Legal Notice Served Seeking Action to Stop Hilsa Exports
A Supreme Court lawyer has sent a legal notice asking government officials to take steps to stop hilsa exports to India.
A Supreme Court lawyer has sent a legal notice asking government officials to take steps to stop hilsa exports to India.
Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter said the Commerce Ministry permitted hilsa exports at India's special request for Durga Puja.
Economists and a former foreign ministry secretary say the interim government's approval of hilsa exports to India should be seen as a symbol of bilateral friendship rather than an earner.
After months of refusals, Bangladesh's interim government has approved hilsa exports to India, and West Bengal expects Padma hilsa on its tables before Durga Puja.
The Commerce Ministry has approved the export of 3,000 tonnes of hilsa to India for the upcoming Durga Puja.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized 885kg of hilsa worth about Tk 22 lakh as smugglers tried to take it to India through Dowarabazar in Sunamganj.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized 895 kg of hilsa in two drives on the Cumilla and Sunamganj borders as it was being smuggled into India.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain said India needs to change its narrative that everyone except one party in Bangladesh is an extremist.
An Indian fish importers' body has written to Bangladesh's interim government asking it to allow hilsa exports for Durga Puja after a ban was imposed.
BGB seized 275 kg of hilsa being smuggled into India at the Doarabazar border in Sunamganj after the smugglers fled.
BGB seized 18 hilsa being smuggled into India through the Mirsarai border in Chattogram, and the fish was later sold at auction.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized 46.5 kg of hilsa that smugglers abandoned while trying to take it into India through Tahirpur upazila.
Hilsa exports from Bangladesh have largely stopped amid weeks of unrest, leaving Kolkata's markets short of the fish and prices soaring.