Dhaka Bangladesh

http://www.newagebd.com/2009/nov/09/busi.html#2 BB’s Automated Clearing House begins trial run United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka Bangladesh Bank on Sunday launched the trial run of newly introduced Automated Clearing House, as part of its move to digitalise the country’s banking system. Under the new automated system, banks will not need to send their cheques physically to the clearing house at the central bank for effecting fund transfer. Now the banks can do the job online from their own offices using machine readable cheques and the funds will be transferred electronically. However, the banks can also drop their cheques at the ACH at Bangladesh Bank where the ... Read Full Story

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=111372 Nuke agreement with Russia signed Deal aims at setting up power plant Unb, Dhaka Bangladesh signed with Russia a protocol deal on cooperation in the field of peaceful usage of atomic energy as the country plans to install a nuclear power plant. The agreement was signed in the Russian capital, Moscow, on October 21 during the visit of a nine-member Bangladesh delegation headed by State Minister for Science and ICT Yeafesh Osman, according to a message received here yesterday. M Neazuddin Miah, additional secretary of the Ministry of Science and ICT of Bangladesh, and Mikhail N Lysenko, director of the State Atomic Energy ... Read Full Story

http://www.theindependent-bd.com/details.php?nid=146945 German business team arrives in Bangladesh UNB, Dhaka A German business delegation of more than 20 members from the shipbuilding, engineering and energy sectors will visit here from October 25 to 30. The business delegation wish to explore the potentials of Bangladesh’s growing market as well as import opportunities, a German Embassy Press Release said The week long visit is organized by the OAV-German Asia Pacific Business Association in cooperation with the Bangladesh-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BGCCI) and supported by the German Embassy in Dhaka. The delegation will be headed by Peter Clasen, owner of the company “Wilhelm G. Clasen” and ... Read Full Story

http://www.newagebd.com/2009/oct/23/front.html#19 All highways to be made four-lane ones United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka The communications minister, Syed Abul Hossain, Thursday said all highways across the country would be made four-lane ones to minimise road crashes. ‘We’re repairing and widening the highways to reduce the risk of accidents,’ he said while addressing a rally organised by ‘Nirapad Sarak Chai’. The minister said the government wanted to make all highways, including Dhaka-Chittagong Highway, secure for the travellers. He said the work order for making the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway four-lane one would be issued within the next two months. Abul Hossain said road fatalities would come down ... Read Full Story

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2009/10/04/80655.html Govt set to approve four-lane Dhaka-Ctg highway mid-Oct Project cost up by Tk 2.35b after last-minute design change Munima Sultana The government is set to approve the Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane highway project in mid-October with cost going up by at least 10 per cent, officials said Saturday. The project, considered as a key to the country’s economic uplift, will now cost Tk24.04 billion, as the designers have decided to put drainage system on both sides of the road instead of keeping it in the middle, which was proposed in the first layout. “The change in the design has increased the project cost by at ... Read Full Story