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Training on Personal Excellence in Dhaka Bank

A Day-long workshop on “Personal Excellence” has jointly been organized by Human Resources Division and Dhaka Bank Training Institute recently. PhotoA total of 30 female participants took part in the workshop. Mr. Niaz Habib, Managing Director of the Bank inaugurated the workshop as Chief Guest.

Ganges coastal zone conference kicks of in city

As the debate on the Sustainable Development Goals heats up with the G20 summit just around the corner, more than 200 researchers, extensionists, development practitioners, and policy makers convene in Dhaka on October 21-23, 2014 to share plans, progress and ideas for increasing resilience and unlocking the potential of the Ganges River basin’s coastal zone. Photo for media_resizedThe objective of “Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone: Turning Science into Policy and Practice” conference is to share CPWF research...

End impunity for Rab men: HRW

The Bangladesh government should order an independent investigation and prosecute the Rapid Action Battalion members responsible for shooting and maiming Limon Hossain, Human Rights Watch said today. HRWThe authorities finally dropped politically motivated charges against the teenager but have not taken action against his attackers, the New York-based rights organisation said in a report published in its website on October 20. “The government needs to take action against the Rab officer who shot Limon, which led to a permanent disability, as well as those who ...

Domestic trade: Demand on the rise, says WB

Retail trade in the domestic market of Bangladesh was upto $12 billion during the two Eid festivals this year, the World Bank said today underlining that the internal demand of the country is on the rise. The observation came up during the release of a report on Bangladesh development update this morning at a press conference organised at the World Bank’s Dhaka office. “The GDP growth in the running 2014-15 fiscal is 6.2%, which was 6.1% in the last fiscal,” said Zahid Hussain, lead economist in the World Bank’s South Asia Finance and Poverty group. wb

Environmentalists protest Indian move to build barrages on Ganges

Environmentalists in Bangladesh strongly protested an Indian government plan to construct 16 barrages on the Ganges River in the upstream of the Farakka under a project called ‘Ganges waterway’. Such a step would cause further disaster to the ecology of downstream Bangladesh and would also kill the Ganges, leaders of Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon said at a press conference today. map-of-gangaA barrage in every 100 kilometres from Allahabad to Haldia of the river—as planned—would be the ‘last nail on the coffin of the Ganges’, the Bang...

Fatal road crash kills 32 in Natore

At least 32 people were killed and over 25 others injured in a fatal road crash at Razzak intersection on Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway in Baraigram upazila on Monday afternoon. The deceased could not yet be identified. However, most of the deceased hailed from Hiduli Sangrampur village in Gurudaspur upazila of the district. natore Bus collisionFuad Rohani, officer-in-charge of Bonpara highway police camp, said the accident took place around 3:30pm when a Rajshahi-bound bus of ‘Keya Paribahan’ from Dhaka collided with a...
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