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ADB forecasts 6.7pc growth for 2015-16

Bangladesh’s growth for this fiscal will improve marginally and stand at 6.7 percent driven by apparel export and domestic consumption, Asian Development Bank forecast today. The improvement will be 0.1 percent increase from the 6.6 percent growth recorded last fiscal. adb1Higher growth will be driven by readymade garment export and a resilient domestic consumption, said ADB’s country director for Bangladesh Kazuhiko Higuchi. He was talking while launching ADB’s Annual Outlook Report 2016 at its Agargaon office in the capital, D...

Registration opens for Water Window

The Global Resilience Challenge’s “Water Window” is open for registration. From 29 March registered entrants will be able to submit Concept Notes with innovative ideas and solutions to help flood prone communities across the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia reduce their exposure to flood risks and to continue to develop in the face of uncertainty. Successful submissions will be eligible for up to US$1 million scaling-up grants or up to US$250,000 seed grants, says a press release. The submissions should offer innovative solutions to the very real issues affecting flood prone [caption id="attachment_18235" align="alignleft" width="604"]

67pc girls get married before 18: Study

About 67 per cent of girls in the country get married before the age of 18, said a research on ‘Child Marriage and its implications’. The information came out at a discussion at Nawab Nabab Ali Chowdhury Senate House Conference Hall at Dhaka University (DU). The Department of Population Sciences of DU and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) jointly conducted the study with the support of Department for International Development (DID). The study said, in households where fathers have higher secondary and above education, the girls bd

Contract for Payra 1320-MW coal-fired plant tomorrow

The government will sign an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract tomorrow for installing the 1320-MW Payra coal-fired power plant in Patuakhali. “The Payra coal-fired power plant would generate 1320 MW electricity from 2019,” Director General of Power Cell Mohammad Hossain told BSS here today. He said the Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt) Limited (BCPCL), a joint venture firm of PowerChinese Power Company (CMC), and the state-owned North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) would sign the EPC co...

1st direct container vessel form India to Bangladesh

Krishnapatnam Port, India’s largest all-weather; deep water port on the east-coast earmarked a historical moment for India's bilateral trade and commerce as the first direct container vessel, part of coastal shipping agreement to facilitate trade between India and Bangladesh, set sail from the port on 28th March 2016. The trade agreements which were signed during the reign of the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1974 were revived back after a period of four decades during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka last year. MV Harbour-1 owned by Neepa Paribahan and built by Western Marine Shipyard is the first

University degrees for garment workers

When Rubina Yeasmin was 13, her father died of a heart attack. Her mother scraped together the money to keep her in school but finances became increasingly tight. “My uncle said I must leave school and get married.” She grew up in Topshe village in Dinajpur district, in northern Bangladesh. According to a Unicef report (pdf) published last year, 65% of girls in Bangladesh are married before the age of 18, and 29% before they are 15. For poor families, early marriage can ease financial pressure as it means one less mouth to feed. It can also negate the need for girls to be educated. Yeasmin refused to marry and fought to be allowed to complete her education. Her family gave
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