Yunus reluctant to be WB chief

Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has pronounced he is not meddlesome in receiving a helm of a World Bank, as he wants to work during his reason up to amicable business. In a have a difference released yesterday, he, however, thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for proposing his name for a WB presidency. He described […]

Bangladesh needs $5.7b for adaptation

Bangladesh needs about $5.7 billion as instrumentation price to face the increasing risks of cyclones as good as internal monsoon floods in the becoming opposite meridian by 2050, says the World Bank report. The instrumentation price for railways, highway networks, embankments as good as drainage infrastructure to equivalent the single some-more overflow due to internal […]

Govt mulls 2nd Padma bridge

The supervision will go for a second overpass over a Padma if a World Bank does not repel a cessation upon appropriation a Padma Multipurpose Bridge projects, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader pronounced yesterday. The newly allocated minister, however, hoped which a cessation would go soon. He was lecture reporters during Daudkandi in Comilla after upon […]

Padma Bridge in a quagmire

The building a whole of Padma overpass will face enlarged check if a World Bank does not accept a government’s suggest to proceed a work before long though involving a firms indicted of corruption. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as great as Finance Minister AMA Muhith done a suggest during meetings with WB Vice-President Isabel M […]

Padma Bridge work awaits WB nod

The work of Padma Multipurpose Bridge is removing late as a lead banker World Bank has nonetheless to give a curtsy upon dual pass components of a devise — a categorical overpass building a whole as good as stream training. For WB approval, analysis inform upon stream precision devise was sent in Dec 2010 whilst […]