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Primark to pay $ 10m more to Rana Plaza victims

British clothes retailer Primark will pay a further $10 million in compensation to victims of the collapse of a Bangladeshi factory last year that killed more than 1,100 people. The disaster has galvanised most of the clothing industry’s big names to work together to improve safety standards but many brands have shunned a fund that is trying to raise $40 million for the over 2,000 people injured and the families of the dead, report agencies. Campaigners are demanding that 27 brands linked to factories in the Rana Plaza rana-plaza-1jpg complex should contribute to the...

WB for better water, sanitation services in rural areas

Though the national rural water supply coverage in the country is estimated to be 97 per cent, issues with water quality and in particular arsenic contamination have significantly lowered this figure to an estimated 83 percent. It was found through Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2009 by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the UNICEF. wb The World Bank is providing support to increase the supply of safe water in rural areas, a release of landing agency said. The Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Proj...

BWCCI to promote SMEs through SS-Gate

Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) signed a working agreement with The South-South Global Assets and Technology Exchange (SS-GATE), a UNDP project to promote  Bangladeshi  SMEs  specifically  in  the  southern  region  of  the  world.  The  signing ceremony took  place in  Doha,  Qatar  on the  first  day  of the First  Arab  States Regional  South-South Development  EXPO, 18  February  to  20  February  2014. BWCCISelima Ahamd, Founder President and Chairperson of Women Entreprnenurship Development and Program committee of  B...

Transforming life in the slums

Shabdi D’Costa was in her forties, barely surviving with her three daughters on her husband’s Tk 1,800 (US $22) salary, when she decided to find a way out of poverty by taking charge of the family finances. “We barely had enough money to feed and clothe ourselves,” said Shabdi. “I needed to learn to manage our money so that we could plan for our rainy days.” BD SlumThis was four years ago. Her husband was an assistant at a textile factory in Narayanganj – an industrial town on the outskirts of the...

US to shift Bangladesh aid away from politicians

 The United States said Tuesday it will curtail aid that benefits Bangladeshi politicians and redirect it to address labor and other concerns amid frustration over the country's prolonged political infighting. Nisha Biswal, the assistant secretary of state for South Asia, reiterated US calls for new elections after a January 5 vote boycotted by the opposition. She also urged Bangladesh to make greater strides in factory safety following a series of horrific disasters. nisha biswal

US assistance for Bangladesh will continue

The newly-appointed Mission Director of the United States foreign assistance outlet, USAID, to Bangladesh, Janina Jaruzelski, today said her government would continue to assist Bangladesh “at the same level as before”. “There is broad consensus in Washington that USAID should continue aid to Bangladesh, regardless of the political situation,” she told a press conference at the AmericanCenter here, reports BSS. Bangladesh receives about $200m in aid, bilaterally, from the United States on an average year. The same amount will be available in the current year and also in future, she assured the audience.
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