India’s first cross-country pipeline will connect to Bangladesh. Assam-based Numaligarh Refineries Limited (NRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), will shortly begin work on laying a product pipeline from Siliguri in West Bengal to Parbatipur in Bangladesh. The pipeline would allow BPCL to penetrate the Bangladeshi market and ensure sustained supply of petroleum products to Bangladesh. The length of the pipeline would be approximately 170 km and NRL would export high speed diesel (HSD), and motor spirit t...

The State Minister, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Planning, M.A. Mannan MP launched the Bangladesh Poverty Maps 2010 on Wednesday the third generation of poverty maps in Bangladesh, which is an important statistical instrument for estimating the poverty incidence up to sub-district (upazila) levels. The poverty mapping exercises show that Rangpur and Barisal Divisions have the highest incidence of poverty while Chittagong and Sylhet division have the lowest. The maps were developed in a joint exercise by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), t...

As a defence to the recently formulated National Broadcast Policy 2014, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government has formulated it to make the media responsible alongside freedom. “Freedom is good but that freedom comes along with some responsibilities…these responsibilities are to the country and State and society. These responsibilities have to be performed,” she said, reports UNB. The Prime Minister was speaking at a programme at her office (PMO) marking the distribution of financial assistance to the s...

We talk a great deal about how the large economic powers are reacting to Bitcoin and some of the efforts being carried out regionally to enhance Bitcoin awareness in major markets like the United States and China. What we often miss however is how important smaller nations, especially countries with large tech-communities, are to the success of Bitcoin. Bangladesh is an excellent example of this and the new Bitcoin Foundation Bangladesh seems to be an excellent example of a great start on cryptocurrency education in the region. The Pre...