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New India-Bangldesh waterway operational; enhances transit and connectivity

The first consignment of goods from Bangladesh arrived in Tripura by waterway on Saturday as part of a trial run for shipping of goods from other parts of India to the northeast region via Bangladesh formally making operational of new waterways between the two neighbours

Indo-Bangla river trade opens up huge opportunities

If you happen to be on the Padma or Meghna rivers for a cruise or are travelling to the country's southern part, you will in no way miss a sporadic presence of numerous slow-moving small and large vessels alongside their sudden blasts of horns

Sri Lanka Air Force, Indian Navy and Coast Guard join Sri Lanka Navy to control fire on oil tanker off Sri Lanka

The Sri Lanka Navy, Sri Lanka Air Force, Sri Lanka Ports Authority, the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard are currently working together to control the fire that erupted in an oil tanker off Sri Lanka’s Eastern Coast on Thursday, the Navy said

Indian Coast Guard to assist Lankan Navy to douse oil tanker fire

The Indian Coast Guard on Thursday said it has diverted three of its ships and a Dornier aircraft to assist the Sri Lankan Navy to douse a fire on board an oil tanker 'MT NewDiamond'

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Japan and Bhutan sign grant worth 174 million Japanese Yen

Ambassador of Bhutan to Japan Vetsop Namgyel and the Ambassador of Japan to Bhutan Satoshi Suzuki signed the exchange of notes for a project grant in New Delhi yesterday

Private-public partnership is working to bring Covid vaccine in India: Health Minister

The Indian government's point man on the gravest health emergency confronting India is Dr Harsh Vardhan, Health Minister. A doctor himself he also heads the Science and technology and earth sciences ministry

UNICEF supports Sri Lanka MOE to provide home-based learning

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) supported Sri Lanka's Ministry of Education (MoE) and National Institute of Education (NIE) to develop and distribute learning material for grade 1 and 2 students, impacted by the closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Man develops tractor-mounted mass sanitisation sprayer for rural areas

A firm resolve to prevent the coronavirus from entering his village in western India prompted a Nashik man and his two sons to develop an innovative tractor-mounted sanitization sprayer which has drawn huge attention

Flooding, locust threats loom over Pakistan

Apart from coronavirus pandemic, two more threats — locust attack and possible flooding — are looming over Pakis­tan and the authorities have been working on measures to cou­nter all of them, said Nat­ional Disaster Manage­ment Authority (NDMA) Cha­­irman Lt Gen Moham­mad Afzal on Tuesday

52 bats drop dead in 60 minutes, scare UP town

When Pankaj Shahi, owner of a mango orchard in Belghat area of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, saw a few bats lying dead in a nearby orchard on Tuesday, he informed the forest officials. By the time the forest team arrived, more bats dropped dead from the trees and the tally had gone up to 52

Maldives makes arrangements for teleconsultations with Amrita Hospital in India

Tele consultations have been arranged with the Amrita Hospital in Kochi, India for people in the Maldives. The arrangements were made by the Hulhumale’ Hospital and Aasandha Company Pvt Ltd

IIT-M researchers develop engineered magnesium alloy for automobiles to replace steel

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) on Tuesday said its researchers have developed a high-performance magnesium alloy that can replace steel and aluminium in automobiles

South Korea contributes COVID-19 prevention items

The Republic of Korea has contributed COVID-19 prevention items worth USD 400,000, including test kits to Bhutan

EU announces 1.1m euro to minimise Bangladesh’s Amphan damages

The European Union (EU) has decided to provide 1.1 million euro to Bangladesh for helping recover damages triggered by cyclone Amphan last week

Sundarbans weathered much of Bangladesh from Cyclone Amphan, but at a great cost

Cyclone Amphan that cut a punishing path through Bangladesh has caused the Sundarbans three times as much damage as Cyclone Bulbul did last year, authorities say. The monster storm felled more than 12,350 trees of the delicate forest, according to the summary of findings by four Forest Department committees formed to fathom enormity of the damage caused by Amphan

Bangladesh ships 6.5 million PPE gowns to US

Bangladesh has joined a select group of countries that manufacture world-class, large-scale Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), as Beximco today sent a shipment of 6.5 million PPE gowns manufactured to the US brand Hanes for ultimate delivery to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

NASA images track demographic changes in Nepal

High-resolution satellite imagery of the Himalaya show details as small as livestock grazing in a field. But what they cannot tell you is how communities on the ground are changing because of natural disasters, political upheavals, or migration

Drones and planes to fight locust menace in Rajasthan

It is for the first time that drones and planes will be used to fight the locust attack in Rajasthan, said B.R. Karwa, project director, Agricultural Technology Management Agency

India helps Uganda to set up military war game centre

The Indian Association in Uganda, with help of the Indian military training team, set up a military war game centre in Jinja district. On Sunday, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni inaugurated the war game centre conceptualised by Indian military team for Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF)