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ADB forecasts 6.7pc growth for 2015-16

Bangladesh’s growth for this fiscal will improve marginally and stand at 6.7 percent driven by apparel export and domestic consumption, Asian Development Bank forecast today. The improvement will be 0.1 percent increase from the 6.6 percent growth recorded last fiscal. adb1Higher growth will be driven by readymade garment export and a resilient domestic consumption, said ADB’s country director for Bangladesh Kazuhiko Higuchi. He was talking while launching ADB’s Annual Outlook Report 2016 at its Agargaon office in the capital, D...

Sara to receive Int’l Women of Courage Award

Barrister Sara Hossain would be given the US Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award 2016 in Washington D.C tonight and she has already reached the United States to receive the award, reports BSS. The award would be handed over to Sara Hossain at a ceremony to be held at 8:30pm (BST) today and 10:30am (US time) in presence of US Secretary of State John Kerry and 13 other awardees from around the world, a US Embassy statement said here today. She has been nominated for the award for demonstrating exceptional courage and leadership in sara

ECNEC okays eight projects with TK 1,442cr

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved eight development projects involving Taka 1,442 crore. The approval came at the 25th meeting of the ECNEC in the current fiscal held at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Planning Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal, after the meeting, briefed newsmen about its outcome, ecnecreports BSS. He said the eight projects approved would require Taka 1,442.4...

Registration opens for Water Window

The Global Resilience Challenge’s “Water Window” is open for registration. From 29 March registered entrants will be able to submit Concept Notes with innovative ideas and solutions to help flood prone communities across the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia reduce their exposure to flood risks and to continue to develop in the face of uncertainty. Successful submissions will be eligible for up to US$1 million scaling-up grants or up to US$250,000 seed grants, says a press release. The submissions should offer innovative solutions to the very real issues affecting flood prone [caption id="attachment_18235" align="alignleft" width="604"]

67pc girls get married before 18: Study

About 67 per cent of girls in the country get married before the age of 18, said a research on ‘Child Marriage and its implications’. The information came out at a discussion at Nawab Nabab Ali Chowdhury Senate House Conference Hall at Dhaka University (DU). The Department of Population Sciences of DU and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) jointly conducted the study with the support of Department for International Development (DID). The study said, in households where fathers have higher secondary and above education, the girls bd

Contract for Payra 1320-MW coal-fired plant tomorrow

The government will sign an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract tomorrow for installing the 1320-MW Payra coal-fired power plant in Patuakhali. “The Payra coal-fired power plant would generate 1320 MW electricity from 2019,” Director General of Power Cell Mohammad Hossain told BSS here today. He said the Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt) Limited (BCPCL), a joint venture firm of PowerChinese Power Company (CMC), and the state-owned North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) would sign the EPC co...
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