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1,01,758 Bangladeshis to perform Hajj this year

Some 1,01,758 Bangladeshis will perform Hajj this year as the Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the ‘National Hajj and Umrah Policy, 1435 Hijri (2014 AD)’ and ‘The Hajj Package, 2014’, making slight changes in the existing Hajj Policy adding Umrah Policy to it. 30020140310132432The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said that t...

WB for better water, sanitation services in rural areas

Though the national rural water supply coverage in the country is estimated to be 97 per cent, issues with water quality and in particular arsenic contamination have significantly lowered this figure to an estimated 83 percent. It was found through Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2009 by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the UNICEF. wb The World Bank is providing support to increase the supply of safe water in rural areas, a release of landing agency said. The Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Proj...

Dhaka matters to Beijing

China on Thursday said that Bangladesh “really matters” to Beijing as it is an “important developing country” with a booming economy. According to Chinese ambassador Li Jun, China wants to contribute to Bangladesh’s development as the country was contributing to global peace and regional stability. china BDMr Li Jun, who met diplomatic correspondents on Thursday, also remarked that Bangladesh’s “improving” ties with its neighbours added to regional stability and its zero-tolerance of terrorism...

More 100mw from India likely

India may have finally promised Bangladesh 100 MW of electricity from the ONGC Tripura Power Company-promoted 736.6 MW gas-based facility at Palatana in Tripura. India sells 500 MW of electricity a day to Dhaka through West Bengal border. Of the total, 250 MW is sourced from NTPC at Central Electricity Regulatory Commission determined tariff. The rest is traded through open market deals. bd-indiaAccording to media reports in Kolkata and Dhaka, at a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Seikh Hasina, a...

Hasina again urges for water accords with India

Despite decades-old disputes over sharing of waters between Bangladesh and India, notably from the Teesta river, Dhaka hopes it can finalise a host of treaties with New Delhi. "Modalities need to be found for the sharing of water resources, especially of common waters," Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the BIMSTEC Summit in this Myanmar capital. "As, for example, Bangladesh and India are sharing the waters of river Ganga with the signing of the 30-year-old Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, with others to follow soon," she said at the summit, where the Indian side is being led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

3rd Bimstec Summit gets underway in Myanmar capital

The third Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit got underway in the Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday with a high hope for refreshing and strengthening regional cooperation. Chairman of BIMSTEC and President of host country Myanmar Thein Sein inaugurated the third conference of the seven nation regional organization in the morning after six years of the second summit held in the Indian capital, New Delhi. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with other heads of states and governments as well as representatives of the member countries attended the inaugural session of the Summit.
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