Group plans to protest oil and gas exploration deal
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A civil society group in Bangladesh yesterday called a six-hour general strike for next month to protest a deal between the government and a US company for oil and gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal.
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Indian Army chief to gift old Howitzer guns to Bangladesh
Forty years after he fought in the 1971 India-Pakistan war to liberate Bangladesh, Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh will be on a five-day visit to Dhaka beginning June 19 when he will gift three antique 3.7 Howitzers to that country’s army as mementoes.
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6-hour strike called in Bangladesh against gas exploration deal
Dhaka, Jun 18 : A pro-left civil society group today called a six-hour strike in the capital on July 3 demanding cancellation of state-owned Petrobangla’s deal with Houston-based energy company ConocoPhillips to explore for gas in two deep sea gas blocks.
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