India-Bangladesh projects in Tripura making rapid progress
A number of infrastructure and development projects have been jointly undertaken by India and Bangladesh in Tripura. Recently, the Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka was in Tripura to review the progress made in the entire proposed Indo-Bangla projects.
During his three-day visit to the state, Indian Deputy High commissioner in Dhaka Sandeep Chakravorty met ministers and top officials and took stock of the progress of various India-Bangladesh projects.
Following the meeting with Power Minister Manik Dey, Chakravorty revealed that the work for supply of 100 MW power from Tripura’s Palatana power project to Bangladesh is progressing fast.
How to rob a bank in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, we sometimes play We Also Have. This is a parlor game in which we can say, with pride, that we now have the things that could previously be found only in other countries.
In the 1990s, it was satellite television (we also have MTV!); in the 2000s, it was shopping malls and high-rise buildings and multiplex cinemas. This year, it was a Hollywood-style bank heist.
In January, a man going by the name of Sohel and his accomplice Idris successfully stole 169 million taka (about $2.2 million) from a branch of Sonali Bank in Kishoreganj, 70 miles north of the capital, Dhaka.
Malala, Kailash win Nobel Peace Prize
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education, and Indian children’s right activist Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
With the prize, Yousafzai, 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner, eclipsing Australian-born British scientist Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 when he shared the Physics Prize with his father in 1915.
Satyarthi and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against th...
With the prize, Yousafzai, 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner, eclipsing Australian-born British scientist Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 when he shared the Physics Prize with his father in 1915.
Satyarthi and Yousafzai were picked for their struggle against th...
Nobel Literature Prize awarded to Patrick Modiano
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to French author Patrick Modiano for "the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation."
Modiano, 69, is the author of more than two dozen books and several screenplays. The 11th Literature laureate born in France, Modiano is also the recipient of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Goncourt, the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
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Modiano, 69, is the author of more than two dozen books and several screenplays. The 11th Literature laureate born in France, Modiano is also the recipient of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Goncourt, the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
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Collaborative projects reviewed between Bangladesh, India
India’s Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka, Sandeep Chakravorty, reviewed the progress of a couple of collaborative projects between India and Bangladesh during his three-day visit to Tripura.
Chakravorty said the work to supply 100 MW power from Tripura’s Palatana power project to Bangladesh is progressing fast.
“As you know, the government has decided to sell 100 MW power from the Palatana Power Project to Bangladesh and in this context I have come to meet the minister and we discussed in detail about the project. We also talked about the con...
Chakravorty said the work to supply 100 MW power from Tripura’s Palatana power project to Bangladesh is progressing fast.
“As you know, the government has decided to sell 100 MW power from the Palatana Power Project to Bangladesh and in this context I have come to meet the minister and we discussed in detail about the project. We also talked about the con...
Bangladesh home to 6pc world’s poor in 2011
World Bank-IMF study for 2011, however, says the pace of reduction in absolute poverty has been substantial; report stresses skills training for youth as key
Bangladesh had six per cent world’s poor while India was home to about a third of the world’s poor in 2011, according to a progress report on various social indicators from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued on Wednesday. In other words, the highest number of the poor lived in India in 2011.
China, whose population is more than our billio...
China, whose population is more than our billio...
