National Geographic Dont Tell My Mother – Dhaka Bangladesh
National Geographic’s Diego begins his adventure in an area of Dhaka where the term urban jungle is given new meaning. In this area, Macaque monkeys have taken control.
PMO opts for eight medium-sized PPP projects for implementation : No Mega projects due to resource constraints
April 5, 2012 No Comment
By: Nazmul Ahsan The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has short-listed eight infrastructure projects, and instructed the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to take measures for their implementation within the shortest possible time under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative. The total cost for the projects has been estimated at Tk 30 billion, according to an official document of [...]
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Police used batons to disperse opposition activists taking part in a general strike in Bangladesh’s capital on Sunday. A party official said eight people were injured.The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, is protesting a government decision to divide Dhaka into two administrative zones, a plan they say [...]
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by Yazdan Hoque The Awami League government has passed a bill that will be splitting the Dhaka City Corporation into two parts. The Local Government (City Corporation) Amendment Bill 2011 will turn into an act after the president’s assent. People familiar with Dhaka City will know of its utter lack of management, planning and structure. As mentioned in my [...]
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DCCs to get administrators this week: Ashraf Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam has said the government will appoint administrators to the two Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs) by this week. Ashraful, also the LGRD minister, said this to journalists after emerging from the parliament which on Tuesday passed the Local Government (City Corporation) Amendment [...]
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One of the most highly regarded literary festivals in Britain has held an event in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka for the first time. Organizers of the Hay festival say it was one of the most important international book fairs to have been staged in the city. The aim was to bring together British and Bangladeshi [...]
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A steep fall in share prices continued for a third day yesterday, prompting the prime minister to call a maiden emergency meeting with market stakeholders today. The 4.67 percent fall at the close of trade at Dhaka Stock Exchange also set off protests by some retail investors in the busy financial hub of Motijheel. Sheikh [...]
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(Reuters) – Bangladesh plans to build its first ever waste-fueled power plants to ease electricity shortages and manage garbage properly, a government official said on Monday. Italian firm Management Environment Finance SEL was given permission to build two 50 megawatt power plants at two places in the capital, to be completed in three years, the [...]
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Dhaka, Nov 11 (UNB) – Rights groups have urged the climate change vulnerable countries to emerge as independent negotiation group in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), freeing themselves from the interest of G-77 plus China. An alliance of five rights groups made the call at a press conference at National Press Club [...]
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By Mohammad Ataul Hoqu Dhaka city along with its over fifteen million people has been reeling under over population, traffic jam, shortage of roads and streets, deteriorating public utility services, failing law and order situation, emergence of concrete jungle in un planned manner, growing up of slum areas, un ending stream of floating population, [...]
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