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DHAKA, July 5 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh is to receive a $20 million loan from an Asian Development Bank (ADB) Power System Efficiency Improvement Project together with an additional $25.44 million in grant financing to spur off-grid solar photovoltaic (SPV) pumping for agricultural irrigation. The grant financing comprises $22.44 million from the Scaling up Renewable Energy […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 5 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh export inched up 5.81 percent to 36.67 billion U.S. dollars in the just concluded 2017-18 fiscal year, an official from Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) said Wednesday, reports Xinhua. The EPB official who did not like to be named said Bangladesh earned a total of 36,668.17 million U.S. dollars from […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, July 5 (NsNewsWire) — As many as 14 school children have been injured after their van collided head-on with a truck in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Thursday, police said. The accident occurred on Kairana Bypass Road in the state’s Shamli district, reports Xinhua. “The collision took place this morning when the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 5 (NsNewsWire) — Through swift measures to develop East Dhaka, Bangladesh has a unique opportunity to relieve the flooding, congestion, and messiness that are clogging the capital’s growth and affecting the quality of life of its people, says a new World Bank report released today. The report, Toward Great Dhaka: A New Urban […]
Read MoreSource:Global Times Published: 2018/7/4 22:48:43 An increasing number of Chinese international relations scholars believe that the US is shifting toward a containment strategy toward China. Such a shift has become irreversible and will pose unprecedented challenges to China’s rise. They believe Washington’s trade war is just the beginning of its containment on Beijing, and Sino-US […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 4 (NsNewsWire) — Following a successful, opening and day 1 of the eighth Social Business Day on June 28, 2018, Day-2 marked the final day the ceremony with enthusiasm abound. Social Business Day 2018 took place on June 28 – 29, 2018, in Bengaluru, India as organized by the Yunus Centre and Yunus […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, July 4 (NsNewsWire) — The state-owned Indian Railways has decided to carry out a safety audit of some 450 bridges in Mumbai after a road overbridge collapsed due to heavy rains in the country’s financial capital Mumbai Tuesday morning, injuring five people, reports Xinhua. “In the next six months, all the 445 road […]
Read MoreSource:Global Times Published: 2018/7/3 22:48:15 Is the world on the eve of chaos? It appears so. The global trade war that US President Donald Trump threatens has become increasingly likely. This will change the world’s perception on global order and 21st century international relations, and eventually cause a series of domino effects. The trade war […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 03 (NsNewsWire) — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today said Bangladesh needs more support from the world to help close to a million Rohingya refugees driven by violence from Myanmar as he concluded a two-day visit to the country with the United Nations Secretary-General. President Kim, along with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, […]
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