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Bangladesh plans its first waste-based power plant

The Bangladesh government is planning to set up a power plant based on municipal waste with an intent to address the issue of waste generation as well as expanding the basket of renewable energy technologies in the country. The Bangladesh government is looking to develop a municipal waste-based power plant at the outskirts of capital Dhaka. The government has reportedly initiated the process of forming a jannatul-mawa-640company to set up and operate the power plant. The project will be first one in the country to use waste for power g...

Expat murders linked to IS put Bangladesh on edge

Two expat murders in Bangladesh are stoking concerns that Islamic extremists may tarnish the country’s image at a time when its economy is a rare bright spot in Asia. A Japanese investor was shot and killed in northern Bangladesh on Oct. 3, about a week after three people murdered an Italian aid worker in an area popular with diplomats in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the slayings, an assertion rejected by the government. “This threat and insecurity currently makes foreigners think twice before they visit [caption id="attachment_20006" align="alignleft" width="540"]

Undeclared Indian embargo halts BD-Nepal trade

Bangladesh-Nepal bilateral trade has been halted for the past two weeks due to the undeclared Indian trade embargo on Nepal. [caption id="attachment_20215" align="alignleft" width="650"]BD-Nepal trade A file photo shows Nepal-bound goods carriers stranded at Fulbari on the India-Bangladesh border.[/caption] According to Nepal Transit Warehouse Company, about 200 trucks carrying various imported goods have been stuck at Banlabanda on the India-Bangladesh border. “Bangladeshi exporters are reluctant to dispatch goods to Nepal,” said Yadav Raj Shiwak...

TPP signing worries economists, trade leaders

Bangladesh is set to lose its competitive edge in global apparel business as trade ministers of 12 Asia Pacific nations signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Monday. Economists and leaders of trade bodies suggested that Bangladesh should take preparations to join the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in future. Bangladesh is set to lose its competitive edge in global apparel business as trade ministers of 12 Asia Pacific nations struck the deal in Atlanta. rmgThe hard-won deal to create the world’s largest free-trade area, en...

Spies accused of blocking media adverts

Officers from the army’s intelligence agency have instructed major companies to stop advertising in Bangladesh’s two leading independent newspapers, sources told Al Jazeera. The demand for foreign-owned corporations to stop advertising in the Prothom Alo and Daily Star newspapers was allegedly given by officers from the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), following the August 16 publication of a story on the army’s killing of five men in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Later that day, army officials contacted both papers and criticised them for describing the dead men as “indigenous” people instead of “terrorists”, sources said on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Since then, Prothom Alo the most widely read newspaper in the country with

Q1 remittances reach $ 4bn

Bangladesh’s central bank governor elected chairman of Asian Clearing Union ADB to lend Bangladesh $45 mln for water resource project India’s push to save its cows starves Bangladesh of beef Arrest warrants for 33 Bangladesh opposition members Bangladesh’s Mustafizur mesmerises with record wicket haul Bangladeshis living and working abroad remitted home nearly $4 billion in the first quarter of the current 2015-2016 fiscal year, a central bank official said on Wednesday. Remittance-450x325Quoting provisional data, the Bangladesh ...
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