Bangladesh

On May 19, prime minister's defence advisor Tarique Ahmed Siddique said Limon and father had close ties with gangster Morshed Jamaddar. Two days later, home minister Shahara Khatun said the adviser's remarks about Limon was indeed the Government's statement. Bozlul Haq Harun, a Government MP, elected from Jhalakati-1 helped Limon and his family (Prothom-Alo 25/05/2011) . If this is the consequence than Government has a close relation with Terrorism Groups. The home ministry's inquiry committee looking into the RAB shooting of college student Limon Hossain of Jhalakati has taken statements of Limon and his father. The one-man committee of additional divisional commissioner of Barisal Mohammad Shawkat Akbar on Tuesday spoke to Limon and his father Tofazzal Hossain at the National Institute of Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (Pangu hospital) in Dhaka from 11:30am to 1:30pm. The father and son signed their statements, he said. Physician Gazi Mohammad Enamul ...

Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit   A planning is under process to disburse small loans to small entrepreneurs in the fisheries and livestock sector by the government. "The ministry is preparing a proposal in this regard," fisheries and livestock minister Abdul Latif Biswas told on Thursday. Loans ranging from Tk 10,000 to 30,000 would be given to unemployed but trained youths and farm entrepreneurs, he said. "If the entrepreneurs want to raise livestock, poultry or farm fish, half of their loans will be provided in cash, while the livestock with the rest," Biswas said. The fund will, however, be a revolving one. It will begin work by coordinating all the running microcredit programmes under the ministry. "The programme, if approved, could start operating in as early as July," Biswas said. The programme will emphasise raising goats and sheep, as entrepreneurs are seen to show more interest in s...

Local private sector company, Bhatibangla Agrotech, is going to sign a land-lease deal with Tanzania next week to produce crops in the East African country. "We're going to submit our proposal and working plan to Tanzania Agriculture Partnership Department on Friday and it's expected that the process will be completed within a week," Mizanur Rahman Azad, chief executive officer of Bhatibangla Agrotech, from Tanzania on Thursday. "Initially, we would like to take on lease 30,000 hectares of land for 99 years with per annum cost of Tk 135 per hectare. We want to start the cultivation on June 10." Mizan said they had a plan to have 2.0 to 2.5 million hectares of land in Tanzania for cultivation. "I discussed other major issues, including permission to grow any crop, procurement of farmers and seed from any country, repatriation of profit, and provision of loans," the Bhatibangla official said. Mizan said there were scopes to take on lease lands in So...

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