Bangladesh achieves good success in female education: World Bank by bangladeshjournal.com

Girls’ enrolment in secondary school in Bangladesh jumped to 3.9 million in 2005, from 1.1 million in 1991, including an increasing number of girls from disadvantaged or remote areas.

“This has enabled Bangladesh to achieve one of its Millennium Development Goals ahead of time - gender [...]

Bangladesh’s Non-Banking Financial Institutions Diversify Business Activities by Siddique Islam for allheadlinenews.com

Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - Bangladesh’s non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) are gradually diversifying their business activities to cater to the needs of entrepreneurs, officials say in the capital, Dhaka.

As the NBFIs diversify their area of activities, the share of leasing and house financing has declined [...]

Bangladesh to benefit from OIC’s $10b poverty alleviation programme by thedailystar.net

Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Dr Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has said his organisation has drawn up an ambitious programme of ten billion dollars for poverty alleviation in the relatively less fortunate member nations.

“Bangladesh is certainly among the countries that stand to benefit [...]

UAE Government To Compensate Bangladesh’s Children Used As Camel Jockeys by Siddique Islam for allheadlinenews.com

Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government has decided to compensate the Bangladeshi children used as camel jockeys in their country. The children, some as young as 4-years-old were taken from Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries to serve [...]

Commonwealth seeks credible polls in Bangladesh by hindu.com

London, May. 5 (PTI): Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon has said the military-backed interim government in Bangladesh must hold credible elections as soon as possible.

“The Secretary-General has constantly emphasised the need for credible elections in Bangladesh as soon as possible,” the Commonwealth Secretariat said in a statement after [...]

Bangladesh agrees to negotiate tri-nation gas pipeline by peacejournalism.com

Bangladesh has agreed to negotiate the much-talked-about tri-nation pipeline passing through the country’s territory for transmission of gas from Myanmar to India, Bangladeshi news agency UNB reported Monday.

“We agree to negotiate for allowing the pipeline if Myanmar sells gas and India agrees to buy … We’ll obtain [...]

Bangladesh may sign up for trans-Asian railway link by dailyindia.com

Dhaka, May 4: The council of advisers in Bangladesh is expected to approve the signing of the UN-sponsored Trans-Asian Railway Network agreement on Saturday, which aims at boosting trade and tourism in the Asia-Pacific region.

The proposal for the signing the inter-governmental agreement on the 81,000km railway [...]

Bangladesh mulls atomic energy to meet shortfall by in.today.reuters.com

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh said on Friday it was considering atomic energy as an alternative source to meet the growing shortfall of electricity output in the country.

The power shortfall has soared to 1,500 megawatt (mw), as the state Power Development Board has said the country can [...]

Bangladesh Revenue Board seeks bank statement of ex-President by zeenews.com

Dhaka, May 02: The National Board of Revenue Wednesdaysought details of bank transactions made by former militaryruler H M Ershad in the last five years as part of a massiveanti-graft campaign of the military-backed interim government.

The private “BdNews24″ news agency said the NBR issued a letter [...]

England To Help Combat Terrorism In Bangladesh by allheadlinenews.com

Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - The United Kingdom wants to enhance Bangladesh’s capability to counter terrorism as the countries are working jointly to fight against the threat of global and internal terrorism.

“We want to learn from each other’s experience in combating terrorism and how we continue the operational [...]