Monthly Archives: May 2011

Bangladesh economy growth ‘best in decades’- The economy expanded by 6.66 percent

May 31, 2011
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Bangladesh economy growth ‘best in decades’- The economy expanded by 6.66 percent

Bangladesh’s economy has grown at its highest rate in decades, driven by resurgent exports and a strong performance by the usually sluggish farm sector, officials said Tuesday. The economy expanded by 6.66 percent in the 12 months to June, the fastest pace since the early 1970s when it was boosted by recovery following Bangladesh’s victory…

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Entry of toxic ship banned

May 28, 2011
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Entry of  toxic ship banned

The government has directed all concerned to ban the toxic ship Probo Koala renamed Gulf Jash from entering Bangladeshi territorial waters, Department of Environment officials say. The move came after The Daily Star on Friday published an exclusive report that the Probo Koala, infamous for 2006 health crisis in Abidjan, has been sold to an…

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Bangladesh poses ambitious plan to halt childhood blindness

May 28, 2011
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Bangladesh, in an ambitious plan, will dispense doses of Vitamin A to nearly 19 million children below the age of 5 beginning Sunday. In a nationwide campaign, thousands of volunteers will provide life-saving Vitamin A supplements to combat chronic deficiency, which can cause night blindness, a sign of severe malnutrition. Health workers and volunteers from…

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Google’s Street View to map Bangalore

May 26, 2011
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Google’s Street View to map Bangalore

Google on Thursday said it will offer Street View of Bangalore city on its maps platform. In a statement Google said,” It will begin imagery collection in Bangalore for the Street View feature in Google Maps”. The Internet search engine giant will collect images of streets by driving across the city in specially designed cars…

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Mamata Banerjee the new West Bengal chief minister: Getting the vision going

May 26, 2011
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Mamata Banerjee the new West Bengal chief minister: Getting the vision going

Mamata Banerjee ,no doubt a symbol of political leadership for development . Becharam Manna gives up on his nap. He is being repeatedly disturbed by congratulatory telephone calls. It is the day after his party, the All India Trinamool Congress or TMC, swept to power in West Bengal ending the Left Front’s 34-year reign. Manna,…

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Ashok Leyland bags $23m order from Bangladesh

May 26, 2011
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Ashok Leyland bags $23m order from Bangladesh

Hinduja Group flagship, Ashok Leyland has received a $23.3m order from Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) to supply 290 double decker buses. The company said that the recent order represents its largest single order for double decker buses from Bangladesh. Ashok Leyland managing director Vinod Dasari said Bangladesh has always remained a very important market…

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BANGLADESH: Clean brick kiln projects limit deadly emissions

May 25, 2011
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BANGLADESH: Clean brick kiln projects limit deadly emissions

The number of deaths caused by respiratory illnesses linked to air pollution, the leading cause of premature mortality and morbidity in Bangladesh, could be halved if existing forms of brick kiln technology are replaced by cleaner alternatives, according to the World Bank and UN Development Programme (UNDP). Experts describe brick-making in Bangladesh as a “footloose”…

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Oil imports have risen as Bangladeshi farms and industry turn to diesel to replace unreliable mains electricity

May 24, 2011
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Oil imports have risen as Bangladeshi farms and industry turn to diesel to replace unreliable mains electricity

Energy-starved Bangladesh’s fuel import bill will rise by a third in the next financial year to a record $6 billion as domestic gas supplies fail to keep pace with demand. Energy-starved Bangladesh’s fuel import bill will rise by a third in the next financial year to a record $6 billion as domestic gas supplies fail…

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Islamic Development Bank to help $140 Million loan for Padma Multipurpose Bridge

May 24, 2011
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Islamic Development Bank, the Jeddah- based multilateral lender, will lend $140 million to Bangladesh to build a bridge connecting the country’s southwest region with the capital, Dhaka. The government has signed the loan agreement with the Islamic Development Bank to finance the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project. Finance minister A M A Muhith and IDB president…

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Bangladesh – Home schooling

May 22, 2011
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Sources : This year, like in the previous years, thousands of students from different secondary schools have passed their SSC examinations with stupendous results. It has been reported that the percentage of students who have passed in this year’s SSC examinations from all the ten education boards of Bangladesh has broken all the previous records.…

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ADB to provide $23m for transportation Development project as technical assistance loan

May 21, 2011
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The Asian Development Bank has made a pledge of $23 million to Bangladesh as technical assistance loan for a series of regional transport projects. Under the proposed Sub-regional Transport Project Preparatory Facility, the loan will facilitate the scheme for cross-border routes identified in Saarc’s Regional Multimodal Transport Study, ADB officials have said. Also, transport corridors…

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Government of Bangladesh, US commemorate operation

May 21, 2011
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Government of Bangladesh, US commemorate operation

Members of the Government of Bangladesh, the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka and Marines with the III Marine Expeditionary Force, participated in the 20th anniversary commemoration of Operation Sea Angel here May 12. On the evening of April 29, 1991, Cyclone Marian (Tropical Cyclone 02B) struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh. Approximately 139,000 people were…

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“Develop network with peers in Bangladesh”-Ambassador Akramul Qader urges expatriate doctors.

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and State Minister Mr. Akramul Qader attended the annual conference of Bangladesh Medical Association of North America, Louisiana chapter in Orleans, Louisiana and addressed a…

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Bangladesh opposes proposed dams in Meghalaya: Minister

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Meghalaya has made it clear that the dams which are to be built across the Myntdu and Umiew rivers would not have any negative impact…

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