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Dhaka to seek $13b from Beijing

Bangladesh will seek a fund of USD 13.08 billion from China to implement 15 projects, including a coal-based power plant and expansion of power distribution lines, to ensure power for every citizen by 2021. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cleared the proposal to discuss the projects with the prime minister of the People’s Republic of China during his upcoming trip. Though the schedule of the visit to Bangladesh is yet to be fixed, Bangladesh is making preparations ahead of the Chinese premier’s trip. The list of projects that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cleared are: extension and augmentation of power distribution system (USD 16 million); a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant (USD 1,573 million); Gazaria 350 MW coal-fired…

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Manhunt intensifies in France

A manhunt intensified yesterday for one or more fugitives who vanished following the murderous mayhem…

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News

Teachers plan to take MPO issue to PM

Teachers and employees who do not enjoy the monthly pay order (MPO) facility collected mass signatures yesterday, seeking support for their demand to include their institutions under the scheme. The teachers said they would drape themselves in shrouds on Monday to protest against the delay in providing…

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Metro

1 held over SUST entry test forgery

An alleged fake examinee was held during the entry test of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) under the academic session 2015-16 yesterday. The arrestee was identified as Nasir Hossain, a 2nd year student of Civil Engineering department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and…

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Editorial

Bangladesh: Worsening child marriage scenario

Bangladesh has come a long way since it used to be termed as a basket case. The country can be rightfully proud of its many achievements in recent years. Bangladesh's economy has been growing at a rate of 6 percent over the last one and a half decades, despite several complications. Poverty…

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Op-ed

Weighing the credit risks by the banks

One of the important functions of the commerial banks is lending money to borrowers against deposits they receive in the form of savings, current, short-notice deposits, fixed deposits or special schemes in various names from the depositors which are the products of banks. Deposits are liability for…

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Miscellaneous

Khaleda to be taught ultimate lesson in 2019: Nasim

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday said militant leader Khaleda Zia would be given an ultimate lesson in the general elections of 2019, reports BSS from Lalmonirhat. He said that despite the 21st August (2004) grenade attack on Sheikh Hasina, she survived. “She also succeeded…

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Business

PM seeks support from dev partners

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said government has its full confidence in the international community that they will continue to support Bangladesh's development drive as it will have to implement a new set of goals –SDGs, reports UNB. "The developed countries should come forward…

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Worldwide

Obama vows to �redouble� fight against IS

AFP, ANTALYA, Turkey: US President Barack Obama vowed Sunday to stand by France in hunting down the Paris attackers and to “redouble” efforts to wipe out the Islamic State jihadist network. After a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Obama said the two leaders agreed to…

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Dhakalive

Razzak returns to acting after two years

With the shooting of a new telefilm, directed by his son Samrat, on Sunday morning, Nayak Raj famed seasoned actor Razzak has returned to acting after two years. He has been staying away from the acting due to his illness that even sent him to the hospital a year ago. Razzak has taken part in the shooting…

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Sports

Reckless batting restricts Tigers to push run

Bangladesh batsmen yet again came up with a reckless batting show to prove that they are yet to learn the art of the T20 batting. In an otherwise a pretty flat surface, they couldn’t improvise them when it mattered most. Bangladesh were restricted to 135 for nine in their allotted 20 overs in…

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Nationwide

Growers profit from red amaranth

Hundreds of marginal farmers in Bhola, especially in the shoals, have been benefiting from cultivation of red amaranth, a short duration crop, this season. Sources said red amaranth, a leafy vegetable locally known as lalshakh, is cultivated at low cost all year round on high lands. In Belumia…

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ADB to boost support

Asian Development Bank (ADB) vice president Wencai Zhang yesterday announced that support to Bangladesh would be enhanced from next year. “We will finance energy, power, transport, railway, education sector, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and infrastructure development,” he said while…

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