Padma Bridge: Dream comes true

June 25, 2022

NEWS DESK Bangladesh today witnessed its dream coming true as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina opened its longest bridge, overcoming three pronged challenges – financial, engineering and political. Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the bridge on one of world’s mightiest rivers connecting southwestern Bangladesh with the capital and other parts while both the streams are Continue Reading

WB calls Padma Bridge “matter of glory” for Bangladesh

June 25, 2022

NEWS DESK World Bank vice-president Junaid Kamal Ahmed has called construction of the Padma Bridge with domestic financing a “matter of glory” for Bangladesh, over a decade after the lending agency cancelled its promised funding for the project, smelling corruption, which eventually appeared unfounded. “The construction of Padma Bridge is a matter of glory for […]Continue Reading

Padma Bridge: Stones to carry Hasina’s name as foundation layer, opener

June 24, 2022

NEWS DESK Nearly 22 years ago, on July 4, 2001, Sheikh Hasina had laid the foundation layer of the country’s biggest ever structure, the Padma Bridge, while the nation counts hours when she would open it on June 25, 2022. The structures foundation stone as well as the inauguration tablet are to carry her name […]Continue Reading

PM Hasina set to open much-cherished Padma Bridge

June 24, 2022

NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will open the much-anticipated 6.15 kilometer Padma Bridge for vehicular movement today. June 25, 2022, bringing a massive progress in road connectivity of 21 south and southwestern districts with capital Dhaka and other major cities. Marking the grand opening of the bridge, a festive mood is prevailing in the […]Continue Reading

Padma Bridge to emerge as boon for Rakhine’s weaving industry

June 23, 2022

NEWS DESK The weaving products made by woman-weaver in ‘Rakhine Indigenous Communities’ in Barguna district will be flourished across the country rapidly following the opening of the long-cherished Padma Bridge. Woman weavers in Rakhine Community have expressed their optimism that the economic activities of their self-made products including sheets, shirt Continue Reading

Padma Bridge creates new horizon for tourism, housing sectors

June 23, 2022

NEWS DESK The much-awaited Padma Bridge, which is set to be inaugurated on June 25 next, will open up a new horizon for tourism and housing sectors in Shariatpur apart from growing trade and business. Riazul Islam Madbar, a rod-cement trader in Shariatpur sadar upazila, said the construction works of the concrete structures have already […]Continue Reading

Rohingyas creating social problems in Bangladesh, PM tells Canadian envoy

June 19, 2022

NEWS DESK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Rohingyas are creating social problems in Bangladesh as many of them are engaged in drug and women trafficking. The Premier said this while newly appointed Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Lilly Nicholls called on her at her Sangsad Bhaban office. Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim […]Continue Reading

Deluge engulfs northeastern, northern Bangladesh

June 18, 2022

NEWS DESK Monsoon rains and gushing waters from upstream India overnight worsened Bangladesh flood situation with experts calling it the worst since 2004 while officials estimated the flooding to have marooned at least 6 million people. “Water now continued to surpass much above the danger lines in two of the country’s four major river basins […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh engages with world on its own terms: Momen

June 16, 2022

NEWS DESK Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh engages with the world on its “own term” while Dhaka believes in partnerships with countries for mutual economic benefits. “We are no longer price takers. We engage with the world on our own terms,” he said on Thursday, June 16, 2022. The foreign minister […]Continue Reading

Civil society for allowing Rohingyas to engage in meaningful work in camps

June 15, 2022

NEWS DESK Civil society members at a webinar have called for allowing Rohingyas to engage in meaningful work in Cox’s Bazar camps. A collective plan should also be devised in order to cope with the reduced foreign aid for the refugees, they told the webinar titled “Humanitarian Response to Forcefully Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN)” organised […]Continue Reading