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Bangladesh’s forex reserves reach 22.04 bln USD in January

DHAKA, Feb. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves reached 22.04 billion U.S. dollars at the end of January, the country’s central bank said Sunday. A Bangladesh Bank spokesman who declined to be named said that foreign exchange reserves stood at 22,042.30 million U.S. dollars in February after reaching 22,309.80 million U.S. dollars in January, […]

Fire at Bangladesh Plastics Factory Kills at Least 13

DHAKA, Feb. 1 (NsNewsWire) — A fire swept through a plastic packaging factory on Saturday night in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, killing at least 13 people, a fire department official said. Fire department official Mohammed Farhaduzzaman said the fire was brought under control by late Saturday night and a search was under way for more victims. […]

10 killed in devastating fire in Bangladeshi capital

DHAKA, FEB. 1 (Xinhua) — A major fire engulfed a plastic packaging factory in Dhaka’s downtown Mirpur area on Saturday, leaving 10 people dead and several others injured, said a police officer. “We have come to know that 10 bodies have been kept at the morgue of state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital,” said the Dhaka […]

Bangladesh to maintain restrained monetary policy

DHAKA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — The central bank of Bangladesh announced on Thursday it will maintain a restrained monetary policy for the second half of the current fiscal year ending June 2015. The half yearly monetary policy is designed to support the government’s policies and programs in pursuit of faster inclusive economic growth and poverty […]

Bango Market: a “shopping paradise” in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Jan. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Despite its shabby appearance, the Bango Market in this capital city, with thousands of shops showcasing a great variety of fashionable products and branded casual wears, has been the favorite shopping destination for both locals and foreigners living in Dhaka. For bargain hunters, they would prefer to go to the […]

Demystifying the Science of Delivery: Learning from how Bangladesh Reduced Child Mortality

DHAKA, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The ‘science of delivery’, or bringing the right kinds of services effectively to the poor, is the key to eradicate extreme poverty, said Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder and chairman of BRAC, the world’s largest NGO. While visiting the World Bank Bangladesh office, he shared how perfecting the science […]

Bangladesh aims to be world’s ‘first solar nation’

DHAKA, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Residents of Islampur, a remote village in the northern Bangladeshi district of Naogaon, were stunned one night last summer when the darkness was suddenly illuminated by electric lights coming from a village home. Why the surprise? The community has no connection to the country’s power […]

Smoked fish, dried herbs, vegetables: Kashmir’s winter delicacies

New Delhi, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — For centuries, locals in the landlocked Kashmir Valley have relished dried vegetables, smoked fish and wild herbs to survive during the extreme winter. The tradition lives on even today. As land links with the outside world would get snapped because of heavy snowfall on the mountain passes leading out […]

China Focus: Nutrition for poor children high on agenda

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — While urban parents worry that their children are obese, kids in the country’s underdeveloped rural regions are often malnourished. HUNGRY FOR CHANGE Malnutrition threatens to hold back a generation of rural Chinese, reports Xinhua. Pickles and cold steamed buns are what five-year-old Mai Xiaoying takes to school for lunch. “I […]