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Dhaka, Tokyo to elevate bilateral
ties to 'strategic partnership'
DHAKA : Bangladesh and Japan want to
elevate the bilateral relations to 'strategic
partnership' level during Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit to Japan.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to visit
Japan from November 29 to December 1, at
the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister
Fumio Kishida, reports UNB.
The planned visit was discussed when the
Director General of Southeast and Southwest
Asian Affairs of Japan's Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Arima Yutaka met Foreign Secretary
Masud Bin Momen in Dhaka on Thursday.
At the meeting, both sides expressed
satisfaction at the growing bilateral relations
between the two countries.
They particularly highlighted the visit of
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Japan in
May 2014, when she and the then Prime
Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe elevated the
bilateral relations between the countries to
'Comprehensive Partnership' level, and also
the visit of Shinzo Abe to Bangladesh in
September 2014, when the two countries
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forged deeper economic partnership under
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Both sides expected that during PM
Hasina's upcoming visit, Bangladesh and
Japan would foster deeper economic
partnership in terms of development
cooperation, trade and investment, human
resources development, agriculture, ICT,
education, defence dialogue and exchanges,
people-to-people connectivity, repatriation of
Rohingyas, etc.
The two sides also expressed the desire to
enhance cooperation in international fora,
including on climate change, UN reforms,
disarmament and non-proliferation, etc.
Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh Ito
Naoki and Director General (East Asia and
Pacific) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also
joined the meeting.
The Director General of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Japan is on a two-day visit
to Dhaka to discuss the preparations of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit to
Japan.
Elderly man beaten to
death in Kurigram,
sister dies of shock
KURIGRAM : A 70-year-old
man was beaten to death
allegedly by his neighbour
over the cutting of a tree in
Sadar upazila of Kurigram on
Wednesday night, reports
UNB.
On the other hand, the
victim's elder sister also died
after witnessing the attack.
The deceased was identified
as Abul Kalam Azad, while
her elder sister Sakina Begum
was 75. They were residents
of Raipur village under
Kathalbari union of the
upazila.
Locals and police said that
Abul had an altercation with
his neighbour Dulal Mia over
cutting branches of a mango
tree adjacent to their house
on Wednesday afternoon.
Armed with sharp weapons
and sticks, Dulal attacked
Abul in his house around
9pm, leaving him critically
injured, they said.
He was rushed to Kurigram
General Hospital, where
doctors declared him dead on
arrival.
School teacher sent to jail
for sexual harassment of
minor in Thakurgaon
THAKURGAON : A school
teacher has been remanded in
judicial custody by a court in
Thakurgaon in connection
with the sexual harassment of
a minor student, reports
UNB.
The accused has been
identified as Tula Ram Paul,
38. SM Jahid Iqbal, officerin-charge
of Ranisankail
police station, said they
arrested the accused after the
girl's father lodged a
complaint on Wednesday.
Later, the accused was
produced in a Thakurgaon
court that sent him to judicial
custody. According to the case
statement, the teacher
allegedly harassed the girl
sexually after taking her to a
room of the school on
Tuesday morning.
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