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• Worst victims must get separate funds

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sought separate financial assistance for Most Vulnerable Countries (MVCs) like Bangladesh for enabling them to cope with the threats stemming from climate change and calamitous weather conditions.She made the demand while addressing the executive and retreat sessions of the Commonwealth ...
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• Dhaka, Delhi finalise 3 key agreements

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  India and Bangladesh yesterday finalised three key agreements, including transfer of prisoners, to be signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India next month.Treaties on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, transfer of prisoners and bilateral agreement on combating international terrorism have ...
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• AL team off to China

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  A high-profile delegation of Bangladesh Awami League left for China on Sunday at the invitation of ruling Chinese Communist Party on the occasion of the 60th founding anniversary of China.LGRD and Cooperatives Minister and AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam is leading the five-member team. Other members of the ...
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• Launch accident toll rises to 51

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  Fifty-one bodies were recovered since part of a overcrowded Bhola-bound launch with about 2,000 holidaymakers on board sank in the river Tentulia in Lalmohon in Bhola district shortly before Friday midnight.Deputy Commissioner of Bhola Mesbahul Islam confirmed the toll.Bhola Superintendent of Police SM Md Nazrul Islam ...
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• Govt focuses on people at threat

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  Bangladesh will lose 8 percent of its rice and 32 percent of wheat production by 2050 if the sea level rises by one metre engulfing 20 percent of its land and displacing 20 million people.Fahmida Khatun, additional director of research of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), said this yesterday citing an ...
  1 week ago

• Expressway, metro rail set to be knotty

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  The billion-dollar projects of elevated expressway and metro rail for the capital city without detailed feasibility study is likely to bring about financial and technical debacles, said country’s leading transport experts. The communications ministry on November 18 embarked on a $2-billion project with invitation ...
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• $2b project up for tender today

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  The Ministry of Communications is finally floating tender today for building an elevated expressway of 32.5 kilometres or more in Dhaka on a public private partnership (PPP) basis.The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) under the ministry will receive pre-qualification documents for this $2 billion project from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cops on trail of 20 more Lashkar men

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  At least 20 more Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives of Indian and Pakistani descent are in Bangladesh to build a strong militant network here.Officials investigating the reported LeT plot to attack the Indian and US embassies in Dhaka have also gathered that the Pakistan-based militant group is recruiting cadres from ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2 lakh people stay homeless

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  Donors are not assisting the government in repairing damaged embankments in Aila-affected areas in coastal districts, said Disaster Management Bureau Director General Farhad Uddin.“Around two lakh homeless are living on the embankments for several months after Aila hit the areas, as water still gushes into their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fresh drive starts to free Shitalakhya

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and Narayanganj district administration jointly knocked down a number of makeshift structures on both sides of the river Shitalakhya near Kanchpur Bridge yesterday. They also put the sand removal work up for auction as part of the ongoing drive to free Shitalakhya ...
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• Poor response to PDB bidding

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  The Power Development Board (PDB) tender for 10 power plants of 820 megawatt capacity yesterday received only 28 bids.This has surprised officials as bidders had purchased 122 tender documents till Wednesday in a clear mark of their enthusiasm. But this enthusiasm was not reflected in yesterday’s tender ...
  2 weeks ago

• Govt told to suspend all WB-funded projects

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  The World Bank has asked Bangladesh to put on hold all local procurement activities under WB-financed projects since the amendments made to the Public Procurement Act (PPA) 2006 are not consistent with its procurement guidelines.In a WB letter to Finance Minister AMA Muhith, the WB has suggested that Bangladesh ...
  3 weeks ago

• Army probing a few officers’ alleged link

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  Bangladesh Army is investigating the allegations of a few of its officers’ involvement with the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh.“Any kind of indiscipline in the army is controlled as per army rules. The issue of army officers’ involvement with the incident of bomb attack on barrister ...
  3 weeks ago

• Technology holds answer for Asia’s future challenge

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  With India importing rice for the first time in over two decades this year, Thailand and other rice producing and exporting countries in Asia are rethinking food security, as experts say further output growth has to come from technology rather than lands that have already become sparse. Given the scenario where the ...
  3 weeks ago

• LeT men also targeted some dignitaries

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  The suspected militants, recently rounded up from Chittagong for plotting attacks on US Embassy and Indian High Commission in Dhaka and some key installations, also targeted to attack several local dignitaries.The official investigating the plot by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to attack the US Embassy, told a Dhaka court ...
  3 weeks ago

• Low bridge to obstruct Turag traffic

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) ignoring objections by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) continues constructing a low bailey bridge, which, once built, would obstruct traffic movement on the Turag river.Sources in Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) say the Dhaka Master Plan ...
  3 weeks ago

• Delwar blasts govt for ‘bid to defame BNP’

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday alleged that the government is making a ‘heinous attempt to destroy BNP’ by using the August 21 bomb blast incident. He expressed apprehension that such narrow-minded attitude of the government may disrupt the normal politics in the country.“Government ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bashundhara’s outside-court settlement bid rejected

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  The National Board of Revenue (NBR) didn’t accept the appeal of Bashundhara Industrial Complex Ltd for negotiating their tax-evasion case outside court, as the company’s owners have already been convicted while on the run abroad.Official sources said the NBR in its 20th board meeting held yesterday with its ...
  3 weeks ago

• Save Bangladesh from climate peril

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  Senior British lawmaker and former health minister Frank Dobson has called for worldwide action to rein in climate change and save the most vulnerable countries like Bangladesh.Long-term climate adaptation plans on a ‘vast scale’ side by side with immediate measures could save Bangladesh from disastrous ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bhutan seeks support to host 16th Saarc Summit

  
  Bangladesh News — Authority: 152
  King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck sought Bangladesh’s support for hosting the 16th summit of Saarc as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had an audience with the monarch discussing ways of bolstering bilateral cooperation.The Bhutanese king sought the support when the visiting prime minister met him at his ...
  3 weeks ago

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