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DHAKA, March 9 (NsNewsWire) — Though the national rural water supply coverage in Bangladesh is estimated to be 97%, issues with water quality and in particular arsenic contamination have significantly lowered this figure to an estimated 83% (Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2009 by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF). The World Bank is providing support […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 9 (NsNewsWire) — Radar signals show a Malaysia Airlines plane that has been missing for more than 24 hours may have turned back, Malaysian officials have said. Rescue teams looking for the plane have now widened their search area, reports BBC. Investigators are also checking CCTV footage of two passengers who are believed […]
Read MoreDhaka, March 8 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh – Allegations of murder, torture and forced disappearances are being levelled at Bangladesh’s government in a case under review by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. With violence escalating around the widely criticised January 5 election , European human rights group the International Coalition for […]
Read Moreঢাকা, ৮ মার্চ, ২০১৪: বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি প্রতিমন্ত্রী ইয়াফেস ওসমান বলেছেন, রূপপুর পারমাণবিক বিদ্যুৎ প্রকল্প ভবিষ্যৎ প্রজন্মের জন্্য আশীর্বাদস্বরূপ । বাঙালি জাতির প্রায় ৬০ বছরের লালিত এ স্বপ্ন বাস্তবায়নে নবপ্রজন্মকেই এগিয়ে আসতে হবে । নবপ্রজন্মের পারমাণবিক শক্তি সর্ম্পকিত জ্ঞান ও সচেতনতা বৃদ্ধিতে এ ফটো প্রদর্শনী ব্যাপকভাবে সহায়তা করবে । আজ ঢাকার বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 5(NsNewsWire) — Economic Zones are a strategic instrument for attracting domestic and foreign investment, creating jobs and accelerating growth. The World Bank, together with UK-DFID and IFC, is supporting the Government to develop Economic Zones through the Private Sector Development Support Project (PSDSP). The PSDSP also provides support to the Jobs and Competitiveness […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 4 (NsNewsWire) — As a token of friendship of the Chinese people towards Bangladesh, China has donated 50 ambulances and calamity rescue equipment to the country’s Fire Service and Civil Defence. Li Jun, Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, handed over the ambulances and calamity rescue equipment to the Bangladesh authorities in a ceremony on […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — In a crackdown against abuse of medicinal intoxicants, Haryana’s Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Sunday said it has unearthed illicit diversion and transportation to Bangladesh of huge quantities of a cough syrup made and sold by a multinational pharmaceutical giant. The FDA found out that over two lakh bottles of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — More than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at a train station in southern China in what state media said Sunday was a terrorist assault by ethnic separatists from the far west. Twenty-nine slash victims and four attackers were killed and 143 people wounded. Police fatally shot four […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 28 (NsNewsWire) — After a factory collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 workers last year, the University of Wisconsin is in the process of reviewing workers’ safety in factories around the world that produce clothing emblazoned with Bucky and the Motion W. UW has 447 licensees producing university branded clothing around the world, and […]
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