Spies accused of blocking media adverts
Officers from the army’s intelligence agency have instructed major companies to stop advertising in Bangladesh’s two leading independent newspapers, sources told Al Jazeera.
The demand for foreign-owned corporations to stop advertising in the Prothom Alo and Daily Star newspapers was allegedly given by officers from the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), following the August 16 publication of a story on the army’s killing of five men in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Later that day, army officials contacted both papers and criticised them for describing the dead men as “indigenous” people instead of “terrorists”, sources said on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Since then, Prothom Alo the most widely read newspaper in the country with
Q1 remittances reach $ 4bn
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Bangladeshis living and working abroad remitted home nearly $4 billion in the first quarter of the current 2015-2016 fiscal year, a central bank official said on Wednesday.
Quoting provisional data, the Bangladesh ...
Quoting provisional data, the Bangladesh ...
Facebook posts get people arrested in Bangladesh
Many people have been arrested in Bangladesh recently for expressing their opinions on Facebook. Those arrests were made under a new law, which bloggers consider as an attempt to curb free speech in the country.
Bangladesh police arrested a schoolboy on September 30, 2015 for posting “offensive remarks about Islam” on Facebook. He is a student of class nine and lives in Magura, a district far from
Funds crunch mires Indo-Bangla rail project
Five years after the plan for an India-Bangladesh railway network was approved, uncertainty persists over the project as no funds have been allocated yet, authorities said.
“It is not certain when the work for the project would start. No funds have been allocated so far for the Agartala (India)-Akhaura (Bangladesh) railway project,” Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) general manager R.K. Gupta told reporters here on Sunday evening.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said: “No funds were also allocated for land acquisi...
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said: “No funds were also allocated for land acquisi...
ADB to help finance India-Bangladesh power link
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to help finance a project to increase transmission capacity of an India-Bangladesh power link to allow Bangladesh to better meet sharply rising power demand.
ADB’s $120 million loan to Bangladesh will double the capacity of the existing interconnector which links the power grid of western Bangladesh at Bheramara and the grid of eastern India at Bharampur.
The two networks were first interconnected in 2013, under a previous project financed by ADB. New transmission capacity will rise from 500 megawatts (MW) to 1,000 MW,...
The two networks were first interconnected in 2013, under a previous project financed by ADB. New transmission capacity will rise from 500 megawatts (MW) to 1,000 MW,...
Sanitation success declines open defecation into 1pc
Speakers at an international sanitation conference in the capital on Saturday commended Bangladesh on its remarkable success in reducing open defecation and improving access to sanitation, while emphasising on the need to prepare for future challenges. The inaugural session of the conference, entitled Journey To Zero, took place today (03 Oct 2015) at Hotel Lakeshore in Gulshan, and was attended by representative of the Government of Bangladesh, civil society and academia.
Mr. Abdul Malek, Secretary, Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, spoke of rates of open defecation falling from 34% in 1990 to 
