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DHAKA, March 5 (Xinhua) — Remittances in Bangladesh now stand around 10 percent of GDP, rising from 5.0 percent of GDP in the beginning of 2000s, said the central bank chief. Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman said Tuesday in a conference that over the past 4 years (FY 2009-13), remittance inflows in Bangladesh have grown […]
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 MoreHAKA, March 4 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’ mobile base grew to 114.81 million in January from 113.78 million a month earlier. Grameenphone led the market with 47.64 million customers, up from 47.11 million, followed by Banglalink with 28.93 million subscribers, up from 28.84 million in December 2013.reports telecompaper.com Robi Axiata ended the month with 25.61 million […]
Read MoreNay Pyi Taw, March 4 (NsNewsWire)– Despite decades-old disputes over sharing of waters between Bangladesh and India, notably from the Teesta river, Dhaka hopes it can finalise a host of treaties with New Delhi. “Modalities need to be found for the sharing of water resources, especially of common waters,” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told […]
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, March 1 (NsNewsWire) — The Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update reveals that fall in growth in collection of revenue, rising per capita debt burden and shrinking public sector investment may contract expansion of gross domestic product (GDP). The think tank’s observation came in the […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Febr. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank Board approved today US$ 600 million in concessional financing to improve the quality of electricity supply in the rural areas in the eastern part of Bangladesh. The Rural Electricity Transmission and Distribution Project aims to reduce system losses and enhance capacity in the electricity network in rural […]
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