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Bangladesh aims to be world’s ‘first solar nation’  

Residents of Islampur, a remote village in the northern Bangladeshi district of Naogaon, were stunned one night last summer when the darkness was suddenly illuminated by electric lights coming from a village home. Why the surprise? The community has no connection to the country’s power grid. solar-450x219The owner of the house, Rafiqul Islam, is one of around 15 million Bangladeshis whose homes are now powered by solar home systems, or SHS, under a government scheme to provide clean power to communities with no access to grid ele...

8.7m expatriates in a fix without MRPs  

From 25 November this year, no airport in the world will accept handwritten Bangladeshi passports. But it will not be possible for the authorities to issue 10 million expatriates machine readable passports (MRP) within the next 10 months, meaning they run the risk of facing harassment at airports in various countries. passport BdOfficers at the Department of Immigration and Passports said this is a serious crisis. It would not be possible to issue so many passports within just 10 months. Along with being harassed, the expatriate Banglade...

Unrest ‘taking its toll’ on Bangladesh economy    

The latest episode of political volatility in the South Asian nation began on January 3 when police banned protests in the capital Dhaka and confined the leader of the country’s main opposition party BNP, Khaleda Zia, to her office. Zia had earlier called for demonstrations on the anniversary of last year’s general election. Although Zia has been released, the government still hasn’t been able to put an end to the unrest, which has so far cost 29 lives. hartalOn January 21, the authorities announced that they had arrested more than 7,000 oppositi...

Ctg port can boost business in northeast India, Bangladesh

A deal must be finalised to leverage the Chittagong international port for expanding business between northeast India and Bangladesh, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said. “Chittagong international port (in southeast Bangladesh) could play a catalyst role for the extension of business and economic growth between northeast India and Bangladesh. Governments of two countries must finalise a deal in this regard,” Sarkar said here Thursday night. export-import After inaugurating a photography exhibition of Bangladeshi journa...

New drive toward universal primary education

Less than three years before a turn-of-the-millennium promise by world leaders to ensure that all children can attend primary school becomes due, 61 million still have no classroom to go to. educationhere has been progress since 1999, when 106 million children were out of school worldwide, according to the United Nations. But momentum has flagged in the past five years, and tough economic times mean education aid to the poorest countries is dipping. Three quarters of out-of-school children live in either sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, an...

Protest rallies must be peaceful: AHRC

The ongoing political crisis in Bangladesh has placed the nation into a deep state of uncertainty. The 15th amendment of the constitution is one of the important reasons for the current state of affairs in Bangladesh, says The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Friday. AHRCPublic places in Bangladesh have become unsafe today for the people when protest rallies are held. Even without a public protest, person and property in the country does not have any guarantee to their security. The overall breakdown of law and order is of such state...
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