Bangladesh Bank responsible, says Philippines bank
The Philippines bank through which $81 million stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank was channeled in February said on Tuesday that the Bangladesh central bank was responsible for the heist, and so any liability should not be passed on.
Manila-based Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) was responding to comments by a Bangladeshi investigator that some Bangladesh Bank officials deliberately exposed its computer systems and enabled hackers to steal the money from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Bangladesh Bank had been demanding that RCBC compensate it for the loss, blaming it for i
How Bangladesh is drinking itself to death
“Certified arsenic-free”. The traveller, new to Bangladesh and taking out a bottle of drinking water with this strange label from their hotel fridge, may smile in puzzlement. “Oh well, that’s all right then.” But unless they are keen readers of specialist journals on geology and water engineering, the chances are this is their first inkling of what the World Health Organisation has described as the “largest mass poisoning of a population in history”.
Dhaka, the heaving, ramshackle capital of 17 million people, is spreading its concrete tentacles ever outwards across the flat riverine plains of the Bay of Bengal in this country squeezed between India and Myanmar. There’s an in-your-face vibrancy about Dhaka, a smiling
WB to finance BRT project
The World Bank has shown their interests to finance the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) project, designed for quick transportation between Gazipur and Dhaka Airport which would take only 20 minutes.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said this to reporters after a meeting with the World Bank representative led by acting World Bank country director Rajsree Palongkar at the conference room of his office in Dhaka on Sunday.
“We have asked the concerned authority to start the project work soon as the World Bank is 
UNESCO recognises Mangal Shobhajatra
UNESCO today recognised Mangal Shobhajatra, Bangla New Year procession, as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Mangal Shobhajatra has been inscribed in UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 11th session of the Inter-governmental Committee on Safeguarding 
Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The committee in its decision noted that Mangal Shobhajatra, organised by teachers and students of Dhaka University's Fac...
Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The committee in its decision noted that Mangal Shobhajatra, organised by teachers and students of Dhaka University's Fac...
Leather products export to reach $ 6bn by 2021
Export of leather products including shoes would be $six billion by 2021 if 16.5 percent cash incentive is given.
The parliamentary standing committee on ministry of commerce today apprised of the export 
target at its 18th meeting held at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with committee chairman M Tajul Islam in the chair, reports BSS.
The watchdog body suggested the authorities concerned to give additional cash incentive to the leather products and shoes industries for making country's image brighter.
...
target at its 18th meeting held at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with committee chairman M Tajul Islam in the chair, reports BSS.
The watchdog body suggested the authorities concerned to give additional cash incentive to the leather products and shoes industries for making country's image brighter.
...
BD gets $ 167m loan from ADB
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $167 million loan to promote sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty in Bangladesh by improving production efficiency at a key gas field north of the capital Dhaka and by expanding transmission infrastructure.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is expected to lend an additional $60 million, subject to board approval, which will be managed by ADB. It is the second project to be cofinanced by ADB and AIIB.
Bangladesh’s economy is growing fast. But domestic natural gas supplies cannot keep pace with 
