UNFPA supplement 2013
SAARC officials meet to set agenda for bringing down tariffs
KATHMANDU, July 30 : The main South Asian regional group on Tuesday took new steps toward eliminating tariffs to boost trade in the region, reports AFP. Senior officials from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries began a three-day meeting here to set an agenda for bringing down tariffs. The inter-governmental group on trade liberalisation will make recommendations to the governments of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka on how to free up trade. The meeting was inaugurated by SAARC Secretary General Naeem U Hasan who stressed the importance of regional cooperation for developing regional trade and commerce through concessional tariffs. The member nations set up the South Asian Preferential...
SAFMA regional confce
President of Asia Foundation due today
The president of the Asia Foundation Dr William P Fullar arrives in the city today on a three-day visit.
During the visit he will meet business leaders, government officials, donor communities, NGO representatives and important personalities of the country, says a press release.
Russian Deputy FM due today
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory B Karasin arrives in the city today on a two-day official visit, reports UNB.
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1,106 more tribal refugees return
A total of 1,106 tribal refugees of 212 families returned home yesterday, the 11th day of the current phase of repatriation, from Lebuchhara refugee camp in the Indian state of Tripura through Tabalchhari frontier point of the Khagrachhari hill district, official sources in Rangamati said, reports BSS.
Some 10,203 refugees of 1,995 families have returned home so far in the current phase of repatriation, which began on Jan 1.
A total of 776 refugees belonging to 150 families are scheduled to return today from the Lebuchhara refugee camp as per schedule.
Italian envoy calls on health minister
Italian Ambassador in Bangladesh Dr Raffaele Miniero yesterday called on Health and Family Welfare Minister Salahuddin Yusuf at his secretariat office, reports UNB.
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'Bangladesh, SA both trying to institutionalise democracy'
The visiting South African National Congress member Andrew Feinstein, MP, yesterday said that Bangladesh and South Africa had similarities in institutionalising a system of multi-party democracy. A member of South Africa's parliamentary committees on trade, industry and public accounts, Feinstein was speaking at a dialogue on "Role of truth and Reconciliation Commission: Coming to Terms with the Legacy of Apartheid with some lessons for Bangladesh." The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a local think-tank, organised the discussion meeting at its conference room. The visiting South African parliamentarian gave a resume of the legacy of apartheid and the reconciliation process in his country under the dynamic leadership of President Nelson Mandela. CPD...