the foreign ministry told the news agency that British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson would make a two-day visit to Bangladesh from Feb 9.Earlier on Wednesday,...
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Human chain in city to voice their demand
Some organisations formed a human chain in the city on Friday to voice their demand that all wetlands be freed from grabbers to build sustainable future cities. — FE photo
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