BANDARBAN: Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui today visited Tumbru and Ghumdhum border areas and exchanged views with the on-duty border guard members.
Talking to reporters at Ghumdhum High School after the visit the BGB chief said the border guard is showing highest patience and trying to face the situation giving importance to international relation with Myanmar as directed by the Prime Minister.
He asked the BGB members to remain alert and discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and professionalism to protect the country sovereignty and independence.
United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has expressed his commitment to enhance bilateral economic and security partnership to support Bangladesh graduation from LDC status.
“I am writing to underline my commitment to strengthen the growing economic and security partnership between our countries and to support Bangladesh graduation from LDC status,” he said in a letter to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina.
Sunak said he wrote the letter “as you embark on a historic fifth term and reflecting Bangladesh impressive development gains under your leadership in recent years”.
An application was submitted to the director general of the Directorate of Patents, Industrial Designs and Trade Marks under the industries ministry today, reports our Tangail correspondent.
“Tangail sari deserves to be recognised as a GI product of Bangladesh in any case. We have been going through the documentation process for Tangail sari recognition as a GI product for the past three months. We applied today,” Md Kaiserul Islam, deputy commissioner of Tangail, told reporters.
“Basically, it has been applied after making documentation after collecting the 250 years history of the sari and the information about people lives and livelihood related to it. The application has already been accepted. We hope to get the GI recognition of Tangail sari soon,” he said.
COXS BAZAR: At least 58 soldiers of Myanmar paramilitary Border Guard Police (BGP) today took refuge in Bangladesh fleeing their posts amid reports of heavy gunfights between the government troops and the rebels in the junta-run country.
"Fifty eight BGP personnel took shelter in Bangladesh throughout the day since the predawn hours. Fourteen of them crossed the border with bullet wounds and are being treated at different hospitals including health facilities in Rohingya camps," said an official familiar with the development.
He added the paramilitary soldiers were kept under their counterpart Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) custody in Cox Bazar while the weapons they carried with them were deposited in BGB cache.