India lifts a ban on non-basmati rice and wheat through land custom stations to Bangladesh; Sri Lankan delegates visit Bangladesh; UNCTAD Secretary General called on Dipu Moni
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    • According to reports, India lifted a ban on non-basmati rice and wheat through land custom stations to Bangladesh that was imposed around four years back. Anup K Pujari, Director General of Foreign Trade of India, signed the letter that said private parties, including state trading enterprises like National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India, could now export non-basmati rice from privately held stocks. 1

    In another development, according to reports, a high-level six-member delegation led by Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Minister Amaraweera Mahinda is visiting Bangladesh to learn about the disaster management system of the country and to follow it in Sri Lanka. 2

    In other developments, reports noted that Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and the visiting Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Supachai Panitchpakdi agreed on the imperative to correct imbalances in trade and development. This was underlined when the UNCTAD secretary general called on Dipu Moni at her office on February 29, 2012. 3

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