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Bangladesh on kept its national flag half mast across the country to mourn the loss of lives in neighbouring natural calamities-struck Myanmar and China, an official statement said.

“The Bangladeshi government has taken the decision to pay respect to the people who died in the recent cyclone and earthquake in Myanmar and China respectively,” an official press release said on Tuesday.

The official death toll in Mynamar struck by Cyclone Nargis on May 3 stands at 78,000, while 40,000 have been reported dead so far in the May 12 earthquake in China.

Bangladesh had earlier sent relief material and life saving drugs to Myanmar and proposed to send army medical teams to China.

Source: Yahoo! News Service

Bangladesh’s military-backed government will reopen negotiations with Indian conglomerate Tata on Sunday on the group’s record three-billion-dollar investment plan, officials said.

Senior Tata officials led by its executive director Alan Rosling will meet top government bureaucrats nearly two years after the conglomerate postponed what would be the biggest single foreign investment in Bangladesh.

The Indian salt-to-telecoms giant offered to build a steel plant, two power plants, a fertiliser plant and a coal mine back in 2006, after upgrading a 2004 plan.

Bangladesh investment board chief Kamaluddin Ahmed confirmed the talks, but refused to provide agenda details.

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