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Malaysia to build 22,000 apartments in Bangladesh    

Malaysia will help Bangladesh in construction of 22,000 apartments in capital Dhaka and a flyover connecting Dhaka with Rajuk’s Jhilmil housing project. The Malaysian assistance will come under a Memorandum of Understanding the two countries signed in Dhaka on Tuesday, reports UNB. BD-MalUnder the MoU 12,000 apartments will be built at Uttara while 10,000 at Kamrangichar. A 13-kilometer flyover will be built connecting Dhaka’s Shantinagar to Jhilmil housing project in Keraniganj. Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Mala...

Poll unrest deals economic blow  

The country’s economy lost Tk. 108.5 billion ($1.4 billion) during the violent run-up to the January 5th general election, according to the World Bank. The service sector represented 86% of losses, followed by 11% in industry and the rest in agriculture, due to the political turmoil and uncertainty during 2013’s last quarter, the bank reported in its “Bangladesh Development Update”, released April 9th. violance BDThe loss equals nearly half the total estimated cost of Tk. 226 billion ($2.92 billion) to build the ...

Why Bangladesh feared Indian invasion after 1975 coup  

B. Z. Khasru

 When Gen. Ziaur Rahman became Bangladesh’s virtual ruler following several bloody military coups in 1975, he told the United States that India intended to invade its small neighbor to install a puppet regime. So intense was Zia’s fear of an Indian invasion that on 7 November 1975 he made a call on the radio for national unity to face the attack. His call triggered more processions in Dhaka, initially sparked by the news of his release from detention by the officers who had mounted a failed coup earlier. The processions were laced with anti-Indian slogans. This public mood in Dhaka reflected a total reversal of the sentiment at the end of the Bangladesh war in 1971 when the sentiment was explicitly anti-Pakistani and...

Bangladesh urges SAARC secretariat to pursue issues of common rivers  

Bangladesh has urged the SAARC secretariat to pursue issues of common rivers in the region as new secretary general of the eight-nation grouping Arjun Bahadur Thapa called on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, a foreign office statement said here on Monday. "He (Alam) requested the Secretary General to pursue the regional cooperation on the issue of common rivers, since Bangladesh suffers badly for insufficient water during the dry season," a statement said referring to their meeting late yesterday. The state minister, it said, also insisted on regional cooperation in the hydropower sector among Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan, BSS reports.

NDA will send Bangladeshis back: Modi    

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday threatened to deport Bangladeshi immigrants if NDA comes to power, saying they were being welcomed with red carpets for vote bank politics. “I want to warn from here, brothers and sisters write down, that after May 16,  beyond the border with their bags and baggage,” Modi said alleging that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was pursuing vote bank politics. modi“You are spreading the red carpet for the Bangladeshis for the sake of vote bank politics,” he said in this largely mixed co...

BD joins global declaration to end sexual violence in conflict    

Bangladesh has joined the ‘Global Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict’ as 123rd country reaffirming its commitment to denounce sexual violence during armed conflicts. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura jointly launched the declaration in New York on September 24, 2013 during the 68th UN General Assembly. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, in a letter, conveyed the decision to British Foreign Secretary William Hague, said a Foreign Ministry media release on Sunday.
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