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Bangladesh turns to floating schools, farms

Bangladesh - a country of waterways - is one of the most threatened by rising sea levels. About a third of the country is covered by water during monsoon time, but with climate change, water can soak two-thirds of the country. An amazing nonprofit, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, has developed solutions that can be used in many parts of the world. solar-schoolWhen there’s too much rain, students take classes aboard solar-powered boats, often for four months a year. There are now 22 floating schools, five floating health clinics and 1...

Bangladesh bank on trio to achieve ‘realistic goal’

Pulling off an upset or two and guarding against potential banana skins will be the mantra for Bangladesh, who will bank on the senior trio of Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim to try and punch above their weight at the World Cup. sakib-21_0Chief selector Faruque Ahmed has no illusions about the knockout prospects of the team which has been clubbed in Pool A with, among others, tournament co-hosts Australia and New Zealand, former champions Sri Lanka and three-times runners-up England. According to him, Bangladesh’s “real...

Petronet in race to build LNG terminal in BD

India's biggest gas importer Petronet LNG is one of the companies shortlisted to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in neighbouring Bangladesh, a company executive said on Thursday. LNG"They called for expressions of interest and we participated and have been shortlisted by the Bangladesh government," Managing Director A.K. Balyan told reporters in New Delhi. Balyan said that the company selected will be responsible for sourcing of gas, building and operating of the terminal, which will have a capacity of 2.5 to 5 million tonnes per annum.

Nov money supply rises 12.8pc on year

Bangladesh's broad money supply in November rose 12.84 percent to 7,250.65 billion taka ($93.32 billion) from a year earlier, and up 41.22 billion taka from the previous month, the central bank said on Thursday. Bangladesh_Garment_MoneyBelow is the table of broad money supply: Nov. 2014     Oct. 2014     Nov. 2013 (bln taka)   (bln taka)   (bln taka) Broad money supply   7,250.65     7,209.43     6,425.76 ($1 = 77.70 taka)

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Google Street View comes to Bangladesh

Google’s Street View vehicles have been doing the rounds in Bangladesh to bring you sights from the country’s capital of Dhaka and its port city Chittagong on your desktops and mobile devices. Street-View-Bangladesh-798x310Bangladesh is the 65th country to have become available in Street View. Google announced today that it partnered with the Prime Minister’s Office in Bangladesh through the country’s Access to Information Programme to make this happen. In addition to checking out Bangladesh’s tw...

NRBC Bank donates for burnt victims

NRBC Bank (NRB Commercial Bank Limited) recently donated to the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital to help the burnt victims of the present ongoing malicious petrol bomb attacks in the country. Burn unit chequeMr. Md Shoaib Ahmed,  Managing Director(CC) of NRBCBank handed over the cheque to Dr. Atiur Rahman, Governor of Bangladesh Bank. Dr. Samanto Lal Sen, Advisor of the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, Director Prof. Md Abul Kalam and Deputy Governor Mr. S K Sur Chowdhury were also present on the...
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