Bhutan has begun using a newly agreed trade route through India's north-eastern region to export its products to Bangladesh, significantly reducing distance, travel time and transportation cost.
India is likely to offer a proposal to Bangladesh for water sharing of the River Teesta by involving two other neighbours- Nepal and Bhutan.
Bangladesh is planning to let Nepal and Bhutan use its unused bandwidth of the submarine cable. ‘We have in principle decided to let Nepal and Bhutan use the unused bandwidth of the submarine cable of Bangladesh,’ Monwar Hossain, the managing director of the Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited, told New Age on Thursday.
Bangladesh started its SAFF Championship campaign in style with a 4-1 thrashing of Bhutan in their first match at Bangabandhu National Stadium on Friday. The hosts dominated the match right from the word go, finding the net twice on the either side of the break.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assured Bhutan that Bangladesh would reduce tariff on 18 Bhutanese commodities from existing 15 percent to zero percent, said a joint press release on Monday.
Bangladesh and Bhutan on Monday issued a joint communique promising enhanced connectivity particularly though land routs and cooperation in tapping hydropower at the Himalayan foothill nation for mutual benefits.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned from her four-day visit to Bhutan on Monday. Her flight landed at Zia International Airport at 01:15pm, where she was greeted by high officials including the finance minister, agriculture minister, LGRD minister and chiefs of the armed forces.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on a visit to Bhutan, has expressed interest in importing electricity from the Himalayan nation. Hasina saw Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Saturday at Tashichodzong in Thimpu. Hasina was also scheduled to meet Bhutanese prime minister Jigmi Y Thinley Saturday. "Will Bhutan be able to export electricity to Bangladesh in the future?" Bhutan's English-language daily Kuensel asked on its online site. "If Bhutan can export electricity we will be very happy to get it," Kuensel quoted Hasina as saying to the Bhutanese press.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Thimpu, the Bhutanese capital, on a four-day official visit on Friday. This is Hasina's first visit to Bhutan and also her first bilateral visit to any South Asian country since she was elected as Prime Minister last December.
In a bid to establish land connectivity with Nepal and Bhutan through Indian territory, Bangladesh will handover draft copies of Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) to India at the end of this month. Foreign Secretary Mijarul Kayes told The Independent that the ministries concerned were working on drafting the MOUs.
