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US-BD partnership deeper ever, terms Mozena  

Outgoing US Ambassador Dan W Mozena said he is proud of the current state of partnership between Bangladesh and the USA saying it has never been deeper, broader and stronger than today. “I reviewed the state of our partnership. It’s never been broader, deeper and stronger than today. I’m very proud of that,” he told reporters after his meeting with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at the latter’s office on Thursday, UNB reports. mozenaGiving his brief statement, Mozena said having disagreement is an important part of any matured relationship an...

Agriculture and ship salvaging in coastal Bangladesh  

One of the most promising economies in the world today, Bangladesh has a host of positive statistics and numbers including: In 2014, gross income per capita reached $1,190, Bangladesh ranks number 140 out of 177 countries for development and it is moving higher, The rate of population growth is currently at 1.39% a year. Today, approximately 75% of the people in Bangladesh live in rural parts of the country, and most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihood. The agricultural sector is the largest by far, contributing approximately 19.09% of the country’s GDP, and providing jobs to around 48.1% of the labor force.

WB commits $ 1.1b for 3 development projects

The World Bank (WB) has approved approximately 1.1 billion U.S. dollars for three projects in Bangladesh, according to a statement of the Washington-based lender received here Wednesday. The projects would benefit almost 36 million people by improving the quality of primary education, building coastal communities’ resilience to natural disaster, and increasing the nutrition and cognitive development of children from the poorest households, the statement showed, reports Xinhua. wbThe projects approved by the bank’s Board of Executive Directors are 400 mi...

New milestones on the road to inclusive education

Home to 157 million people living in a land crisscrossed by the waters of the enormous Ganga-Brahmaputra delta, Bangladesh is the world’s most densely populated country. While 47 million people still live in poverty and are extremely vulnerable during frequent floods and cyclones, the country has registered remarkable successes between 1990 and 2010—reducing poverty by a third, achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education, and cutting its maternal mortality rate by 40 percent. The World Bank Group has supported development in Bangladesh since 1972, including by financing its groundbreaking conditional cash transfer program that helped get millions of girls into school in the early 1990s, and contributing to the country’s stellar results in increasing female literacy. It...

Taliban attack leaves 141 dead in Pakistan

Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children, the military say. Pakistani officials say the attack is now over, with all of the attackers killed. A total of seven militants took part, according to the army. Scores of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their children. The attack is the deadliest ever by the Taliban in Pakistan. There has been chaos outside hospital units to which casualties were taken, the BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil reports from Peshawar. Bodies have been carried out of hospitals in coffins, escorted by crowds of mourners, some of them visibly distraught.

Who recognised Bangladesh first?    

Bhutan’s recognition of Bangladesh without waiting for Indian advice was a clever move. It was a calculated gamble to assert its independence, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.

Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan had very few comforts in 1971. For us, who went to Bhutan from Tokyo, with a nine-month old baby 42 years ago, the feeling was that we had walked backwards in time by about half a century. The first motorable road was opened only in 1968 and there were no commercial flights into Bhutan. The drive from the border town of Phuntsholing in India to Thimphu took the whole day, with a lunch break at Chukha, a small rivulet at that time, but a gigantic hydro-electric project now. Electricity was a rarity and we had to huddle around a bukhari, which bu...
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