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Women’s unpaid work equivalent to 10.75pc of GDP

The total unpaid domestic work carried out by women in Bangladesh is equivalent to 10.75 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country, Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, revealed. Unnayan-OnneshanThe organisation found this in their nation-wide survey based estimate of women domestic work in Bangladesh, first of its kind in the country and released in connection with the International Women’s Day, reports UNB. They revealed that the total unpaid work per year might be equivalent to T...

Girl rescued while trafficking in India

 The Indian border guards have handed back to Bangaldesh a 13-year-old girl who was allegedly being trafficked through a riverine area along the international frontier. The incident occurred on March 4 when a patrol party of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Gunarmath area of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal detected some movement along the bank of Ichhamati river along the Indo-Bangla border. stop_women_abuseOn being challenged, two ...

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...

Hilsa ban not lifted soon

The government has no immediate plans to lift the ban imposed in 2012 on the export of hilsa to ensure a smooth supply of the silver delicacy in local markets. "How much we get from export of hilsa fish? We do not have any immediate plan to resume hilsa export," state-run BSS news agency quoted Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed as saying. hilsaHe said the ban on the fish, declared the National Fish of Bangladesh upon the country gaining independence in 1971, was needed to ensure supply to local markets and check its pr...

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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