Move to legalise electric vehicles
The new government in Bangladesh is going to legalise electric vehicles. Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has drafted guidelines on the electric vehicles making registration, fitness certificate
Financial Express (Bangladesh)
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WFP project runs for undernourished mothers, children in Gaibandha
A welfare project entitled "Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition (IMCN)" launched in August, 2011 runs smoothly creating positive impacts to the undernourished mothers and children in the district.
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9 city mkts to protest open formalin sale
Nine city kitchen markets will remain shut for 15 minutes from 12 noon today (Wednesday) for pressing home the demand for stopping the sale of formalin in open markets and immediate enactment of a formalin
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BD's booming leather industry costs lives, environment dearly
Inside the factory, shirtless workers stretch freshly dyed sheets of goat leather across industrial drying racks. Sleek and durable, the leather is in great demand at fashion houses from Italy to Hong
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$3.0m Korean aid for improvement of disaster-prone regions
The Korean Government will provide $3.0 million support to Bangladesh to improve its poor people's access to food in the disaster-prone regions. The fund, to be disbursed under a three-year project
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3,067 solar lamps to light up Tongi streets
The government has planned to install 3,067 solar street lamps using LED bulbs on an experimental basis in Tongi area under the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC). The solar lamps will be installed under
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Bangladesh starts to get 250mw power from India in Oct
India is likely to export 250 megawatt (mw) electricity to Bangladesh from October next in the light of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the two countries more than three years ago, said
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Denmark to help implement CCAPP
Denmark and Bangladesh Wednesday signed an agreement on a Climate Change Adaptation Pilot Project (CCAPP) worth over Tk 210 million aiming to demonstrate the effectiveness of climate change adaptation
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PC set to approve costly 100-mw power project
The Planning Commission (PC) is set to approve the costly 100-megawatt furnace oil-based power station at Chapainawabganj, which involves hard-term US$109 million loan from a foreign bank, officials said
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New agri policy to be formulated: Khaleda
BNP chairperson said on Monday that her party would formulate a new agriculture policy, increase facilities for farmers, take initiatives for resolving power crisis, increase gas supply and production
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30.6pc fall in tea cultivation area over ten years: SRDI
The state-run Soil Resource Development Institute (SRDI) has claimed that there has been about 30.6 per cent fall in the tea cultivation area in the country over the last ten years. The tea growers