Significant reduction in gold smuggling post July import duty cut: CBIC ChiefGold smuggling in India has significantly decreased since July 2024 due to a reduction in import duty from 15% to 6%. Customs and DRI offic...
09 Feb, 2025, 11.36 AM IST
How Bangladesh's $17-billion economy was siphoned dryBangladesh's financial system lost an estimated $17-$30 billion under former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's rule, involving fraudulent loan...
04 Dec, 2024, 11.12 AM IST
Bangladesh's top police official urges policemen to resume their duties and maintain public safetyBangladesh faced unprecedented law enforcement breakdowns after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, with attacks on over four hundred...
07 Aug, 2024, 10.44 AM IST
Nearly 100 killed, hundreds injured in clashes between protesters and ruling party supporters in BangladeshAround 100 people, including 14 policemen, were killed and hundreds injured in clashes between protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh H...
05 Aug, 2024, 07.46 AM IST
Dhaka reduced imbalance in trade, improved investment: Bangladesh PM adviserIndian Chamber of Commerce in association with Department of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Government of India organizes 2 d...
20 Oct, 2022, 01.11 AM IST
Tarantulas from Poland, Tamarins from Thailand seized in ChennaiThe end price of exotic creatures is very high. But enforcement agencies, in recent years, have stopped assigning any monetary value to wil...
31 Jul, 2021, 11.00 PM IST
US sending Bangladesh 2.5 million Covid vaccine doses: White House"Thanks to the US commitment to playing a leading role in ending the pandemic everywhere, 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine will beg...
30 Jun, 2021, 08.27 AM IST
Bangladesh enforcing weeklong lockdown amid coronavirus surgeHealth authorities said they were facing overwhelming pressure for intensive care units in hospitals in recent weeks because of the severe ...
05 Apr, 2021, 12.25 PM IST
Eye in the sky: Surveillance tech companies see business boom in the countrySurveillance tech is changing the contours of law enforcement and private enterprises, with startups in the space seeing their businesses b...
13 Mar, 2020, 09.13 AM IST
Assam on edge a day before publication of NRCLakhs of households across Assam are on edge a day before the publication of the hugely contentious NRC that will determine bonafide Indian...
30 Aug, 2019, 04.26 PM IST
Cabinet nod to adopt statute of South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network to check wildlife crimesThe Union Cabinet gave its nod for India adopting the statute of the South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) which will help in che...
13 Apr, 2016, 10.32 PM IST
Tetulia corridor over Bangladesh finds new hope“Since Chitmahal crisis has reached a definite resolution, we expect Tetulia too to come to a positive ending,” said Mr. Rahul Sinha, Presi...
12 May, 2015, 04.46 PM IST
Khaleda Zia remains confined as BNP enforces nationwide blockadeWitnesses said more policemen were deployed around the office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief in upmarket Gulshan area in the cap...
06 Jan, 2015, 03.38 PM IST
BJP's Assam bandh evokes mixed responseAssam bandh called by BJP, to protest Constitutional Amendment Bill to facilitate swapping of land enclaves with B'desh, evoked mixed respo...
20 Dec, 2013, 03.07 PM IST
- Mobile governance: With increased reach, it can become a tool of effective public-service delivery
Public services offered via mobile phones reach many more people than those offered through the internet.
16 Jun, 2012, 06.29 AM IST
- SAARC may ring in cheaper roaming
India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Pakistan-will meet in Delhi next week where they will consider this issue.
13 Oct, 2008, 12.05 AM IST
- SAARC nations pledge cooperation to curb wildlife trade
All eight SAARC nations -- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka -- have pledged to enhance c...
08 Feb, 2008, 03.11 PM IST