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Funds crunch mires Indo-Bangla rail project

Five years after the plan for an India-Bangladesh railway network was approved, uncertainty persists over the project as no funds have been allocated yet, authorities said. “It is not certain when the work for the project would start. No funds have been allocated so far for the Agartala (India)-Akhaura (Bangladesh) railway project,” Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) general manager R.K. Gupta told reporters here on Sunday evening. indo-Bangla railTripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said: “No funds were also allocated for land acquisi...

Foreigner killings sign of deeper crisis, says Moyeen Khan

A senior Bangladesh opposition leader said on Monday the killing of two foreign nationals was a sign that law and order was collapsing and the situation may get worse unless a stalemate between the two main political parties is resolved. [caption id="attachment_20116" align="alignright" width="650"]Moyeen-khan-1 File photo of Moyeen Khan[/caption] The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has staged violent protests since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League won a second consecutive term in January 2014. The BNP boycotted the election...

ADB to help finance India-Bangladesh power link

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to help finance a project to increase transmission capacity of an India-Bangladesh power link to allow Bangladesh to better meet sharply rising power demand. ADB’s $120 million loan to Bangladesh will double the capacity of the existing interconnector which links the power grid of western Bangladesh at Bheramara and the grid of eastern India at Bharampur. adb1The two networks were first interconnected in 2013, under a previous project financed by ADB. New transmission capacity will rise from 500 megawatts (MW) to 1,000 MW,...

Japanese citizen shot dead in Rangpur

Police have detained four people in connection with the shooting death on Saturday of a Japanese citizen, the second foreign national killed in the South Asian nation within a week. Kunio Hoshi, 65, a Japanese citizen but born in Bangladesh, was attacked by unidentified assailants in Kownia in Rangpur district, 335 km (210 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka, and died on the way to hospital, police said. The killing bore some similarities to the shooting death of an Italian working in Bangladesh, rangpurCesare Tavella. Islamic State claimed responsibi...

Women taking charge from top to bottom

Rani Mondal searches the floor of the riverbed with her fingers, craning her neck above the water. The river is home to a farm of clawing crabs. “It hurts a lot when you are bitten but you apply salt and Savlon and go to the doctor’s if it gets septic,” Mondal said. An award-winning crab farmer living on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, she used to be extremely poor. Her village has been battered repeatedly by cyclones, making the ground too salty for large-scale agriculture. [caption id="attachment_20028" align="alignright" width="650"]Rani Mondal (centre) and fellow crab farmers, who work... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

Joint marine research with India

In a first of its kind, India will conduct a joint marine research with Bangladesh in its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to understand the ecology of the Bay of Bengal that affects the climatic conditions of the region. A team of scientists from the CSIR’s National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) will head to the Bay of Bengal in October-November along with its Research Vessel (RV) Sindhu Sadhana. bd-indiaThereafter India will also train Bangladeshi scientists in the field. India is also pushing for a joint cooperation in the field of oceanography ...
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